It seems like a lot of people are pretty disappointed with this game, me included, but think about this; Excessm seems to always add more girls to his action game. This is all based on his pasted work, but still. I think there is a good chance that this game will get more girls added to it in the future. (He says hopefully

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It's not a bad game in the slightest, people's expectations were just really, really high.
Let me reiterate.
It's not as fap-worthy as any of his past titles. Very little audio, the screen isn't built for a fullscreen resolution, there's less than half the animations he usually has, and what could have been spent on quality design instead went into gameplay-- which we all agree becomes stupendously costly when you look at what price we lost for it in it's purpose of ero design.
People's expectations weren't high-- the standards were. It's like comparing an older masterpiece to a newer, lesser form and saying it's somehow the customer's fault that they were underwhelmed.
I'm sure he spent quite some time on the game, but it was released as a WIP at best. There's missing pieces to the game that should have been in, but we know, aren't.
Again, I'm not bashing him, I just think he should have taken more time before he put it on the table. It's got a good framework to it, it just needs to be... Finished, I think.
I compare this game to What a Wonderful Day! but with three lanes, and that's what the gameplay is. Take away lewd noises and switch some genders and you have this. It's not necessarily bad, but we were all waiting for something a bit longer, and with more content.
The "difficulty" affects AI, but the AI already seems so underwhelming past a certain point that you can practically
wavedash slide attack across the entire game. If so much effort was put into game design, why would there be such an uninteresting way to battle it out?
Honestly. If he waited 4 more months at least and put some more work into it, it'd show-- a lot.