English:..........9/10
User Interface:...3/10
User Experience:..3/10
Art:..............8/10
Dialogue:.........7/10
Story:............5/10
Opinion:..........4/10........
Avg:...........5.57/10 [2.79/5]
So, once again, I went into a piece of work that said it is based off a previous comic, hoping that'd mean there's a bunch of story and lots of content. And again I'm reminded to never get my hopes up. I have not read or even heard of the comic and honestly, I don't think I want to based on what's here. The story literally reads like "I'm Rip Thundercock. Heh, I lead a rag tag crew of ruffians(even though we're more kitted out than god). And I have so much sex with all these women who love me, a lumbersexual ~I N ~ S P A C E~." It comes across as cringe level writing. The ONE custom made screen in the game doesn't work properly and all the button that get hidden by the information are still there and clickable. So on top of subpar writing, you have a poor UX and default UI. Can't wait. I played the last release, it was SHORT. So I'm trying this version(1.3.0) to get a feel for update length. Yeah, I have a negative opinion of this, but it's in its early stages so all I can hope for is I'll need to come back and redo my review. Something I'll happily do if things improve.
So Rip Thundercock's equally cringey real name, that's not changeable, is Zanidu. You start out seeing him at a bar thinking how things have changed. What and who's changed? Everything, apparently, but no proper nouns or actual descriptors. So who knows. Then, MC establishes his relations to the characters. As far as setup goes, it's not the worst I've read, but it still feels a little forced. Though, he only talks about his female crewmates. Not the robot, AI, or 10ft dinosaur man ...Named Turok. Rains and Lorna, inter galactic slaves that became chief engineer and a weapons specialist, respectively. JD, a nudist space wizard that likes plants. Jessie actually isn't talked about AT ALL, just mentioned in passing. According to the lore, she's a sniper. But that's side lore you might never even read, so the average player might not even read about that. And the intro leads up to meeting Lilith. Humbly, a former archaeologist turned cybernetics engineer. Now, I get it, it's the future, everyone's leagues smarter than people of today. But the knowledge and skill base required for both of those are miles apart. I get she's supposed to be an attractive new addition to the team on a new adventure. But those are to wildly different professions. Eventually you get to the ship and learn about someone named Gavin. All you learn is he's a dick, I guess. Why? Again. Who knows. But the current "mission" is delivering a box for an asshole then going somewhere else for reasons. Leading up to a sex scene with Jessie and her horrific deflated balloon tits. I shit you not, they look almost moldy. Fix this. Now, I KNOW we're all tired of the same 12 DAZ models everywhere, but to have your FIRST(and currently only) sex scene open to necrosis nipples here is not gonna sell well.
That is where the last version I played ended, it's barely an intro. After that, you 'get' to see MC take a shower for whatever reason as he's gotten a call from Nova-- I mean Cedona about a crashed ship on Nakondis, where MC supposed to be headed. The ship is from some race of more assholes and the content ends. So less then 10 minutes of story were added. Now, I KNOW writing isn't simple, but you should really forego a release until something actually happens. Don't hit an arbitrary word count. Don't render X amount of images. Get to a point where the story has advanced. Currently it's barely started. That "1.3GB" download is a bunch of uncompressed images and barely a cold open of a story that's technically a sequel to something no one's read. I'm not trying to be harsh, I see the universe that's crafted here, and I kinda see that there's some unique characters. But this is paltry. My advice, after maybe toning down the MC's "alpha male machismo"(personal taste) and redoing Jessie's scene, would be hold off and build up more than triple the length of current content. And run your renders through something to compress them to webp because this will become a bandwidth hog at 2.5MB an image.
I will say it's written or edited by someone that ACTUALLY speaks English. I only noticed a few spelling mistakes. The UI is stock and the ONE custom screen doesn't work properly. (dev should look into the tag property in renpy for that) The art is fairly good minus Jessie's plastic bags full of pudding on her chest. The dialogue is hard to judge seeing as there is only 4, FOUR, conversations in the story so far. And the story, I can't really judge because so far it's "Space lumberjack goes to a bar, returns to his spaceship, then gets a call from a friend. It being so anemic and the microscopic update size mean I'm not too fond of this. I WANT to like this, I'm a sucker for world building and something that's not the same slop you see everywhere. But so far there's not a lot here. My recommendation to players is wait like a year or two so you have a full hour of content.
