I tried it for the first time and maybe its just me but it confuses me a bit,
The story is all over and very disjointed, then there are those 'fantasy events' accessible via the bed that are just dreams? I feel like alot of dev time went into those but they dont serve much purpose from my pov.
Now the bindr dates, their progression is ...you can just go through them all immediately with a girl, they isnt much story/progression in those tho, I guess it could be by design since its a 'kink hookup' thing not more? Its good that things are optional.
Now the scenes, I dont care about whether they animate or not but there should be some variety, for a 'kink focused' game, almost all the sex scenes follow the same formula.
'Bind hands via something' 'Get on knees' Blowjob' 'fuck' 'cum'
Thats it, they dont even kiss majority of times, or play with tits or do anything else that is kinky..in a way its all so...cold
for the flow I don't know, as much as I love Bindr, you're right, there's a pro forma feel to the scenes and the relationship dialogues are very superficial. The scenes are kind of like mainstream bdsm porn scenes the last few years, very over produced, negotiated and careful that no performer appears remotely immersed.
I think the coldest thing about the game is when the girl's praise MC for being handsome, big dicked, tall or for what he says or does. It's very over expressive for something that doesn't need expression. Also their role playing is just off, like a pornstar going thru the cliches without feeling anything and they always start with such ease it's the exact opposite of some hentai stuff where they always start with denial and resistance even ten scenes in.
shit, hadn't realized how muuch I didn't like about it...
Anyway BUT there is progression with each date with each girl if you choose, up to maybe 3 or max four date-stages in a relationship, not everything is there now as such though.
Also don't have to see the fantasies if we don't want. In principle they're great as time fillers between updates but sadly youre right theyre not that interesting. You seem to imply there's a wasted effort by dev but there's a failry decent amount of content for the main game and it's good that he keeps doing stuff for fun rather duty; I do think they were partially experiments he didn't want to throw out and also some stuff that's maybe problematic for patreon (like the rape stuff) or the story that at one point or another he couldn't work/leave in because it contradicted the character design (like what by now I think has been worked into the dates, a scene where the domina subs.)