I get what you are saying, but I still think this just comes down to you liking the cyberpunk, technonoir genre more than a college sex farce. The melodrama you're decrying is just as important to that genre as the grim gumshoe with a dark past is to this one. There's nothing wrong with liking some tropes more than others (even if your favorites are less popular), but that's no reason so slam the ones you don't like.
I don't slam (gosh, this word sounds too strong, was I that harsh
, I feel like Gary Busey now) the setting, I only tried to highlight the most implausible and ridiculous subplots as well as the most grotesque characters regardless of the setting by comparison with CoBD where appropriate. The setting as the thing-in-itself doesn't matter to me. I lean to base my views on comparisons and observations.
Ironically, I am not into cyberpunk, I would rather prefer a modern day college setting over a cyberpunk action, all other things being equal. So my personal tastes are irrelevant, my only preference is that a story realization quality / writing / build up matters more than quantity / graphics and animations / lewd scenes counter.
As the saying goes, tropes are tools. They're a way for a writer to establish character and setting quickly and efficiently. They don't automatically make a work bad just for including them. CoBD is a very different story than Being a DIK so the tropes each game uses, and the way it uses them, will be different.
And frankly, I think the two games are sufficiently different that there's not much point in comparing them directly.
Hang on. First of all, I think that's an extremely oversimplified and inaccurate version of events. Second, I don't think you should complain that "that game" is bad for being an unending series of forced cliches while also complaining that Maya is an insufficiently stereotypical lesbian.
I don't say that
that game is all bad so avoid it and sling mud at it. Damn, I never said that
that VN was bad, I don't understand why you have attributed to me this claim. On the contrary, I recommend
that VN to everyone beyond this forum and say there is a very high probability that the game experience will be enjoyable.
I just humbly try to demonstrate by examples that Philly's writing is superior in quality over the VN No. 1 (I admit that
that game is the No. 1, if an impartial assessment takes place) from the story design and realization standpoint on an assumption that we consider only human relationship aspects and ignore the setting and variety of in-game activities. All my negative towards
that game appears only within such comparisons between
that game and CoBD, not in isolation. Also I find Philly's games underrated.
Within my comparisons I don't just generate a pure negative, I [strive to] substantiate my observations without personal attacks. I admit my substantiations might be incomplete or erroneous due to not considering certain facts in full or partly. I will gladly read disproofs and amendments that are also based on evidence and logic. I won't be offended if someone negatively but reasonably reviews a character I like. In the end these are just fictions with a bunch of pixels on the screen
.
In conclusion, I'd like to note: I was DPC's supporter of the Josy tier, so I have the unequivocal moral right to bitch about those story elements of
that VN, which I consider very flimsy or malfunctioning
, without offending other people of course.
