The voice acting is really good, music is fine, and the art is decent, but the demo doesn't show any animations. Animations are what we're paying/playing for.
Consider including at least some animation in the demo so we know you're any good at it. Even a non-sex animation so we know you aren't a "stretch the porn gif back and forth" douche-nozzle. ;)
Reviews for "Magic Matchup - Hentai Game Demo"
hentaiwriter responds:
The game has no animation; the sex scenes are CG sets. (Nowhere in the game does it ever mention animation, actually :P)
That said, if you do want animations, feel free to check out http://www.patreon.com/futurefragments , another game I'm working on with over 20 animations in it currently, and 60+ in the final game.
The primary draw of this game though isn't just the sex stuff; most of the games I work on put storyline, gameplay, and sex on equal grounds, so if you're here entirely for the sex scenes and don't really care about storyline (which is perfectly fine, don't get me wrong!) then you probably won't be TOO into this game.
(I can guarantee you though that none of the animations in anything I'm working on involve stretching gifs though :P)
Liked the demo, went to buy the full game off itch.io and only seemed to have gotten the demo -minus- the blindfold, rather confused on where the rest of the game is
hentaiwriter responds:
Keep playing the game; it's not over after a first run. :)
cmon guys we (the players) won fair and square and yes i know its the demo but ATLEAST give us a sneak peek, btw great graphics
Let me be clear. This is my rating for the demo. I can't give a rating on the actual game, because the demo shows me basically none of it. From what little it does show me, I can't say I'm willing to pay for any version of this game. Maybe more of the game would have given me reason to say otherwise, but here is what I got from the demo: mediocre voice acting (at best), interesting art style (a positive), ? animation (there wasn't really any to speak of), binary game play (either you can or you can't. the mini game we were shown is the kind that's easy until it gets so fast its impossible). I understand that it may not be fair to your patrons (or you) to give to much of the game away for free, but when the demo is so unattractive, there really needs to be more.
hentaiwriter responds:
I understand your viewpoint on said things, but let me respond to a few of them;
- IMO, games don't need animation to be good; I understand it's something that hentai games have, but there are quite a few without animation. As noted before, the primary focus of this game is the storyline, which isn't something often that I do; I generally try to give gameplay/hentai/storyline all equal focus (and three of the six other games I'm working on have fully animated sex scenes).
- To say the voice acting is mediocre at best is honestly a matter of taste in this case, because as the vast majority of reviews here and otherwise show (as well as my own opinion), she's a stellar VA, but again, a matter of taste; not everyone will like her work nor my/our work.
- To be honest, the reason we're not putting the CGs in this isn't about giving parts of the game away price-wise, it's because if we did so for the demo, it'll likely alter your experience/choices when you play through the full game, which is something we wanted to avoid.
Feels kinda cheated from playing this. I know it's a demo, but building up to nothing is lame.
Aside from that, the art is fine, the game plays OK and the concept is fun.
However, it does run a little laggy (using Opera)
hentaiwriter responds:
Sorry, yeah, we definitely learned from this demo how NOT to handle a demo, so our subsequent game demos were hopefully better for you. Opera tends to not do too well with browser games, unfortunately.