Hi.. the item you need is the transfer potion. Did you use the potion set from your inventory? This should remove the basic set and leave only the transfer potion needed
Also I think you should introduce a new set of antagonists who are just straight up evil loose canons who are loyal to no one but themselves that Xixi might go to when she's desperate for more firepower. I'm thinking a couple of mad scientist black market doctors who are also a brother and sister to reflect a dark version of Gina and Greg. They use themselves as test subjects to inject illegal muscle growth drugs with monstrous side effects that mutate their bodies to look distorted, twisted, and purple and it warps their faces into looking demonic. These two could be the ones responsible for the creation of Xixi's executioner (who could then turn out to be just one of many manufactured executioner clones they created).
Even if you don't go with it fully, consider making some kind of a muscle duo of mad scientists who are just a dark "Chaotic Evil" reflection of Gina and Greg but ones that the Mafia turns to when they are desperate and you could build your own character profiles around that concept.
Well, you'll have to wait a bit for the next surprise 😏 Villain-Arc of Xicis lab ist about 2/3 written. Hope I'll get it out in January.
Some good ideas there, some might be in line with my plans, some might be written differently already. But I'm having a lot of fun writting Xicis and Jade currently.
Oh man. I really don't want Jade to turn to the dark side with XiXi. I was hoping Stella would slightly turn to the dark side and Gina would ask greg for an emergency Protein Shake to use on Jade. Wonder if the side effects of Xixi's lab will turn Jade evil.
I think in line with Xixi's drugs, you could make a case for them not necessarily bulking someone's arms up (because I want muscular jade to still look extremely distinct compared to Stella or Gina) but increasing muscle density a lot, in which jade's new look should reflect significantly a defined but compact upper body but a larger lower body with a focus on thicker more powerful legs for her kicking. Could even have a scene where Stella is talking smack to Jade about Stella still having much larger arms but Jade then mocks her through delivering a devastating kick that stops right in front of Stella's face but still knocks Stella over through sheer air pressure. That would be awesome.
Procedurally-generated art theft using a machine-learning algorithm as the thief tools. They all give off uncanny valley something fierce and look very same-y with other art theft using procedural generation as a medium to steal with.
I assume you mean the fight after the training scene with Jade?
If that's the case you need to find something to help start Stella's growth. Buy the potion-set from Lucia and use it in the inventory. Only the transfer potion remains, which you deliver to Stella at the brothel then
It's in Korean but just look at the girls. It literally has Characters with a "Gina" and "Stella" build, as well as two other characters I could see you going for with a Jade and Aline build. Perfect example of diverse but still sexy muscular female body types which keep things interesting.
Amazing job with Gina ripping out of her suit. Super sexy stuff. Would love to see more of that in the future. Must be hard to do with AI art as well.
Also the Light Novel translation shit with Akari is spot on as I'm definitely "that kind of person" when it comes to web novel translations on NoveUpdates.com eventually becoming anime haha.
I also want to ask, are there any tradeoffs to training alone versus training with Jade or Aline or Greg? Seems to me that there should be positives/negatives for training only gina vs training with friends. Or at least something different between stat gains for gina vs stat gains for the other girls to differentiate the choices.
No, currently training alone is inferior. There are plans to add some kind of extreme work-out that's impossible for anyone but Gina, that will make Solo-Training viable again, but maybe with a cooldown
Now that I think about it is Aline the tallest of the four girls?
I'm still torn on how I think Aline should look by the end. Clearly I want her build to have distinguishing characteristics that are different from Stella, since they are both blondes, and with the same bodybuilding frame would suffer from looking too similar. I think your new AI assistants can help by maybe introducing new character models that highlight each girl's full frame (including the legs) more so we can really see the difference in muscle mass distribution (bigger upper body vs bigger lower body, bulk vs shredded etc)
Also I really want Stella vs Jade+Aline to become hard core "frenemies." Passive aggressive hostile girl dialogue between Stella against the both of them. I'd love it.
Also I know you make a lot of comments on strong characters with lots of muscle but terrible form. It should be a running Joke for Stella, despite being the beefiest for now to have consistently terrible form since she's lazy when it comes to following Gina's instructions. So when Jade gets more muscular, she'll still be able to outlift Stella partially due to better form.
