I think the dream/fantasy elements are a necessary evil. The story would have to be awesome for people to stick with a game or VN for 6 updates with no nudity or lewd content, but in many games it's hard to justify early on so dreams are a compromise. I know it's extra work but I feel the MCs imagination should be wrong and once he see's the LI outside his dreams she is subtly different
I think it's only necessary if there aren't any characters you can actually make early to mid game progress with. It wouldn't be needed if we could fuck Kira/Olivia/some other non family member after a week or two of play time, or if his dev cycle was fast enough that we were making meaningful progress with any of the core characters. A few peeking and groping scenes is not meaningful progress. So for this particular game I agree that dreams are basically mandatory or everyone will just lose interest.
If the MC had a gf he lost due to the move that might work bit of phone/text sex that peters out so only people he knows in the vicinity are his family, as he gets closer to them grows further from GF until that relationship ends
Are you sure you posted in the right thread? Just looking at the names and locations. Something doesn't add up.
could we have her holding a .38 and showing the back of Eric's head exploding?...asking for a friend.
