Vortex00 as you may or may not know, I don’t spend too much time playing other hentai games or seeing what else is going on around the net or what other people are working on. All of my time reserved for hentai related stuff goes into my own projects. so I’m trying to see what you all think about ARIA and the direction it is going compared to other games. before i go posting it around..
you can compare it whatever other hentai game you want. maybe a game that you like, or a game that you think is similar, it is up to you as long as it is compared to another hentai game. or you don’t have to compare it to anything just give your thoughts on what it is in itself.
can give simple answers or complex ones
what are your thoughts on…
amount of hentai in aria compared to other stuff?
game mechanics, is it fun ? what would make it better?
game length? re-playability ?
originality in comparison ?
is the story interesting? are the main characters interesting ?
if you read about my future plans for ARIA game play and hentai content, are they headed in right direction? looking forward to them? what else would would you like to see?
it game ready for prime time in its current state(posted here a while ago)? it future state? the next version? how does it overall stack up to “good” games? good of course is subjective.
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Well most games I played of hentai got a metroidvania or platformer to it. They ether be a hentai JRPG done in RPG Maker. Or they make a platform that is almost feel like the same pattern you die you get rape. To get all the CG you die on each new enemy but you do get a game over. Your project Aria is already different from them. It’s probably not the first but yours have a RTS and many more mini games. You also have kind of a level up system, platform shooter a lot of advancement option than just go battle. Unlike the others that most of the hentai is in game over. You have both by the look of it. Rape after you lose. Or options of hentai already in the game. Unlike other hentai this one the hentai is optional. You also have a space shooter in this if you decide to use it. I’m talking about your first Aria game being a shooter shooting sentinels. It’s like you have different stuff by other users. But make it kind of different than what others have not done yet. I’m not going to say it’s a Triple A game. But for a flash game it sure have lots of content in it.
What do I want to see in the future is a connection with the other project in time line Dark Winter to Spring to summer leading to what is suppose to focus on. And to finally have the main adventure who is suppose to be focus on Gheist in JLCK. Sooner or later Umichan will come to an end. It was meant to tell the story of Maiko and around here. So that people know who these characters are. For when they finally play JLCK they know who these characters are. And won’t be confuse around it’s universe. I still remember the focus of Umichan and hat it was a spin off the main game is JLCK. If anything in the end of Umichan that leads to JLCK. You can have DoE2 to focus on what the others Donavik with Annie. Where up to trying to fix everything again. For Aria they go after Donavik but get there ass kick of what is inside Donavik that comes and kick there asses. But after that Aria are going to be to busy to deal with Donavik ever. Do to Gymco arrogance an ancient demon got release in a advance tech pyramid seal tomb.
I’m thinking this demon is going to be use, would make a good plot and the drama with Annie and her father along with it.
Thanks for the feedback, yes hopefully there will be a lot established lore for JLCK later on. yeah when I get all the minigames in to ARIA that I intended it should have a little bit of everything from even those other games.
that demon idea is interesting and I do have a fire planet in aria so maybe it can also be related.
-amount of hentai in aria compared to other stuff?
yes, its awesome. most games give u hentai only on the ending.
tho i dont like the fact that u can fuck any girl right on the start, i liked it better in vandread where u had to work for it.
-game mechanics, is it fun ? what would make it better?
the version i played was good, tho i havent figured out what the stats r for, doesnt seem to make a difference.
-game length? re-playability ?
too short, too easy. just play as the special agents/arielle and u beat the game in 20 minutes.
some worlds u dont even have to fight, or fight just once, because u get enough money to skip it.
i only played it twice because i didnt get the yuri scene on the first run (also i didnt see any hint that there was such scene).
(for comparison, i played -and still play- UMCC many many times)
-originality in comparison ?
vandread is the only game with same settings so i would say its original.
is the story interesting? are the main characters interesting ?
this section is well done.
Thanks for the feedback.
it is possible to just have phia available for sex at the start perhaps.
how would you suggest working for sex in ARIA would work? there is no dating mechanics. but i do have a love stat that I need to rework heh.
ship stats improve various combat stuff, how many units you gain from really, laser damage, etc. but I didn’t want it to be too much of a issue.
i was thinking of putting the chat system from umichan into here.
