Bill_Buttlicker
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- Jul 13, 2018
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Some harsh, but constructive criticism. The animations had to be the worst idea I've ever seen for this VN. I never liked the idea when I first heard about L&P doing them and now after seeing the result it only reinforces my opinion of how bad an idea it was.
We got the idea that Aiden and Andre were vile characters just by the actions they took in the beginning of the game. Aiden forcing Sophia to remove her bra in front of him outside class and Andre groping her in class were enough to show that. We didn't need to see a forced rape of Jennifer. And unfortunately, there is no way to avoid it if you want to stay on the path of Sophia doing the 12 tasks. Not only that but the animation of the sex scene was ridiculous. Did we really need to see several angles of Andre's dick going back and forth? There was nothing remotely erotic about it or special. You could remove that scene completely from the game and it wouldn't affect the story at all.
The time spent on doing the animations could have been put to better use in developing any one of the story lines; for example, the new one with Dylan and Ellie caring more about each other as siblings. Or giving those who chose the boarding school route something to see during the update besides an immediate "the end". The story was doing fine with just quick frame overlaps to simulate movement. Animations were not needed. Not only were they a colossal disappointment for what was hyped, not only did they in no way move the story forward in any meaningful way, but they also actively took away time that could have been spent on writing out more scenes for each of the story branches and speed for getting the updates out.
I hope L&P learned a lesson from this. If he's so insistent on including them in his VN then he should wait until he completes it and wants to do a remastered version where he can add all the special effects he wants.
We got the idea that Aiden and Andre were vile characters just by the actions they took in the beginning of the game. Aiden forcing Sophia to remove her bra in front of him outside class and Andre groping her in class were enough to show that. We didn't need to see a forced rape of Jennifer. And unfortunately, there is no way to avoid it if you want to stay on the path of Sophia doing the 12 tasks. Not only that but the animation of the sex scene was ridiculous. Did we really need to see several angles of Andre's dick going back and forth? There was nothing remotely erotic about it or special. You could remove that scene completely from the game and it wouldn't affect the story at all.
The time spent on doing the animations could have been put to better use in developing any one of the story lines; for example, the new one with Dylan and Ellie caring more about each other as siblings. Or giving those who chose the boarding school route something to see during the update besides an immediate "the end". The story was doing fine with just quick frame overlaps to simulate movement. Animations were not needed. Not only were they a colossal disappointment for what was hyped, not only did they in no way move the story forward in any meaningful way, but they also actively took away time that could have been spent on writing out more scenes for each of the story branches and speed for getting the updates out.
I hope L&P learned a lesson from this. If he's so insistent on including them in his VN then he should wait until he completes it and wants to do a remastered version where he can add all the special effects he wants.