For me playing a game should not always be a relaxing and rewarding experience. The game can be rage-inducing, funny, sad or scary - and the same goes for a porn game. I really apreciate when the porn games aims to be something more, turning more into an erotic adventure, and my favourite games on this website all share this trait. The porn game however can never be two things - it should not be tedious and it should not punish the player.
1. Tedious.
Playing The Last Sovereign is a fucking work. You better keep your schedule open, because Tolstoy in his russian novels managed to be more concise and straight to the point. I appreciate when there is a lot of content to enjoy, but literal hours upon hours of rpg where there are multiple segments where you play as different characters is fucking tedious. It gets worse with every hour - you go through multiple wars, rebuilding the cities - and at one point you understand that you are not playing a porn game anymore, but a management game, and shitty one at that. And this is when punishing the player comes to play.
2. This game fucking hated me.
You get invested in characters? You want to win the battles? You want everyone to be happy by getting the best outcome? Oh boy, you are in for a ride. You think you can just take the most logical choices and get on with it? Nope! You made a wrong choice seven hours ago - now one of your companions is dead. Are you having fun yet? People here apparently love that choices matter, and I understand the sentiment, but then you should make the choices clear and make the concequences of the choices understandable. You will balance the affection of the characters like a juggling clown in the circus - one wrong anwer from hundreds of choices, one point of affection short, and you WILL have consequences. But there is a remedy from that - the legendary walkthrough - an incredibly long and tedious wiki page, that you could read for hours.
And at some point, when you are in the middle of the third random battle, dumbly following a huge and insanely complicated walkthrough letter for letter, trying to salvage your story and save your team, but it's already ruined, because you didn't meet some orc seven hours ago, one simple thought comes to your tired and annoyed mind: Am I having fun in this porn game?
And then you turn this shit off and never play it again. The premise of the game promises you a lot of fun, sexy content - well, that's a fucking lie.
1. Tedious.
Playing The Last Sovereign is a fucking work. You better keep your schedule open, because Tolstoy in his russian novels managed to be more concise and straight to the point. I appreciate when there is a lot of content to enjoy, but literal hours upon hours of rpg where there are multiple segments where you play as different characters is fucking tedious. It gets worse with every hour - you go through multiple wars, rebuilding the cities - and at one point you understand that you are not playing a porn game anymore, but a management game, and shitty one at that. And this is when punishing the player comes to play.
2. This game fucking hated me.
You get invested in characters? You want to win the battles? You want everyone to be happy by getting the best outcome? Oh boy, you are in for a ride. You think you can just take the most logical choices and get on with it? Nope! You made a wrong choice seven hours ago - now one of your companions is dead. Are you having fun yet? People here apparently love that choices matter, and I understand the sentiment, but then you should make the choices clear and make the concequences of the choices understandable. You will balance the affection of the characters like a juggling clown in the circus - one wrong anwer from hundreds of choices, one point of affection short, and you WILL have consequences. But there is a remedy from that - the legendary walkthrough - an incredibly long and tedious wiki page, that you could read for hours.
And at some point, when you are in the middle of the third random battle, dumbly following a huge and insanely complicated walkthrough letter for letter, trying to salvage your story and save your team, but it's already ruined, because you didn't meet some orc seven hours ago, one simple thought comes to your tired and annoyed mind: Am I having fun in this porn game?
And then you turn this shit off and never play it again. The premise of the game promises you a lot of fun, sexy content - well, that's a fucking lie.