RPGM - Normal Life under Feet [v2.5.0] [mnbv]

  1. 2.00 star(s)

    kyuven

    OK I'm gonna come down on this game like a ton of bricks. Specifically, the dialogue.

    In terms of gameplay itself it's pretty great for what it is: A fetish game scene collector. If you like the fetishes, you'll like the game. I like the fetishes, so I like the game.

    However, the dialogue is atrocious. The translation is atrocious. The pacing is atrocious. The signposting is atrocious. The QA is atrocious.


    Names are inconsistent beyond belief. Characters are referred to by different spellings or even straight up translations of their names at different points by different characters. They're also inconsistent as to whether they're Chinese or Japanese names, and if they're Japanese names people get referred to by their full name rather than just their first or last.

    Even the walkthrough is written like this, making it absurdly hard to find exactly what you're looking for. I can't find Luo Luo's quest information at all in the thread OR walkthrough!

    And then there are the untranslated portions including signs, and the infamous errors in the text where someone just copied an email/message request as part of the dialogue. No QA at all, apparently. The entire Book mechanic is untranslated, and the game calls it "School Bag." Which is just...terrible translation work.

    And sometimes it's obvious things are just directly translated and not localized. This game is a great example of why localization is important. For example, "Living Area" on the school campus would more accurately be called "Student Lounge" in English. A "Living Area" sounds more like a dorm, which is a separate location.

    This is such a hugely pervasive problem it actually hurts the enjoyment of the game to a severe degree. This game would probably be a shining golden beacon of foot/stocking/lesdom if it was actually comprehensible.

    But there's another problem that's a bit more glaring: A lack of signposting. To explain, I'm gonna need a bit of a rant.

    Signposting can basically be described as "Indicating what the player can and should do in the game".

    Super Mario Bros. has the simplest form of this in gaming: In the first screen of the game, there's a row of brown blocks. One of the blocks has a ? on it, drawing your eye to it. It's above the ground level, so you can tell you're expected to jump into it. There's more examples, because every good game has this (I could go on and on about how FromSoftware games are really good about this) .

    This game lacks that. A lot. And it hurts the game's playability.

    For example, when you start the game you can only go to the convenience store and home. There's a time passage mechanic so you get the jist that you're supposed to pass time...but what are you supposed to be DOING with your time? Work at the convenience store? Talk to your roommate? The roommate/caretaker is signposting by actually being present on screen, but that's it. Once her events are exhausted, you basically have nothing to do but replay the scenes from the convenience store until Day 8 when the school opens.

    And then what? You can go to the school and...what? Talk to an NPC and learn about orientation. Go to the library and talk to an NPC and get scenes. But there's no indication of any of this. Moreover, with maybe two exceptions there's no proper follow-up with the NPC students you meet in the classroom. Only a couple of them appear elsewhere, and the conditions to make others appear are obtuse and have nothing to do with the original way you meet them. In fact the school's class attendance feature just kinda...stops.

    And that's before getting into how it's easy as hell to softlock yourself: If you're at the university or Commercial District at night and you have no tickets or money, you can't leave. This actually happened to me in the sequel.

    Now, I'm a constructive criticizer so I'm going to include in this review some ways to actually improve this game to be worthy of 5 stars:

    1) Get an actual native speaker to review the script. There's a few million of them. Some work for money.

    2) Translate the location text, and check it with existing locations. This was partially done in the sequel game but should really be done for both. As an example "Living Area" should really be "Student Lounge."

    3) Add proper signposting. This ISN'T fixed in the sequel, as once you start it up you're given no indication on WTF you're actually supposed to be doing and even more limited money and opportunities to do it. As an example, the character has a computer and a calendar. The school in the first game opens on Day 8. A simple "It's Day X, school opens on Day 8!" on the calendar can help a ton. The character has a smartphone. Have them get text messages from friends and "friends" telling them when things are available. Have characters SAY where they'll be going.

    4) Get rid of the bus ticket mechanic. It adds nothing, and even in the real world a lot of schools include public transportation passes as part of tuition so it isn't even "realistic". Even my school in America, land of the fee (as in charges), had public transport vouchers you could buy. Getting rid of the mechanic allows for players to avoid getting softlocked and saves development time by not requiring convoluted means to avoid getting softlocked.

    5) Add consistency. Is it dollars of Yuan? Say what it is, and have the symbol on screen reflect that. I've seen the currency in this game called dollars, yuan, and GP at different points. This also applies to names: Mutsuki is referred to as "Pine" by the boss lady. I know why, because of what Mutsuki means, but it comes across as an error. This is why a native english speaker is important to have around.

