The beginning of Haley’s Story was very well done and had me hooked quickly. I really like how the developer handled relationships bothThe beginning of Haley’s Story was very well done and had me hooked quickly. I really like how the developer handled relationships both between the main character and Sandra as well as them and Haley. During the middle of the game it got a bit slow though and the end left a lot of questions as well as loose ends. I found your choices started to get slim and I wasn’t always liking how things were handled with the story from the middle onward. The game opens up avenues with other female characters and then shuts them down or forgets about them with little reason. It introduces backstory for Haley but then just drops it with no resolution. It introduces a FWB character that gets shut down. It introduces your boss who you can have an affair with but she drops off never to be seen again. It introduces a dom/sub aspect to your relationship with Haley ever so briefly but never actually uses it and forgets about it. The one thing that people online complain about that I didn’t care much about was the fact that originally Haley and the main character are siblings where in the final game it was reworked to friends that grew up in the same house, pretty much adopted siblings if you want, although that term is never used. The lack of blood relation means that there is no taboo and no reason to hide their relationship with each other as well as no reason for others to be shocked. As I said though, I didn’t mind much. The models were great as was the object detail. The music was decent but got a bit repetitive. The lewd scenes were fairly good although they get a bit sparse near the end. The animations were decent but not the best I have seen although far from the worst. I found it a bit strange how during dialogue everyone had a picture of their character on the left but the main character who just has a black silhouette. I could understand if we had customized their appearance but we can’t do that so I’m not sure why there was no picture for them.
I played Haley’s Story on Linux. It never crashed. I noticed three spelling errors which for a game this length isn’t a huge deal. You can save whenever you want and there are fifty four save slots. Alt-tab didn’t work.
Game Engine: Ren’Py 7.4.8.1895
Graphics API: OpenGL
Game Version Played: 1.1-small
Disk Space Used: 2.09 GB
GPU Usage: 0-14 %
VRAM Usage: 626-1386 MB
CPU Usage: 1-7 %
RAM Usage: 3.1-3.9 GB
Despite the middle being a bit of a drag and the ending being a bit sudden there is a great game here overall due to the beginning and the relationships. I really enjoyed the banter between the main character and Haley and I found Sandra to be a fantastic love interest. I just feel the game had more to give and explore than it ended up doing. I finished the game in six hours and four minutes and paid $14.11 CAD for it. The value was great for the quality and length.
My System:
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 22.0.1 | Garuda Soaring White-tailed-eagle | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 5.17.1-zen1-1-zen… Expand
