Who said that there's going to be an Act III? Unless you question is : -When is the next version coming out? The answer would be: - In a few days as usual ;)
First of all, thank you for creating this game. I’ve had a blast playing both acts. The game feels like it was created by someone with love and care, and judging by your community engagement and rapid updates it seems I was not wrong on that mark.
Character expression In a text-based game like this one, the primary way a character can express themselves is through text. This is both a blessing and a curse: it is easier for a game developer to create unique characters, as they only have two attributes to individuate (looks and text); but those two attributes need clear differences in order to create truly “unique” characters. On the visual side, it is pretty simple: change the hair colors, eye colors, face features, etc. Text, however, is much more difficult. Communication through text is often much more impersonal than, say, meeting up with someone. Additionally, all the characters are written by one person, which tend to carry him- or herself in a similar way. Creating truly unique characters is extremely difficult, and is rarely something I find in NSFW games – this one included. It is something you have to actively think about when writing dialogue.
A couple of random examples.
The elven queen in the last scenes of Act II should speak more formally than the rest of the cast. She is in a seat of power where more formal speech is expected, and has lived more than enough years to “learn that way of talking”.
Most of Mida’s dialogue does not feel “affectionate”, which is part of the reason I did not really enjoy that character relationship. She does not feel any special in contrast to most other characters, because the MC talks with her the same way he would with most other people he met throughout the game (and vice versa).
On the contrary, a character I think is good in this regard is Cerea. Although improvements can be made, it’s relatively noticeable that the further into the game it gets, the more she “softens up”.
To get this sort of character expression feel right is very difficult. There’s only a handful out of all the games I’ve played that REALLY nail this (last being Eternum). I’m not saying Ataegina is the worst offender – far from it! Although it can be something to think about a little extra in the future, that really helps make a game stand out.
Prologue I also want to point out that I full-heartedly agree with all of XxMadRoguexX’s points in a comment he/she made a few months ago. The prologue was a let-down, and I never really got to make a bond with any of the characters during this phase. If you ever decide to revisit this content, I would love to see more of Katriona forming this close, almost family-like bond with the MC in his younger days. Maybe we even get to discover where the “flower boy”-nickname originated from? Additionally, it is mentioned throughout the story that Ayna always showed a “little extra care” to the MC. I would like to see some examples of this to, maybe a few scenes with some training sessions they had together? Also, during the prologue, it is mentioned that Mida and the MC started dating a few months prior. It would really help with Mida’s character development if this romantic relationship was actually established, instead of forced down your throat with a “Mida is now ur gf lol”. Essentially, the prologue should be extended.
Systems There’s quite a few systems to this game. The combat skill points, the love/corruption, the free-roam, the stone, and the money. Let’s break them down a little.
Combat skill points: these are generally fine. A little out of tune, but an engaging combat system was never really the main selling point of the game anyway. It is just a nice bonus to have.
Love/corruption: I… I’m not really sure what this does. I assume if a character has too few love/corruption points, you are locked out of certain scenes. That’s alright, however, managing to balance these throughout the game while being unsure what the right amount of love/corruption is for a certain character to experience a certain scene just ends up being annoying. I’d rather have ONE system – love – which locks you out of scenes so that the player has the ability to not see certain content. Corruption, however, should instead be decided by the characters personality. We learn throughout the story that Mida is a little bit of a nymphomaniac – great! She does not really need a separate points system to indicate this.
Free roaming: Adding free roaming to a game like this is very ambitious. Most of the time the rooms are empty with nothing happening in them, so you just end up clicking all over the place hoping the next room is the right one to go to. It ends up being a little useless in the end. If there were tons of content in these rooms (I know there’s a couple in Liliana’s room) it would be fine, but it’s just… not enough for this to be worth it. It seems they are only really there to gain a little bit of extra side cash, but… yeah, I’ll talk about that next.
The money: I generally do not enjoy games with monetary systems. Prioritizing content, being afraid to spend money in case you get locked out of content in the future… not really for me. If there was something you buy in some sort of shop, which was consumable or unlocked pictures or whatever, and did NOT lock you out of content, that would be fine. However, there’s no consistent, not main story-related way to make money, and there’s no sort of consumables or extra content you unlock with money, so it just ends up being fickle.
The “Stone”: I believe this is not fully developed yet, and we are to see more of this in the future, but… I am left with blue balls on this one. There is really only one character which can be corrupted as of yet (Carinna? Corinna? I must’ve forgot), which is in of itself a cool interaction. You also try to corrupt Ryo, but ultimately the stone does not really play any significant part there. Additionally, you are able to consume a soul once? I never really understood what that did. It did not grant any stats, did not change the story in any way, and there was only one time this was able to be done by free will. So far, it seems like an interesting theory but severely underdeveloped.
To summarize: this game feels like it is in the middle of a little identity crisis. It is trying to be a free roaming-esque game, but lacks most of the necessary features to be so (content outside of the main story, a way to consistently earn money, buyables that affect the gameplay). Also, stone is cool, but largely forgotten.
Praise Despite all of this, this is really a fantastic game. I thoroughly enjoyed my multiple playthroughs, and I genuinely am looking forward to more content from you. I enjoy the universe you have created, I love the inclusions of multiple different races, and I especially love how all the different places in the world FEELS unique. The visual feel of the game is fantastic. You’ve really outdone yourself in that department.
This game feels like a love-project, and it is definitely noticeable the amount of time and effort you have sunk into this creation. Also, I understand that the majority of the points I’ve talked to are scenes from earlier versions of the game, and a lot has improved in the later installations (majority of Act II was great in these regards). I understand that you might not want to revisit this “old” version of the game, and instead focus on creating new content, which is ultimately what garners the most attention. Although, I wanted to give you a little feedback anyway, because with the effort you put into this game you definitely deserve it.
Again, thank you for all you have done with this. These are my personal opinions and might not ring true for many of the other players.
Thank you so much for your words, it's this type of comment that helps me improve. We might agree or disagree with each other opinions, but that's the best part of it, different opinions and acceptance.
