Tribulations of a Mage

this needs a serious animation overhaul because right now the animations suck i mean really bad i have played a lot VN’s with horrible animations but this takes top spot story is interesting not amazing by any means but don’t bother if you are about animation I rated this 2 stars simply because of that fact

Talothral, an ANY sort of legitimate writer or Game Dev;

You are NO WHERE NEAR a fucking Epilogue in this bloody story mate!!!
You’re not even 1/6th of the way done this story. You haven’t even finished the SET UP to GET to the climactic battle. You could work on this game for another 3 or more years before you got that far. : /

I get it if it’s a maintain a 5 GIG download issue, but if it’s just you saying fuck it I want to work on something else, it’s NOT a freaking epilogue. It’s To Be Continued… An “Epilogue” is an add on at the END of the story, to further flesh out what happened to the characters – and usually as an exemplified reward, or an assurance that injured favorites mended and did in fact survive, and the world healed from whatever event was catastrophic at the time the story takes place.

You’ve done this now with 3 fucking games. What, are you intending to leapfrog to a Round 3 on Terminus Sentinel now? Because the issue that made me go off on you about Dragon Lady getting included in the harem this time, STILL aren’t addressed with that Cookie Cutter version of the EXACT FUCKING SAME MAIN CHARACTER. I’ve played every one of the games you make, and brother – you’re not a terrible writer. Barring a few points I am going to list. Because I am getting VERY tired of a few of your troupes. But before we get to that, here’s the main rub:

You went from Dude is a traumatized pisonic assassin who’s potentially IMMORTAL (and by the way = FUCK YOU for the absolute bullshit cop out psuedo philosophical answer the UNCONFIRMED GODDESS foists on Thomas. You KNOW damned well what most people want when they mention the term IMMORTAL you asshat; if you are remotely cognizant enough to dodge confirmation WITH that bullshit answer. By the way – No dipshit: We DON’T actually know the Soul/spirit IS definitively Immortal & there are several religions that DON’T believe in the concept of reincarnation. At all. We will ALL of us NEVER get that confirmation that a soul IS IMMORTAL; so by and large her “assurance” to Thomas is very semantically WRONG! What we ALL want when we say we want to be “Immortal,” is straight up MY BODY IS AGELESS, AND AT LEAST VERY HARD TO KILL!!! >.< You have NO idea how much that cop out pissed me off… because for three fucking versions of the same damned main character, 2 of which are at least insanely LONG LIVED… and you can’t be bothered to just say – Yes. ONE of them IS in fact Immortal. Or heaven forefend ACTUALLY MAKE THE JACKASS WHO GETS BLESSED BY EVERY FREAKING GOD ACROSS SEVERAL USELESS PANTHEONS, OFFICIALLY INDUCTED INTO APOTHEOSIS?!? Make him the “Guardian of The Balance” or something. Whatever the fuck you named the event that’s going to fuck his world over. Boom; you’re DONE. The world will ALWAYS have a counterpoint to evil assholes; and he will have the Indomitable AUTHORITY to recruit those who are “Worthy” champions who can actually fucking help ensure the world DOESN’T end up in a literal Hellscape! Come the fuck on) who ends up tied in a MAIN relationship > and fucks a LOT of SCI FI weird creatures & for NO DISCERNABLY GOOD REASON = Old Ladies. [Most of whom ARE NOT necessary, or attractive…]

To Dude who doesn’t know he is a powerful mage (who was Magically CRIPPLED by an Angel) who is in fact a HALF DJINN; whose species IS defined in PURE BLOOD as “Immortal” and NEAR TO a God… who ends up tied in a “main” relationship, who fucks a lot more FANTASY weird creatures > I DO NOT forgive you for that troll, asshole. And again: Old Ladies… >.<

To Dude who WAS a SOLDIER; ends up getting HALF his SOUL ripped out of him (By the way, Genius = IF the soul is actually “Immortal: it fucking well HEALS!!! That’s the POINT of a “LIFE DRAIN” spell and HALF the power in Necromancy to start with > it’s not edgy death knight, or controlling dead things >> It’s I WANT TO BEAT DEATH AS A BASE INEXORABLE CONCEPT, INTO ETERNAL SUBMISSION, AND RULE IT AS MASTER. Put Bluntly, a Necromancer is Queen singing “Who Wants To Live Forever” and then answering, I do! Duh…) who NEVER confirms to this current update at 0.51.0 that he GETS HIS SOUL BACK… and is an Archmage for NO GOOD RE ASON; WHO DOES NOTHING PARTICULARLY WITH IT > who fucks a LOT of weird creatures (Seeing a pattern here yet???) and for some reason even still >> Old Ladies. GGGRRRRRRR!

> You have NEVER actually completed a game before you started another story.

