LMAO. Complaining about choices and consequences in Being A Dik 10 chapters deep knowing how Acting Lessons ended.
Dudes being mad about an update not being a quick fap material is just outrageous. If you're in for a quick fap - go play any fast-paced generic incest VN, ffs. Go to damn PornHub.
Complaining about the game which has established itself as plot-driven with mini-games here and there long time ago is like playing Dark Souls and complaining that there are no markers on the map and you can't save mid-fight)
I'm not mad, I'm disappointed, as in I expected and hoped for Thing A and got Thing B. Because Thing A was magic, up through Episode 8. This does not feel like Thing A anymore.
Clearly, the creator is free to create whatever they want, and people are free to like whatever they want. No judgment there.
All I'm expressing is what I look for in a game, that will cause me to play a game repeatedly and spend money on it, or will cause me to kind of play it once and move on.
Consequences are important, but so is tension. There is no tension for me if I'm already on some path and the options are preordained. Before The Choice, there were still consequences, e.g., spend the night with Sarah or Maya, not both. Cool. Now, it feels like the consequences are all preordained based on something that happened a long time ago, and that future decisions won't matter or are irrelevant. And the free roams and mini games aren't worth it FOR ME enough to play through again to explore other routes.
How about letting me bang Riona at the party, then have my LI find out about it later and dump my ass? Instead of not letting me do anything with Riona because I did not choose "Others." How about I bang an ex in the tent while my gfs are outside? And let the fallout happen. Like, sorry Sage, I know I picked these girls, but fuck them, I want you right now. Maybe she slaps me and maybe she bangs me. But for two updates, everyone just gets sad and turns you down. There's no tension there for me, because there's no possibility of upside.
The whole point of me expressing these things isn't to convince anyone to think anything else, it's to possibly persuade a developer to make more stuff I like, by giving some clarity about what makes a game amazing to me.
You like the update? Cool, play the shit out of it bro. I just don't like this update, compared to the previous ones, where I said, "hey, this is amazing, let me throw some money at the dev." This version does not do that for me.