[Review of the EXTENDED paid version]
This scene takes a very vanilla direction from the other stuff Androinz's known for. There is an ever more focus on first person POV (which I don't agree with so much), since a key feature of VR is to allow us to have the freedom to adjust our perspectives for the best views, instead of being subjected to the creative limitations of the director or camera person.
Even with the freedom of adjustments in this scene, due to position + lighting limitations, there are very few views were both the breasts and the faces would be in that perfect close distance in your face in the same view. The best views in my opinion is when the girl is standing in front of the guy before the sex scenes (not much sex either).
BJ has lost the usual energy and deepthroating vigor from Androinz's previous scenes, which you definitely got to check out, no cum in throat options (something that I been looking forward to). This is one of the rare gem feature of Androinz's many scenes.
This holiday scene has been highly anticipated, but I suppose Androinz ran out of time and had to rush. Androinz did spent some time updating the female looks. Although, with the many look makers on VaM, it may have been much more time efficient to use one of the few free and very attractive ones available. We can sub in our own paid for looks, so I do not see the need to work so much on Androinz's own looks only to cut and vanilla-lize scene development from this scene. So much more could have been done with the environment such as actions involving all 3 against the door, window, spitroast BJ with 2nd female model holding feet in the air, standing upside down 69, and many more previous animations that Androinz have in store already. The whole scene feels just a bit too short, and 50% complete.
Another recommendation is to have iphone like popup message bubbles with white background and black text etc, for conversations, instead of floating colored text without any background that can be very difficult to read. Additionally, instead of positioning source of text at specific locations in the scene for us to move forward to read, it would be nice to have them position relative to the player goggle/eyes position, like what other scenes on Virt-a-mate are starting to do.
Hope the next plank one will be much better. I would prefer 1 scene per month or two even, if it is a super quality scene like The Antique Business, than having a few half baked scenes, even if the environment is nice.
I guess you mean the lack of rough positions when saying that it's vanilla direction. If that's the case then yes it is true. Then again, I was thinking about the "innocence," of the date and wanted to make something everyone can more or less enjoy, at least for the free version. But I think the position in the extended version isn't as vanilla as the positions in free version :D
For the POV, since I'm not interested in VR I'm not sure how to handle the buttons for first person. I started doing scenes without including buttons and depended on the hotkey feature of Acidbubbles' Passenger plugin. The hotkeys are always there, in this scene too. But there are no UI buttons to enable / disable it, except the extended version. So I guess I'm still confused about how to handle it and I tend to bang my head on the wall for small things like if you disable POV with a hotkey, the UI button for first person doesn't change. If I put both buttons side by side, rather than as a "switch," then it gets kinda feels crowded but I'm probably thinking too much of it.
BJ and cum options is connected to me running out of time, though it's connected to everything else you said. I had little time to polish but then it was reduced to "very," little time due to my friends including me to their holiday plans without my consent. It was a special occasion so I had to accept it. But still, it's my fault. Because at the beginning I had time, I made a lot of progress but then I wanted to add snow and the environment I choose didn't have windows etc. And it didn't feel that much of a New Year's Day. So it was mostly me being retarded. I decided to scrap everything and since almost all the poses & animations I did wasn't compatible with the new environment, they were gone too. Then I wanted to give proper justice to the funny / wholesome moments. If it wasn't a "special day," scene then I would delay it to next month but, you know... What's the point then?
Looks didn't eat too much of my time when I was doing this scene. Otherwise new version of Ellie would be released much earlier. Also, they are mostly compatible with other looks so I kind of use them as base models just to feel sure. Since that's the case, I spend a lot of time with them and when I start to notice the flaws I just have to do something :D
I try to make interesting positions & new animations everytime but I guess I do have many more stuff in store, both existing and things I still didn't touch. Rather than adding different spices to the basic positions like 69, spitroast etc. I try to make something entirely new.
You are absolutely right about the texts. I will go this route next month. I'm planning to make another biggy-ish scene like The Antique Business & Succubus Release.
Overall, thanks for the time you spend & for the review. It was coherent & well thought out / well-worded. Did also a splendid job as a feedback.