3 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 40.5 hrs on record (7.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: Mar 27, 2021 @ 11:38am

Early Access Review
tl;dr not worth it, but could be someone else's cup of tea.

PROS
-Simple, fun, schmup game play.
-Pretty good acting, funny adult sex content, narrative, and jokes.
-Great character models, and some decent alien ideas, character backgrounds, and plots.
-Characters seem believable so far, despite being a semi-parody of other games.

CONS
-Game ends somewhere in Act 2. I thought this game was done, launching live on March 26? 17 gigs for this? Where are the other 4 Acts? I understood there's 10 in total, but those haven't been written yet?
-Dialogue feels drawn out. Its SLOW pacing all feels the same, no matter the characters and scene. It's as if it's either the same writer, or the the same voice acting direction. Everything is slow. There's no opportunity to fast forward at a reasonable pace (space bar takes at least 5 seconds or so.) Attention destroying.
-Too many 4th wall breaks to take game/story/game world seriously.
-The various comedy and its styles (e.g. parodies), though sometimes funny, is more of a detriment for immersion. Tim Pool, Gordon Ramsey...eh? Flesh out the universe; don't just joke around about it. Sexy jokey nice-guy main character is fine; a bunch of android suicidal sex bots is funny; but don't turn your literal galaxy into a joke. Make us care, not look at the world like it's a giant clown.
-Turn based combat is simplistic. Why no walking or running animations? Units just teleport. Enemies spawn out of nowhere, instantly after defeating a wave, making placement pretty much useless. No cover system. X-COM this is certainly not.
-No lipsynched dialogue throughout the main cutscenes (only exists in dating scenes?) Everyone stands around in cutscenes not moving their mouth, while facial expression and poses try and carry the scene. This is worse than KotOR, which at least had animated mouths. This does not work. If the characters don't emote their lines with working Dr. Paul Ekman articulated faces, I won't bother looking at the screen. Unreal has some plugins for this.
-The Pandora sex system for linking up scenes is...just tacked on. You have points, and you can unlock the scenes. Free adult Ren'Py games just use memory or recollection mode...but why even use this system? Why not just "call up a waifu" and then have certain dialogue options? What is this PP currency? That doesn't feel private or personal.
--as such, you don't feel connected to the waifu's as you would in other romance/adult games. Just use your global pool of PP and unlock sex scene. But now with NTR monsters?
--sex animations seems limited in length, despite their overall quality. The analog slider doesn't seem to denote speed/strength in certain animations (e.g. Lily's xeno one.)

I really wanted to like this game, and was hoping to play it on the weekend. But alas, there's barely any content for a full release. (2 schmup boss battles, 1 TB one, with lots of redundant planet exploration schmup & TB filler.)
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