King’s New Life [v0.6b.1] [KingoftheJungle]

Well … after playing this game up to v0.6b (Part 1)…
It started out OK, not good but OK.
But now this game has become quite a mess.

Luckily the NTR was removed, otherwise i wouldn’t have even touched this one.

I really like the harem part but the dev throws way to many characters at the player,
without giving them enough time to be fleshed out and especially have enough (or at all) lewd scenes mith the MC.
Personally i’m not much into MC’s simping and white-knighting act for used up goods,
especially not the ones far past their prime (35+).
The core-family, the innocent ones and especially the virgins should have much more importance.
But maybe that’s just me.
Although i guess it fits, him being “trained” and juiced up “mama’s boy/uber mensch-soldier”
by his “powerful, beautiful, strong, independent and more Powerful” Godmother Angela who is “very POWERFUL”,
just like all other older Women around him.
And she’s “SO MUCH MORE POWERFUL” that even the (probably) “half-god-like” MC
“SIMP-ly” has to revere her and all the others. Yes especially her …. *sigh*
At the same time so many of the other characters are overly praising and sucking up to the MC.
To me it all feels unfounded, unnecessary, fake and unconfortable.
Is the MC an intelligent, charming, capable, and confident leader type (that knows latin, lol)
or is he an insecure little bitch that needs constant ‘encouraging’ talks from the females around him?
It might be showing some of the DEV’s own psychological fixations and insecurities.
It’s not really bad but it should be toned down alot in my opinion.

The visual quality has become better over time but it seems at the cost of the amount of renders.
In later Versions there are much less camera angles, body language,
movements and changing facial expressions during conversations.
More often than not if feels like some bland, robotic conversation simulator with rare sex scenes sprinkled in.

The story premise is ridiculous BS and even though it seems the dev tries to give it a more serious note later on,
i stopped taking it serious.
It feels later on that he is struggling for story ideas and throws in random stuff.
Escalating things only to have most of the characters behave
as if nothing happened without explanation in the next scenes.
There are to many contradictions, plot holes and logic errors.
The dev sometimes spins story threads but doesn’t follow or finish them.

SPOILER:
For example what happened to the corrupt police commissioner (Chester) from day 3 (V02)?
Aria the officer/watcher asset was supposed to kill the MC but instead she informed her boss Aurora.
Did they get rid of him? If so how? When?
In V.06b Part 1, there was a disturbing crime scene Aria and Mia went to.
Disturbing, not because of the corpse but the following discussion was unnecessary long,
and at times somewhat confusing.
They also mentioned an untrustworthy supervisor. Is that the same person? Who knows …
SPOILER END

The writing is getting more and more redundant, convoluted and at times even weird.
Repeatedly discussing topics that already have been discussed.
Especially in urgent situations or in ones which wouldn’t be possible to have, long conversations are taking place.
I noticed changes in the writing style in the later parts of V06b.
Maybe he used ChatGPT for the conversation between MC and Yakuza Grandma? o_O
He needs a proofreader or something and beta-test more.

Also the coding becomes very sloppy in later Versions.
Names and ‘talk’-(open mouth)-renders quite often don’t fit the spoken text.
There are missing sounds and a few mislabeled picture definitions for scenes.
For those of you who played it, you might have missed some scenes.

SPOILER:
During MC’s kidnapping and subsequent torturing the dev forgot to add a jump request in the V05 script.
While Alvara hurts him the scene should originally show some of MC’s LIs, enjoying their time together,
before switching back to the aftermath of her giving him her ‘caring touch’:
– MC’s sister Emma and Aiko talking about loosing their V-Card.
– Anna and Cassy doing Yoga
– MC’s Mom Susan and Aiko’s Mom Riku having a chat in the museum
– Ginger handling the Traitor issue
– Angela and Helena (Sin of Lust) having a discussion
SPOILER END

That’s like 5%-10% of Version 05 that people probably missed.

In V06 the scenes of MC solving certain problems during his internship are jumped over.
Although there is not important stuff lost and it’s only a few scenes, it’s still not good.

Overall it could be so much better if the dev would have planned out the game creation process
in the beginning much more. All to often an idea and passion drives most people to start creating games.
But more often than not, they don’t seem to realise early enough that there is much more work involved.
I hope this one doesn’t give up and gets better.

I would advise him to redo at least some parts of the game, tie up loose ends,
concentrate on fleshing out the story and the already big cast.
Give them more life with variable expressions or at least changing camera angles.
Update the character gallery more often.
I have sometimes trouble fitting the names to the faces,
since there are so many forgettable ones due to lack of involvement.
And clean up the messy coding!
Sadly the Dev doesn’t seem to frequent this site, so my rant is pretty useless i guess.

Update android link

Update walkthrough mod