After getting drained, I think a cool romance+sidequest option with Mike is Gina becoming his new teacher to get his strength back to what it was in terms of his early story baseline, since Mike is weaker than even base level Aline now. As part of the Mike romance arc, Gina can give him instructions on better technique, boss him around but also train with him to help him get back his strength, ending with a romance scene near the end.
I like that one. I'll write an event with that as a topic. (Not that Gina would know a lot more about technique than Mike.. but he would still love to have her around as a trainer)
Hi, little button top-right with the !/? is your quest-log. Check there if all requirements are met. The green "?" are clickable to give hints on how to complete those quests.
If all requirements are checked growth should happen over the next night. If not, pls write me again and I`ll look into it.
Depends which dialogue.. she complains more than once. But Catherine is not required to progress currently. This is more a bit of foreshadowing for things to come.
She will be available again after the growth-events have all been handled. Post directly below should give hints on how to complete it. Unless you haven't seen the Yuri-Scene yet. Then you need to buy the potions at Lucias and bring the remaining one to Stella to start the growth events.
So if you had the Mike x Stella scene you have done everything possible on the Stella-route for now. She should come to the gym on her own once these two events are completed:
You must have learned the second special move from Jade (Ginpsey Roll) requiring Skill Lvl 4
You must have seen the second training event between Aline and Jade (Train together with Aline, do "exploration" in town until the event happens)
From there the story contiues with her and Jade more or less on it's own. Watch a few scenes with Stella happening and then the final "training together" event of the update becomes available.
After the dream with the amazons Gina can choose her main personality. Check the quest menu top right (!/? Icon) for hints on how to complete the quests. (? are clickable for hints)
Nope, wasn't possible with the variables. We sadly needed to expand some arrays. Chapter-Select will bring you to the point where the last update ended though.
Also sad at all the Patreon users hating on the Greg route you posted. However, I would also vote for Aline and Jade though and I was the one who originally suggested you make Gina Bisexual so let's just say I'm extremely liberal with regards to possible romance routes. However I can clearly tell that your other Patreon supporters don't play a lot of Japanese Visual Novels as Brother-Sister Shenanigans are SUPER common in that genre. It's even a tag on VNDB (visual novel database).
Regardless, as the prime votes are for female on female action, I'm not that picky and am excited to see Gina x Aline or Gina x Jade. Gina x Stella I'm not as into now as I'm still pouting like a petty child over Stella taking shortcuts with her growth.
Well, a few of my favorite FMG-stories had sibling-relationships too 😅That's why I was open to the idea and put him up to the vote. Even dropped a few hints already. But for now we focus on the girls I think and let's see what the future brings.
I just saw your post on the new assistants working with you on the XiXi and Jade storyline. I know you must be super annoyed at me by this point but once again, please make sure to work well with your new assistants and get Jade's muscular form right. Kind of a lean, shredded upper body with a lot less mass and bulk than Stella or Gina, but with a good focus on strong muscular legs and calves, with a more pro-fighter/MMA look. Jade's goal in life is to get strong enough to land the ultimate kick that could bring even a powered up Gina to her knees if it landed with perfect technique. I even think aspiring to get strong enough to land the ultimate kick should be Jade's theme from now on.
I think Aline should have a build that is in between Jade and Stella. So less massive than Stella, but slightly bulkier upper body than Jade. Very well rounded like a crossfit athlete. The most well rounded and balanced of them all. Strong solid core, and moderately sized arms, and relatively thick legs.
Like I keep saying, with regards to each girl's muscle growth, make their body type diverse. So it's cool that for Stella you're going for the bulky wide powerlifter build. Jade should probably be the more leaner shredded build for MMA and speed, like a sleeper build and Aline should ideally be somewhere in the middle of those two like a crossfit build. I think googling various female body musculature as it pertains to different sports: MMA, crossfit, bodybuilding, kickboxing, powerlifting, weightlifting can help you get an idea of the diverse body types you should go for with each girl. I still very much want this to be a thing so I keep reminding you of it.