This game is indeed a "love project" that's how it started and that's what makes me keep going and releasing an update every single month for the past years. (Having financial and moralizing support also helps of course)
Yes, I was terrible at several things at the start, like creating the images of the game, writing in English (not my native language), even at coding (You can see that Act II is more polished than the first) ... However, I had an objective to make a game for me and for me alone... After some time, people started to appear from everywhere and here we are...
I do plan to make a "complete" version in the end, maybe even put it on Steam. With several improvements and changes to the game, but that is still far away because I have a story to tell for now ;)
This is a very great game. Thanks for creating this universe Kthulian!
But can you please provide some other download links than mega? Mega enforces a daily download quota of 4GB, and because my HDD failed, now I have to re-download everything, so I'm having quite a headache, seeing how many games on itch are only available through mega.
Hey there, thank you. I have mirrors on my Subscribestar and also in my channel on Discord for public use (Free). Also on Patron, not public (Because they don't allow it)
Hello, Terribly sorry to post a technical and common question. But I'm a bit desperate for help.
I'm running a laptop with linux Mint, and playing Ataegina on a Firefox Browser through Gamcore.com, in a Private/Incognito window.
I just finished part 1, in fact I still have the tab open. I am TrYinG to get Part II to work.
I got to the part where Sloth says it's magic and I need to name my save so I do.
I then open a new tab and pull up part 2.
It loads, I hit start, it says "are you sure you finished act 1?".
I've run this this a few times since I have a hard save right before Sloth asks so I can go back.
But I can't get in!
I exported my saves through Renpy but I have never been able to get them to import, I've unzipped them, kept them zipped, tried to upload each individual thing. Nothing works.
I did notice that when Sloth asks me to name my save a "persistant" file shows up in the in export save data. But trying to Import that into my save has been fruitless.
Any help would be really appriciated, I would really like to continue exploring this game, it doesn't seem like I'm the only one having issues?
Am I just SOL because I'm in a private tab and it's not saving cookies?
Hey there, first of all thank you for your kind words.
Second, I'm not responsible for the Gamecore version of Ataegina, so I have no idea what they do to the code. It's not the first time someone tells me the gamecore game doesn't export/import. That is, like I said, out of my reach since I have no power over what gamecore does.
PS: Yes, Act I creates a persistent file (Stored in the device) that can be read by Act II.
Hey man, loving the game quick question tho, i got banned from the discord because i got hacked and it sent a link in all of the channels and now i am banned from the discord, i did not intentionally send that is there any way for me to be unbanned?
had the same problem with a "QR code authentification" never used any DC QR code or that it even would override even 2 step authentification, got on all "bigger" servers banned, until i had the solution found over the internet to completly remove that access
You need to get to the place where "Sloth" tells you it will export your gameplay to ActII. If you see an "Ending" you do not get the option to export the game.
I can't play part 2 either. Even after finishing part 1. I tried to copy files from 1 to 2, but it says they are incompatible because they are from part 1.
Did you continue until the very end for the prompt to save, or did you see the first "thank you for playing" message and exited? I'm guessing exiting too early might be the problem.
I've never seen this ending/scene before. In all my playthroughs, I've chosen not to become an elite and accepted Brendta's (apologies if I misspelled her name) invitation to train with her.
do you have a discord page? it so please link it, would love to talk to some like-minded people. also have some feedback for you. thank you so much love your game!
Can you please set up a "name your price" like some other games on this site? I want to pay a few dollars to show my support but my credit card doesn't work on Patreon, buy me a coffee or subscriber star. I remember I paid for other games on itch so it should work here.
Thank you, it means a lot to me that you are willing to spend money on my work. I'll look into it later, for now the main purpose is to have people enjoy it ;)
Just finished act I a lot sooner than I thought I would, and wanted to make an honest review about it. By that I mean that I'm going to be... well, honest about the game. What I liked, disliked, literally my overall experience. My objective here is to not offend the developer (not actively, if I do it without realizing it feel free to call me out), so if anyone else feels offended by my opinion on this game... well, I couldn't care less. With that said:
Definitely an interesting experience, not many games create this classic RPG setting full of the typical cliches of actual tabletop roleplay sessions mixed with some cliches from RPG video games as well. I like the design of characters and enviroments as well, there was a considerable amount of effort in making the game not look like a bunch of stock assets put together.
However, and this is where the whole thing of being honest without offending you, the developer, comes into play... let's get into detail on how my personal experience quickly devolved into a somewhat painful, a bit rushed and at the same time repetitive insistance of seeing act I to the end. Let's start by the prologue in it's entirety, from the first few scenes all the way to the timeskip. It felt weird at first because the dialogues were rather short and sometimes bland but I put all that aside thinking "well, prologues are normally the first thing on the to-remake list of developers so I won't look too much into it." but it didn't take long for me to notice that the same issues of the prologue still were there, they were part of it. None of the dialogues were particularly inspiring, even the ones giving huge chunks of lore like the conversation with Sloth, not to mention the fact that each scene with a character didn't last more than a few minutes, which led to basically me not caring about most of the characters at all, relationship building wasn't really a thing throughout the whole game.
Especially because some characters sometimes appeared (or were seeked by the MC) only for sex scenes and the cherry on top of this problem alone is that Mida, supposedly the character that I should care about the most given that she's the MC's girlfriend, was the one who suffered the most with this. In a Cinema Sins way of speaking: she literally vanishes until the plot (or a sex scene) needs her again, and this is true for many other characters, pretty much ALL of them. Which was funny because right on the timeskip, which came WAY too early and only reinforced the problem of relationship building being basically non-existant, when it is told that the MC started dating Mida I thought "well, maybe now things will slow down a bit and we'll get to the serious stuff with maybe, and I'm totally in for that, romance" but alas... none of it happened, and it made the corruption and love points system useless.
Next there's this "Meanwhile" thing... honestly, with the breakneck speed of dialogues and the rushed story that sometimes kept going in circles around itself, the whole game felt like a huge "Meanwhile". What I mean is: don't show me what led to a certain battle or major event in the story, show me ONLY the consequences, the actual battle or major event and leave me to wonder what led to it. Not to mention that out many of these were sex scenes that I couldn't care less about. Bredita raping a helpless, mind controlled girl or some demon guy fucking his sister, like what the fuck? Don't I have better things to do? Training? Interacting with chatacters to advance the plot?
