Animations? Animations! (Patreon)

Great news for those that wanted/were looking for animations: They will be introduced in R16.

Unfortunately, this does not mean the whole game will be animated in R16: There are MANY scenes in the game thus far and it is not all about replacing the existing CGs with animated counterparts as the scenes are thought and written with CGs in mind, rather than animations.
Replacing everything would set back the game by many months and I am the kind of person that favors new content rather than going back to what I did in the past (Except for some rare exceptions such as R9 overhaul which was a necessity).

So, what are my plans for animations then?
In R16 the animations will be introduced with another feature one of you has suggested: Tokens that never disappear; in the game they will be known as "Gold tokens" and the first batch will be unlocked just before you head to Re-Estize.

To be fair, introducing animations with a not overlord character is a bit meh, however, Jhaiza has been needing content for a while and since the idea of tokens never disappearing was suggested by one of you and so did Jhaiza's arc, I thought everything would fit quite nicely. Characters from Nazarick will come soon!

How do gold tokens work, exactly?

Once a gold token is unlocked, they will stay day and night in their location without ever respawning. An exception is when the character is off somewhere else, but in that case you should find them in another map unless it is not accessible.
While unlocking the gold tokens has some requirements (in Jhaiza's case you need to be able to speak with her), from that point on you can use the token no matter what.

Does it make sense? No, but you will need to sort of roleplay it.
While it would make sense to disable the tokens once you no longer meet the requirements, it would not make the game fun... Just frustrating. So I decided against that.

Gold tokens can be considered a little more special than the other ones and once many more will be available, they will be introduced in the walkthrough... Not all of them will be unlockable in a single playthrough.

Once you interact with one, you will be presented with a random greeting and then two choices you can select: [Speak about your current objective] and [Request Sex.], I could not think of anything else so if you have some suggestions for extra choices, do let me know!

The first choice will allow you to hear their thoughts about your current objective, in the screenshot's example, if I had picked the first choice we would have spoken about how I was about to pick an adamantite ranked mission located in Re-Estize. If I had spoken to her AFTER that, we would have talked about how the mission went.

The second choice will allow you to initiate hentai scenes.
I know the [Request Sex.] looks a bit crude, but I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what happens once you click that choice.

It will begin just like any other scene, except that everything from that point on is animated and you will be able to guide the "flow" of the scene, although in a quite minor way: Since the token hentai will be repeatable, I wanted to offer some choices to make it interesting to replay at least a few times... You can choose whether to get a handjob or blowjob as "Warm up" before sex whose position can also be chosen.

Jhaiza, being a very minor character, will have only a few options... Even so, currently (without the sex) she has 20 animations (10 for each skin color), one of those animations can be previewed above, as you can see, the animation is much smoother than the sprites ones.
I plan to add a few sex positions and then that'll be it.
Characters like Albedo or Narberal will get way more options, both at the beginning and during sex.

Does that mean ONLY gold tokens will have animations?
Not really.

The plan is to actually have scenes with mixed CGs and animations, depending on what fits the best while describing the scene. That means I will be adding animations to old scenes as well, however, that requires time and it will not happen in R16.

I still have some old CGs I need to redo (Albedo's first CG or some of Yuri ones which have the wrong FOV), just like those CGs, they will be in my "To-Do" list.