Here is a great frame of reference. It's a korean webtoon comic called Muscle Gurl's Colleseum. It is still in korean, but every girl you see is super muscular but very different body types: https://novelpia.com/comic_episode/905
I think with Jade you should either go for the Chinese Girl in Chapter 2 or the Dark haired girl in chapter 1. The Lean MMA body type.
Hi, sry for the late reply. Talk to Mike, exhaust all dialogue, visit the brothel a few times and exhaust all of Stella's dialogue. She should join your fighter-team soon after.
You need to have Stella join the gym (by defeating the first boss at the Streets of Rage), then do Stella's first training session together with Gina. After that Greg should have a new dialogue-option about sharing those shakes.
Its not everyday you find an AVN tailored to a more... unique... fetish (fmg in this case) AND is overall pretty good. Usually people tend to focus more on the unique part and less on the actual game. But this one didn't seem to do that. It instead made each part pretty great.
Short Version: It has a pretty good story that reminds me of a Yakuza game for some reason. (But with a female protagonist) Pretty good characters so far with each one being completely different to the others and having completely different personalities. It also has that touch of mystery I seem to enjoy so much. It even has combat which was the best I've seen in a Ren'Py game so far. I'm honestly impressed the dev managed that as most struggle to bend Ren'Py to their will. Oh, it also uses AI images and they're not too bad, little bit funny here and there, but nothing too major (plus there's a re-design coming up so whatever)
Longer Version:
The story is basically the plot of a Yakuza game, at least I think it is. Woman who was living a simple life gets asked for help by her brother to help save the family gym from being shut down. In the process she (basically) becomes insane and creates 2 imaginary friends who help her along the way (A shoulder angel and shoulder demon), meets a pretty varied cast of characters with quite a few of them being total goofballs, and ends up getting involved with the Mafia. There's also a lot of comedic moments thrown throughout which only fuels my "this is similar to a Yakuza game" mindset. And I like it!
The characters are pretty good too. Gina is the protag who is pretty intelligent, most of the time. Most of her personality is up to the player to decide, but I believe her default is "Kind, caring, composed, sometimes a little bit rude." I don't want to say too much more about the characters since most of it's actually revealed through your interactions with them, but I can give a small description. Mike - Small rude gym guy, Enzi - Medium gym guy wearing a loincloth, Jonathan - Big gym guy who's weirdly polite, Greg - MASSIVE gym guy who's also your brother and Xici - some white haired girl. Each one drastically different than the other and having their own unique motivators for what they do.
Can't talk about the touch of mystery as that'd kinda ruin it.
The combat arrives about 60% to 75% of the way through the game's current content (V 0.2) But it's surprisingly well made for a Ren'Py game! It's kind of styled like an older JRPG, like the original FF7 for instance. 3 party members, items, abilities, and ally commands. Little confusing at first, but I instantly figured it out in my first fight. It also requires a bit of strategy too, so I'd say the current fights are quite balanced.
My only problem with the game would have to be the silence. No music, no sounds. So I'd recommend letting your own music run in the background or ignoring the silence until some gets made/put in. Other than that, even if you aren't into fmg (the unique fetish in question) I bet you'd still enjoy the game. I'm interested to see where this goes, so it's got my approval!
But the current playtest-version on the update 3 got handed out yesterday and will hopefully be released in a few days (unless major bugs will be found)
Hi, there are a few tricks to speed it up, but it's ultimately not necessary.. after current story ends you can still free-roam and see all the available content. Only hard-cap is reaching Strength-Level 4 currently.
w o w. You know recently a lot of games went out like this one thanks to AI generation and to be honest, i'm not into AI generated image. Mostly because this is a cheap way to rush a game and deliver something that is either mediocre or left to die.
But here... yeah I got things to say about this game. (Warning, long comment).
About the story
We play as Ginna, a girl who happens to be the child of the world's strongest man (along with Greg her brother).
The dad used to own a gym before his death and Greg took up the buisness while Gina left to live her own life, out of anything concerning working-out and bodybuilding, until her brother ask for help since he's struggling with the managment of the gym. And oh boy what a mess.
