Re: [English RPG game] New paths [0.0.5][05.10.2016][PATREON ONLY]
yup i downloaded ver 0.5 its looks better but here things goes same with 0.4
*literally spent 2 hours just for getting 400 gold to life guard course (u said pay is 125 gold but it is 75 i dont know why)
*doing excat same thing over and over again, collecting wastes.
*after get 400 gold what i see im already broke and course continue 10 days also it is not possible go work at the same time at wastes. you have to decide what to do
*after 2-3 hour not even single h-scene
*i dont even know how much cost swimsuit
*with basic thinking doing except collecting waste i need another 20 day for able to do someting different
*story line pretty much disappeard
*still wondering how people done lots of other things (prison, beach, airport, maze etc)
*mc stucks if you go explore the wall area (military) couldnt left or move that area which is cost me another 1 hour (its my fault did not create a save file before that)
Bro this game soo grindy i would do 2-3 full 24man raid in wow in order get 400 gold time.
im sad i lost my interest in this project but thanks for everyting you are far best communicative patreon-developer i ever saw
keep doing strong.
This. Exactly this.
TBH, this is easily the most grindy game I've ever played. Looks like there's lots of things planned, but my goodness, it's not just grindy but boring AF. I'm on the most recent version to the public btw (v0.05).
--The characters (NPCs) without dialogue bug me. I'm hoping that this is simply just due to the fact that the game is beta and you haven't had the time to add dialogue to them. Even the characters that DO have dialogue say the same generic things over and over. I don't expect this to be like Pokemon, where every single random NPC has something interesting or helpful to say, but TBH, the NPC's add very, very little and since there's only about 5-6 NPCs who actually do anything in the story.
--Writing could be much better. If you're ESL, it certainly shows; you may want to invite some English-speaking volunteers to fix the spelling and grammar errors. However, it's not just the dialogue but the storyline. It's nonexistent. Yes, I get it's a beta. And yes, I can accept the fact it's already pretty darn cliche for a typical heroine corruption HPRG game. But all I know about the game so far is that I'm a girl who has big titties from a poor family and needs money.
--More than a few bugs. For instance, when you catch your bro masturbating after you get out of the shower, you can actually return to the shower and bathe with him still there, without any difference (and you clip through his avatar in the scripted scene). I've also encountered the same bug the previous poster noted (getting stuck) but in a few other places, and had to restart from a previous save. Forgot where; I was close to rage-quitting at the time.
--Had a few stuff irk me but it's more of a minor thing. For instance, changing, showering, whatever...anything that's redundant (see the next bullet for a much more critical problem) takes so much damn time to do IRL. Sure, it's only about 5-6 seconds, but when you need to change over and over again into different outfits, those seconds really add up. Another issue I have is that you've got some random or annoying sound effects just inserted into dialogue. A random girl laugh that isn't exactly appropriate for the context. A random voiced "yes" when Perry talks to you about enjoying exhibitionism. Even confessing at the church--while it fits, it's far too obvious an audio clip from somewhere else (you can even hear the ambient BG noise in the clip). It just comes off as lazy and choppy, and doesn't really add to the game. I'd rather not hear anything than inserted audio clips that seem forced.
--Tedious. When I mean boring, I mean that even aside from the story, the grinding isn't just monotonous, but LONG. It takes about 2-3 minutes of actual dedicated time to walk around 2 large maps and collect garbage scattered throughout. That takes up a third of a day and you lose enough points in attributes to take up even more time regaining them through sleeping or showering. You're getting 75 Gold, but when you factor in the bus travel (15 Gold), you're only making 60 Gold. If you want lifeguard lessons, that's 400/60 = about 7 trips...and that's even without the price of the bathing suit (btw, after the first mention of the costs of lifeguard lessons/bathing suit, there's no way to know how much either costs, so you're leaving your player to guess how much both cost). 7 trips x 3 minutes x whatever you do in the rest of the day? I can easily see the poster above me--in this case, nopezetsu-san--spending 2-3 IRL hours trying to grind for money (after the first two times, I quickly realized this was a timesink and stopped). Hell, I'd much rather do IRL work than subject myself to this; I actually get paid with real money, lol.
When you want to implement grinding in a game, if it's not interesting, differsified, or at least FUN, you lose the willingness of a player to invest in a game VERY quickly. However, this is torture. I wanted to like this. I really really did, since you seem to be a communicative dev, since it looks like you've put some effort into this, and since I can see this being something intriguing much further down the line. Yet I simply cannot play this game at all, especially with 2+ hours invested into this, I haven't encountered a single H-scene, and the content I've encountered so far is one nude scene, a few suggestive poses, and a poorly animated scene (made up of 3 stills)...all off the one character.
Anyway, I hope you can find something positive from that. It's just incredibly frustrating as a player to go through that magnitude of futility for nothing. TBH, I'm actually a bit surprised more people aren't up in arms about this, and (no offense) so many people enjoy this game as it is. Maybe it's just me. Good luck.
