I can't think of a single believable character period in any of the big VNs, and that's assuming the writers/devs or fans want to do that in the first place. You don't have to go as far as Goethe to call them hackneyed lol. Hell most of these stories are inspired by (aka 'nicked from') erotic lit and the writing's not comparable to that even on strictly technical grounds.
If you're looking for an interesting narrative your best bet are obscure games like Sanguine Rose (hands down the best written porn game I've played), Thinking about you, The night driver, Vis, Apocalypse, Grolokk just off the top of my head. And some Jap titles. A lot of those are hobbies and as such have a genuine creative vision behind them. Or in the case of the Jap ones they're meant for a market that appreciates creativity a lot more than western 3d porn patrons. Even the gameplay is occasionally fun in some of them. As magnificent as, say, City of broken dreams is gfx wise it's still Blade Runner fanfic. Without the skip function and gallery/walkthrough mods I'm not sure I'd bother.
Ofc we both did not play all games out there and if we try the big ones we end up in a huge dissapointment.
I agree however that there are some gems out there if you got enough time and will to find them.
As far as i know summertime Saga makes the biggest bucks and yet the writing is horrible.
Glamour would also fit the bill for big bucks and the characters are garbage.
Japanese games have about 40 years more experience in the field than us. And if we go by erotic novels in asia they beat us over entire centuries of illustrated pornography. The Kama Sutra was already around in asia before the roman empire crumbled away and survived to this day while we figured out if certain positions would condem us to hell or not.
I don't know the game you mentioned but would it fit the following bill of rules by the writer?
1. Backstory (Almost everyone does that)
2. Base it someone you know IRL (almost no one does this unless they all live near a top model villa and only talk to beauties all day everyday with 0 issues about their personality or their looks)
3. Traits you know from presonal experience. (If your character is a domina and you never went to one you get 0 points)
4. Believable Surroundings. (Again write about shit you know yourself. Describing the insides of a U-Boat or Space Station will prove difficult if you lack the knowledge how people behave in such places)
5. Character growth (Example: Starts as shy person and transitions to a confident one.)
6. Let your character become alive: (Once you write you will find out that your character as you imagined personality/traits etc will start behaving a certain way. Accept those changes inside your mind and write it accordingly otherwise you will have a confident character who let's himself get bullied or abused by another character because you want the story to go that way but your character would not behave that way according to his personality. A Domina getting dominated is not a Domina or you can't write for shit.
7. Attach a Hook (A hook is something that gets the reader by his emotion. Disgust, love, fear etc. Once you can make a character that someone can identify with, which is much easier if you describe someone you know of IRL you get an emotional hook)
8. Cripple your character. (a trauma, bad experience, overconfidence. only one foot. Being blind etc. Basically something that cripples your character in a certain way or certain situations. Physical or Psychological. No one is perfect and no one will care about a character who can literally do everything without breaking a sweat.
I judge written characters on those 8 points (more like 10 but the last 2 are way to complicated to describe without writing an essay no one would read) and will do that with these ones as well. Let me know if one or all of your games fit said criteria and i would gladly give them a try once i have enough time to play them. Thanks
If the writing of this game is as good as the renders i will stand in awe about the entire thing as i am pretty sure that even without good writing this will become a big project IF the dev finally delivers the first version. (which i am not really sure about anymore)
However if i learned stuff from big games who make a decent amount of money like Glamour or DmD is that you can literally write absolute garbage and still hoard in money from people who would think Tolkien and Dostojewski were boxers from the 1920. Meanwhile decent devs who at least manage to get 6 out of 10 or even 7 out of 10 have very few patreons despite providing a very wonderful experience be it erotic or pornographic material.
Still i hope my suspicions about this game are based on bad experience and that i am wrong. So lets hope for the best
