Yea, to some degree the storline of this game has been out there before, I'll elaboriate and I get that same feeling you to, but here is the thing.
Fucking the mother, and maybe the daughter gonna become the secret slut... Screams "My Sweet Neighbors" RIP
"Gamer Girl Daughter" Character? "Parental Love" much?
Having a little kid, and needing a babysitter that you can bone.. Well, shit that's all "Living with Temptation" is.
Oh the dude has a therapist that he must talk to... maybe fuck... but not yet... Tells about all the kinky shit though. Well that seems an awful lot like "Dr. Amana Sexual Therapist"
Being a photogrpaher by trade... Well shit, that's a lot of adult games. Come to think of it that's probably the most common job a dude has in adult games.
Having a wife that may or may not cheat on you... there are over 9000 NTR games I'm not going to name.
There are a lot of plot elements ripped directly from other games as mentioned, and it's lacking originality to some degree there. However this game doesn't simply rip them off as it brings them together in different forms and then mixes it in one big stew making something different. That's how it gets it's originality. Much like the first automobile many folks were aware what a wheel was.
One of the things I like about this game over the previous one is the taking out of free roam making it much more playable. Don't get me wrong, free roam could be great... If it didn't require a comprehensive step by step walkthrough. It's not like you get to pick to randomly watch porn in the living room on a random wednesday then work around to getting to whatever later on at your leasure. It's more like oh you missed step 84 out of 392? And those must be done in the correct order? Fuck off you are on a lesser path now, you fucked it up! It was too rigid with what you had to do to get to the good stuff. I hope this game doesn't go down that same road at some point. The visual novel / free roam sandbox hybrid is infeirior to either on their own.
It does and it doesn't bring them together kinda thing. I have not been a big fan of the writing since the switch in Babysitter....which, lets be honest, is why Babysitters was born. Life happens though and plenty of others liked it. The freeroam was a little obnoxious in the previous game, but I got it to a degree. I didn't like that it played a part into what ending you can get. I have freeroam in my game(Though, not a full freeroam on Day 2), but it has no bearing on the ending. It's just filled with stuff my partner in the game and I either find funny or think is cool, maybe something from when we were younger or to giving props to an adult game that's out there.
With the writing, I think it's easy to copy other games because some of the games you mentioned, are popular. I had totally forgotten about "My Sweet Neighbors", I actually liked that game before that fell. A lot of the writers see most of those games and see that they're popular and try to follow the recipe, if you will. There's nothing wrong with that if you're solely in it just to make money. Nothing wrong with that at all. I think it's too much of a shortcut. Some of what's out there is going to get used no matter what. With my game, I do the renders and the writing and my partner does the coding and helps with the editing(as well as giving some very good timed ideas, lol). Mostly everything is stuff that I know or have witnessed. I try to stay away from the things I don't know. And all the characters are based on actual people that I know with their personalities turned up some. And maybe that's my issue with Babysitters. There's a disconnect for me with the step daughter as well as the girl babysitting the baby. With the babysitter for instance, first day on the job and she leaves the baby alone to go sunbathe with a girl she has never met before. The writing tries to make the girl very responsible for her age and she needs the job and then they have her do something that careless? But I guess if you're looking at these games for pure storytelling, you're in the wrong place, haha.
I don't mind the game. I don't want to give the impression that I hate it or I think it sucks. The only thing I find better in Babysitters is the renders as a whole. As Babysitter got along, they got better, but during Babysitters, they've been good from start to finish so far. Though, anyone else have an issue where Christine looks like she's 18 in the beginning and with her redesign as the game went on she looked like she was 22....which is funny cause the game itself as a whole spanned what, 14 days? lol. Though, the redesign was for the better.
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