Now that I've mentioned it, the story of the game... during the prologue it felt like a slow-burn (as slow as it could be given everything that I mentioned) but, again, after the timeskip is when problems start. This feeling that it kept going in circles, always talking about the same things and same characters, and constant repetition mixed with the "Freeroam mode" (add a billion quotes there) honestly made me want to give up sometimes. But I persisted, and I'll mention the reason at the end of this.
To be honest, it only felt like the story started to move foward during the fight with Gluttony, when the game just decides to force me to use Lucifer's power (or Lich, I started refering to him like this after understanding that he is the father of the sins, even though he might have whatever name Ataegina gave him) instead of giving me another choice and this one could've been used as a big alignment change: if the player uses his power, he loses like 5 points or more, and if he doesn't, Ataegina shows up (again, only because the plot needs her) and unlocks a part of the MCs power temporarily, leading to the same battle plus a few more alignment points for choosing to "stay in the path of light". Then you could've progressed with the script, going to hell and talking to Sloth, everything else happens normally. By the way, the alignment system felt basically as useless as the love and corruption points. I played a rather neutral route, doing what I wanted to and ended with almost 20 points (towards good), but the only times where it was mentioned were during the what, 2 or 3 times Ataegina appeared after the timeskip?
Last but not least important: the battle system. I honestly don't mind a battle system in the game, afterall what would be the use of a stats system without practical use, right? The problem is making it just a minigame of random luck, where it's very easy to lose in the early game because you don't do much damage and the enemy damage is basically random, but almost impossible to lose later on because while the enemy is stuck somewhere between 6 and 15 points of damage, the MC deals more than 30 each round, I managed to deal like 50 points of damage many times myself using batflemagic. So... do what you want with the minigame, personally I'm just here for a fantasy story. And honestly I couldn't take most of the battles seriously due to the clunky plot. Believe me, by the time I reached that fight with "Horror", "Terror" or whatever he was called, instead of being confused or intimidated by it, I was like "Get dead, bitch. Anti-Eldritch squad here!".
So, to summarize my experience: high hopes that quickly devolved into painful insistance of seeing what would happen next, hoping that the problems would slowly be solved, meaning that they were attended to with each update. And my opinion on the game is pretty much the same I had after finishing the triology of a game called Breeding Island, not known by many who only use Itch.io as their source of NSFW games. I believe that only someone who has seen a book, movie or game to the end has the right to give opinions about it, basically because they sat through the entire experience on their own. And I knew that there was a big chance that I was losing precious time of my life after finishing Breeding Island 1 but I still gave a chance to both the second and third game, because I still had hope and because of this point ot view. My opinion on it? A total waste of time.
I'm sorry to say but if Ataegina keeps going like this, I fear that by the end of Act II or by the end of whatever act is the final one I'll have the same opinion I had on Breeding Island, and believe it or not but I don't want to. Why? Because the Grand Canyon-sized difference between your game and that one is that you're putting effort in it, even with the many setbacks I mentioned that can be solved rather easily. I don't want to finish Ataegina and think "what a fucking waste of time" because, at the end of the day, I still like this game. For what it is now, with many flaws, and for what it can be with the right fixes and maybe a step-by-step series of updates focusing on remaking it.
Well, this was a lengthy text of me... being honest. Again, offending the developer wasn't my intention at any moment, and nothing that I said here will stop me from playing Act II, I just wanted to get everything out of my chest before moving on.
On a late side note: I hate the fact that there are actual giant spiders in the game, which 100% adds to the authenticity of the fantasy experience, but as a guy who suffers from severe aracnophobia, highly stimulated after getting a few hours of Skyrim + The Witcher 3: Heart of Stone in, I can't help but hate it. And I hate the fact that, of all things, you nailed the cliche moments of them appearing. Had to wander into a frost cave to hide from a blizzard? Look upwards... :) Exploring some ancient ruin looking for relics and old knowledge? Hey, what's that in the darkness? Looks big... :)
you will be fulfilling my life long wishes when you act and consider every word to word of Mr Xxmadroguex.
Xxmadroguex,I love you man(A thousand word can not explan my grantitute and love for you),you have just offload all the pains in my chest about atagina all this years.
Thanks... I guess? Like I said, I was just being honest ^^"
And the game has been going on for years already? There are people who do these reviews in a much more "professional" way. How come they didn't show up here? Holy crap... well, I'm glad to be of service, I think.
Wow that was a lot of text, 😅 So first of all, thank you for your opinions and sorry for the delayed answer, I've been a bit busy this last few days, I'm not offended at all. Quite the opposite, for you to spend so much time thinking and writing about the game it means that at least you care about it and that's a good thing.
Also I'm really hard to offend 😛
So I had an idea... If you could, what would be the first thing of all things you would change in the game?
Do you have a discord? do you want to share/think of ideas?
If it's for the sake of the game I'm all in.
Cheers!
PS: I'll be uploading the new version to itch right now.
Literally after finishing writing my review I went straight to the download and it said that either it was removed by Mega or you. I was like "either an update is right around the corner so he removed the file or something went wrong".
Now, about your question: there are so many things that I'd change or straight up remove from the game like these "Meanwhile" scenes (and maybe those 8 legged, nightmare-inducing monstrosities, but that's just me) but if I had to pick one and only one thing to change, it would be the overall relationship with characters, with a lot of attention given to Mida. That would demand a LOT of rework (in fact, I think it would pretty much demand a full remake) but to me that's the most important thing in any game, and I really missed it here.
About Discord, I do have it. Idk if there is a way to PM you here with my code, in case there isn't then I'll just leave it here. If I can help the development with what few ideas come to my mind, I certainly will.
