I've seen some negative reactions to kitsune stuff /tobs stuff on fen forums. Most recently it was in a thread addressed to players who only play female bodied characters, about how they felt about the Mayternity content (it almost got derailed when someone brought up Kinu, as this thread frequently does
). The only difference is they seem to be nice about their dislike of kiyoko/kinu. Either cuz they're actually nice or to avoid Tobs jumping in to preach about his work being amazing because it's so divisive.
I usually try to be nice, I just can't stand that Tobs is consistently allowed to make such one-sided content in what should be a power fantasy text-based porn game. Wouldn't it be better to give the player options? The fact that you need a dick (magical or real) and have to "impregnate" Kiyoko to get her out of the orb and into the game or you completely miss out on probably the companion with the most written scenes (possibly tying with Cait) is bonkers. If Kiyoko didn't have so much content that then breeded (ha) more content via Kinu, I'd be like whatever. But there's a whole section of the game players who don't want to give their chars dicks and be the sexual aggressors, are just locked out of.
Not to mention (as has previously been said in this thread) his consistent writing of the player as an incompetent, bumbling fool. Even his writing that I am able to access just makes me feel unsatisfied. The male kitsune that roams with a group (not Hinata), the birdlike male in the ice zone, and even Keros approach sex with the player in such a detached, I-kind-of-like-this-but-i'm-kind-of-disgusted way that I get no enjoyment out of those sex scenes. I cannot understand who that shit is written for.
And Savin's cool with that. I assume it's because Tobs did a shit ton of writing for free, so you can't really tell the guy much since he could just say "I don't want to write that."
Anyway, genderbent Kiyoko 2022.