A good introduction. An initial situation, an event that disturbs the situation and the begin of the story. Now this sounds usual when you start a story but most of the game I've played recently did not followed this scheme and went directly into the game while giving either too few elements to comprehend the story, or make us read a full novel.
Defenitely a plus on the story side.
About the background, arts and music
I get that you may not have the time to draw all the characters and background, thus why you are using AI generation. I won't talk about the usual vagueness of the character's shape (fingers, eyes, ...). However I'll say that all of the characters have a design unique enough to know which character it is and to like them.
Only black note I would add about characters. You're swapping from real life-ish character design (Gina, Greg, Mike, ...) and goofy characters (The witch, the references in the dojo) and while the goody characters are mostly used to make the player smile, there is one character that looks really out of background and its Xici bodyguard. He looks like a jrpg character, next to "regular" ones and it is kind of out of place.
And about the music, I know its difficult to manage (in the scripts and the game files) but maybe having some musics could be appreciated, or at least sound effects (a crowd walking, some metal noises, things like that). Combine it with a randomizer and it should make the game more immersive.
Overall, its good. But it is even better with...
About the writing
Holy christ this is fantastic.
The way the characters talks is formidable, to the point where I made distinct voices in my head for each characters. Plus the self-mockery of the angel and demon characters and the fact that they often break the 4th wall really made me laugh. And the other media references are really well made. Playing this visual novel really made me forgetting I was playing a fetish game at some points.
This is honestly the strongest point in this game, seriously its really good.
Game mechanics (yeah it's still a game after all)
From what I saw, you got 3 main game mechanics : Point and Click adventure, managment, fights.
The Point and Click is pretty fun. You can do a lot of things to achieve the main goal which is getting b i g. Some exploring features that makes you willing to see more, the storyline in which you got to pay attention to the date. The options are very simple and is limited to click on dialogue when necessary. This may not be the main aspect of the game so it is nota big deal to not improve it further.
Managment is... weird. When I say managment, it is all about the gym. It is kinda sad that you have to wait so long to actually start managing the patrons, gain money from the gym, etc. Would be nice to introduce the gain sooner and then introduce more mechanics later. Right now it is alright, but it can be better.
Fights. It's confusing at first because of the engine limitation but the job is well done. Fights are fun and I'm curious about how you are planning on implementing other party members, abilities and new ennemies. It looks like a recent thing and from what I've played, there is not a lot of things to discuss right now.
Overall this game surprised me and it was a really enjoyable experience (beside all the obvious fetish things). Keep up the good work!
Don't mind lengthy comments at all. I'm a beginner at art- and game design, so feedback really helps me revaluate my choices there. So thanks for both the kind words and the honest critique.
Big thing coming in the next update is (apart from lots of new story-events) the art-redesign. I think I've gotten quite a bit better by now, so let's hope we can get those concerns out of the way at least ;D
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Hi.. the item you need is the transfer potion. Did you use the potion set from your inventory? This should remove the basic set and leave only the transfer potion needed
Imagine if it was Xici that got the transfer potion and used it on the executioner...
Also I think you should introduce a new set of antagonists who are just straight up evil loose canons who are loyal to no one but themselves that Xixi might go to when she's desperate for more firepower. I'm thinking a couple of mad scientist black market doctors who are also a brother and sister to reflect a dark version of Gina and Greg. They use themselves as test subjects to inject illegal muscle growth drugs with monstrous side effects that mutate their bodies to look distorted, twisted, and purple and it warps their faces into looking demonic. These two could be the ones responsible for the creation of Xixi's executioner (who could then turn out to be just one of many manufactured executioner clones they created).
Even if you don't go with it fully, consider making some kind of a muscle duo of mad scientists who are just a dark "Chaotic Evil" reflection of Gina and Greg but ones that the Mafia turns to when they are desperate and you could build your own character profiles around that concept.
Well, you'll have to wait a bit for the next surprise 😏 Villain-Arc of Xicis lab ist about 2/3 written. Hope I'll get it out in January.
Some good ideas there, some might be in line with my plans, some might be written differently already. But I'm having a lot of fun writting Xicis and Jade currently.
Oh man. I really don't want Jade to turn to the dark side with XiXi. I was hoping Stella would slightly turn to the dark side and Gina would ask greg for an emergency Protein Shake to use on Jade. Wonder if the side effects of Xixi's lab will turn Jade evil.