I've gotta say, you did actually cover all the issues there was, but to be honest I really enjoyed the game. The issue I have is trying to play it on a web site, there is an automatic crash icon, and apparently it only works on some versions of google chrome. So I'm not sure if that's a coding issue or just the web site. I did get lost at one point in the plot, and it had something to do with the scene when the MC was kidnapped, I didn't know what to make of it. You couldn't really tell when the illusion stopped, even after escaping some how, I still had to question the MC's fortune. I think there are side stories to explore, one being the alternate dimension he discovered. Also the knowledge demon, I think it's unrealistic, that you basically offer an entire library and still have to pay for the spells. I like to encourage developers, because I know first hand how time consuming, and frustrating it is to complete projects, especially if it's a small team, or a one man team. I've only managed to play the first game, because there is a major issue all over the net with continuing with the saved file.
There are some more characters that was neglected, like the bully at the start, what became of him, a rivalry like that is bound to carry over into the story. Mida is also one of them. Also there was a major bug in the game, I do believe it was the snow scene, I travelled back and forth, for a hot minute before I was able to progress. So that needs looking into. Also the decisions you made in the past, you should have some ability to collect on debt or favors, based on your choices. An ex is Def Jam fight for NY. You can basically conquer , and after taking control. You can choose to build your team, and fight. For the war scene, I believe that the MC caught up to the Leaders a bit too quickly in terms of strength and respect.
In all my rambling here is my 2 cents.
The bully from the school, should have been incorporated.
His inner circle or friend group should be there, including the animal looking character.
Mida needs a character building Arc.
Needs the opportunity to control, or manipulate more characters to aid you in upcoming wars. I.E the vampire saga.
The knowledge demon and the deal that was struct has very little to benefit the MC.
The plot armor needs to be removed from some of the characters, decisions should let some of them die in battle, if you made the wrong call.
There should be more temptations to use the power of the stone, that can gradually increase the corruption. I.E if your life gets to a point or at some special conditions, there is a rage, or transformation trigger that can be activated, The longer you are in it, the more likely you will be able lose the character.
As I stated I've only finished Act I
So ACT II I will certainly let you guys know. But I still give it a 4/5
Nice one arthurmcdanieljr2022,infact,we need a total rebuild of act one and two or make all it up in the following Acts to come,must of us fans are developer with formendable Resources,able to restructure Ataegina game.
It's cool when you contact Ataegina team or Sir kthulian on Discord and share idles,resources so as to help shorten the rebuild time process(I mean we fans should become online team to help Sir kthulian providing best of best resources and codes needed).
Really awesome game. Really hope it's a harem game or has a harem path etc, or I'm fucked after building a really tall house of cards out of sexual relationships
On the PC version i can't use level 5 to level 10 Battle Magic it pulls a page saying an exception has occurred then it giving me a bunch of game code and all the other magic types are working fine
Aha, finally enemies can't be burning and frozen at the same time! Illusion is still op though. Also, there's not enough choices based on magic/alignment, which makes them sad and irrelevant. Here's hoping the story gets some branching down the line. Additions to ui are as nice as they are welcome.
I think the Alignment thing is going to mostly effect how you interact with the Goddess as it has done so till now. So I think the alignment isn't going to change our frequent options, but but will likely change the story overall with bigger changes probably in the background
hey hello, I just finished playing your game ataegina act 1, android phone, even got the ending scene with sloth who tells to save game for act 2, I did and even got notification "game state successfully exported", but when I open act2 0.6.6, and I clicked on start, it showed nothing, 0 imports, "there's nothing here, are you sure you finished act 1"? Please tell me what to do? I just finished playing act 1, didn't delete anything, what did I do wrong?
I'm using android version 11, I'm playing directly from the apps, here are the screenshots from immediately right now, if it's okay to share, I'm using act 1 version 0.5, and act 2 version 0.6.6... why is it not able to detect my save file?
Or do you suggest that I delete EVERYTHING and install them again and play again? It SHOULD work then right? Genuinely asking, because this game is AMAZING 👍💞, I REALLY wanna know why it's not working for me, I downloaded from Android adult website, through mega...
Why i can't use my save file in the new version of act 2 and I lost my saves of act 1 for different reasons so what do I do now should I start from the beginning or what? (I am using the android version for more info)
Hey dude, I just finished playing act 1, I even got the ending sloth scene to save, i did, but when I opened act 2, it was showing nothing, and telling "there's nothing here, are you sure you finished act 1", can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
after you finist act one you see slot en giving you een save slot dat you can name en there you save it after that you go to act 2 en you klick on play
← Return to game
Comments
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
I've encountered a bug: I've met Mida twice (first in my tower and then in Brenda's fortress).
Yes... My fault completely.
Place this file in the \game folder and replace when asked.
Let me know if it solved the issue
Cheers!
It worked.
Any other places to download from aside from mega?
Hi, may I know when will Ataegina (ActIII) available?
Who said that there's going to be an Act III?
Unless you question is :
-When is the next version coming out?
The answer would be:
- In a few days as usual ;)
Cheers!
First of all, thank you for creating this game. I’ve had a blast playing both acts. The game feels like it was created by someone with love and care, and judging by your community engagement and rapid updates it seems I was not wrong on that mark.
Character expression
In a text-based game like this one, the primary way a character can express themselves is through text. This is both a blessing and a curse: it is easier for a game developer to create unique characters, as they only have two attributes to individuate (looks and text); but those two attributes need clear differences in order to create truly “unique” characters. On the visual side, it is pretty simple: change the hair colors, eye colors, face features, etc. Text, however, is much more difficult. Communication through text is often much more impersonal than, say, meeting up with someone. Additionally, all the characters are written by one person, which tend to carry him- or herself in a similar way. Creating truly unique characters is extremely difficult, and is rarely something I find in NSFW games – this one included. It is something you have to actively think about when writing dialogue.
A couple of random examples.
On the contrary, a character I think is good in this regard is Cerea. Although improvements can be made, it’s relatively noticeable that the further into the game it gets, the more she “softens up”.
To get this sort of character expression feel right is very difficult. There’s only a handful out of all the games I’ve played that REALLY nail this (last being Eternum). I’m not saying Ataegina is the worst offender – far from it! Although it can be something to think about a little extra in the future, that really helps make a game stand out.