In my opinion, ARIA is probably one of the better games out there. Granted I haven’t really checked out too much of the newer stuff since Patreon has really grown in use, but from the demos I have played of other games I think my opinion on that isn’t going to change.
Just picking up on its own, and this is from when you released it last year, the story isn’t all that engaging. I really appreciate that you try to connect everything you do, but I think it would benefit a lot more for having a strong stand alone story that doesn’t really require me to read other stuff not in the game to know what’s going on and why.
The artwork isn’t perfect, but when is it ever for anything? it’s very well done, though. The quality exceeds a lot of the other stuff being put out.
Most hentai games I get bored of the gameplay very quickly. I’m very good at picking out patterns, and most games are just very simple very repetitive patterns with a pretty crappy reward. That’s why a lot of the platformers are boring for me. While I have been able to get mechanics of a game down to a pattern, ARIA isn’t quite as bad and I don’t mind playing through it. The one thing that is a headache is how sometimes clicking on the nodes is a hassle, but it’s a minor thing more than anything.
With that said, the replayability of the game is pretty high. The hentai scenes are quality. I wish there could be more. I’m not sure exactly all that you have planned, but one of my favorite things about Vanguard Love Quest was how you could unlock the scene when you connect with their ship. I think having something like that for when they battle or a random chance for a different scene when you choose free would be awesome additions.
I didn’t feel much of a connection with the characters, though, if you were to make like an ARIA movie with Pinoytoons that’d definitely be something I’d buy. There’s potential there, but as is I don’t think the scope of the game really allows you to explore the characters or develop them that much. I think going with a day system and triggering events by days would make this easier to do something like that. Or like what you already plan on doing with the exploring and stuff.
As is, the game is already really strong, and with the additions it’s going to be that much better. I can’t wait to see the new stuff. I wish I had the extra money to commission Arielle stuff. 😀
Thanks for the feedback. yeah I also recognized the story expected players to know about umcc. I was adjusting some of the story to be more understandable for people who only have played this. I’m not done, but I have started.
yeah when I add exploration of the areas you are in, it will allow for unique scenes that you mentioned would be good after battles and stuff. and allow for other gameplay minigames to keep things interesting. well that is the idea at least.
a movie is a interesting idea. maybe just episodes would be more feasible like in his Rouge Carrier game.
there is more unique Arielle stuff in this next animation bundle pinoytoons is doing currently.
I really liked ARIA, I thought it was a fun game. If you weren’t planning some sizeable additions to it I would say go for it, there’s nothing to lose by doing so. With the updates coming though, I would say wait until you get that done and put out a bigger and better game.
When it comes to comparisons, theres so much variety in hentai games its a bit like comparing apples and oranges. Theres ones where the hentai IS the game (like UM Deluxe) and ones where its a game WITH hentai (like UMCC). ARIA is in the latter.
For the length of the game (about an hour) there is a good amount of hentai, although more is never a bad thing. Yay updates.
The game mechanics work well as they are. TT’ shield feels a little OP and I’ve always thought Bri was a little weak when it came to capturing. The auto attack ships can get a little annoying when you are trying to move ships, they seems to make the game think a move has been ordered after you select a node.
Being able to move around the ship like Vandred could be a nice addition, a war room to give orders to the girls like battle, rest, eat and to advance days, individual rooms for the girls to talk and ‘things’, a mess hall type area for when other characters join you. Training could be expanded, training charisma improves the rally skill to give you more ships, combat to increase the damage when your ship fires lasers etc. Although it may already work like that, I have no idea tbh.
Story could be improved a fair bit. Information and context is a little sparse, but its a hentai game so most are only here to fap. Characters, again could be improved. There designs are good but they don’t really talk outside of the intro.
As for the future, I’m looking forward to the updates (more hentai is always a good thing), but there is no wrong direction. Your adding to the game and improving things and if you keep doing that, the end result will be a bigger and better game.
Thanks for the feedback, interesting how you brought up the topic of various hentai games. some have hentai as the gameplay and other for example are games with hentai in them. you you noticed I have covered different ways for making a “hentai game” heh. I find it interesting because it was something I was going to talk about later anyway.
yeah the training could be separated out if there was some ship exploration like vandread.
currently you go to containment, or the room with the special agents. it is kind of a minor ship exploration. yes training adds to all stats currently and they apply to combat.
