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I'm just imagining in the days of adult movie theaters, before the advent of VCRs, if there were such a well-made porn that all the skeezy loners fapping covertly in the dark start blowing their nose with a hanky in their free hand, just absolutely sobbing by the end of the film. "It was - it was so beautiful" *Honk* fapfapfapfap *honk*That said, it's actually kind of shocking how many porn games there are with genuinely good writing. Well, the number really has no business being anything not statistically indistinguishable from zero, but even once you get past that there's more than you'd expect. And not necessarily where you'd expect. It was one of the weirdest surprises of my life, going to jerk off only to find myself somehow weeping at something in game called My Bully is My Lover of all fucking things.
What other games are well-written? I can honestly say that I think the vast majority of AVNs are awful to mediocre in the writing department. Even most of the ones considered top-of-the-top by others. But my standards are apparently high.
Best of the best to me writing-wise are this game from Roman, Tabletop Born-Star and the abandoned HTML game Casting Director. Basilicata's (Tabletop pornstar dev) first game starts off uneven but gets better in writing too. TBH, unless you're talking comedy, where the standards of what makes writing "good" are different, that's it.
I think EvaKiss games are fantastic vs what's out there, but that's due to her talent for erotic build-up and her plethora of choice-after-choice-after-choice. Her writing is good enough for my porn-game standards (admittedly high for drama-based AVNs), but by no means good tv or novel quality, and not touching Telltale Games' best work on the video-game end where good writing is few and far between. (TWD Season 1, A Wolf Among Us, Tales From The Borderlands were all cream of the crop there, vs some other games I'd ignore). I say in my review of DAST on F95 that I could see Roman getting to that good quality Telltale level as the game develops - which is basically good tv/film quality - and I think Basilicata and the dude who abandoned Casting Director can potentially get to that Telltale level too.
I'll check MBIML and some others out you think are best-of-the-best though if you have any other suggestions.
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