Prologue
I also want to point out that I full-heartedly agree with all of XxMadRoguexX’s points in a comment he/she made a few months ago. The prologue was a let-down, and I never really got to make a bond with any of the characters during this phase. If you ever decide to revisit this content, I would love to see more of Katriona forming this close, almost family-like bond with the MC in his younger days. Maybe we even get to discover where the “flower boy”-nickname originated from? Additionally, it is mentioned throughout the story that Ayna always showed a “little extra care” to the MC. I would like to see some examples of this to, maybe a few scenes with some training sessions they had together? Also, during the prologue, it is mentioned that Mida and the MC started dating a few months prior. It would really help with Mida’s character development if this romantic relationship was actually established, instead of forced down your throat with a “Mida is now ur gf lol”. Essentially, the prologue should be extended.
Systems
There’s quite a few systems to this game. The combat skill points, the love/corruption, the free-roam, the stone, and the money. Let’s break them down a little.
Combat skill points: these are generally fine. A little out of tune, but an engaging combat system was never really the main selling point of the game anyway. It is just a nice bonus to have.
Love/corruption: I… I’m not really sure what this does. I assume if a character has too few love/corruption points, you are locked out of certain scenes. That’s alright, however, managing to balance these throughout the game while being unsure what the right amount of love/corruption is for a certain character to experience a certain scene just ends up being annoying. I’d rather have ONE system – love – which locks you out of scenes so that the player has the ability to not see certain content. Corruption, however, should instead be decided by the characters personality. We learn throughout the story that Mida is a little bit of a nymphomaniac – great! She does not really need a separate points system to indicate this.
Free roaming: Adding free roaming to a game like this is very ambitious. Most of the time the rooms are empty with nothing happening in them, so you just end up clicking all over the place hoping the next room is the right one to go to. It ends up being a little useless in the end. If there were tons of content in these rooms (I know there’s a couple in Liliana’s room) it would be fine, but it’s just… not enough for this to be worth it. It seems they are only really there to gain a little bit of extra side cash, but… yeah, I’ll talk about that next.
The money: I generally do not enjoy games with monetary systems. Prioritizing content, being afraid to spend money in case you get locked out of content in the future… not really for me. If there was something you buy in some sort of shop, which was consumable or unlocked pictures or whatever, and did NOT lock you out of content, that would be fine. However, there’s no consistent, not main story-related way to make money, and there’s no sort of consumables or extra content you unlock with money, so it just ends up being fickle.
The “Stone”: I believe this is not fully developed yet, and we are to see more of this in the future, but… I am left with blue balls on this one. There is really only one character which can be corrupted as of yet (Carinna? Corinna? I must’ve forgot), which is in of itself a cool interaction. You also try to corrupt Ryo, but ultimately the stone does not really play any significant part there. Additionally, you are able to consume a soul once? I never really understood what that did. It did not grant any stats, did not change the story in any way, and there was only one time this was able to be done by free will. So far, it seems like an interesting theory but severely underdeveloped.
To summarize: this game feels like it is in the middle of a little identity crisis. It is trying to be a free roaming-esque game, but lacks most of the necessary features to be so (content outside of the main story, a way to consistently earn money, buyables that affect the gameplay). Also, stone is cool, but largely forgotten.
Praise
Despite all of this, this is really a fantastic game. I thoroughly enjoyed my multiple playthroughs, and I genuinely am looking forward to more content from you. I enjoy the universe you have created, I love the inclusions of multiple different races, and I especially love how all the different places in the world FEELS unique. The visual feel of the game is fantastic. You’ve really outdone yourself in that department.
This game feels like a love-project, and it is definitely noticeable the amount of time and effort you have sunk into this creation. Also, I understand that the majority of the points I’ve talked to are scenes from earlier versions of the game, and a lot has improved in the later installations (majority of Act II was great in these regards). I understand that you might not want to revisit this “old” version of the game, and instead focus on creating new content, which is ultimately what garners the most attention. Although, I wanted to give you a little feedback anyway, because with the effort you put into this game you definitely deserve it.
Again, thank you for all you have done with this. These are my personal opinions and might not ring true for many of the other players.
Thank you so much for your words, it's this type of comment that helps me improve.
We might agree or disagree with each other opinions, but that's the best part of it, different opinions and acceptance.
This game is indeed a "love project" that's how it started and that's what makes me keep going and releasing an update every single month for the past years. (Having financial and moralizing support also helps of course)
Yes, I was terrible at several things at the start, like creating the images of the game, writing in English (not my native language), even at coding (You can see that Act II is more polished than the first) ... However, I had an objective to make a game for me and for me alone... After some time, people started to appear from everywhere and here we are...
I do plan to make a "complete" version in the end, maybe even put it on Steam. With several improvements and changes to the game, but that is still far away because I have a story to tell for now ;)
Cheers!
This is a very great game. Thanks for creating this universe Kthulian!
But can you please provide some other download links than mega? Mega enforces a daily download quota of 4GB, and because my HDD failed, now I have to re-download everything, so I'm having quite a headache, seeing how many games on itch are only available through mega.
Hey there, thank you.
I have mirrors on my Subscribestar and also in my channel on Discord for public use (Free).
Also on Patron, not public (Because they don't allow it)
https://subscribestar.adult/kthulian-games I'm sure you'll find what you are looking for ;)
Cheers!
why have you not put pateron and suscribstar link in description
Hello, Terribly sorry to post a technical and common question. But I'm a bit desperate for help.
I'm running a laptop with linux Mint, and playing Ataegina on a Firefox Browser through Gamcore.com, in a Private/Incognito window.
I just finished part 1, in fact I still have the tab open. I am TrYinG to get Part II to work.
I got to the part where Sloth says it's magic and I need to name my save so I do.
I then open a new tab and pull up part 2.
It loads, I hit start, it says "are you sure you finished act 1?".
I've run this this a few times since I have a hard save right before Sloth asks so I can go back.
But I can't get in!
I exported my saves through Renpy but I have never been able to get them to import, I've unzipped them, kept them zipped, tried to upload each individual thing. Nothing works.
I did notice that when Sloth asks me to name my save a "persistant" file shows up in the in export save data. But trying to Import that into my save has been fruitless.
