Summertime Saga

this game has been out for years and its still the same thing .. no new stories , the same characters are still just the only ones you can inter act with .. NOTHING EVER GETS DONE TO THIS GAME!!! dont waste your money on his pateron … SMH 🤦‍♂️

Having spent the last way too many hours trying to get anywhere in this game once downloaded, I have a bit of constructive criticism.

• There are too many “taken” women. The quest lines are all convoluted, and some of the event triggers actively impede others. I’m fine with lesbian relationships, but honestly this game is more a harem than it ever was a dating sim. You can be actively dating Roxxy (who will let you share with Becca and Missy without problems) You can date Eve – who will be fine with you having sex with her sister and her sister’s (BEST FRIEND!!!) lover.
• You can impregnate all three of them, and I doubt highly there’s any foul that will come of it. So why make any of the three focus on someone NOT the MC? Maria is convolutedly fine getting pregnant but the italian ex mobster who is your out for no finances to even kick the main obstacle in the story off, is sterile. Of course they won’t be able to adopt (so why bring it up, most who had those ties would KNOW right off they can’t go that option for not having a hope in hell without literally buying those in charge right off – which would imply more active ties to their own mob by the way) SO MC has to step in, and can pretty much choose to exclude Tony. Because that whole situation is mentioned BY THE CHARACTERS involved to be just… odd.
• You can impregnate your room mate; her Mom, and her Mom’s best friend (who of course also has to have been a lover at one time, because jesus I wish people would realize girls CAN just be friends without having fucked…) and there STILL won’t be any problems. Aside from potentially not being able to do anything with Jenny once the baby is born. Who doesn’t get acknowledged as yours, and you don’t actually interact with at all. Jenny is something I WILL get to by the way. That’s a whole other point.
• The biggest criticism I have isn’t with (much) of the story; other than to say if X asshole worked at the bank at any point, he was doing fairly well for having one actual kid, and sharing living costs. MOST parents would go out of their way to at least try to ensure their child has tuition for college. I don’t care in what other “shady” shit he might have been involved. The mob does not go after some random woman and most certainly wouldn’t go after some 18 year old wimp. (Believe me, we’ll get to how little the stats actually impact… but I’ll put a pin in that) There is a code of honor; the kid would just straight up be dead or given a very strict time limit with which to get ALL of the money his father owed – Do note: I am NOT suggesting you invoke a time limit. At all. They don’t belong in RPG’s or VN’s. At all. Nor do minigames that can’t be skipped. From the VERY START of the minigame. I should not have to lose most of them 3 freaking times over to get the option to “cheat.” It’s not cheating, to decide I don’t want to bother with your badly managed game in a game mechanics.
• The Pizza Mini games are both so horrendously timed that I couldn’t get the blue car for far too long: Waiting to get any vehicular ability at all was so badly priced and borked so many quests while trying for them that I would suggest the whole damned minigame either be allowed to be skipped with the assumption the player won from the START of the minigame (not just some blanket fuck all minigames in the “cheat menu” section – since you actively have to fail Diane’s impregnation apparently to actually complete her story… which of course I didn’t so it blocked the option to get Debbie done, and also pregnant = it’s VERY STUPID to make your players have to fail at anything, at all. Without clearly explaining the reason. I should not have to look it up, and I would be fine if the Impregnation was the one minigame that could not be skipped; and should not have to be failed. The content was there for a reason. It’s a fairly large draw in the game to a certain crowd.
• While we’re on the subject, women tend to get pregnant pretty damned easily, and often. Yes there are those who have trouble, but the base of the chance should be at least 50% flat for all of them. The older ones (and I would argue Roz needs to just fuck off, along with whoever came up with her character) can be set to maybe 30% base if you must.
• The mobsters ganking you randomly for all the money you have out of bank; tied to the fact the bank is closed in the evenings (it should NEVER be closed at all, there are banks open 24/7 in RL people, Jesus!) alongside both the pizza parlor and the bank being closed on Sundays is beyond freaking ridiculous. It makes the game on top of the BS way too fast to preceive minigames, so much harder than it had to be. We didn’t come here to be playing Dark Souls for god sake.
