The Shopkeeper Assistant

Like others said, this is the author's first game, so some lack of polish can be excused, however the unsatisfactory gameplay and scenes just couldn't be excused. While the VN aspect isn't as bad, it's preferable that they add a checkpoint of some kind when you go back to the start of the day once you lose all your trust. And speaking of checkpoint, there's no save, no quick start ( aside from skipping the 2 or 3 dialogue box long intro that is ) so if you somehow want to see a scene from one day or to replay the ending? Play the game again, stupid. Granted, the game isn't that long, and you can skip the dialogues with ESC, but it's still pretty dang annoying. When you got to the main point of the game, using the staff to mind control the shopkeep... it's fucking Simon Says. There's not much challenge to it, it's just infuriating and sluggish to progress just for teasing actions like strip and pose ridiculously. But I gotta give some praise to the game's animation since it's at least decent and give you motivation to progress since the shopkeep's model isn't bad either, if a bit random with the bunny ears and generic looking. Except for the ending . It's supposedly the real meat of the game with a vaginal sex scene, yet all 4 scenes you get have fucked-up camera angle and penis in the shadow. Maybe the author isn't good at animating penis going into the vagina, or maybe the "penis" is just a dildo judging by the model's lumps. But to be honest I don't give a shit, just show me what you've got instead of hiding everything like a fucking pussy, this is more blueballing than those out-of-frame manga sex scene for all the Simon Says I have played in over 10 minutes. All and all, not bad for author's prototype game, even if it took a year to finish. But from a consumer's prospective, I don't recommend this game. It might be a bit much to ask for an one man team, I can only hope that High On Neko would give us a sizeable amount of content and proper vaginal animation the next time we see of him.

I'm giving the game 3 stars, just because it's devs first game, but still we have enough games around to get more ideas and improve it. Positive points: - It has a bit kind of story and you have to mach right answers to progress. - The look of the game and the shopkeeper is pretty decent, even through the graphics aren't enormous high, she looks pretty sexy Negative: - No Gallery: Please, every dev out there, if I have beat your game, I want be able to replay scenes without replaying the game - No sounds: Animations aren't bad in this game but with some simple sex sounds it could be more sexy and actually fappable - There are very little options, more positions would be really nice

I'm not trying to shit on this dev; I know this is among their first titles and so I hope they learned a lot from it; They've definitely shown some great promise. Unfortunately this specific game is, plainly and simply, poor. And that's fine, I hope the dev continues to grow, but I would like to give readers an honest expectation before spending time on this game. Below is what a player can expect. Spoiler: Game Experience There is very little going on in this game. You are rapidly introduced to the plot: You're a thief, your guild has sent you to steal an artifact from a shop. NOW GO! The game starts with you in the shop speaking with the owner. You know nothing about the shop, the owner (girl), the location, yourself, etc. She then proceeds to ask you a series of questions with multi-choice answers. All of the answers are obvious, however the dev has intentionally made some of the answers incorrect despite this. What does that mean? Yes, everyone say it with me: RANDOM BULLSHIT! So, yes, the gameplay has now devolved into trial and error. Thankfully it is very easy to repeat a failed set of questions but it's still annoying (and don't worry, it gets worse soon). So, you discover the artifact; It's a staff. Shop owner has no idea what it is, and against her wishes you touch it which casts a spell on her allowing you to order her around. You do a couple soft orders and she wakes up with a headache. More random bullshit questions the next day, and you get to touch the staff again at the end. Spell activates - ready to give her sexy orders? WRONG, PLAY A FUCKING MINIGAME YOU FILTHY COOMER. Yes, a 3x3 grid of squares appears and you must memorize a pattern on-screen to send a command to her.... greeeeaaaattttt. But yes, you play it, it's slow and tedious, but you get to watch the pretty shop keeper in her underwear. Art is AMAZING, animation is fine (dev can only make her do basic things, and reverts to a "fade to black" transition for more advanced stuff like taking a shirt off). Eventually you get your first sex scene and you realize that the game has no audio outside of UI clicks. She rhythmically strokes your dick and gives you the weirdest blow job you've ever seen. It is uninspiring since you don't care about her and are simply just frustrated with the gameplay so far. Neither you nor the game's MC climax. The next day you do another spell, get her naked, memorize some fucking squares, and fuck her. Again, silent, and while the animation is better (because it's much simpler), it's sill slow and the camera is very zoomed in. And, same as last time, neither you nor MC climax. Ironically the "go hard on her" scenes are just as slow as the "go easy on her scenes", but the "go easy on her scenes" are better and involve anal so presumably they're harder??? Idk man... The game gives you two choices at the very end for what you want to do with the staff - they do the same shit. But to go back and pick the other choice or see the hard/easy scenes you skipped, you have to replay through random bullshit and squares once again - highly unrecommended. If this was presented as a technical demo, I'd probably give it 3 stars. However, it's presented as a game, and 2 stars seems accurate. I love the idea of this genre though.

Good: Animation quality is fine, if a bit stiff occasionally The story and dialogue work well for the short nature of this game The 'simon says' style minigame is well-done, and you can retry as many times as you need. Bad: There is no saving - if you mess up the dialogue options too much or want to see a different choice you need to restart from the beginning. This isn't the biggest problem with such a short game, but it gets annoying. The ending is abrupt and unsatisfactory - you get a choice of 2 options, both of which have a few panels worth of narration. No special scenes or visuals for either. There is a sex scene before the choice, but the disappointing ending ends the game on a sour note, especially since you have to replay the whole thing to see the other ending. It feels like the devs wanted to add more features to the game and later changed their minds. There are a few times where a pop-up will appear in the top right saying you received an item, but nothing ever comes of it. Since this is version 1.0.0, I assume this is the final version, and stuff like this should have been removed . Overall, the game is fine. The biggest issue I have with it is the slapdash ending, but the core of the game is solid if by-the-numbers. Nothing is fundamentally broken, and if you like the shopkeeper's model and are okay with restarting the game as needed, then feel free to try it. The devs have proven that they can make a decent game, and I have faith that if they make another game like this (or if they continue working on this one) they'll continue to improve.

Strong start, keeping an eye on it for sure. The minigames aren't terrible but are enough that you're not just watching the story play out. The simon says one is going to get tedious if it goes any further than ten. Not sure if I can do 15 or 20 but even if I could it'd get boring pretty quick. For now though it;s great, easy, but enough that you gotta earn that little bit.