As I mentioned in my post, I've left a review detailing my thoughts.
The plot is the weakest point of the VN. I'm sorry but NONE of the story makes any sense. I love the premise of Artemis (the android) as a concept, but people can't be inventing AGI left and right in high school, while also being the daughter of Tony Stark himself with a side-hustle as the female reincarnation of Tiesto. It's too much.
Artemis' story never claimed as being in real life story. For claiming story does not make sense you need to find inconsistency in storyline, the world created by the author. You can't say dragons are not real therefore this story does not make sense in a fantasy setting story. In Artemis story our characters are good enough to be that good. MC is a coding genius and created AI with his high school sweetheart, this is an established fact in the story line. Kindra is entirely different story, she is a genius among the geniuses, protege of a heritage that created by 2 geniuses who are the parents of her. Her mother discovered her talent in music when she was around 10. As Cassandra said, she was in top 3 of every subject even though she was much younger than them. Also there are people like them, for example Ben Franklin was a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. Was he too much too?
All in all, what you say does not mean anything in this regards.
It feels quaint and middle school-y to write all these literally incredible (as in "impossible to believe") plot points that ultimately create no tension in the story. Look up the concept of "deus ex machina" in storytelling. It's a very unhelpful trope. More mature viewers will struggle to willingly suspend disbelief.
What is exactly makes it deus ex machina? If you are talking about everyone being good at what they do, you should look up the concept of deus ex machina. That basically means untangle plot point by improbable character, which is never the case for Artemis. The closest one being deus ex machina is Project Zeus but the effects of it still not revealed, therefore we do not have enough info to create such a strong opinion.
As far as the story goes there is nothing resolved unexpectedly and there are no unbelievable character which creates miracles without establishing their capabilities. Being coding genius, engineering master etc. is not even remotely close to what you are saying.
And then the dialogue itself is too lengthy. See
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-- as someone else said, if the plot is about AI and robots and high stakes corporate competition / espionage, why do we even need a sorority house? What service does it to do the main plot? None. It's hard to argue they're there for eye candy since there's hardly any porn there other than some nudes.
*Because* the dialogue is lengthy, "nothing that happens matter" and then viewers don't really care about the story anymore. If on minute 2 5 sorority girls were watching the MC have his cock sucked and that had zero repercussions, why does it matter that his cock was sucked? Stuff that happens on the plot needs to have *impact*. That's why Andor is great and Ahsoka is terrible (See
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for a much better explanation and please bear through the slow first 10 mins as it will surely be illuminating to hear the full thing)
Have you played the game? Are you not seeing the connection of sorority house to plot? Ex president of INK founded IV which is basically the place where story unfolded. Zelda a lawyer who currently working on AI case, Reina president of IV who binds them together, June a chemist which actively working on Koko AI robo pooch etc. Not gonna dive deep but almost all of sorority girls, except freshmen as of yet, is part of main story. Since the story is not over yet and when there are lots of indication that they will be integral part of the story claiming they are not needed is being prejudice and extremely unfair.
Finally, more controversially, the MC is waaaaay too weak minded. Dude sobs for half of the story, has nude girls literally throwing themselves at him and all he does it feel bad and sad and masturbate. People read stories to feel related to inspiring characters that show development, growth, maturity and overcoming great odds. The only real "great odds" here are whether he can get over getting fucked over, but I swear any guy that was fucked over and found himself living with Kindra, with several sorority girlfriends, and didn't have to worry about money would be banging the shit out of all of them and having a proper blast. I appreciate this is hard for some younger people to accept these days to believe in because they were so thoroughly indoctrinated by media and schools into becoming a pushover male because the world hates men now, but trust me, that is NOT what healthy-minded people want from you.
Forgive me but I am convinced that you haven't pay attention to neither to the game nor the story itself. Saying MC is too weak minded after knowing what he went through is either being cruel or not knowing what is human psychology. Since you seem like know a few things about it and does not sound like cruel, I am convinced you have not been paying attention to the game.
Ain't no one getting fucked over like MC got, starts trusting people that easily. 3 years extensive care of doc is barely enough and you can't claim this being unreal. What you are saying, after living a betrayal from someone too dear to you and almost causing you committing suicide is curable by being near to a few hot women. No fucking way, please don't ever argue about this. So what you wrote here is bunch of nonsense. You are trying to bash one of the strongest point of the story solely on your ignorance, just don't.
All in all, what you claimed was making game 10x better but none of this have a solid ground to accept as flaws. Throwing some unrelated sources to your own opinion is not a way to discuss things. You repeatedly mention immaturity yet what you suggest is nothing more than
hot girls cure depression and I am pretty sure when things came down to getting help for terrible experience and slipping a few times through the process and what you claimed, people with healthy thinking will always choose the first one as more realistic one. Saying that behaviour indoctrination of media, strong men don't cry, pushover male etc. so old fashioned I am genuinely sorry for spending time to read what you wrote. When you mentioned you shared your opinions I was expecting more tbh.
TLDR: Welcome to the list.