• I also find it a bit hard to believe that frankly, none of the girls’ personalities really change. With Jenny, and I did say we’d come to it, there’s an option to be dominant with her. There’s a problem; you still end up in hand-cuffs. She still treats you like some perverted rabid dog, and no the brat/princess mentality ISN’T a good excuse for it. Frankly the only way she’ll even actually admit she wants to be your girl, is with the “girlfriend” experience. Which is just her being a chickenshit and still wanting to be paid. Guys DO NOT tend to like mercenary females. She’s already one of the more expensive females to pursue, and her personality is terrible. (Also, whoever wrote that pregnant cam sex bit; Nobody sane would want to fuck a girl directly after what she just ate. digestion is a thing. He was not wrong to want her to brush her teeth at the very least, and frankly it would probably go badly for her in general) Point being: Some of the girls need to be a lot LESS bitchy. If you are meant to become dominant – or realize that you’d been repressed by circumstances but honestly always held that vein at heart, which is the more organic means of “growing” a dominance scale since that facet of one’s self does NOT change – then you have to make his females [Yes, Jenny counts the second she goes back for more cam shows after he’s cum inside of her while she’s concerned about getting pregnant because she KNOWS it can happen and probably will] react accordingly.
• Onward to the too many taken women: Helen. Mia – they should not be a branching path. You SHOULD get both. Period. You break Helen to breed her; Mia admits she finds it hot and since Helen is your new sex slave, boom. You get both. There’s no need to go through all the BS to get to Mia and then potentially lose her because you might also find the idea of breeding someone who’s by that point, at least sexually willing, hot. That’s just lacking forethought. Erik’s Mom is already involved. With Erik. I don’t care if you can have a threeway with her, it should NOT involve Erik. Again; HAREM MARKED – letting your best friend continue in any sense with his “Mom” (who is also of course, not blood related) breaks the whole Harem thing. She would not pursue you, if she’s getting most of her needs met with him. Even if she’s not, the very fact she starts to see how much you want to help THEM should take her off the menu for Erik LONG before you suspect as the player there is any relationship beyond the not quite mother and son dynamic. It’s NOT attractive to most of the player base I would imagine, to get involved with someone who’s already VERY involved. Considering she’s also got another girl on the side, who she’ll also let you pork. That’s just too convoluted.
• Annie is also a problem. Heck at this point it wouldn’t surprise me to learn that she’s Mrs. Smith’s daughter because Richard has a fem dom kink and got invested in extracarricular activites while he was doing projects for the school in his younger years. Point being, her and the principle can play wicked witch and flying freaky monkey all they want; but there either needs to be a way to permanantly soften the youngster, and the get the principal off MC’s back forever, or have them both bugger off together before it’s found the principal had severe criminal ties. They can go fuck each other in Jaimaica for all I give a toss.
• Fucking the mob boss’ daughter to breed, and being able to do the same to mayor rump’s wife and daughter is fun on paper (though I’m also starting to wish creators would leave off whatever politics they want to “parody” because it’s not any more funny or clever than the last hundred times I’ve seen it by now, whether I agree Trump ever should have been president or made a good one, or not) – but if you don’t fix the minigames, 90% of the players will either never get to see that far into the game, or will be too frustrated to care and be thus less impacted by the “eroticism” of any scenes. Which rather invalidates the point in working on them.
• Buying your own home is cool; but with the problem of the minigames – the fact that ONE minigame has such a great advantage in payout but getting each tier makes the progression WAY too hard – and the fact that the vehicles that mark next progression in tier are all prohibitively expensive… with all the other costs in each quest line, and the random mobster arses ganking any coin it’s just A LOT. Is there even anything that would make getting that house for $5 k worth it, to do in the house? If it’s an eventual thing, fine and fair enough but the game has existed by now for I believe at least 5 years. It’s still in alpha according to many parts I’ve clicked on. Oddly enough one achievement says “Max out your bank account.” What is the number I’d need to do that; and how in holy sweet mother of BALLS do you think anyone will be able to do so, when the pizza delivery minigame moves so danged fast you can’t even see what pizza is supposed to be delivered. Nevermind the fact you have about a split second to click on it while the MC’s head is between the door – and I’ve read that’s not even always the case, hell I’ve had several times myself I didn’t think I made the click and it still got marked positive.