Any help would be really appriciated, I would really like to continue exploring this game, it doesn't seem like I'm the only one having issues?
Am I just SOL because I'm in a private tab and it's not saving cookies?
Hey there, first of all thank you for your kind words.
Second, I'm not responsible for the Gamecore version of Ataegina, so I have no idea what they do to the code. It's not the first time someone tells me the gamecore game doesn't export/import. That is, like I said, out of my reach since I have no power over what gamecore does.
PS: Yes, Act I creates a persistent file (Stored in the device) that can be read by Act II.
Cheers!
totally understand, thanks for taking the time to respond back and try to help!
Hey man, loving the game quick question tho, i got banned from the discord because i got hacked and it sent a link in all of the channels and now i am banned from the discord, i did not intentionally send that is there any way for me to be unbanned?
Sure, just let me know what your username is, or if you don't to show it here just DM me
Unbanned ;)
Be careful with hackers this time
ty
had the same problem with a "QR code authentification" never used any DC QR code or that it even would override even 2 step authentification, got on all "bigger" servers banned, until i had the solution found over the internet to completly remove that access
You know what, this is truly amazing! 👍🏻👍🏻😉😉😉
This sucks been thru to Sloth 5 time and still no work with saves... to ACT II
how do i transfer act 1 to act 2
Hey there.
You need to get to the place where "Sloth" tells you it will export your gameplay to ActII.
If you see an "Ending" you do not get the option to export the game.
Cheers!
how do i get sloth to tell me that he didn’t show up after the game ended act 1
If you reach a "Game ending" there will be no Act II.
You need to refuse the Elite proposition to become one of them.
Cheers!
what! i didnt know that... every time i reset i accept the proposal 🤦♂️
Wow, The waiting is over now!😉😉😉😉😉😉😉😉
Any idea when 7.2 will be available for itch?
Let me think... 🤔
Soon... 😁
Great work so far. Also you don’t really have to throw in sex scenes in every single update if you find it to be too tedious or stressful. 👍
Itch.io app download doesn't work at all.
Maybe you could add a donate link here , then, people may donate on itch.io conveniently😉😁
I can't import data in Act 2. How do I do it in Android?
You should finish Act1
I did finish it. They even asked me to name the export file and I did it several times but still nothing was imported in Act 2
Ummmm...Maybe you could try to copy Act1's saves to the Act2....
I can't play part 2 either. Even after finishing part 1. I tried to copy files from 1 to 2, but it says they are incompatible because they are from part 1.
Emmmm....Download the saves from other website?
Did you continue until the very end for the prompt to save, or did you see the first "thank you for playing" message and exited? I'm guessing exiting too early might be the problem.
I've never seen this ending/scene before. In all my playthroughs, I've chosen not to become an elite and accepted Brendta's (apologies if I misspelled her name) invitation to train with her.
Out of curiosity, does downloading only act II also include Act I or are they completely separate?
They're separate and you can't play act 2 without finishing the 1st one.
ive been wondering for months now what else does he spent his money on? 🤔 sadly the game allways crashes before I can read it.
do you have a discord page? it so please link it, would love to talk to some like-minded people. also have some feedback for you. thank you so much love your game!
Sure, here you go
https://discord.gg/UUFtJCYx
When the Next version of act 2 will be released??
Now ;)
I loved both act I and act II and now I cant wait for act III.. devs definitely did a great job. when will Ataegina Act III be out?
Thank you Mr. Lucifer, it's an honor to please the lord of hell. 😁
ha ha... you really did a great work in this, so you deserve all the praises. Looking forward for the act III
My saves are not working i cannot play act 2 please send me saves of act 1 eagerly waiting to play act 2 kindly reply soon bro
Can you please set up a "name your price" like some other games on this site? I want to pay a few dollars to show my support but my credit card doesn't work on Patreon, buy me a coffee or subscriber star. I remember I paid for other games on itch so it should work here.
Thank you, it means a lot to me that you are willing to spend money on my work. I'll look into it later, for now the main purpose is to have people enjoy it ;)
When will be next version of Ataegina Act II be released??
Now 😋
Just finished act I a lot sooner than I thought I would, and wanted to make an honest review about it. By that I mean that I'm going to be... well, honest about the game. What I liked, disliked, literally my overall experience. My objective here is to not offend the developer (not actively, if I do it without realizing it feel free to call me out), so if anyone else feels offended by my opinion on this game... well, I couldn't care less. With that said:
Definitely an interesting experience, not many games create this classic RPG setting full of the typical cliches of actual tabletop roleplay sessions mixed with some cliches from RPG video games as well. I like the design of characters and enviroments as well, there was a considerable amount of effort in making the game not look like a bunch of stock assets put together.
However, and this is where the whole thing of being honest without offending you, the developer, comes into play... let's get into detail on how my personal experience quickly devolved into a somewhat painful, a bit rushed and at the same time repetitive insistance of seeing act I to the end. Let's start by the prologue in it's entirety, from the first few scenes all the way to the timeskip. It felt weird at first because the dialogues were rather short and sometimes bland but I put all that aside thinking "well, prologues are normally the first thing on the to-remake list of developers so I won't look too much into it." but it didn't take long for me to notice that the same issues of the prologue still were there, they were part of it. None of the dialogues were particularly inspiring, even the ones giving huge chunks of lore like the conversation with Sloth, not to mention the fact that each scene with a character didn't last more than a few minutes, which led to basically me not caring about most of the characters at all, relationship building wasn't really a thing throughout the whole game.
Especially because some characters sometimes appeared (or were seeked by the MC) only for sex scenes and the cherry on top of this problem alone is that Mida, supposedly the character that I should care about the most given that she's the MC's girlfriend, was the one who suffered the most with this. In a Cinema Sins way of speaking: she literally vanishes until the plot (or a sex scene) needs her again, and this is true for many other characters, pretty much ALL of them. Which was funny because right on the timeskip, which came WAY too early and only reinforced the problem of relationship building being basically non-existant, when it is told that the MC started dating Mida I thought "well, maybe now things will slow down a bit and we'll get to the serious stuff with maybe, and I'm totally in for that, romance" but alas... none of it happened, and it made the corruption and love points system useless.
