tlaero wrote:I've played the game through once now and I'm really impressed. Leo and the Lopteam are, in my opinion, the undisputed masters of erotic RPGs, and this is the best one I've played.
I love the complexity of the variables, that desire is based on both relationship and hotness, which is based on things that rise and fall. Take a shower before you try to have sex with your wife. Good advice... I like that morale affects how many words you write. I like that time of day affects what you can do. I like that doing chores is useful. The game is nice and complex without being over the top confusing.
I like that there's enough time to get a really good result even if you don't play perfectly.
I talked about the storyline in my previous post, but it's first rate throughout. Extremely well done, iksanabot. And, though cumshots aren't really my thing, I get a kick out of the fact that you got to make a game with a significant number of them. Always stay true to yourself.
The sex scenes are plentiful and diverse. There could be more interaction, but I'm glad there wasn't any of the LOP "pulsing" effect. I wonder if the sex scenes would be better served by clicking on the image instead of buttons. IE, in the blow job, you could click the tip, halfway, and the base to do what the buttons do. Make it feel a bit more real.
Other suggestions or bugs:
I think the intro says 30 days, but the game is 40.
Many of the things that have requirements state the requirement on the button. I understand why asking for sex, etc, doesn't, but it is kind of frustrating. I lean toward thinking that you'd be better off stating requirements on everything that has one. A compromise would be to not state the req at first, then add it to the button after you've tried once and failed. It's that or the player writes it on a sheet of paper, which feels silly.
The one bit of dialog I didn't like is when Tracy turns down a backrub. Nothing in the story says she's actually angry at you, and I had been doing my chores. She should turn him down more gently.
I wish when you got your desire high enough, that backrub could turn into something more. Woman laying on her belly, man straddling her upright is really erotic.
It's an excellent game, iksanabot. You should be proud.
Tlaero
Thanks tlaero, that means a huge amount coming from you!
Regarding the interactive sex scenes. I like your idea for the BJ, and certainly we will try and make them feel more real in the future. In fact, the way we conceived of them in this game we were not, in the end, able to implement. If you remember our discussion when you were developing Coffee of Keisha, I was describing what I felt would be a good interactive sex scene. This idea of finding the hotspot on the character in order to begin to move the animation, and as long as the mouse movements stay within a range of are of the action (I.e. in a large oval shape around the pelvis of the man, controlling his motion into and out of the woman), you continue to control the movement, but outside of the larger hotspot it drops. A lot like what Pusooy does, a lot like what you did in CfK, and pretty much exactly what Leo did in Olga: 20 dollars girl. But in Olga Leo had to use ten frames for every animation, and we just couldn't devote so many frames to the sex scenes in LwT because it was just going to make it too big, at least for an un-expanded game...
I like that you got a kick out of my cumshots just because you know I had fun putting them in there. I'll refrain from flirting about that...
And about the backrub scene. Yeah, I see what you mean. The game is supposed to start with the feeling that you and Tracy are barely keeping your marriage together, but if you go a week doing chores and keeping her happy, you'd think she would be a little nicer when she turned you down. I may fix that dialogue in the current version, or I may wait and overhaul it in an expansion.
Great to discuss this stuff with you, thanks.
With very high regard,
iksanabot