What I would suggest:

• Simplify the quest lines. Make NONE of them conflict with each other.
• Every Girl can be Bred (more than once)/Every Girl once Bred, is aware that she’s blood-tied to MC. NO ONE ELSE. ** Remove the stupid 1% issue with Tina. Jesus do you not know how many reloads that will take to ever see it happen. Even just once? Might as well get struck by lightning, or buy a lottery ticket. Better odds.
• Have those that are invested in 3ways (or moreways) that involve the MC be very vocally clear that they choose the MC over ALL. Especially if a child is between them, or they’ve confessed to want that result (most should at some point – it’s rewarding the player for work done to get to that point) This applies to Roxxy and her two girls/Maria, Eve Grace and Odette – who is Bi, not Lesbian; and frankly probably prefers men as Grace seems to – and even Becca and Tina if they agree to share MC.
• Erik and his Mom, again: I and most others playing I’d bet, do not want to pursue Tammy further if she’s going to be fucking Erik. Even once. This is harem marked, not JUST a dating sim. So honor the fact that it’s mostly a HAREM. Which frankly, Sara should be involved with MC at some point. Wasn’t particularly fond of watching the Cap’t fuck her… I don’t advocate NTR generally, but the type that most people CAN handle is when their player avatar gets to be the one the girl would choose over the one she’s already with. If you’re going that way with Helen; Sara can go there too. Hell, have that be a way to avoid having to go to Roz to figure out the stupid Lost Compass BS. Sara starts porking MC because Cap’t doesn’t stop going on about MC having 3 younger “hot” bodies all wet and willing. MC gets an “in” by doing what he always has… making her feel better about herself, til romance sparks. Job done when the Cap’t leaves Sara the lure, and tosses himself into the biggest drink he can find. (I do mean the ocean – it’s just a way to write him out of the game, and fix a point I don’t think needed to be in the game to start with)
• Add a skip option to all minigames at the start of the minigame. Assume the player won in all cases. Except the one were in story it requires you to fail to progress a character path. It’s not smart to ask me at the beginning of the game if I want to skip them when again, one of them failing is necessary to a character’s progress.
• If you’re not going to remove the random Mob robbery stuff; make it on a specific day, marked IN GAME so that the player can try to avoid the consequence OR/AND once you meet the mob boss’ daughter and begin to get sexual with her; she will stop the goons from hobbling your financial progression – since if you’re going to be the father of her child, as she potentially is planning *** I didn’t manage to get that far as the pizza delivery thing finally had me rage quit before I broke my computer over it – she’s going to want MC to be as financially solvant as he can manage to get.
• Stop having MC get beaten up if I already have maxed Strength and Dexterity (again, MASSIVE PITA’s to get, that did not have to be *** THREE button prompts MAX!!! FOR EVERY TIER, nothing more should have been required) Which could ALSO be a way to get rid of the mobsters random robberies. Without interferring with the Main Quest as who as a Russian Mobster goon is going to want to admit to their boss that they got their arse handed to them in Muay Thai by a stick figure (which again, a LITTLE more muscle definition in general at maxed strength really should not hurt you guys to draw) who’s not even got a beard yet?

Frankly; for raw potential and personality: [I’m not even going to touch the trans option, People have the right to whatever they believe, but it’s not something I enjoy in a game about power fantasies – it does nothing for me] Eve wins. Hands down. Roxxy is a nice surprise in how forgiving she can be (I would remove Crystal trying to get with MC personally. Nevermind the package deal bit. It might be a Harem; but that doesn’t mean MC is bound to fuck everybody) The rest of the women in general, I could just leave. I pursued them to get through the game, but I don’t enjoy most of their stories. It’s either too much bitch work, too much blockading or not enough actual recognition of MC’s progress or choice in dialogue having any effect on them as people. Call it in alpha all you want, for the next decade if you want to stretch that long… but guys; there’s still a LOT of work to be done before this is remotely playable for very long. If I wasn’t as stubborn as I am, I wouldn’t have gotten any farther than I did the last time I downloaded it years ago. You don’t want to know how long it took me to even get the option to buy the damned lasanga… and my reward for that was ODETTE gets laid with someone who will eventually – supposedly – be offering to breed with MC. Do you really not see a problem with that logic, in a Harem game? It has potential, and I will at least thank you for not making it 3 month time limited like the title name would suggest, but there’s A LOT of baggage between where it is now, and what it should/could and can be. Someday.