Next there's this "Meanwhile" thing... honestly, with the breakneck speed of dialogues and the rushed story that sometimes kept going in circles around itself, the whole game felt like a huge "Meanwhile". What I mean is: don't show me what led to a certain battle or major event in the story, show me ONLY the consequences, the actual battle or major event and leave me to wonder what led to it. Not to mention that out many of these were sex scenes that I couldn't care less about. Bredita raping a helpless, mind controlled girl or some demon guy fucking his sister, like what the fuck? Don't I have better things to do? Training? Interacting with chatacters to advance the plot?
Now that I've mentioned it, the story of the game... during the prologue it felt like a slow-burn (as slow as it could be given everything that I mentioned) but, again, after the timeskip is when problems start. This feeling that it kept going in circles, always talking about the same things and same characters, and constant repetition mixed with the "Freeroam mode" (add a billion quotes there) honestly made me want to give up sometimes. But I persisted, and I'll mention the reason at the end of this.
To be honest, it only felt like the story started to move foward during the fight with Gluttony, when the game just decides to force me to use Lucifer's power (or Lich, I started refering to him like this after understanding that he is the father of the sins, even though he might have whatever name Ataegina gave him) instead of giving me another choice and this one could've been used as a big alignment change: if the player uses his power, he loses like 5 points or more, and if he doesn't, Ataegina shows up (again, only because the plot needs her) and unlocks a part of the MCs power temporarily, leading to the same battle plus a few more alignment points for choosing to "stay in the path of light". Then you could've progressed with the script, going to hell and talking to Sloth, everything else happens normally. By the way, the alignment system felt basically as useless as the love and corruption points. I played a rather neutral route, doing what I wanted to and ended with almost 20 points (towards good), but the only times where it was mentioned were during the what, 2 or 3 times Ataegina appeared after the timeskip?
Last but not least important: the battle system. I honestly don't mind a battle system in the game, afterall what would be the use of a stats system without practical use, right? The problem is making it just a minigame of random luck, where it's very easy to lose in the early game because you don't do much damage and the enemy damage is basically random, but almost impossible to lose later on because while the enemy is stuck somewhere between 6 and 15 points of damage, the MC deals more than 30 each round, I managed to deal like 50 points of damage many times myself using batflemagic. So... do what you want with the minigame, personally I'm just here for a fantasy story. And honestly I couldn't take most of the battles seriously due to the clunky plot. Believe me, by the time I reached that fight with "Horror", "Terror" or whatever he was called, instead of being confused or intimidated by it, I was like "Get dead, bitch. Anti-Eldritch squad here!".
So, to summarize my experience: high hopes that quickly devolved into painful insistance of seeing what would happen next, hoping that the problems would slowly be solved, meaning that they were attended to with each update. And my opinion on the game is pretty much the same I had after finishing the triology of a game called Breeding Island, not known by many who only use Itch.io as their source of NSFW games. I believe that only someone who has seen a book, movie or game to the end has the right to give opinions about it, basically because they sat through the entire experience on their own. And I knew that there was a big chance that I was losing precious time of my life after finishing Breeding Island 1 but I still gave a chance to both the second and third game, because I still had hope and because of this point ot view. My opinion on it? A total waste of time.
I'm sorry to say but if Ataegina keeps going like this, I fear that by the end of Act II or by the end of whatever act is the final one I'll have the same opinion I had on Breeding Island, and believe it or not but I don't want to. Why? Because the Grand Canyon-sized difference between your game and that one is that you're putting effort in it, even with the many setbacks I mentioned that can be solved rather easily. I don't want to finish Ataegina and think "what a fucking waste of time" because, at the end of the day, I still like this game. For what it is now, with many flaws, and for what it can be with the right fixes and maybe a step-by-step series of updates focusing on remaking it.
Well, this was a lengthy text of me... being honest. Again, offending the developer wasn't my intention at any moment, and nothing that I said here will stop me from playing Act II, I just wanted to get everything out of my chest before moving on.
On a late side note: I hate the fact that there are actual giant spiders in the game, which 100% adds to the authenticity of the fantasy experience, but as a guy who suffers from severe aracnophobia, highly stimulated after getting a few hours of Skyrim + The Witcher 3: Heart of Stone in, I can't help but hate it. And I hate the fact that, of all things, you nailed the cliche moments of them appearing. Had to wander into a frost cave to hide from a blizzard? Look upwards... :) Exploring some ancient ruin looking for relics and old knowledge? Hey, what's that in the darkness? Looks big... :)
You know he is right Sir kthulian.
you will be fulfilling my life long wishes when you act and consider every word to word of Mr Xxmadroguex.
Xxmadroguex,I love you man(A thousand word can not explan my grantitute and love for you),you have just offload all the pains in my chest about atagina all this years.
Thanks Mr Xxmadroguex.
One love Ataegina.
One love kthulian.
One love Xxmadroguex.
Thanks... I guess? Like I said, I was just being honest ^^"
And the game has been going on for years already? There are people who do these reviews in a much more "professional" way. How come they didn't show up here? Holy crap... well, I'm glad to be of service, I think.
Wow that was a lot of text, 😅
So first of all, thank you for your opinions and sorry for the delayed answer, I've been a bit busy this last few days, I'm not offended at all. Quite the opposite, for you to spend so much time thinking and writing about the game it means that at least you care about it and that's a good thing.
Also I'm really hard to offend 😛
So I had an idea... If you could, what would be the first thing of all things you would change in the game?
Do you have a discord? do you want to share/think of ideas?
If it's for the sake of the game I'm all in.
Cheers!
PS: I'll be uploading the new version to itch right now.
I was in fact wondering where did Act II go 😂
Literally after finishing writing my review I went straight to the download and it said that either it was removed by Mega or you. I was like "either an update is right around the corner so he removed the file or something went wrong".
Now, about your question: there are so many things that I'd change or straight up remove from the game like these "Meanwhile" scenes (and maybe those 8 legged, nightmare-inducing monstrosities, but that's just me) but if I had to pick one and only one thing to change, it would be the overall relationship with characters, with a lot of attention given to Mida. That would demand a LOT of rework (in fact, I think it would pretty much demand a full remake) but to me that's the most important thing in any game, and I really missed it here.
