Is there a current review/comparison of Devious Devices vs Toys?

[NotKinkyEnough]

Toys looks great but I always used DD and wondering whether to switch for next playthrough. 

 

Is there a full review of comparison so I can get an idea how the game will play different?

[VirginMarie]

I copy/paste from this thread ...

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I'm bias, just a little bit ? 

 

Nothing says you must pick one over the other.

 

The survey (top of that support forum) says that 72% of users are using both Toys&Love & DD together. That number has been & will continue to gradually reduce.

 

One of the goals was to lighten the load, and provide the option to run without the legacy stack of DD/SLA/Sexlab.... yes that entire stack is not required, but we took great care to make sure it works well with that stack. If that stack is there, we do some integration & play nice.

 

Highlights:

• All in 1.... Bondage... Rousing... & Love Scenes...  Not only a DD alternate, its a DD/SLA/Sexlab alternative
  • This makes for some very tight integration between the 3 areas. Features that work seamlessly. They feel like one
  • In addition it does the functions of SLSO & SLAL... Its really 5 in 1... integrated & simpler. The SLAL-like function is instant
• Faster. Simpler. Stability. Lite.
  • For Bondage, its about doing it better & different. For Love Scenes, its about doing it faster & easier
  • For both Bondage & Love, its about integration & simplicity.... for example Love Scene treatment of toys.... hide or filter or both
• New & different Toys Effects, Transformations, & Escape. Toy Effects include effects that trigger love scenes
  • A mod author can make a toy in a Toy Box, that causes love scenes, without any script
• Toy Boxes - A toy box shares it's toys... all mods using Toys&Love can "see" a Toy Box and use it
  • Toys are registered like Animations. For example, Toyful Temptations never needs to update, to distribute toys from a new Toy Box
• Orgies & Matchmaking for Love Scenes is built-in
  • These are easy for a mod to use
• The concept of Rousing... Fondling... Denial... Oversexed... built into both Bondage & Love
  • There's also Thermal Toys & Overheating if you introduce Survival into your game with HoT&Wet
• The Rousing Bar & Voice-in-my-Head Widget UI
  • You can sync Rousing with Arousal, if you use SLA, thus "see" arousal in your UI
• MUCH easier for a mod author to make Bondage & Love features

I could make a much longer list, but instead, check out these articles...

 

Toys&Love - Features

Toys&Love - Tips

Love Scene FAQs

Mod Authors - Using Toys&Love - Traditional / Soft / Script-less

[Shadowbroker3495]

On 11/17/2022 at 9:01 AM, NotKinkyEnough said:

Toys looks great but I always used DD and wondering whether to switch for next playthrough. 

 

Is there a full review of comparison so I can get an idea how the game will play different?

As always a review is a subjective opinion, not a universal truth.

 

Toys is an alternative, not a replacement for DD.

 

Best way is to test it yourself. Try the quest mod SLaVE (Shout Like a Virgin Evolved). Look carefully through Toys MCM configuration and disable the functionality you maybe don't like (compared to DD). That way you should get an experience close to DD.