> You have a thing with making us fuck undeniably UGLY characters MORE OFTEN than the ones we would generally find most Aesthetically pleasing. Or people for whom despite YOUR expressed urgency in BREEDING, such would be either IMPOSSIBLE or highly dangerous and incredibly UNLIKELY. (Waste of time, some retarded moral high ground bullshit in the vein of Bethesda about “challenging” the players’ standards of “Beauty?” All you’re doing when you pull shit like this is KILLING people’s boners)

> You’ve created relationships OUTSIDE of the structure of Harem that are INACCESSIBLE to the player (The cat lady pirate in Terminus; I believe there was a lesbian couple in Sorcerer & a freaking demon/werewolf couple, and in this game Malgrin = who DOES NOT NEED TO EXIST FOR FUCK SAKES!!! and his bloody princess >.<)

> You add in a whole bunch of unnecessary power dynamic bullshit that half the time you either have to work longer and hard to explain why MC just presses the SKIP button on, or you outright have the fuckwit say: Don’t Call Me Master. You have NO idea if your audience WANTS to play as Dominant, and worse you tend to write the fucking MC’s like they are SUPPOSED to be Dominant! Pick. One. He can either accept the fact there are women that WANT him to own them in that sense, who WILL use the title, as an HONORIFIC – OR you can make him a bent over bitch to all of them, and stick to the girl power femdom, rah rah bullshit narrative. [If you’re going to use BDSM themes, do so. But STICK. TO. ONE. “Switch” is NOT common in that realm, for good reason. You CANNOT trust them as a Dominant to actually BE submissive, and you will waste time fighting them when they decide they want to BE the Dominant instead of you. Too much of a pain in the ass my friend]

In this specific game you had a WHOLE fuck ton of all but unused add on characters; and GODS for fuck sakes. Why? We got a decent amount of time (and in some cases Characters who were on the side character tab in Codex SHOULD have been added to the Main Character roster…) with the Main Cast, but most of the characters in the game barely make ANY appearance. Was the fucking Goblins, or the Ogres, or the goddamned dyrads really needed? Especially for the sex scenes… Ireana was also NOT someone that needed to be more than a SIDE character; Hell the Centuar lady would’ve been a more attractive Main Character slot. Just, Jesus. Maren and the Fox Princess deserve to be Main Roster. Malgrin and Iraena should’ve been side characters. We don’t currently even actually get to fuck the enchanter – who didn’t REALLY need to be there. It SHOULD have been the dwarven Queen AND her daughter that went to Thomas. [You know that 70 years is MORE THAN ENOUGH FUCKING TIME to sever any ties – and You DID NOT have to renew that bloody relationship!]

At this rate, I’ve listed everything I see as a major problem; BEYOND all the unneeded “bad endings” that in this genre SHOULD NOT be POSSIBLE. Nevermind necessary. Failure does NOT add stakes. It just negates all the work we have done and all the reading; and with as many choices as you make up, it’s a fucking RUBIX CUBE of Why Exactly and HOW did I fuck up?!? Because without the Walkthroughs that sometimes ARE NOT PROPERLY UP TO DATE, we won’t know what the “Right” answers are. 3 games. WAY too many hours, and while the writing’s not bad – it’s not as smart, or well thought out, or tactical as you tend to think. You do far too much to TRY to screw the main characters over. Then you have to spend just as much time trying to figure out a way to get OUT of the corner you’ve painted your characters into to start with. While actually making a character in a LEADER position that is FAR too diplomatic, and way too progressively minded. I do, I’ll admit, find the story engaging. Outside of the lewd scenes for the general world-building, and the intrigue in the CONCEPTS. Which is rare as Gold for a porn game, and I know it. But you have to stop using the same damned troupes, and the same fucking Models for all of your bloody games mate. You’ll get maybe one more IP that can stretch that point, before I definitively write you off to be absolutely done with.

One character who A) isn’t in a confirmed relationship to start who will “ALLOW” him to have a harem; or breeding/Pregnancy that happens BEFORE the fucking “Epilogue”

Just One who B) DOESN’T start screwed over, and have to run around half cocked like a chicken with his head cut off, trying to keep it above water, but trailing too far behind the ENEMY forces to catch the fuck up.

Who doesn’t C) NEED or even get the CHOICE to FUCK OLD LADIES > Ugly Monster Girls.

Who IS CONFIRMED FUCKING IMMORTAL, OR EVENTUALLY ASCENDS TO FULL GODHOOD!!!

Seriously Dude, please. Show me you CAN do something different. Markedly. Then I will be very willing to read through as much of this same sort of bullshit as I can stand. Until you do, I don’t care what you put in this game’s “Epilogue.” Because you damned sure aren’t anywhere near that point yet, and will likely leave the audience that wants more of it, blue balled for years. While you bugger off to pick up one of the others you’ve left hanging.