What a delicate snowflake you are. I commented that some of the new models, Nicole in particular, look worse than the old ones. Others have agreed. It's called criticism. It's something the dev can ignore or listen to. If multiple people are saying "hey, this looks worse", but the dev is...
The dev explained that they're new/updated models, blah blah blah. Obviously they're designed to look very similar to a certain cancelled game. I think some of them look worse, and said as much previously, which got a negative response from him. Now he's demanded to not be associated to this...
There's supposed to be a smaller update, 0.5.5, that adds two more scenes that are missing from 0.5. It was originally promised for January, but ended up slipping a bit. The latest from the dev is to expect the next update end of February or sometime mid March.
That said, the wait for 0.6...
Sadly his more recent project is extremely different from this one, and a step down in a lot of ways. The dev tried going with a sandbox-style game, and a very different story and character types.
This new version is a dumpster fire. It's baffling to compare the two versions. Extremely different, a lot darker as you said. But just worse in every way.
Actually his updates were pretty consistently much less than a year for the first 5 chapters. As development went on, his updates took longer and longer with each subsequent release. They ended up being more than 18 months between updates. This killed the game's paying audience, which the dev...
This dev was very steady with the updates for the first year, living up to his promised 8-10 weeks per update. Unfortunately things seem to have gone very sideways. There are still posts being made to his Subscribestar, but that's about it.
It's looking a bit grim. The dev was very regular in updates, active in posting updates on Patreon...and now nothing. Both Patreon and Subscribestar haven't had a dev update in a long time and the dev's twitter/X account has been deleted.
I hope the dev is ok, going radio silent like this is not...
Four years ago a lot of people said the same thing. The dev's response was to add even more girls, some so bland that they are color coded/named. Five years into development, this VN isn't going to change directions radically. At this point we're lucky if updates actually drop at all.
The Engrish in the game is pretty terrible. It's bad enough that at times it's hard to make out what was intended. Ideally a Spanish speaker fluent in English could lend the dev a hand (I'm guessing that's the original language, but oddly there is no original/alternate language option).
It's a little surprising to see a dev struggle so hard on a game after doing so well on their first one. Unfortunately I think the format of this one (the dreaded Sandbox) along with negative response to some of the content probably has made working on this one a chore that the dev is avoiding...
Typos is just one of the issues. Absurd scenario for the plot, nonsensical versioning (1.0 for a demo?), and as mentioned by others, extreme brevity.
For positives: I didn't get any game errors.
For a first impression, it's not good.
Preview pics are rather creepy, as if the dev has a giraffe fetish. Especially noticeable in the cheerleader shot, where the smaller cheerleader's neck is the same length as her head.
You don't need to make AVN to have a valid opinion on an AVN. The same you don't need to write books to criticize one, be a director to critique a movie...etc. Claiming that you do is one the one most comical things possible. He didn't like a game you do. Oh well. It's not the end of the world...
The dev said he is going to redo the first part of the game and split up the 7(or so) days of content and spread it out to 30 days. The supposed issue was too much stuff happening every day, and the the real issue was at that speed, the game was never going to progress time-wise.
The planned...
Realistically that would mean the dev would have to duplicate all the scenes with the daughter. I only know of a couple of titles that tried that, and they mostly gave up after one or two updates. Basically, not happening.
This update was terrible. Maybe drugs are needed to comprehend and enjoy it. It looks bad. The script is bad. It really seems like the dev was angry and just eager to run the game into the ground with this update. It's sad, because this game started out fun and really promising.