the mechanic of needing to take mana from your employees in order to enchant gear is interesting on paper but your employees don't use their mana when they're not in combat and the amount of mana that regenerates in the game's shortest non-combat time interval which is six hours is enough to make the mechanic into "click like seven more times every time you want to enchant armor"
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the enchanting screen specifies that the character will unequip their item during the enchantment process but the only reason for that seems to be that this game implements cursed items backwards so if you unequip a cursed item it works but you can never re-equip it
the game also spells Mythril with a y and I've never seen any game do that but maybe that's just because the only games I'm aware of with mithril in them are runescape-based
got a little bit bored with the game making almost every character either caucasian or pink so I redid all the colors on my combat squad
the game has three separate menus where you can edit colors and two of them are identical except that one of the two has a cooldown
one can edit clothes and hair but not skin and the other can edit skin and hair but not clothes
there's also a fourth menu where you edit characters which gets used twice in the tutorial and then never again
also I gave my dark elf a tail by accident and I don't think there's a way to remove it
also medium armor looks like this in this game apparently
there's a gender reassignment ritual that you can do in this game but one of the requirements is "is a man or a woman" and you can fail that requirement by being trans which is pretty funny in a way the game developer probably didn't intend to be political commentary
this is a porn game on itch.io that makes heavy use of genAI slop so of course it's gonna have the three genders be "man", "woman", and "transgender woman"
the upside(???) to the game developer and their fleet of slop machines not knowing what a transgender person is is that if you're transgender in this game you basically get to do everything that every gendered body part can do at the same time
then again BDCC also has characters who can do this and it's intentional to the point where some of the characters can asexually sexually reproduce with the use of portal technology and I know with 99.999% confidence that Rahi knows what being transgender is
I'm not gonna put fucking in my comedy management/automation game for children so I don't get to play with any of these concepts
I am learning a lot about what does and doesn't work with game UIs from this game that was as far as I can tell put together by repeatedly asking genAI to make different interfaces and then leaving them all in the game though
for example, if you have a bunch of "keep this many of this item available" crafting orders and you add a new one-time crafting order, that should go above those
this game is like if BDCC was homophobic medieval fantasy rather than cool HRT-themed cyberpunk sci-fi
there are genAI slop versions of some of the character portraits that you can toggle on and off and the weirdest part is that every single unique clothing item in the game has broken graphics that don't match what it looks like in the normal procedurally generated version of the character art and also an exactly identical item that isn't the one with bonuses and "can only be worn by this character" that does render correctly
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they also get a lot of character details weirdly wrong in the procedurally generated version of the character art (which is a system BDCC also uses but without genAI slop and without getting the character designs wrong)
like you meet a fairy with green wings and a green dress and the procedurally generated version has pink wings and a gray and brown dress
or there's a furry character you meet during a town siege who has ears in the procedurally generated version that point out sideways that I don't think get used by the game at all normally and in the genAI slop art and also every character that gets generated naturally in that species the ears point straight up
also WHY ARE DAISY'S EARS WHITE IN THE GENAI SLOP ART THERE ARE NO CHARACTERS IN THE GAME WITH EAR FUR THAT DOESN'T MATCH THEIR HAIR COLOR AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS THAT IT LOOKS LIKE SHIT
one pretty cool feature of the game is that if you edit a character's skin color there's a button to guess what color their nipples should be
which is better than a lot of porn games on itch which just give any character with dark skin glowing pink nipples
come to think if it it's weird that you can set nipple color but not penis color (the penis has no color variation anywhere on it, as if the game developer had only ever seen unpainted plastic dildos and that's where their understanding of what a penis looks like came from)
and ear skin color but not ear fur color
a lot of games with both sex and combat in them try to merge them in a way that isn't really anything
BDCC solves it by basically just having the combat sex be masturbating to make your opponent so horny they can't fight anymore
this game handles it in a different way, by having them be completely different systems that may as well be completely different games
I think there's like one character who you can fight and also can have sex with in the entire game
the sex minigame is basically just clicking buttons to make your character do things to another character or to make them do things to your character
and to make it seem like there's something there, the developer put in like 10 different buttons that are just "put penis in vagina" and another 10 buttons that are "put penis in butt"
there are no animations or posing or depictions of the actual sex at all outside of genAI static image cutscenes that assume your character is a man with a penis
the only thing I can think of that BDCC gets wrong with procedurally generated character art is that there's one scene where the only character with custom art that you can persistently change the appearance of uses a strapon to spitroast you and normally you can't equip a strapon if you have a penis and that is handled specifically in a different scene where it's not group sex
hey excuse me why is this mythological deer creature a caucasian woman
playing dress-up is fun and both this and the other porn management game I played had that as a component with problems
the automatic clothes changer ran before the thermostat in the latter, so I had to constantly micromanage clothing choices because I unlocked automation for both things,
and in this one a lot of clothes look very similar, either burlap dresses or bikinis with the color variation having to be manually entered for each piece of each character's gear
so it seems like I could fix that by just not doing it in a shitty way.
