I think the game is dead. The dev deleted patreon, there hasn't been update for over a year
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A suggestion that I would like to give would be to improve the face reactions of the characters (like, making them more expressive)
Overall it seems like a VN that has potential to become something very unique and very different from what we see usually, which is nice
Question, do you plan on adding romance/date routes in the future?
Most of the VN's are dating sims, so them having choices that involve the increase/decrease in relationship with a character make sense
There's a few that affect the world more than just that. From the top of my mind, there's Minotaur Hotel, but there might be more that I don't know, since I specifically look for Furry NSFW VN's
I really like the game, I really like how the battle system is easy to understand and how you can stack ingredients to supercharge a potion (tho most of the time that's not useful except for damage) and I can't wait to see more of it!
Two things though: One, the game is too easy to take advantage of. What I mean, is that by making a loop of damage + healing, I get the result of winning against the enemy without any risk of losing. By allowing you to make only 1 brew per round would make the game considerably more challenging already, since you wouldn't be able to exploit it
Second, the game has a weird AI. I don't know how the enemies work, but going by the assumption that they have the same amount of tools as we do, they don't really show doing anything besides damage, which wouldn't be a big of a problem, if it weren't for the fact many times they spend turns doing anything. I thought they'd be preparing a super potion, but nothing like that, just putting stuff int he cauldron without doing anything. An idea would be to give the enemy the same options you have but I don't know how feasible that is in coding
In a horror game/series, the reason I get scared is quite literally because of the jumpscares, but that's it. I like horror games but I don't get 'afraid', or feel different after playing/watching
But this one was different; I got nervous and genuinely tensed, not because of cheap jumpscares but because of the actual content of the story. Even now 30~ minutes after finishing it, I still get chills. I did not read the comic yet, something I'm going to do as soon as I finish this review, but it seems to have even more content than the game, which gets me excited and scared at the same time
Something I would like to say about the NSFW at least from my experience.
There are no explicit nudity sprites (the no clothe sprites have no genitals), and the sex scene with shin has no CGI, it's literally just a black screen with narration.
About the MC: There's also no sprite of the main character for some reason, human or not. Which is kinda fine but it would be nice to see how MC is even in just a scene. Also, in the original shin's route there's the kiss CGI that's an incredible moment, which is also lacking.
Actually the problem is that there's no CGI at all. When the characters are doing something different it's just said, not shown