My thoughts on the statement:
First of all, it's good that the personal and family problems have (apparently) been solved.
What goes through my mind: I am uncertain whether Betisis understood the criticism of the people who argued more factually. At least I expected to some extent rather darker or possibly criticism of the press (especially the yellow press), to quote one of my earlier arguments in which I also argued that the original premise was not bad, but then you took a wrong turn somewhere at 0.2. In general, I think that darker AVNs are not necessarily bad. On the contrary. I have to think here for example of The DeLuca Family, becomes significantly darker particularly in terms of the story of the MC and a female character compared to Buried Desires. I am reluctant to compare AVN with each other because each dev has a different style, which is perfectly legitimate, however, here you have the option to skip certain content and the humor creates a certain degree of balance in the plot. Of course, depending on your experience, it may be harder to find the right amount of humor without it getting cringy. Not to mention the "right" kind of humor, for example, Michael Bay style humor would put me off rather than entertain me.
I think the Tarantino style is not an easy model to follow. Since it's been a while since my last Tarantino film, I looked up what makes up his style and the core elements in this analysis were dialogue, close to reality, humor, violence and profanity, highly stylized characters. I admit that a single update can sometimes find this difficult to reconcile, so another problem: in all this, a not entirely unimportant element was forgotten: The player. In the end, I would say that if any VN I know comes close to Tarantino's style, at least for me, The DeLuca Family is very close.
I don't want to badmouth Betisis, my intention is to suggest that he look at how other devs with a similar target audience handle more problematic content, because at the end of the day Buried Desires isn't a movie or a novel in the classic sense but rather a kind of interactive visual novel.
I'll definitely give the next update a chance and see what Betisis has in store for Buried Desires.
