So, after a while I finally had a good look at Sunshine Love. The new "battleship" from MrDots, as the development team apparently believes.
The positive at the beginning:
Good renders
Story this time no eternal, pointless chatter
Sex starts earlier
So far so good. MrDots has learned something from past mistakes in this regard. But that's about it, what great things there is to say.
The pre-history
The entire history of the MC is interesting, but is told again with a lot of effort, although it no longer plays a role in the further course of the game. The MCs boss, the law firm, Nicole. Everything doesn't matter later. That could have been solved in such a way that the MC sits on his sofa at the beginning and tells his story before his sister calls. And in between then render fade-ins. That would have required less render and text, but would have had the same effect. And it wouldn't have cost so many hours and resources that would have made more sense elsewhere. Then the game might be 1 - 2 updates further. So again the usual MrDots waste of resources.
Nicole
MrDots plans to turn her into a Cockquean, the female counterpart to the Cockold. In plain language, this means that the so-called "open relationship" is not at all. So the "any other guys dick hater" can breathe a sigh of relief. There will be no other men who are sexually active in Sunshine Love either. And the original fans, who were ignored at DMD when it took a different path than originally planned, are even ignored from the start this time around. For this, however, the people who broke DMD in the first place will be rewarded.
Sunshine Love does not contain anything new. Everything has already been seen 1000 times in other games. It will be a title again like the one that has already existed for 100s. So it will only be a vanilla title again, maybe even a harem title: one dick, many girls. Finished. Missed another chance. In addition, the main story is apparently copied from Mystwood Manor. Just like D is a worse copy of Ashley, from MOTH. I know my way around, I'm a Faerin supporter.
MrDots has thus finally decided in favor of the vanilla clientele, i.e. more likely the children. A clientele with whom no other, more open-minded, varied titles are easily possible. Okay, fine. But what he apparently did not consider, this market has long since been oversaturated! Industry giants such as Summertime Saga, Treasure of Nadia, not to forget Being a Dik, are already bustling there. And many more. All developers who already have their regular audience. Well, if MrDots thinks he can keep up with them. So, at the latest in Being a Dik, he has found his master. I'm a fan of Being a Dik myself. And that's by far better and more varied than all of the MrDots titles put together. So, unlikely MrDots will find great new Patreos there. They have long since found their "home". So this is going to be entertaining.
Enough. I am of course happy for the people who like this pure vanilla stuff. But it also shows once again what MrDots thinks of his original fans. And I feel sorry for these people, of whom I am myself. For my part, however, I have already found a replacement, long ago. I'm actually only here because I've been with DMD from day one and of course I want to see the end.
After that, MrDots will probably be over for me too. He has now also missed his last chance to reconcile with his old fans. I will probably not pursue Sunshine Love any further. I already know too many similar and far better titles. Don´t get me wrong, I have nothing against vanilla stuff in general. Not even against harem, if it's done well. My personal taste is very varied. But after all the prehistory I expected innovation. What MrDots is serving us now is simply not enough.