I think in line with Xixi's drugs, you could make a case for them not necessarily bulking someone's arms up (because I want muscular jade to still look extremely distinct compared to Stella or Gina) but increasing muscle density a lot, in which jade's new look should reflect significantly a defined but compact upper body but a larger lower body with a focus on thicker more powerful legs for her kicking. Could even have a scene where Stella is talking smack to Jade about Stella still having much larger arms but Jade then mocks her through delivering a devastating kick that stops right in front of Stella's face but still knocks Stella over through sheer air pressure. That would be awesome.
Procedurally-generated art theft using a machine-learning algorithm as the thief tools. They all give off uncanny valley something fierce and look very same-y with other art theft using procedural generation as a medium to steal with.
the amount of ai art in this game hurts
How do you talk with Stella after the fight
I assume you mean the fight after the training scene with Jade?
If that's the case you need to find something to help start Stella's growth. Buy the potion-set from Lucia and use it in the inventory. Only the transfer potion remains, which you deliver to Stella at the brothel then
thanks man
No spoilers but the current update ending makes me want to murder a certain gremlin
Okay, actual last comment for the day but I can't recommend this Muscle Girl Fighter comic enough: https://novelpia.com/comic_episode/905
It's in Korean but just look at the girls. It literally has Characters with a "Gina" and "Stella" build, as well as two other characters I could see you going for with a Jade and Aline build. Perfect example of diverse but still sexy muscular female body types which keep things interesting.
Amazing job with Gina ripping out of her suit. Super sexy stuff. Would love to see more of that in the future. Must be hard to do with AI art as well.
Also the Light Novel translation shit with Akari is spot on as I'm definitely "that kind of person" when it comes to web novel translations on NoveUpdates.com eventually becoming anime haha.
I also want to ask, are there any tradeoffs to training alone versus training with Jade or Aline or Greg? Seems to me that there should be positives/negatives for training only gina vs training with friends. Or at least something different between stat gains for gina vs stat gains for the other girls to differentiate the choices.
No, currently training alone is inferior. There are plans to add some kind of extreme work-out that's impossible for anyone but Gina, that will make Solo-Training viable again, but maybe with a cooldown
Now that I think about it is Aline the tallest of the four girls?
I'm still torn on how I think Aline should look by the end. Clearly I want her build to have distinguishing characteristics that are different from Stella, since they are both blondes, and with the same bodybuilding frame would suffer from looking too similar. I think your new AI assistants can help by maybe introducing new character models that highlight each girl's full frame (including the legs) more so we can really see the difference in muscle mass distribution (bigger upper body vs bigger lower body, bulk vs shredded etc)
Also I really want Stella vs Jade+Aline to become hard core "frenemies." Passive aggressive hostile girl dialogue between Stella against the both of them. I'd love it.
Also I know you make a lot of comments on strong characters with lots of muscle but terrible form. It should be a running Joke for Stella, despite being the beefiest for now to have consistently terrible form since she's lazy when it comes to following Gina's instructions. So when Jade gets more muscular, she'll still be able to outlift Stella partially due to better form.
Stella might have a spiritual journey ahead of her. This will see some interactions with Aline and Akari, who might be less understanding than Gina.
After getting drained, I think a cool romance+sidequest option with Mike is Gina becoming his new teacher to get his strength back to what it was in terms of his early story baseline, since Mike is weaker than even base level Aline now. As part of the Mike romance arc, Gina can give him instructions on better technique, boss him around but also train with him to help him get back his strength, ending with a romance scene near the end.
I like that one. I'll write an event with that as a topic. (Not that Gina would know a lot more about technique than Mike.. but he would still love to have her around as a trainer)
how do you get Greg to talk about the recipe for the girls
He will talk about it once you have Stella at the gym and done a training session together with her.
how to get Aline to show up?
never mind found her
My Gina stuck on level 2 strength for quite a while. Did I do something wrong? And I play on my phone.
Hi, little button top-right with the !/? is your quest-log. Check there if all requirements are met. The green "?" are clickable to give hints on how to complete those quests.
