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Himeros Hotel Reviews
Author: Seztworks
Date: 2018
ADRIFT 5.0
What does AIF stand for? Adult Interactive Fiction. If you likely to be offended by games with sexual content, you are advised not to open these files.
Reviewed by padder
A great game, with lots of playtime, interesting
enough story and a variety of fetishes. Useing ADRIFT sucks, hard, really hard.
I think, if I was to play this without a walkthrough it would take me months.
One thing the game lacks, an updated walkthrough. I'm stuck, becouse one of
the commands was written wrong. And earlier, I had to replay roughly an hours
worth of content becouse the walkthrough waesn't updated. (He made comments
about it in blue text, make sure you visit the alley at 16:00 before the second
blue text)
If the dev updates the walkthrough, I will revisit the game.
(and actually finish it)
Edit: The walkthrough was updated, the Dev
actually reached out to me and fixed it within a day. I have finished the game
and it ended on an interesting note. I am looking forward to part 2 of the
triology, and recommend this game with roughly 20 hours of gameplay to anyone.
Reviewed by kkai
Himeros Hotel is a very good real-porn text-parser AIF
and anyone who is not daunted by text-parsers should definitely play it. I
would, rather unfortunately, recommend playing with the walkthrough right from
the start. I'll explain below.
HH has a lot of great elements. First and
greatest is the main character. Far too many developers think that the cast of
"conquests" is most important, but I quite disagree with that. Make a main
character I like to BE first, then work around that. Sezt seems to get that. The
MC in this game is competent (but no Mary Sue), witty, charismatic and a real
joy to inhabit. He also has a distinct character and doesn't feel at all
generic.
The cast of conquests is good. This is a real porn game with
still images combined with descriptive text. The girls are varied in looks as
well as personality. The dialogue is usually quite good. There's generally a
very nice happy casual sex vibe, with only a little bit of romance. Some of the
images must obviously be photo manipulations (from the subjects), which does
nothing for me, but at least the quality of them was sufficient that I wasn't
distracted by them either.
The story was a nice blend of the mundane and
something "fantastic". I was interested in the goings on and, as this game is
continued into a sequel of a planned trilogy, left me looking forward to
learning more. You also get to make certain choices for the NPCs which
supposedly will have impact in future games.
The author, Sezt, is
actually also a highlight, giving exceptional support for the game in this
thread. You don't find any better.
Unfortunately, HH has a glaring
problem for me and that's in the gameplay. I'm used to text-parser AIF, but HH
pushed me way past my tolerance for grinding and searching each and every
location at each and every time period just to find the events. It was tedious
in the extreme even though, by the end, I had a muscle memory for visiting every
main location in the hotel fairly quickly. But doing that for nearly every hour
in the day, day after day, was still insufferable. Whenever it made sense the
game would guide you to an event. But most of the time they were just
occurrences that the MC would have no idea was going on and therefore there was
no in-character mechanism to alert him to them. In their absence some kind of
out-of-character mechanism was desperately needed. That is why I recommend just
playing with the walkthrough. It's a shame, but I really do recommend it.
Unfortunately, I played a great deal of the game without and was, due to the way
the walkthrough is written and the branching/gated nature of the game, never
able to merge my playthrough with the walkthrough because so many of my branches
were way farther along or way behind the optimal playthrough. So I struggled all
the way to the end unaided and it was a slog. I've read a bit about the sequel
and it sounds like Sezt is addressing this problem, so that's good, but my
recommendation for this game is to use the guide. I'm pretty sure I managed to
find the perfect anti-optimized path for completing the game. :)
Nevertheless, on the whole,it's a game worth playing, even standing on its own.
And I'm looking forward to playing the sequel soon.
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