I'm curious what people would want from a gallery. ... Let me know!
The purpose of a game gallery, to me, is to view the content again without having to grind through the game all over again just to look at a few NSFW pieces of it. Once any long(8+ hours) H-game has been completed I will usually only play it all the way through once and rely on galleries or scene viewers if I want to see the NSFW content again, very few H-games have enough replayability to be worth the time of playing it again.
For me a good gallery has the following:
- The ability to replay any scene(usually focused on the NSFW sections). For this game it would likely need to be putting the characters in the conditions for the scene with corrected stats and just play through the scene again.
- Hints or names on missing scenes which could be used to unlock that scene without needing to search through forums or guides to find it. Also it needs good enough UI design so that the player can tell which scenes are from which character(s), either with dedicated sections for each character or with images/text.
- Enough dialog and/or player interaction to get the context for the scene being replayed, ie character dialog and maybe reduced choices to lead to only the scene being replayed. Just replaying the animations with no context is never fun.
- The restriction of needing to have viewed the scene in the game by playing it(though unlock codes could be an option for lazy people). No point in playing the game if the gallery is 100% opened from the start.
- If there are any changes to the scenes based on game progress such as different dialog or outcomes, there should be some sort of UI to set up which versions of the scene you want to see. For this game a selector for at least the outfits of the characters would be required.
