Combat and questing in this game is why people think RPGM adult games are just timewasters trying to stretch out a small amount of content that otherwise would be like 15 minutes in a Visual Novel.
Like, the quest that leads to the only hardcore sex scene the game has is mainly compromised of running around in a sewer dungeon opening literally every single chest within it and not finding the quest item. I get that the point is that you don't find it, but if you're going to have the player do all of that then the common sense game dev thing to do is to put *something* of interest in the last box, unique loot, or a fucking porn mag, anything.
Then there's the combat and while I guess it's cool that the dev didn't use the default RPGmaker combat system, what he put there instead and how the first story dungeon is designed has me questioning whether they've ever played a JRPG.
If I'm making an RPG and the main character is an alchemist, I am not going to have your first combat encounters be "whack these beastmen with a stick or avoid then i guess idk". Like just look at how something like FF6 starts and how despite your character not being able to do their class gimmick yet they still give you a way to approximate it with Magitek. Falandriel should have given the player some potions/bombs as a way to give us a preview of what being an alchemist in combat would entail.
Also the "stamina is your health" system is just trying too hard imo. I get that the idea is you don't die in battle you run out of stamina but (and this connects to my earlier point) with no other options besides whacking enemies with a stick AND the fact that enemies in the first dungeon can reflect your damage it just makes a really fucking bad first impression.
The only positive I can give to the battle system is that the first person view looks nice when you have Saphia with you.
Also as an aside did the dev commission multiple artists or something? The first Ranfey scene remembers that the pink haired dude is a femboy and gives him thick girly thighs and then the anal is very clearly just a generic short guy with a masculine body. Like the artist has you staring at his ass for the scene and forgot to make it a femboy ass. I don't wanna believe the poster earlier who said that the cg was was painted over AI 'art' but I kind of see their point now.