turn based automation can be fun, but it felt stressful because unlike something like rollercoaster tycoon or two point I can't stand up and do something else and let the game keep running until I come back
randomly triggered "dilemmas" like what Two Point Museum does are fun but the genAI slop porn management game kept giving me nonsensical ones like "one of the people in your dungeon delving party has broken a vase in your mansion"
and once you figure out which option does the good thing and which options do the bad thing it kinda sucks. better to do it the TPM way where you either have very clearly right and wrong answers or every option is either good or bad (in a different way but the same direction).
basically everything this game copied from BDCC is done ridiculously badly in this game and much better in BDCC
there's basically no reason to play the sex minigame in this game; you just click "let this character lead" and then spam click the "observe" button until the sex is over and get at least like 90% of the best possible outcome
the combat in this game uses a lot of clip art spell icons that get reused 2-3 times for completely different spells each and in BDCC combat is just adventure game style text buttons with animations for the stuff you're doing
sex in BDCC also had animations and in this game the characters just stand there naked in a kind of tab UI where you can switch which naked character you're looking at
the dialogue in this game is badly written (because it's genAI slop) but even beyond that, simple things like "[pronoun] realize the chest is not locked" not working with any of the pronouns the game uses (he or she) grammatically and showing up multiple times in literally every dungeon
the mansion having basically item progression roadblocks in order to open some stuff is interesting on paper but it basically only checks "can you figure out how to send someone to harvest materials" and then "can you figure out how to click upgrade on the forestry area twice" and then everything else is just waiting
there's also not really any benefit to the game allowing you to make choices about where to put rooms
characters never need to walk around, and there aren't enough slots to put everything you need to put outside and have a single duplicate even though the game allows you to
the interior rooms have a few spaces you get to make choices about, but if you put a second copy of basically any room that isn't a bedroom you won't have enough bedrooms to power everything
so while the idea of unlocking space to do stuff in is appealing, other games already mentioned in this post did it much better
choosing what materials to make stuff out of is also interesting, but it's done much better in games like Little Big Workshop and even Smart Factory Tycoon which is the "Little Big Workshop we have at home" that I got for free on Steam where you're balancing stuff and not just picking out whatever gives you the highest stats
the (new since an update a few days after I started playing) crafting menu is okay but Dwarf Fortress did it better a decade ago
here's the biggest thing: if you have a bunch of recurring crafting jobs, unless you're a game like Little Big Workshop where the entire gameplay loop is micromanaging production, just send the recurring task to the bottom of the list when it's finished once
or at the very least, put non-recurring tasks above the recurring tasks that are already there rather than at the very end of the queue after "make 10000 breads"
the characters blushing when you give them underwear and smiling if you give them a high quality piece of gear is pretty cute. basically the thing The Sims has been doing for decades. perfect, no notes
sucks that apart from one pair of gloves and some of the shirts and pants and swords and the underwear there's no graphics for the gear
the sex scenes where it's a genAI slop image that's full screen and covered by the UI that's trying to describe the sex scene sucks even if you like looking at genAI pictures of a penis near a vagina
permanently losing access to a character's storyline because you chose the wrong option in a list of very similar sounding options in a cutscene that got triggered automatically sucks and I shouldn't have to tell anyone that it sucks for them to know that
this game has some kind of godot developer console that pops up every time the game has one of its frequent errors and it's also distributed as a bunch of loose assets in a folder so I'm probably gonna figure out where they got that from at some point
having characters able to die in combat with no permanent repercussions (beyond them refusing to fight while they recover, or if your entire squad wipes a game over screen that should just send you back to before the fight but in reality it sends you back to the main menu and you have to pray you have a recent autosave) is better than constantly losing your best characters to bullshit
there's not really any threat at all in the game when you're not actively doing a story quest, so I spent most of my playtime hitting the "wait 24 hours" button and waiting for crafting or gathering tasks to complete with no real other way to progress and nothing to do
the idea of having a bunch of professions all at once with a dependency graph is very funny and wasted on this game
a lot of the more minor problems in this game are just from the developer or whatever genAI slop machine they used being really homophobic, with stuff like being able to propose marriage to as many characters as you want but only act upon it once in the entire game, and characters being innately heterosexual until they unlock a trait in this game where like 80% of the characters are women, and the problem that even the game developer knows about where their genAI slop sex cutscenes assume that the player character is a man with a penis even though it's possible to be a woman with or without a penis too
basically just gonna keep hitting the "wait 24 hours" button until the games I want to play release
the above is the longest post I've ever made by a considerable margin and you should prank your friends by forcing them to read it to you
is it bad that I'm playing a genAI slop game rather than doing other things like eating breakfast
did my ridiculously long post break federation can people see me asking if I should eat breakfast
the quartermaster keeps coming back from the market with 1 grain and zero of the big-ticket crafting items I need so I'm guessing the quartermaster can't actually get those and the game is struggling to fill a shopping cart with items that can't be purchased at that market