TT in the current version is broken, as in not working, because she doesn’t have a good way to break enemy shields. if the enemy decides to turtle up, all TT has to break their shield is her slow firing single laser. by the time she might have finally worn down a enemy shield they use the ability again. lol. so it becomes a stalemate. all nodes either have a green of yellow shield lol. but if a person figures out how to play with TT yes she is powerful. but I can the same for the other girls.
hopefully story will improve with exploration of the areas and ship.
I personally never understood anything about the space battles, how we are supposed to fight etc so well I can say it’s a game I never had the chance to play
so the in game tutorials didn’t help I assume? also did you try the walkthrough ?
http://spiralvortexplay.com/svp/2015/03/16/aria-walkthrough/
nah, didn’t read the whole the walkthrough either, as a non-native english speaker I can get confused when there’s text & explications and stuff but I never tried really hard to play the game so… I understood shit so I just took a look at some h-scene and end of the story
I just tried again the space fight thing and it’s the same, I know you have to click on the little things on the map but nothing happens and I lose in a few seconds
try pressing spacebar then clicking the things on the map. you will see a little ship travel there. you have to press spacebar each time before clicking something else.
it costs half of the units in your main ship. you don’t want your main ship to reach 0 so you need to keep pressing 1 to refill it.
2 and 3 are other helpful abilities.
Overall I enjoyed Aria and I’m happy to see more of it. The more specific stuff I’ll list below. Sorry it gets kind of rambley.
Hentai amount- I thought that the original Aria’s hentai content was a bit lacking but your already adding more, so I’m going to wait to see the updated version to see how that stacks up.
Gameplay- I like the concept overall, it’s simple enough to pick up yet distinct and complex enough to keep people interested, the only real issue I have is that the character’s arent very balanced and I’m not referring to the extra characters like Jeo, I’m only referring to the main four girls. As far as my experiences go the tier list for them stacks like this.
(S)upreme god- Phia. [Fast and loose ability to take nodes quickly but also lacks the ability to keep hold of them, but because of the way her node taking works it ends up lowering the enemies total numbers making her losing nodes very unlikely. Essentially giving her no weakness]
(A)lright I guess- TT [The antithesis of Phia, she has trouble getting nodes in control but can’t lose them once under her control, she can win fairly often as long as she’s up to level, though it takes longer than most characters.]
Arielle [One at a time, Arielle can reduce strong enemy nodes down to zero then give her the time to take them with her big gun with little issue, though she can have trouble keeping said nodes under her control]
(U)nuseable- Bri [From what I gather Bri can damage all enemy nodes and decrease the enemy ship’s speed, both of these abilities seem to be weaker variations on Arielle’s big gun (Destroys all ships on screen and enemy shot’s too) and Phia’s revolt (which simply takes control of nodes if there low enough) which results in her not having the offensiveness to take nodes quick (Like Phia or Arielle) and not having TT’s lastability to keep said nodes under her control. Which just makes her just kinda worse than everyone at everything]
I kind of like that the character all about sex is the best in a hentai game and the TT and Arielle are fine to play as but I can’t find much reason to use Bri when everyone else is a better pick.
Length- Fine, I don’t see much point in a really long hentai game.
Replayability- Despite being technically superior to Umi in nearly everyway, I found myself going back to Umi more than Aria. I’m not really sure how you would add more replayability though, aside from adding branching paths or something.
Story- The story doesnt stick out to me much in my memory which does seem like a problem to me. In umi stuff sticks in my mind about the story (Battling Luma, the band stuff, the suicide thing) but when I try to think of the events in Aria nothing really sticks out to me. All the stops and events just kind of blur together (Except the Jelly stuff, for some reason that sticks out)
Also a question, is the voice acting in the cutscene stuff only? Is it in the fights? Or sexscenes?
Overall ARIA is going in a pretty good direction…
I mean Hentai wise there is a good amount and you are adding more. I mean the only thing in the release version was the group sex scenarios, Namely the big Orgy at the end but thats cause you had issues getting it to animate -completely understandable- My only comment is… don’t tease a beautiful female in a hentai game and not have them be fucked -looking at you three Luma, Riley and Lyn!-
Gameplay it is a nice take on the gather and build tug of war style RTS gameplay and you have some promising variety coming up. perhaps finding new abilities or characters to add to the mix?
