Chasing Tail

Her şekil ve boyuttaki büyük ve küçük yaratıklarla ilgili huzurlu bir fantezi. Ancak sessiz bir tehlike hayatın huzurunu tehdit ediyor ve potansiyel olarak dengeyi kaosa sürükleyebilir. Kim senin yanında kalacak? Hangi bağlar sonuna kadar geçerli olacak? Aşk sizin galip gelmenize yardımcı olacak mı, yoksa nefret hepimizin sonunu mu getirecek?

Decided to grab this game on a whim after going for a year without playing a visual novel. I also wanted to seek out any hidden gems on Steam that other people would overlook due to this game featuring anthro characters in spades. Due to me finding pieces of media that depicts these kinds of characters empowering when done correctly I thought I would give this game a shot since there was nothing to lose. Holy mackerel, I've struck gold! Significantly longer than anticipated along with a rich story line and pretty well written characters that have more than enough intrigue to learn all there is to know about them; made romancing and seeing where they end up very much worth it! I also appreciate that this story is very much western rather than eastern/anime like many other anthro/furry visual novels out there; a very pleasant contrast to what I'm acquainted with. I thought it's really cool how a number of this game's characters are actually other people's fursonas as well; I think that's a cute detail! The artwork didn't grab me at first based on the screenshots, but I found it quickly grew on me and now I think a lot of love and effort went into this game's visuals, especially for a free product! I suppose the only thing I find lacking is the variety in sprites for the side characters such as Io and Angel, but it's understandable that they don't have as much work put into them since they don't have a lot of screen time to utilize them more than a handful of times. There are some quirks that I think can be looked into/ironed out to really bring this game to the next level, such as: 1. Saving only working to the start of each ingame "scene" rather than saving right on the current screen like in other visual novels (might be easier said than done since this game is made in Unity, but maybe give a heads up how the save system works in the game?). 2. Skipping dialogue by holding down the left mouse button does not seem to stop at unread dialogue; maybe you could add an option to allow it to only skip only seen dialogue? Also, I don't recall seeing any info in the game or the game's page that you're allowed to do this. I think it would be beneficial to let the player know that this functionality exists as this makes subsequent playthroughs much easier to indulge in. 3. I found the music to be fine personally, but I'm a firm believer that a solid original soundtrack can really improve a video game dramatically by itself so it might be beneficial to look into commissioning someone to do that for you for your future projects. Again, easier said than done, but something worth considering! 4. The game does have some grammatical and spelling mistakes which become a bit more noticeable in the latter half of the game, but nothing that stops you from understanding what the game is telling you. A notable example I found is the game going back and forth with the names Seil/Siel and Skalan/Scalan. 5. This may be due to the mechanics not being fully developed just yet, but the only thing that exploration mode seems to allow you to do is trigger a handful of bonus scenes; all the money and clothing you can pick up doesn't seem to have any use, not even for cosmetics given the anonymity of the main character. The bonus scenes are worth seeing as they provide a good bit of extra lore to the games storyline, though! Overall, this game was a pleasant surprise to stumble upon that tells a really cool sci-fi crime story with romance thrown in! This feels like a steal being free, but I have a lot of respect for creators that put out real quality work for free! I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for any news regarding the planned sequel as I'm very interested in seeing where the story heads off from here, and I'll be recommending this to my friends that would really enjoy this kind of game since it deserves more publicity!