I very precisely remember seeing comments on 10 minutes of content for that update. That is undeniable and it happens for every update he makes. Whether it is the Aiden gang update of 140 renders or the next Sam update with 450 renders. All people take is 5 minutes to complete it as they say. Which is just tiring to hear again and again.
It takes years to make a movie which lasts 2 hrs. It takes months on end with multiple artists to make 1 episode in animation which takes 20 minutes to finish. Infact there are even sequences where just 2-3 minutes of 2d animation took over 3 months, but atleast the people respected that effort and quality there. It takes and artist a month or more to make 25 pages of a manga or comic which is finished in 10 minutes. So it is incredibly disrespectful in my opinion to keep saying that it is only 5 minutes of content as derogatory remark when a person has put in months of work into something and it is actually good for what it trying to be.
There's no denying that people complained about the 10 mins reading, and most people tab through the content to get to the spicy scenes. But I remember that most people complained about the lack of progression with the 997 renders. It's a slow-burn novel, but you can't say that when you have scenes like the second side job taking off as it did and try to maintain that the novel is a slow-burn novel. That contradicts his statement that Sophia has to take it slow for the corruption process to work. Several scenes in the book make no sense based on the outline of the story and the comments made by him, which is why his communication skills are bad.
Once again, this is not a movie, and you can't compare this to a film because of the number of people involved in the movie's production. This is a visual novel that one person (speculation/claim he has some help) is only producing. Now, if L&P has a mindset of treating this like a movie, I can see the problem: organization skills. I don't want to dive deep into this topic because it's been discussed here numerous times already, but as big as his project is, you can compare it to large restaurant staff; one person alone can't be the chef, waiter, host, the hand-washer of dishes, bartender, and the cashier and think the restaurant is going to operate efficiently for a large group of people. L&P should have started small enough to handle his workload of making created scenes, rendering, and writing, several artists/game designers on this site started small and expanded after L&P started his novel, and now they are well beyond his member count of his. Then expand from that point on when he could have found the resources to work with his novel. But that might be impossible because of his trust factor with people. So that brings him back to a large novel produced by only one person.
Regarding that update, anyone who expected more than what happened was clearly not following the game. Aiden's art class was definitely recognised as one of the best scenes on the game, it was sensual and did a magnificent job at setting up and playing out the scene. Aiden groped her, she was exhibting herself infront of complete strangers far away from town. She was looking incredible. A pretty well done scene all in all.
Lastly i couldn't care less about sex scenes. If majority here consider only sex scenes as content then that's really their problem. When L&P's intent is to show more sensual scenes than brutal fucking then the audience playing the game should gauge their expectations.
People who are complaining and blaming it in the dev about not getting any content in their routes, whose fault is it really. If the player is going to be choosy then he has to pay the price. This is just 1 dev making a project catering to fetishes of 1000+ people. I haven't had an update where I didn't get content. I am not choosy. It is not like the dev is not working, it is just that what the dev is making is not to your interest.
Now to give him some credit, some scenes are well-written and follow a good chronological sequence, but others are on the side of the WTF spectrum. Some examples are Aiden's scenes, although some of the blackmail seems far-fetched, Sam's scenes, and Patricia's scenes (not many but has a logical sense to them.), Nathalie scene's. Ellie's scene is somewhat weird in the sense of L&P's incest comment but yet she made it as far as she did in the timeframe she did it in. Still, the scenes are not bad overall as they have a chronological sense to them, now that he's no longer going to do time-lapses as the pace has to pick up. But then we get into the areas of the story where there is a WTF. For Example, The first one, Dylan's story, had no advancement in it until PD 12 during the park scene, in which most of the LI or Lust characters have achieved some advancement; now it appears the evening event is going to be the catch-up scene. I can only predict plotholes and a WTF moment here if you consider that the story is based on SEX-ED, which IMO he let this play out for too long. The second side job, SEX-ED, is another WTF moment as it jumps from day one introduction to day two, "let's get it on." These are two stories I think he probably threw up his hands, and said to himself, "I don't have too much interest in these stories to make them good, so let's make one boring with possible sex scenes toward the end and the other a porno scene with lots of lewd things happening." which is going against his thought process of making a good story.
An early sex scene is not classified as brutal fucking, it's all about how the story is told to get to that early sex scene. That is what makes the difference. You don't need to drag a story out for 20+ years for the sex scene to be good, or possibly bad, at the end. I don't understand this thought process...
People who are complaining and blaming it in the dev about not getting any content in their routes, whose fault is it really.
It's clearly the writer's fault because he wrote the story and set the story's tempo to be told before his audience. For example, some people follow Sophia/Alyssa, at their last meeting was on Gameday 18 Wednesday, but Alyssa told Sophia that they won't be able to meet until the following Tuesday. (Projection) That's probably 5 years from now if they are lucky.
Because of how L&P wrote the story and the plethora of characters he introduced in the novel and combine that with the number of CS and Renders he adds to each update, this is why the content is shallow in most scenes. The balance is out of sync, which falls on the author/designer.
If the player is going to be choosy then he has to pay the price.
It's only choosy because the design of the novel is choosy. The author allowed the reader to choose their path. If the author's plan was to allow it to be choosy, then it's the author's responsibility to make sure there is content in the novel at frequent times to prevent story drought in order to maintain the balance of the story, but when you introduce the entire population of San Alejo in the novel at different parts, I can see where balance can become tricky.
Secondly a big factor that needs to be considered is the size of the scenes. L&P's pace is just below average when compared to majority devs but his scenes are huge.
Entire Playable days infact 2 PD sometimes in other games are shorter than the next Sam Event of 450 renders. Ofcourse it is going to take L&P much longer to complete a Playable Day. Had it been some other game, even if we use Jessica O'Neil as an example L&P would have completed 5-6 Playable Days of it in One year. The scope is huge for one man that is undeniably true, but at the same time it shouldn't mean that he drops his vision and reduces the scope just to put out a medicore product which won't even be talked about 1 day later.
This is a problem because, per L&P, he doesn't know the scene size when he starts it. So how can you say you need to consider the size when he doesn't even know? Per his statement, he makes the scene render count when he starts the scene, but it may increase.
https://f95zone.to/threads/a-wife-and-mother-v0-170-lust-passion.5944/post-3931853
The size is inflated because he claims the scene, which may need 200 renders to tell, will actually need 400, 500, or 600 now. That is not planning. So you can't factor in the size of the scene because no one, including L&P, knows what the content size is going to be in the first place. So a minor event can suddenly become a major event with this process. So I wouldn't say his pace is below average; it's unknown because it bounces all over the place.
The scope is huge for one man that is undeniably true, but at the same time it shouldn't mean that he drops his vision and reduces the scope just to put out a medicore product which won't even be talked about 1 day later.
I'll ask this question of you now since I keep seeing this word continuously pop up. Vision. What is his vision? Is it this?
Because that train left the station a long time ago, again how some of the scenes played out so far in the novel.
