This is a visual novel, I guess I have to remind you, but it is a subjective thing. You can't just say this is bad, like it's a fact. It is bad for you, but for others? Who knows? You guys didn't enjoy it, fine. You don't want to support my work I'm fine with that, I'm %90 sure most of you didn't support me anyway. This is a pirate site, for fuck’s sake, and we're talking about the guy that leaked my game as my supporter? What a support, wow!
I'm always open for constructive criticism, hell I'm my own harshest critic but saying this is bad. Change it, is not criticism, it's just bitching. I already talked about the parts where I made mistakes for the ending, but it is what it is, DR was never a perfect game it was just an experiment for me to understand how a visual novel works, and It did its job pretty well.
I guess I have to remind you that this forum is how a lot/most people find games to play AND support. No one is giving their money away to find out if a game is worth supporting or not, they usually play it first in sites like this, so you dismissing most the people here as freeloaders whose opinion doesn't matter isn't doing you any favors, you are not making that much to have thay diva attitude here.
Second, even if there's a level of subjectivity involved in most works, there's objectively a lot of things wrong with the ending that you have admitted willingly and even unconsciously. Like the fact that it was extremely rushed and with no set up, like usually a good unexpected plot twist would have you going "woah" with an open mouth and have you questioning how you missed the subtle hints and such, but this one just makes you tilt your head in confusion at how stupid it is, because you cant just pull one of these plots out of your ass without setting it up and just expect people to go, yeah that makes sense, thats good, here's you btw:
"Yes, I accept that Sarah's mother's involvement in the story is a bit rushed, and I blame myself for that. I thought of adding more lines for her during the early parts of the game, but I didn't plan ahead very well, and I accept the problem that brings."
So it is rushed as fuck
Not to mention you admitted to just wanting to force it into the story for some shock value, thats why it feels totally out of nowhere and not earned. It is objectively bad because it goes against what good storytelling is and only looks for shock, rage, just something cheap to surprise the player, like you, yourself said, and was even proud about it:
" I wanted to break the cycle of MC meeting a girl and fucking them after some conversation with a surprise twist. It was meant to be abrupt and unexpected so it can be impactful and seeing all the rage about it, I think it's done its job pretty well. "
If you want something like this, better set it up, otherwise, as I said before, just have a black guy appear suddenly with a 2 meters penis and cuck the MC, that's going to be unexpected as well and would make as much sense as what's in the game.
Lastly I am not surprised to read this:
I didn't tell anybody to fuck off because they didn't like the ending. I tell them to fuck off, 'cause they're trying to tell me how I should be making my own game. I'm open to criticism, but you can't just tell a dev to how to make his own game, it's a bad thing for the game and the dev if he listens to it. I know it 'cause I did that mistake for DR and that why I don't tolerate that bullshit anymore.
You deem all negative feedback as people trying to "tell you how to make your own game"
And even says it's a mistake to listen to feedback and lord forgive me, actually changing something lol. So if something is bad you won't change it because, apparently, it is bad to listen to lowly inferior beings who dont make porn games, and you'll just keep it as is because
you are the dev, and somehow you and everyone loses if you change it and make the story better.
That's why I told you before that you are giving off the impression of someone who thinks their shit doesn't smell, and even if thats you, you at least need to pretend to not be when trying to have people pay you for shit.
But anyway, I've seen enough, good luck with whatever other projects you have.
