- Feb 10, 2020
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Man, I just spent way too much time digging into this thread and learning all about the writers behind the game. Very informative, and it does put into perspective my lukewarm opinion of the game despite it having a laundry list of shit I like. It seems like the game has no idea what it wants to be: is it a power fantasy where you fuck anything that moves? A straight-forward RPG about saving the world from demons with a dash of fucking on the side? A very customizable furry bait game? Something else?
I didn't realize that the writing was so compartmentalized like it is, and it's quite possibly the worst way to write a story that I've ever seen. Each person having their own slice of content that they focus on sounds like a good idea on paper (everyone gets to write what they want, characters will be more consistent in theory since they're written by the same person every time) but it just leads to the mess you see here. Without an overarching plan of what the story is going to be like and what sort of content is going to be included, you get a mess of half-baked ideas, inconsistencies, and more. What's worse is that we're seeing writing 'fiefdoms' showing up: islands of content and characters that are obviously just the writer doing their own thing without regard to how it fits in with the rest of the game.
Side note: I found it rich that one of the writers is adamant about not writing power fantasies, yet is writing for a porn game where the MC can fuck dozens of gorgeous women at the drop of a hat and where sex is as easy as "yo, wanna fuck?" It's a flipping porn game, the power fantasy is (mostly) baked into the very concept!
Anyway, it's frustrating to see such a promising project be mired in terrible decision making. This is a game which keeps threatening to be great, but is too much of a mess to really be that. It almost makes me want to make my own damn porn game.
I didn't realize that the writing was so compartmentalized like it is, and it's quite possibly the worst way to write a story that I've ever seen. Each person having their own slice of content that they focus on sounds like a good idea on paper (everyone gets to write what they want, characters will be more consistent in theory since they're written by the same person every time) but it just leads to the mess you see here. Without an overarching plan of what the story is going to be like and what sort of content is going to be included, you get a mess of half-baked ideas, inconsistencies, and more. What's worse is that we're seeing writing 'fiefdoms' showing up: islands of content and characters that are obviously just the writer doing their own thing without regard to how it fits in with the rest of the game.
Side note: I found it rich that one of the writers is adamant about not writing power fantasies, yet is writing for a porn game where the MC can fuck dozens of gorgeous women at the drop of a hat and where sex is as easy as "yo, wanna fuck?" It's a flipping porn game, the power fantasy is (mostly) baked into the very concept!
Anyway, it's frustrating to see such a promising project be mired in terrible decision making. This is a game which keeps threatening to be great, but is too much of a mess to really be that. It almost makes me want to make my own damn porn game.
