First of all, this isn't a movie or animation, and to compare this to a film is like comparing apples and oranges. I never said it doesn't take time; I said again, "A good story doesn't have to take 20+ years to tell either." Second, A good story doesn't need complex storylines either. A direct, simplistic approach can work just as well. Other VN novels are good at the core and are linear, which don't branch out into 30+ different paths. He could have written the story based on six or seven characters and most likely achieved his results at a quicker pace.
If you read some of his Patreon comments, most want to see the core character with Sophia more than anything else, Dylan, Ellie, Patricia, and Sam, plus some outside characters like Aiden. If he focuses on them more instead of having 90+ characters, I think he would achieve more significant progress with less, and his Patreon Member count would be higher than it is now.
He could have done this in less time if he didn't have, me being facetious here, 30+ routes with some of the routes having the same themes as others.
My comment emphasised on the fact that anything of art require such manual attention to work takes time. The mediums are different, the effort here isn't. Be it anime, animated movies or manga or comics.
And just like visual novels with 5-6 Characters are good, VN novel with 20 characters can also be good and definitely way better if done right. This very thing would be celebrated because of a huge range of fetishes only if L&P could do 7000 renders a year instead of barely getting near 1800.
And what an exaggeration it is to call 90+ characters. Characters which have scenes are limited to only these
Nathalie, Aiden, Liam, Dylan, Alyssa, Sam Ellie, Julia, Morello Larry, Patricia, Amber,
Tutoring Job, Bennett, Janitor, Nursing Home, Zac, Vicky Deshawn, Neil, Jennifer,
Cathy, Principal, Movers, Thugs, Emma
Total - 25.
out of which Alyssa is hardly getting anything.
Morello's storyline isn't coming back for a while
Amber one or two scenes a week
Bennett Storyline has been cut short and currently only has 82 renders. Janitor is another with only 80 renders and no event in sight.
Neil is forgetten, Principal has no role, Movers aren't coming back till the end just like the Thugs.
Liam doesn't seem to have a seen for the next few days, even if he did no one here would be excited for it. So it doesn't matter.
Jennifer doesn't have route either. It is just a event or two.
So just tell me where are your 90+ characters, if you count 5 charcters from the 2nd job it makes no sense since we will only get one scene from it. Similar 3 movers make no difference, since whenever they have a scene it will be together. Same goes for the thugs. And it is downright non sensical to count all the students in Sophia's class in characters, they are just filling space or the gym Instructor,. Dylan's martial arts instructor who is likely to never have a scene. Logan and his friends too shouldn't be counted separately because they are just part of Ellie Sophia route. They don't have exclusive scenes. Whenever Sophia Ellie have their scene they will just be a part of it.
There are primarily only Pat, Ellie, Dylan Sam, Aiden, 2 jobs, Nathalie, Vicky, Alyssa, Zac, Liam. Not a huge number of main stay storylines. Rest of the characters have a once in blue a moon appearance and some might never even show up again
A streamlined linear game would be boring as hell with Sophia constantly pushing herself every next scene with the same 4-5 Characters, making it look like just a monotonous, run of the mill sex fest game in a span of 3-4 PD And the scenes will just look forced as there is nothing to show besides these same 5 people.
