Overall as of v0.11 I give this 3.5 stars. It's good, but has room for improvement.
Reasoning:
You can really tell this game is adhering hard to the anime tropes of shonen shows. Protagonist who shouldn't win overcoming trial after trial, mysterious powers never mentioned anywhere in lore popping up and then disappearing after there isn't any use for them again, mystery after mystery presented and then solved shortly after, etc.
That being said, I feel it is worth mentioning that the story lurches several times, which could be fine in an anime series, but when playing a game can cause some serious confusion.
The writing is decent, however there are a few wonky dialogues throughout the game. Nothing to be overly concerned with.
There are definitely continuity errors happening as the dev finds their footing and tries to understand where they want the story to go, which would indicate that the story is being written as we go, rather than having a guiding plotline that drives it from start to finish. Unfortunately the best way to kill a project is to have to spend 1-2 cycles of dev work on clean up and continuity fixes early in the story. However without taking that time, the story feels disjointed and like it is thrashing about looking for a reason to be.
Overall the beats of the game hit the right shonen jump style anime notes for me, the sex scenes while sparse are decent and animated.
I hope that as the dev goes into Semester 2 of GTA, they have a fully realized plot and story outline before they start fleshing out the details.
Reasoning:
You can really tell this game is adhering hard to the anime tropes of shonen shows. Protagonist who shouldn't win overcoming trial after trial, mysterious powers never mentioned anywhere in lore popping up and then disappearing after there isn't any use for them again, mystery after mystery presented and then solved shortly after, etc.
That being said, I feel it is worth mentioning that the story lurches several times, which could be fine in an anime series, but when playing a game can cause some serious confusion.
The writing is decent, however there are a few wonky dialogues throughout the game. Nothing to be overly concerned with.
There are definitely continuity errors happening as the dev finds their footing and tries to understand where they want the story to go, which would indicate that the story is being written as we go, rather than having a guiding plotline that drives it from start to finish. Unfortunately the best way to kill a project is to have to spend 1-2 cycles of dev work on clean up and continuity fixes early in the story. However without taking that time, the story feels disjointed and like it is thrashing about looking for a reason to be.
Overall the beats of the game hit the right shonen jump style anime notes for me, the sex scenes while sparse are decent and animated.
I hope that as the dev goes into Semester 2 of GTA, they have a fully realized plot and story outline before they start fleshing out the details.