If all requirements are checked growth should happen over the next night. If not, pls write me again and I`ll look into it.
Oh okay, I got it. It just feels bizarre compared to other fmg game where you grow immediately after the threshold is reached
Catherine tells me that Stella is angry. What I do?
Depends which dialogue.. she complains more than once. But Catherine is not required to progress currently. This is more a bit of foreshadowing for things to come.
What can he do to be able to talk to Stella?
She will be available again after the growth-events have all been handled. Post directly below should give hints on how to complete it.
Unless you haven't seen the Yuri-Scene yet. Then you need to buy the potions at Lucias and bring the remaining one to Stella to start the growth events.
Is Stella stuck in the brothel after her scene with Mike? I can't seem to do anything to get her back to fight with the boss.
So if you had the Mike x Stella scene you have done everything possible on the Stella-route for now. She should come to the gym on her own once these two events are completed:
From there the story contiues with her and Jade more or less on it's own. Watch a few scenes with Stella happening and then the final "training together" event of the update becomes available.
Thanks!
How do I get Gina's main personality?
After the dream with the amazons Gina can choose her main personality. Check the quest menu top right (!/? Icon) for hints on how to complete the quests. (? are clickable for hints)
How do I get Stella to come to the gym?
Take down the first boss at the Streets of Rage. She will join the gym afterwards.
Nope, wasn't possible with the variables. We sadly needed to expand some arrays. Chapter-Select will bring you to the point where the last update ended though.
Also sad at all the Patreon users hating on the Greg route you posted. However, I would also vote for Aline and Jade though and I was the one who originally suggested you make Gina Bisexual so let's just say I'm extremely liberal with regards to possible romance routes. However I can clearly tell that your other Patreon supporters don't play a lot of Japanese Visual Novels as Brother-Sister Shenanigans are SUPER common in that genre. It's even a tag on VNDB (visual novel database).
Regardless, as the prime votes are for female on female action, I'm not that picky and am excited to see Gina x Aline or Gina x Jade. Gina x Stella I'm not as into now as I'm still pouting like a petty child over Stella taking shortcuts with her growth.
Well, a few of my favorite FMG-stories had sibling-relationships too 😅That's why I was open to the idea and put him up to the vote. Even dropped a few hints already. But for now we focus on the girls I think and let's see what the future brings.
I just saw your post on the new assistants working with you on the XiXi and Jade storyline. I know you must be super annoyed at me by this point but once again, please make sure to work well with your new assistants and get Jade's muscular form right. Kind of a lean, shredded upper body with a lot less mass and bulk than Stella or Gina, but with a good focus on strong muscular legs and calves, with a more pro-fighter/MMA look. Jade's goal in life is to get strong enough to land the ultimate kick that could bring even a powered up Gina to her knees if it landed with perfect technique. I even think aspiring to get strong enough to land the ultimate kick should be Jade's theme from now on.
I think Aline should have a build that is in between Jade and Stella. So less massive than Stella, but slightly bulkier upper body than Jade. Very well rounded like a crossfit athlete. The most well rounded and balanced of them all. Strong solid core, and moderately sized arms, and relatively thick legs.
I'm not annoyed 😅 Can't say this often enough. Let's see what we can get done on that, cause I like your concept there.
when is the next update for free ver?
Start of January, probably on the 2.
Well, today is 2 January...
And it still is around here 😁 Compiling just now
Like I keep saying, with regards to each girl's muscle growth, make their body type diverse. So it's cool that for Stella you're going for the bulky wide powerlifter build. Jade should probably be the more leaner shredded build for MMA and speed, like a sleeper build and Aline should ideally be somewhere in the middle of those two like a crossfit build. I think googling various female body musculature as it pertains to different sports: MMA, crossfit, bodybuilding, kickboxing, powerlifting, weightlifting can help you get an idea of the diverse body types you should go for with each girl. I still very much want this to be a thing so I keep reminding you of it.
Worry not, I shall not forget your sage advice. Let me surprise you again, as next update will see the start of Jade and Aline's growth.
