Vis [V2.0] [Mad King Games]

First, if the game is abandoned permanently, it kind of sucks but it also does not surprise me.

For one main reason: The game never really knew what it wanted to be. Hell, to Fishbot’s point below I’d even go so far as to say they didn’t know who really should be the MC. Because Morrigan WAS the MC. If you think about it for a few seconds.

The game tried to be an RPG; but the stats meant very little as far as I could tell. You barely got any choices which would build them. Before it turned the mechanics into a city builder. A badly designed one to boot (You do NOT start the player in massive detriment if you want to BUILD something. Anything, worthwhile) You can start with a base of zero in the treasury due to the father’s assholish mismanagement, but the city needed at least ONE viable means to fund it beyond that point, so MC COULD start building his base of power back up.

There’s the fact that most of the relationships were implied incest, and the Demon Vs. Angel thing was a confused plot. If the demon is an old god, I would have had her make MC her consort; and Morrigan his earthbound guardian meant explicitly to protect him from childhood – since MC is basically the goddess’ Consort/Herald (Which would also give you as devs the option to empower HIM with supernatural abilities as time progressed in the story… and conceivably reach an end where he was as immortal as his goddess/queen. With the option to make all his main harem immortal as well)
This also gives you means to state without words that time in the building DOES NOT matter. It’s how I would have done it, but then I wouldn’t have made Morrigan a Switch. I would have had her Submit entirely/Do the FemDom thing at the PLAYER’S choice. The fact she’s just about as willing to beat the emotional shit out of MC as their father was physically is not a turn on. The fact that she is some demon character, is not pleasing. If you couldn’t decide the MC should be male then again, offer the choice to play from the Prince or Morrigan’s perspective. It would also have allowed two distinct paths for the story, and to understand each reasoning as time went on.

Trying to work a story of catastrophe into a game where you barely get the option to increase relationships with the main girls, and then turn it into a city builder as well, it was too much. Too jumbled. It’s always better to focus direction. Pick one. (I also do not understand why devs feel the need to have brothels in a HAREM tagged game – Most of your time is meant to be spent building the relationships you will KEEP. The only way the brothel ever works is if you have one girl there that doesn’t really want to be, and it still always ends up being the girl with the highest monetary cost to pursue. Because fuck subtlety) I will say the story had some potential. However the MC was all but toothless even against the suitor of his younger sister’s arranged marriage. The choices that were meant to sound aggressive had me thinking, you know… politically, I am probably going to regret this. Which again, is a bad sign to go forward on. Playing nice should never seem like it’s always going to be the best option in a game of thrones. Which aside the pop culture reference, this very much is.

Frankly, the prince didn’t need to be challenged by every “strong” woman. Warrior willed or no. That only undercuts the MC’s actual power base. If every second girl is going to countermand the assumptive KING how is he going to rule anything? Morrigan would also know this, and even if she is a princess as his sister, and strong willed she would have been taught the mechanics of propriety, and for the raw idea of displayed strength as a “pack” (since she thinks more like an alpha female wolf) in unity; she would never in public dress down the man she’s supposed to love. In private, her best path should have been to BUILD him up. Not spend half of her time in the game insulting him for not being strong enough to suit her. That’s actively counter to her goals with him, and would make any man doubt the truth of her stated love. I get it, you wanted her to be the MC instead. Rah, Rah Sis – Boom… bah! You CHOSE a male MC. The best way not to insult the audience and ingrain the “illusion” of choice was to focus on HIS strength. Growing it by any number of potential paths, which should have been reflected in the stats.

I will say, an RPG Harem builder is a LOT easier to create than the mish-mash that was attempted, and again with the story’s raw potential the game COULD have been awesome. Now I suppose we will never know. It’s one of the risks of game development, but a particular one as a blow to anyone who signed up for you, to the paetron or a site like kickstarter. This is EXACTLY why most gamers will not donate. Aside the embarrassment of even admitting we play these games. It’s all too easy to play the bandit with sites like the two I mentioned, and sedaddle with our good money. Given over freely, so it’s the same as tossing it down a well. By the same token, even those that don’t can have entirely unavoidable financial issues. There can be family issues, mental/emotional burn out. Most will just get bored of designing the same game. Or can’t quite make the code do what they want, since a good handful are really just learning that skill. What it all boils down to however, is the reason this market is niche. Even to the point of being a niche within a niche. We can’t trust in any real sense that these games will be finished. Even if we spend a hundred dollars a month. Hell the few I’ve seen completed ended up usually rushing the build to that line, and spoiling the end story. Forgetting characters, involving them with others when I’d specifically said not to (sisterly lust) or just doing whatever the dev wanted, to finish it off. So at the end, sometimes it’s still a less satisfactory product. Which may not be directly anyone’s fault. The thing is, it’s better at the end, not to promise more than you can actually deliver. To first decide what kind of game you really want; and can be passionate about in development for the long haul. Otherwise, all we get out of it, is a boatload of promise, and when it all comes down to it… I don’t want to think your name is Todd Howard.

Abandoned according to creator post on Patreon

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