On these points I feel like I should wait till you do your upgrades you want to the game and then give feedback. You know kinda feels like You’ve already got the redesign going.
Story wise… While the characters are established they do need a bit more exploration… and more unique interactions
I mean Arielle loathes Jeo -thats kinda clear- and even if Jeo isn’t a traitor, Bri is very spot on that Jeo is not a nice individual -I look at you and there is a darkness-
I mean Why does Arielle seem to just want an excuse to kill Jeo. well obviously its cause Jeo’s a supervillain in the making -just listen to half his lines- but the deeper look is Jeo is generally emotionally detached and distant based on how he acts as Jinru and Arielle is someone who is very emotional in both reaction and need. Essentially the two were bad for each other to begin with… and Jeo just wanted between Ari’s thighs. Thats something a guy like Jeo wouldn’t think about while its something Ari would take personally. If I was guessing.
Thanks for the feedback, you do have the relationship of Jeo and Ari pretty accurate lol. Yeah I guess you can call it super villain. Because my original idea was that he has his own ulterior motives and setting up foundations for his revenges plots and take over plans that is he telling non one about. he is actually innocent on the other matter though.
now that I have “bad situation” animations being made it can be possible to be pretty evil in the game. and I suppose in the end you can care about Arielle or not.
Jeo begins as a badass villain, however in all his power, there are a few people in GemCo ,that are not currently in the ARIA game, that would smack Jeo down though fairly easily though. so maybe that is why he can’t do his plans. And why he had to flee into space in first place.
Yeah there is opportunity for more unique interactions after I make the ship explorable.
Luma and Lynn will have sex scenes. not sure on Riley. it is down the road perhaps in another animation bundle I get from pinoytoons.
Jeo being such a straight forward asshole is kinda what makes him appealing… kinda like Renegade Shepard.
I don’t know if Ari and him should ‘straight up make up’ or him develop having a soft spot for her -Thats Maiko’s spot!-. that be kinda the standard as is Ari being broken to his will in hentai games.
I’ll try it leave it up to the player. I thinking Ari will leave at some some point during the game either way if she has high love or not, the reason would just be different. when/if you go save her you can disown her and leave her, or say she is your property, or admit feelings for her. etc. w/e the player wants to do with it. and it will affect the some of her conversations from that point forward. and if you leave her you can’t get the group orgy of course. But his plans still still be in place either way. maybe if you leave her she will fight you are the end as a crazed lover to save Jeo from himself lol. and trust me I will make that mega cannon will fuck Jeo’s shit up all kinds of ways lol. aka it’ll be a hard fight.
made after to beat her you can claim her again or not for one final shot at picking different endings.
I’m thinking with Maiko Jeo is just playing his role as a student. But hey if a big titty red head want’s to get physical and sex him up then he will do it lol. Just like with Phia lol.
Well if anything Luma, Lynn and Riley would be the hardest to get hentai scene. Specially Riley since she is very conservative. Lynn is shy but can be naive, Luma she is secretly a freak but is a total bitch. All 3 will have a very hard to get type of scene. Phia would be the easiest one, Bri is very talkative, Arielle well she is normal difficulty knows Jeo to damn well. TT is just to busy but there is a way for everyone. Goo well she just heals, you might be able to have her heal others. LOL
yeah that is why I didn’t get a sex scene with Riley, because she would be participating in anything like that.
I will say that not all scenes are with Jeo though. I changed it up in the batch of animations.
Yeah I think fucking Luma should be fairly difficult even thoguh she is a sex freak. She will probably also call him Jinru at times still and get frustrated about it lol.
Hi Vortex 😀 !
man you games are perfect, and what I liked most was ARIA, and these updates you have posted before are fantastic.
I have a tip for you on hentais,the scenes with Goo could be made with the other girls, just switch the Goo for the girls, to facilitate the work of the Pinoy. Just a thought.
keep doing this excellent work!
Hi and thanks~ yeah I did that with some stuff for Amp. there are of edits I can do even in addition to Goo. I’ll try them out when I start adding these updates in.