Here is a great frame of reference. It's a korean webtoon comic called Muscle Gurl's Colleseum. It is still in korean, but every girl you see is super muscular but very different body types: https://novelpia.com/comic_episode/905
I think with Jade you should either go for the Chinese Girl in Chapter 2 or the Dark haired girl in chapter 1. The Lean MMA body type.
How do i recruit Stella as a fighter?
Hi, sry for the late reply. Talk to Mike, exhaust all dialogue, visit the brothel a few times and exhaust all of Stella's dialogue. She should join your fighter-team soon after.
Thanks, what about the quest: Talk to Greg about sharing his recipes to the girls?
You need to have Stella join the gym (by defeating the first boss at the Streets of Rage), then do Stella's first training session together with Gina. After that Greg should have a new dialogue-option about sharing those shakes.
Its not everyday you find an AVN tailored to a more... unique... fetish (fmg in this case) AND is overall pretty good. Usually people tend to focus more on the unique part and less on the actual game. But this one didn't seem to do that. It instead made each part pretty great.
Short Version: It has a pretty good story that reminds me of a Yakuza game for some reason. (But with a female protagonist) Pretty good characters so far with each one being completely different to the others and having completely different personalities. It also has that touch of mystery I seem to enjoy so much. It even has combat which was the best I've seen in a Ren'Py game so far. I'm honestly impressed the dev managed that as most struggle to bend Ren'Py to their will. Oh, it also uses AI images and they're not too bad, little bit funny here and there, but nothing too major (plus there's a re-design coming up so whatever)
Longer Version:
The story is basically the plot of a Yakuza game, at least I think it is. Woman who was living a simple life gets asked for help by her brother to help save the family gym from being shut down. In the process she (basically) becomes insane and creates 2 imaginary friends who help her along the way (A shoulder angel and shoulder demon), meets a pretty varied cast of characters with quite a few of them being total goofballs, and ends up getting involved with the Mafia. There's also a lot of comedic moments thrown throughout which only fuels my "this is similar to a Yakuza game" mindset. And I like it!
The characters are pretty good too. Gina is the protag who is pretty intelligent, most of the time. Most of her personality is up to the player to decide, but I believe her default is "Kind, caring, composed, sometimes a little bit rude." I don't want to say too much more about the characters since most of it's actually revealed through your interactions with them, but I can give a small description. Mike - Small rude gym guy, Enzi - Medium gym guy wearing a loincloth, Jonathan - Big gym guy who's weirdly polite, Greg - MASSIVE gym guy who's also your brother and Xici - some white haired girl. Each one drastically different than the other and having their own unique motivators for what they do.
Can't talk about the touch of mystery as that'd kinda ruin it.
The combat arrives about 60% to 75% of the way through the game's current content (V 0.2) But it's surprisingly well made for a Ren'Py game! It's kind of styled like an older JRPG, like the original FF7 for instance. 3 party members, items, abilities, and ally commands. Little confusing at first, but I instantly figured it out in my first fight. It also requires a bit of strategy too, so I'd say the current fights are quite balanced.
My only problem with the game would have to be the silence. No music, no sounds. So I'd recommend letting your own music run in the background or ignoring the silence until some gets made/put in. Other than that, even if you aren't into fmg (the unique fetish in question) I bet you'd still enjoy the game. I'm interested to see where this goes, so it's got my approval!
what was added in the v.3
Gonna write post in the Dev-Log with the changes later
And what was added in the update 23 days ago?
Nothing added on that one. Only bug-fixes.
But the current playtest-version on the update 3 got handed out yesterday and will hopefully be released in a few days (unless major bugs will be found)
You can see the hard work the devs put in!
The game came along Beautiful. Definitely reccomend it to everyone who is looking into an fmg game!
Cheers
Hello, do this game have valid discord link?, and can i talk with the team that made this game?
Hi, updated the link on the page. And sure you can talk, I'm all ears..
Hello, the link is still expired on this page
Then I'm really confused >_<
Ok, just generated this one:
https://discord.gg/FaJuCJuExS
Ah, it's now can click it, thank you
I always end the story part before having enough stats, is that intended? Do you need to take a very specific path to do it?
