Being sent to the boonies by the corp left me with some time on my hands, so I finally got a chance to play it. As I'm something of a
connosiéur of porn games and this has been in my backlog for quite a while, I took the plunge.
All in all, I liked it quite a bit! What you managed to squeeze out of the engine is nothing short of impressive. It felt like there was a fair bit of reactivity within the dialogues, and the stat checks were really nice to have.
It did lag like crazy on my all-terrain rig, and I experienced a fair amount of freezes/ crashes. The first I can blame on the machine being a junker that should be long dead, and the second was luckily mostly offset by autosaves. Still, I was worried about my progress every now and then.
It's more of a game with some porn than a porn game, though. Unless I missed a fair bit of content, there was little of it available other than a few scenes with the main cast (which mostly become available at the same time), plus four or so additional scenes. Letting my inner degenerate out - I've been hoping for some more, a bit more evenly spread around the ~10 hrs I put into the game, maybe with a bit more variety sprinkled in. The few pieces of artwork that were available were nice.
Mechanics felt somewhat imbalanced. The titular brothel mostly sits in the background, generating some passive income. Its most important use is improving the statistics used in dialogues - otherwise, there are, I think, two scenes being unlocked by adding new expansions and that's it. Class-wise, soldiers and vigilantes felt great to use, with shapers being hit or miss (literally - they seemed to miss very often, but their spells packed a wallop), and supports' main use being some combat healing and SP regeneration. Summons felt rather weak across the board, for whatever it's worth.
The world was surprisingly large, but felt somewhat underutilized. Might be my brain rot speaking, but when I see an RPG Maker game, I start licking the walls and looking for secrets like it was Wolfenstein again. I think you've mentioned that an expansion is on its way - not sure if you're planning to add more areas or fill out the ones that are already there, but if I could cast my vote it'd go for the other.
The writing was great, and I really enjoyed how the dialogues flew. Sexytimes were written nicely as well! The main story was mostly relatively nicely grounded, with a sudden escalation at the end - fair - followed by an even greater escalation in the last few minutes. It felt like it could've been left for a potential sequel, but I'm not going to teach anybody's grandma how to suck eggs.
Also, I've been really hoping the end of act 1 to be more of an Aerith dies situation. Nothing against the characters involved, just thought it'd be quite ballsy.
Looking forward to the DLC!