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Review of Demo/Dev Feedback

A topic by Tengrikun created Dec 01, 2023 Views: 991 Replies: 6
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So I'll start with my biggest praise, this was quite the refreshing take on NTR/Corruption after more or less finding the genre via Seeds of Chaos. While there are quite a few buggy/QoL issues still I do really love your current approach of the story and how the Maiden can go about things. The art has been great and the story strong enough to keep my attention. While I will be deleting the game until a few more updates crop up (no offense just not much to repeat or try other options on yet) I will give my other pros and cons below and anyone not wishing to see the spoilers please stop here and thanks for your time. Also anyone wishing to post here please don't quote this post as is to keep spoilers for newbies coming to the game to a minimum as I do feel the twists are well done. 


Pros:

The Split Up mechanism that you employed is quite original imo and I love that as is there's no real confirmation if it WAS the Demon Lord or the Relic our "Hero" used that left him and the Maiden in their current predicament.
The character designs are all unique enough to be refreshing yet mesh well with common tropes/kinks so anyone can have a desired favorite to look forward to new contact with.
Nothing too extreme gets forced, as much as I am a fan of the corruption genre the NTR-ness can sometimes get over done. While I understand a lot of H-Games are meant for a "quick fix" I do like this restrained approach where the gamer can determine at what point the character would give in (if ever).
Diversified game-play, while there isn't a playable version of the mini-games and while they CAN be a pain if forced, the way this is posed currently in the demo means you can seemingly choose to stay pure and work for your money orrr play the naughty gf/fiance of your "dreams"  selling herself for the fastest resolutions to her problems.
Shenanigans are already afoot, not sure if I missed some side content (I saw all the scenes so I don't think so, but one of the other posts regarding earned the 1k silver makes me question myself) but there's already so many side stories happening in maybe an hour or two of game-play, I hit closer to three but I was attempting to see anything extra I could without forcing trying to find an actual cheat  location. But long story short I think this might be one of the few H-Games I actually give money for if the sort of love and dedication I've seen already gets applied and to a level of replay-ability of other games like the aforementioned Seeds of Chaos.

Cons:

The way the game registers the "scenes" at least on my old tater of a Dell laptop is a bit jittery and seems to sometimes be prone to freezing in the black screen state. As this can be my laptops fault I'll say your mileage will vary based off your hardware.
The slime combat tutorial (for me anyway) didn't necessarily explain what barriers do for the party. Given the lack of combat atm I can't tell if that's going to be important or not but I'll throw it in here as something that currently feels lackluster do to how it only seems to last for one attack and even then might not prevent damage so much as lessen it by an arguably unknowable amount in your first encounter with an enemy.
General Store Scene, with the three adventurers you are given the "offer" by them to secure the money you want for flashing them but you currently can only deny them. While I don't know if this is due to the seal stones not being ready to be undone (I believe this would have woken up our "hero" if done) I do think having the scene  as an option even if it's just to lay the narrative for what I presume to be an annoyed or at least opportunist Orc Storekeeper to find out about how she's managing to not haggle with clients would be nice.
The Inn, I love the barmaid route being present but, I need to also complain that there was seemingly no way to do it after that first night with the scene we got. With the other party members out of town I assumed there'd be more scenes here and might just not have assets ready for implementation but without confirmation the rest of the day is kind of forced to end for each of the subsequent days. I normally wouldn't complain as you give many scenes leading up to this point but it does feel jarring to basically get none featuring our Maiden in the bar.
Speaking of that, the current way you have to swap from a natural day/night cycle to just going to the bed to end the day needs it's own mention if only for the fact I basically spent forever trying to suss out if that was the thing to do. I understand the verrry early nature of the game atm but I did get quite used to the icons leading me to the choices I had for main content rather than worrying I broke sequence and softlocked myself. I mention this because the scene with our "Wolf Muscle Mommy" does give you a nice indicator that nothing else is currently available to do. Something similar (if I'm correct in my assertion of not missing content) in these other areas would probably be helpful and beneficial moving forward to the QoL of new players.
Going to the World of the Curse is an amazing narrative choice because it more or less forces our Maiden to know what she has to do rather than just go along with someone who already seems quite likely to take advantage of a naughty moment if allowed. But I do wish that there was unlimited access even in the current state. I understand gating later areas of the curse because you might want to keep some twists unknown but I also think it would be a cool way of also adding corruption points. As she reads further deviant acts that she'll HAVE to do in order to "save" our "hero" she will think about those things and either fantasize or dread depending on the route currently active for the third act as a sort of in universe representation of her destiny as we've laid it out. I'm sure most people are going to go 100% corrupt for the scenes then 100% pure for those additional scenes/achievements if this makes it to steam but I would bet there's probably a good 10% out there who are deviant-ish females who wanna see what "their" fate would be if they were the maiden with their current limits on what they'd do and why they'd justify one scene over another. So if you're interested in that sort of thing it'd be an added feature/layer of quality for them or so I a pervy male would suppose.

In conclusion, considering there's only maybe 2.5 hours here tops to just one and done it I would easily tell people to add this to your collection now and either wait for more content or keep up with updates if you like a good corruption game and especially if you like NTR content. I'd give this an 8/10 any day.

Developer(+1)

Hey, thanks for the write up. It was very helpful to us.
And we're glad you enjoyed the game even considering it's early state!

Pretty much every con you listed will be addressed in future updates.
As an example: we are expanding the barmaid job this upcoming update.

Glad to give an assist, looking forward to the updates and see where it goes and I hope you guys go far.

Oh thanks for the heads up, didn’t know Seeds was like that. Gonna have to unfollow.

Sorry, I typed quite a bit on the matter so if you have any questions etc. about either let me know.

Nah I think you gave a good picture. It helped me make an informed decision.

I didn’t mean that as like an insult, I would just avoid such topics and some games may not broadcast it as much as I’d like. I’m glad Accursed did, though!

Ahh okay, glad I was able to be helpful then.