    So yeah there's lots of potential here, but to say it's rough around the edges would mean being too kind. This game is a gold nugget covered in feces that needs to be cleaned.
  2. 1.00 star(s)

    CodeNameNevada

    Terrible tranlastion with occasional messages like "please confirm this chinese text that needs to be translated" instead of an actual dialog, half of the items descriptions are not translated at all;
    Annoying gameplay without any walkthrough/ingame guide, had to load a savefile to check the rest of the game;
    Dev is a douchebag who cant stand any critic, just look up this thread for the messages like "i've made this game who the fuck do you think you are" lol.
    Dont get baited by visuals, literal pile of garbage this title.
  3. 5.00 star(s)

    PTG 2023

    This is a great Female Domination game! I also really like the graphics and character creation of Honey Select like this!
    But it seems like the game developer likes bare feet and sneakers because I see a lot scene of them in the game! But the scenes of high heels are quite few. I hope the game developer can balance them without focusing too much on bare feet and sneakers! I think there will be many people who like high heels like me because high heels make women look taller and much more sexy!

    Thank you!!
  4. 5.00 star(s)

    A11 F0r 0n3

    This is a game with great 3D graphics with all genres like licking feet, scat, peeing,... I really love it. However, there is a small detail that can be misunderstood, which is that most of the characters are wearing socks, and a few characters are not wearing socks, but upon closer inspection, their feet also appear as if they are wearing socks. This is because when you look closely, you will see many square patterns that resemble socks. Anyway, this is still a great game, and I hope the admin will update with more new storylines ^^
  5. 5.00 star(s)

    Deleted member 3985676

    this is a game with great graphics with all genres like: foot licking, scat, pee,... I hope admin will update soon and have more new storylines. Besides, hopefully the admin will correct the small details like the legs are not wearing socks but it still appears with the stripes of the socks.
  6. 4.00 star(s)

    Stompai

    A rather good femc yuri femdom game with a focus toward some relatively extreme fetishes.
    Cannot give it a full score, mostly because of personal taste in the way these fetishes are handled.
    - Foot fetish scenes don't have bare foot, all of them are with shoes, socks or stocking with mc being trampled, smelling or licking said clothes-covered feet, the focus is mostly on the clothes rather than the feet (hard to explain, play to understand what I mean)
    - Femdom : A bit hard to explain as well. The focus of the dom part is heavily leaning toward pure abuse (pain), my main issue here is that the way the characters act in this game almost make it like there is no sexual intent and gratification in these scenes. It makes (for me) the characters look more like sociopathic robots than "simply" being doms seeking sadistic pleasure.
  7. 5.00 star(s)

    alpczerg

    very good game. I love female toilet slave pretty much. This game really turned me on. Since the developer seems like meet some trouble yet, I really hope the developer could go through the trouble, and continue develop this perfect game!!!!
  8. 5.00 star(s)

    Randomate1993

    I absolutely fell in love with this game. I was looking for copper but landed on gold when I got this game. My only gripe would be that some of the translations could be better as sometimes certain sentences don't make much sense....but except that I am so happy this is among one of my top 4 games that does 'the fetishes I like' quite right. I wish more games explored the hot scenic approach this game implemented for the fetishes it features....be that RPGM/VN/HTML, I wish other games could feature those fetishes the same way this game managed to pull it off! Love this game!
  9. 5.00 star(s)

    VillainWins

    The scenes are hot, long and with good camera angles.
    The models are very pretty with good variety.
    The dialogue is good and the author is improving his/her translation in Patreon. The current translation is not great but good enough to understand and go with the flow of the story.
    It has a lot of fetishes, but it's mainly feet, followed by some urination and scat. I'd like some more ass worship in the future.
    Overall an excellent game for femdom and lezdom fans.
  10. 5.00 star(s)

    guyreptis

    Look, it has its flaws. Translations are not always good, a lot of the time the story progression is not clear and you might spend hours trying to figure out what to do and some times events are missable (or GAME OVER events, which I never really liked as a concept)
    Having said all that, I'm still giving it a 5 because:
    -Amazing yuri feet and femdom content (gets extra points because yuri femdom is so rare in games)
    -No huge dialogues or annoying level up systems that block progress
    -Honestly it just hits the nail on all of my personal tastes
  11. 5.00 star(s)

    nogaw

    Very good and tasteful game!
    Of course it still needs improvement. But it's rare to find a fun game like that on the topic.
    The main problem is in the translation, but it is possible to understand it. A bug about inaccessible areas still persists as well. But the author has already promised that this will be fixed in the next update.

    Please keep up the work!
  12. 2.00 star(s)

    Untolddead

    Poor translation in game and in the walk through makes this game very hard to play. I got stuck at the introduction part and couldn't get to one of the districts.

    While it is a foot fetish game with scat and watersports it is closer to an abuse game. The first couple scenes are pretty good but from there it's mostly your character getting stomped and in pain.

    If that's your thing then give this a shot but even still with the nonsense translation it's probably not worth it!