Shiftide Sharki

I really wanted to like this game, I really did. So what are the some of the good things about this game? PROS: The art itself is actually really good, it's a charming anime artstyle with some very nice shading. The art especially on Gura is cute as hell and you can really feel the passion felt in the drawings. The interaction system with Gura is also pretty nice, if a bit less developed than other cohabitation games. Another unique thing is the game gives you a personality to start with, which gives you unique dialogue options for certain scenes. As far as I know they don't do anything, but it's a nice roleplay addition. The Bad: The pacing. Dear God the pacing. While not as egregious as some games, it takes upwards of one to two hours just to even see Gura, with the time before that being spent grinding your hospital for cash and play Blackjack for money. On that note, you will be playing Blackjack a lot in this game, as getting money legitimately takes way too long. Not only that, but you will also want to save scum for every game just to get the maximum amount of cash (which is tedious in of itself, as the game does not have a quickload feature, making you have to forcibly switch from the save menu, and then to the load menu, with the very real possibility of accidentally overwriting your save). It is honestly such a chore that sucks a lot of the enjoyment. And that's not getting into the Lootbox system, which is stupid expensive and the rewards for it not being worth it outside of the bike. There's also the library minigames, which are jigsaw puzzles which you can't cheat your way out of. In general, this game has way too many minigames that are timewasters. Theres also the fact the fact that you will be locked out of the majority of the H-content if you downloaded the game for free. So all those hours grinding to see hot Gura ass? Tough luck, better pay the dev's patreon for the version with H-scenes. It wouldn't be nearly so bad if the game made them unavalible or outright stated you need to pay for certain scenes, but the very first scenes where you have intimacy with another character are not even censored, just flat out missing. It just makes going through all the tedious minigames feel completely pointless and unrewarding if I don't even get anything out of them. The Ugly: The game does not play well with certain graphics drivers to my knowledge. It will randomly cause my computer to slow down to 1 frame per second, forcing me to restart my graphics driver so it works properly again. On that note, I do NOT recommend anyone to play this game with NVIDIA graphics drivers, as that is the driver I use and have been having issues with. Regardless, I would also just not touch this game without it fixing this problem just in case. In conclusion, I really wanted to enjoy this game and Gura is adorable, but the godawful pacing, tedious minigames, and just the grind of actually meeting Gura, all for it to be censored, just makes it not worth it. The only reason this isn't a 1 star is because the art is very good, and Gura is especially cute and a great waifu. Still, I do not recommend playing, at least until the game is updated enough for it to actually be fun.

Gura is just a cheap marketing gimmick, tacked on to the edgiest crap I've ever read. The sad thing is, it works. I did play for Gura and after spending 3 hours save scumming the stupid black jack minigame and enduring the terrible writing, I found out that despite this being a porn piracy site the version uploaded here had all the H scenes cut out. Don't waste your time here and definitely don't give the dev any money.

Obviously the main reason why I come here is "Sharki". The game itself and the story is good and enjoyable with some funny twists. Yeah it's grindy especially when you start but I don't feel it that much. It's bearable for me. The main problem is the paywall. In the free version the juicy stuff and scenes are just cut out. Black screen with "Censored" word for some sec. It's lame. I paid because I enjoyed the game and I was curious what I'm missing but it was not that big of a deal at least for now. But I can recommend to anyone to try out if you like the "main monster" character. Overall it was enjoyable for me. Current version was v0.1.6

Game is extremely grindy no joke. Minigames are absurd, blackjack game is stupid, the dealer has like 80% chance to get 19 20 or even blackjack, Impossible without save scumming. And after all those grinds and upgrading the hospital, getting money and everything to finally able to improve relationship point to 10% (the very first one) it says the scene is Censored (the dev seriously needs a dictionary, since he literally didn't include the scenes at all, that's not censoring like wtf). The changelog says some H scenes are added but in the end it demands you to purchase the patreon version in the end, all those grinding went to waste, this is a horrible joke and so many high rating above are lies, I'm also sceptical that the scenes are even worth paying. Baiting people with Gura and stabs them in the back like this, if i had known this, I'd had visited rule34 to see Gura contents instead. If anything i learned from this apart from the developer being obviously obnoxious, is to read comments so i could learn that this would be an absolute waste of time.

After the uncenosred version was released its pretty alright just a lot more grinding than is necessary it also feels like these stats you grind dont really do anything for you. art is solid and the story is fun.

Looks promising! Im gonna keep an eye out for the next update because as it stands it is a Looong grind for the 'content' part of the game but seeing as how its currently in a demo phase it will likely be ironed out in later updates. Who can say no to a cute lil' shark?

It's WAY too grindy and a couple of things need some QoL.. otherwise this is an amazing game with premise. Given that it's just 0.1.1 I would imagine a lot of things fleshed out but the content available is already quite nice.

great game, need more chapters, it have a fun plot, and if you love Gura you will love that game. Also is only a Demo, but if the work keep the same it will be a good game. The hard lvl is not recomended for players that want to just get the H scenes, if you prefer to get fun is better to try the hard mode

Great start to this game! It's definitely grindy and there's only 3 scenes (2 of which have alright animation), but the grind is decently enjoyable. The girl is, obviously, Gura, but only visually - nothing Hololive related is brought up. I think the quests showed something like 20 total, and with there only being 3 in the game I'm excited to see where the game goes and how much it expands! It IS free on their Patreon by the way, so I recommend checking that out to drive traffic that way.

Quick warning though! It is a management/sim/clicker kind of thing so it is GRINDY. Like about 1 to maybe even 2 hours kind of grind before you see any H. So don't download this and then leave a bad review crying about grind, know what you are getting into first. Went in expecting very little, thought that it might even be a stolen / ripped art and an asset flip. But all in all it is very solid, well made, and even has 2 decent short animations. The art is very charming. Writing is quick and has a bit of thought put into it, nothing crazy but isn't too wordy which I like. Not filled with a ton of detail or explanation, short and sweet and does what it needs to do. The shark girl is just gura, but in the game she is just shark girl. Local legend/fairy tale and doesn't know how she got there or who/what she really is. It is a first release 0.1 at the time of this review, so 5/5 as far as new beginning go.