About Discord, I do have it. Idk if there is a way to PM you here with my code, in case there isn't then I'll just leave it here. If I can help the development with what few ideas come to my mind, I certainly will.
I've gotta say, you did actually cover all the issues there was, but to be honest I really enjoyed the game. The issue I have is trying to play it on a web site, there is an automatic crash icon, and apparently it only works on some versions of google chrome. So I'm not sure if that's a coding issue or just the web site. I did get lost at one point in the plot, and it had something to do with the scene when the MC was kidnapped, I didn't know what to make of it. You couldn't really tell when the illusion stopped, even after escaping some how, I still had to question the MC's fortune. I think there are side stories to explore, one being the alternate dimension he discovered. Also the knowledge demon, I think it's unrealistic, that you basically offer an entire library and still have to pay for the spells. I like to encourage developers, because I know first hand how time consuming, and frustrating it is to complete projects, especially if it's a small team, or a one man team. I've only managed to play the first game, because there is a major issue all over the net with continuing with the saved file.
There are some more characters that was neglected, like the bully at the start, what became of him, a rivalry like that is bound to carry over into the story. Mida is also one of them. Also there was a major bug in the game, I do believe it was the snow scene, I travelled back and forth, for a hot minute before I was able to progress. So that needs looking into. Also the decisions you made in the past, you should have some ability to collect on debt or favors, based on your choices. An ex is Def Jam fight for NY. You can basically conquer , and after taking control. You can choose to build your team, and fight. For the war scene, I believe that the MC caught up to the Leaders a bit too quickly in terms of strength and respect.
In all my rambling here is my 2 cents.
The bully from the school, should have been incorporated.
His inner circle or friend group should be there, including the animal looking character.
Mida needs a character building Arc.
Needs the opportunity to control, or manipulate more characters to aid you in upcoming wars. I.E the vampire saga.
The knowledge demon and the deal that was struct has very little to benefit the MC.
The plot armor needs to be removed from some of the characters, decisions should let some of them die in battle, if you made the wrong call.
There should be more temptations to use the power of the stone, that can gradually increase the corruption. I.E if your life gets to a point or at some special conditions, there is a rage, or transformation trigger that can be activated, The longer you are in it, the more likely you will be able lose the character.
As I stated I've only finished Act I
So ACT II I will certainly let you guys know. But I still give it a 4/5
Nice one arthurmcdanieljr2022,infact,we need a total rebuild of act one and two or make all it up in the following Acts to come,must of us fans are developer with formendable Resources,able to restructure Ataegina game.
It's cool when you contact Ataegina team or Sir kthulian on Discord and share idles,resources so as to help shorten the rebuild time process(I mean we fans should become online team to help Sir kthulian providing best of best resources and codes needed).
ATAEGINA IS A COMMUNITY, NOT JUST A GAME.
Cheers!😍😙
Can somebody give me the save file.
I am starting Act2 and I think I deleted my last saved file of Act1.
When act 3 going to be released
Really awesome game. Really hope it's a harem game or has a harem path etc, or I'm fucked after building a really tall house of cards out of sexual relationships
Nah, that's not an issue here as long as you don't lie about it.
On the PC version i can't use level 5 to level 10 Battle Magic it pulls a page saying an exception has occurred then it giving me a bunch of game code and all the other magic types are working fine
I'd like to second this, and specify that this issues is for Act 2 and only lasts until you're advanced training. After that it works perfectly
Aha, finally enemies can't be burning and frozen at the same time! Illusion is still op though. Also, there's not enough choices based on magic/alignment, which makes them sad and irrelevant. Here's hoping the story gets some branching down the line. Additions to ui are as nice as they are welcome.
I think the Alignment thing is going to mostly effect how you interact with the Goddess as it has done so till now. So I think the alignment isn't going to change our frequent options, but but will likely change the story overall with bigger changes probably in the background
When will be next version of Ataegina Act II be released??
Right now :P
can anybody send the imports whose are working of ataegina act 1 las mine one are not working and I want to play act 2....
https://ufile.io/eivfwbbw
Here you go. Unpack it into Android/data, rewrite files when promted. The link will only last a month, hope you'll notice it before it expires.
hey hello, I just finished playing your game ataegina act 1, android phone, even got the ending scene with sloth who tells to save game for act 2, I did and even got notification "game state successfully exported", but when I open act2 0.6.6, and I clicked on start, it showed nothing, 0 imports, "there's nothing here, are you sure you finished act 1"? Please tell me what to do? I just finished playing act 1, didn't delete anything, what did I do wrong?
Sorry it took me so long to answer, what version of android are you using?
When the game (Act I) says it exported the state successfully you just need to press "Start" on act II.
Unless you are using an android emulator or some sort of streaming website it should work... At least from android 7.0 up...
I'm using android version 11, I'm playing directly from the apps, here are the screenshots from immediately right now, if it's okay to share, I'm using act 1 version 0.5, and act 2 version 0.6.6... why is it not able to detect my save file?
That's not supposed to happen... 🤔 Are you allowing the game to create files on your device? Where is it storing the persistent data?
Cheers!
Or do you suggest that I delete EVERYTHING and install them again and play again? It SHOULD work then right? Genuinely asking, because this game is AMAZING 👍💞, I REALLY wanna know why it's not working for me, I downloaded from Android adult website, through mega...
Why i can't use my save file in the new version of act 2 and I lost my saves of act 1 for different reasons so what do I do now should I start from the beginning or what? (I am using the android version for more info)
Admin when ru posting update 6.6 and the file 6.5 in Android cannot be downloaded anymore it says it has been deleted by the admin
no you first need to download act 1 play en fisnish it and then you download act2
Hey dude, I just finished playing act 1, I even got the ending sloth scene to save, i did, but when I opened act 2, it was showing nothing, and telling "there's nothing here, are you sure you finished act 1", can you tell me what I'm doing wrong?
after you finist act one you see slot en giving you een save slot dat you can name en there you save it after that you go to act 2 en you klick on play