Hi, there are a few tricks to speed it up, but it's ultimately not necessary.. after current story ends you can still free-roam and see all the available content. Only hard-cap is reaching Strength-Level 4 currently.
anytime i try to download it says archive is currupted
Weird.. I'll try to reupload them. Tell if it fixes the problem.
yep, now it's fixed, ty.
Hope to see small girls becoming titans!
does anyone know how to progress to the new updates of the game? right now i'm stumped
are we talking about events or strength lvs? For both look at the discord.
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w o w. You know recently a lot of games went out like this one thanks to AI generation and to be honest, i'm not into AI generated image. Mostly because this is a cheap way to rush a game and deliver something that is either mediocre or left to die.
But here... yeah I got things to say about this game. (Warning, long comment).
About the story
We play as Ginna, a girl who happens to be the child of the world's strongest man (along with Greg her brother).
The dad used to own a gym before his death and Greg took up the buisness while Gina left to live her own life, out of anything concerning working-out and bodybuilding, until her brother ask for help since he's struggling with the managment of the gym. And oh boy what a mess.
A good introduction. An initial situation, an event that disturbs the situation and the begin of the story. Now this sounds usual when you start a story but most of the game I've played recently did not followed this scheme and went directly into the game while giving either too few elements to comprehend the story, or make us read a full novel.
Defenitely a plus on the story side.
About the background, arts and music
I get that you may not have the time to draw all the characters and background, thus why you are using AI generation. I won't talk about the usual vagueness of the character's shape (fingers, eyes, ...). However I'll say that all of the characters have a design unique enough to know which character it is and to like them.
Only black note I would add about characters. You're swapping from real life-ish character design (Gina, Greg, Mike, ...) and goofy characters (The witch, the references in the dojo) and while the goody characters are mostly used to make the player smile, there is one character that looks really out of background and its Xici bodyguard. He looks like a jrpg character, next to "regular" ones and it is kind of out of place.
And about the music, I know its difficult to manage (in the scripts and the game files) but maybe having some musics could be appreciated, or at least sound effects (a crowd walking, some metal noises, things like that). Combine it with a randomizer and it should make the game more immersive.
Overall, its good. But it is even better with...
About the writing
Holy christ this is fantastic.
The way the characters talks is formidable, to the point where I made distinct voices in my head for each characters. Plus the self-mockery of the angel and demon characters and the fact that they often break the 4th wall really made me laugh. And the other media references are really well made. Playing this visual novel really made me forgetting I was playing a fetish game at some points.
This is honestly the strongest point in this game, seriously its really good.
Game mechanics (yeah it's still a game after all)
From what I saw, you got 3 main game mechanics : Point and Click adventure, managment, fights.
The Point and Click is pretty fun. You can do a lot of things to achieve the main goal which is getting b i g. Some exploring features that makes you willing to see more, the storyline in which you got to pay attention to the date. The options are very simple and is limited to click on dialogue when necessary. This may not be the main aspect of the game so it is nota big deal to not improve it further.
Managment is... weird. When I say managment, it is all about the gym. It is kinda sad that you have to wait so long to actually start managing the patrons, gain money from the gym, etc. Would be nice to introduce the gain sooner and then introduce more mechanics later. Right now it is alright, but it can be better.
Fights. It's confusing at first because of the engine limitation but the job is well done. Fights are fun and I'm curious about how you are planning on implementing other party members, abilities and new ennemies. It looks like a recent thing and from what I've played, there is not a lot of things to discuss right now.
Overall this game surprised me and it was a really enjoyable experience (beside all the obvious fetish things). Keep up the good work!
Don't mind lengthy comments at all. I'm a beginner at art- and game design, so feedback really helps me revaluate my choices there. So thanks for both the kind words and the honest critique.
Big thing coming in the next update is (apart from lots of new story-events) the art-redesign. I think I've gotten quite a bit better by now, so let's hope we can get those concerns out of the way at least ;D
i've finished the current version and it was very good! really looking forward to new updates.
noticed that in the james interaction where you are supposed to get composure your composure actually gets reset back to 1.
also had a crash when viewing the combat tutorial.
Thanks, I'll look into the bugs you mentioned.
If you ignore those people who want to support you either financially and morally, then you can put an end to your project, honestly