User Interface:...3/10
User Experience:..3/10
Art:..............8/10
Dialogue:.........7/10
Story:............5/10
Opinion:..........4/10........
Avg:...........5.57/10 [2.79/5]
So, once again, I went into a piece of work that said it is based off a previous comic, hoping that'd mean there's a bunch of story and lots of content. And again I'm reminded to never get my hopes up. I have not read or even heard of the comic and honestly, I don't think I want to based on what's here. The story literally reads like "I'm Rip Thundercock. Heh, I lead a rag tag crew of ruffians(even though we're more kitted out than god). And I have so much sex with all these women who love me, a lumbersexual ~I N ~ S P A C E~." It comes across as cringe level writing. The ONE custom made screen in the game doesn't work properly and all the button that get hidden by the information are still there and clickable. So on top of subpar writing, you have a poor UX and default UI. Can't wait. I played the last release, it was SHORT. So I'm trying this version(1.3.0) to get a feel for update length. Yeah, I have a negative opinion of this, but it's in its early stages so all I can hope for is I'll need to come back and redo my review. Something I'll happily do if things improve.
So Rip Thundercock's equally cringey real name, that's not changeable, is Zanidu. You start out seeing him at a bar thinking how things have changed. What and who's changed? Everything, apparently, but no proper nouns or actual descriptors. So who knows. Then, MC establishes his relations to the characters. As far as setup goes, it's not the worst I've read, but it still feels a little forced. Though, he only talks about his female crewmates. Not the robot, AI, or 10ft dinosaur man ...Named Turok. Rains and Lorna, inter galactic slaves that became chief engineer and a weapons specialist, respectively. JD, a nudist space wizard that likes plants. Jessie actually isn't talked about AT ALL, just mentioned in passing. According to the lore, she's a sniper. But that's side lore you might never even read, so the average player might not even read about that. And the intro leads up to meeting Lilith. Humbly, a former archaeologist turned cybernetics engineer. Now, I get it, it's the future, everyone's leagues smarter than people of today. But the knowledge and skill base required for both of those are miles apart. I get she's supposed to be an attractive new addition to the team on a new adventure. But those are to wildly different professions. Eventually you get to the ship and learn about someone named Gavin. All you learn is he's a dick, I guess. Why? Again. Who knows. But the current "mission" is delivering a box for an asshole then going somewhere else for reasons. Leading up to a sex scene with Jessie and her horrific deflated balloon tits. I shit you not, they look almost moldy. Fix this. Now, I KNOW we're all tired of the same 12 DAZ models everywhere, but to have your FIRST(and currently only) sex scene open to necrosis nipples here is not gonna sell well.
That is where the last version I played ended, it's barely an intro. After that, you 'get' to see MC take a shower for whatever reason as he's gotten a call from Nova-- I mean Cedona about a crashed ship on Nakondis, where MC supposed to be headed. The ship is from some race of more assholes and the content ends. So less then 10 minutes of story were added. Now, I KNOW writing isn't simple, but you should really forego a release until something actually happens. Don't hit an arbitrary word count. Don't render X amount of images. Get to a point where the story has advanced. Currently it's barely started. That "1.3GB" download is a bunch of uncompressed images and barely a cold open of a story that's technically a sequel to something no one's read. I'm not trying to be harsh, I see the universe that's crafted here, and I kinda see that there's some unique characters. But this is paltry. My advice, after maybe toning down the MC's "alpha male machismo"(personal taste) and redoing Jessie's scene, would be hold off and build up more than triple the length of current content. And run your renders through something to compress them to webp because this will become a bandwidth hog at 2.5MB an image.
I will say it's written or edited by someone that ACTUALLY speaks English. I only noticed a few spelling mistakes. The UI is stock and the ONE custom screen doesn't work properly. (dev should look into the tag property in renpy for that) The art is fairly good minus Jessie's plastic bags full of pudding on her chest. The dialogue is hard to judge seeing as there is only 4, FOUR, conversations in the story so far. And the story, I can't really judge because so far it's "Space lumberjack goes to a bar, returns to his spaceship, then gets a call from a friend. It being so anemic and the microscopic update size mean I'm not too fond of this. I WANT to like this, I'm a sucker for world building and something that's not the same slop you see everywhere. But so far there's not a lot here. My recommendation to players is wait like a year or two so you have a full hour of content.