Lust and Power [v0.65 Regular] [Lurking Hedgehog]

First I will say that from the first time I downloaded the original game, the mental illness spin was a very hard sell. For the same reason anything involving addictions is. This. Is. Escapism! Fantasy. You’re making the audience of an already niche genre of games, all the more niche by focusing on such realism. You tread on WAY too many real life issues when you try to introduce a character as the protagonist who may not even debatably be sane. Or has those kinds of issues to deal with. Framing the end of the world aspect around his scitzophrenia might seem clever, but it will turn a fair chunk of the audience off right out of the gate. The spells SHOULD be balanced in the MC’s favor. ALWAYS. Without debate. He is the hero, and while you can make the “demons” physically stronger as fair game, the balancing for the spells was all over the bloody place.

The aunt who’s the big bad, didn’t need to be there. At all. The challenge is survival while the world is sliding to hell; and whether the MC CAN fix it at the end. Or would even want to. I will also say grinding with the women who are LITERALLY dependant on MC for both their protection and food source should NEVER for any reason get to be mouthy, or deny the MC some sort of sexual reward (We don’t download these games to play minecraft. I do agree with the posters that say it’s WAY too grind heavy) Half of the spells I never bothered even trying to level up because I couldn’t tell if they would be helpful or not. That’s a problem. Having more exp cost to raise a spell’s level is NOT a good idea. It should be powerful enough from the jump to do what you need it to in battle. Jessica shouldn’t be a repeat battle that will drain your resources (since they are random to find anyway, rather than a guaranteed drop – which would at least make some of the grinding easier) She should just see you have food; see the fact you’re wielding magic, and ask to come with you. You’re done. You can train her to be a good little puppy when she’s living in the home. The game’s grinding to get to ANYTHING sexual is another thing that takes way too damned long.

I don’t mind the occultist family history; or a power hungry aunt/cousin/whatever? [I do mind she’s stronger in magic than the MC for no fucking good reason] BUT… if the MC is the HERO of the game = NOTHING gets to beat him. By the end you should be able to bend her over your living room couch to breed. Just like the rest of them. Which includes the random trappy super geek that tries to kill you with a ton of weight. (This isn’t looney Toons, and I don’t forgive that) There didn’t need to be demon cops [a heavily politized view by the way; I do see it, it’s not subtle] or demon hunters – other than MC. You devalue the main character’s importance as the protagonist in the story when you pull that kind of crap. This isn’t Fallout. We don’t need 666 factions nobody really wants to join; who are all basically useless without the MC deciding to get involved. Overall, I think you’d be better off working on how to get to whatever ending you decide on. Though it wouldn’t surprise me if you’re going to troll the audience to follow the thread you started with, and have it all be just some fevered dream in his head from a bad meds trip. : /