I'm not sure how long it has been this way, but BlueCat's Patreon intro-thing says "is creating the biggest and longest visual novel of all time ". So I mean, I guess the project is progressing according to what's advertised to the supporters?
I can kind of understand why some people don't want to watch the MC fuck more and more cute girls of various look, age, and personality but that definitely appeals to me. So far the game is living up to the "Ecchi Sensei" title.
Well, I barely even went into the erotic content, in my review, as it is pretty spread out... With so many different side plots and more characters then you can shake a stick at, post Week 1 is becoming rather diluted... I think it can still do well, with far less characters, especially in the early days since it's supposedly going to go a full year of in-game time... I'm not even sure at this point if it will ever reach that overall goal, as it is going to take probably a decade, or more, to get that far (based off the current trend), unless they really start taking even more story short cuts... If it sticks with it's current average of 2 weeks of content per real year of development, with a goal of 52 weeks of total in-game content, that will be around 25+ years of real development time... I just don't see that really happening...
They are currently receiving around 6 grand a month in donations just from Patreon alone, and they were making bank even a year ago... Even if they ramp up development, which would require hiring more people, what would that do? Maybe cut the total development time in half, so around 10+ years, if they don't opt to take short cuts and downgrade the quality of the overall product more then they already have, with so many active characters and dozens of mini-plots... In order to get the full year of in-game content done in even a semi-realistic time frame...
I really did enjoy the first week of game time, even though I thought the number of characters at that point was already getting rather high... But with so many more characters, and so little content devoted to only a tiny handful of them per game week, you end up just thinning the promising story development of the first week, to a point where the story no longer feels stable and meaningful... Perhaps the developers did have the original intention of just making a porn focused VN with a thinned out story to fill in the gaps... But with as much story telling as we see, between all the erotic stuff, it sure seems like they want to tell a fun and interesting story, rather than just throwing back to back porn at everyone... Yet, because everything is so spread out, with so many characters and etc, the overall story ends up suffering... And if that trend just keeps going, getting thinner and thinner, with more and more pointless characters and tiny side content, then all we'll end up with at some point is a porn fest with lots of pointless text between the scenes...
I'm basing all these observations off what I'm seeing as a current trend... I'm not trying to tell folks to stay away from it... In fact, I want it to be successful, just for all the right reasons and in all the right ways... But I just feel a bit let down, based off my prior experience with week 1 compared to what I'm seeing with the last years worth of content, coupled with the greed like business practices of the developers Patreon site... Are we truly getting 6+ grand a month worth of development? Is the quality as high as their income should suggest? I had high hopes and expectations from this project, based off the previous years content... But will it keep that hope alive, is it keeping that hope alive, or will it slowly tear itself apart in far too many directions?
I don't think thats what people are complaining about, every update adds new characters and its new content but old characters are ignores and story barely gets progression. For example Tomoe is one of the first characters you meet and as far we know she is probably still a virgin lol. I don't think people would be complaining if the older characters got some progressions along side new characters being added.
I see your point, which kind of plays into some of the points I was trying to make... Lets look at Sloth-chan for a moment, she was one of the more unique and fun like characters from Week 1... Yet in Week 2, all we get is her sun bathing on a roof in one image, followed by a few very brief moments of her in the bar and elsewhere... Heck, we get more story and screen time with regards to her sister, another of the many new characters introduced in week 2, then we do with Sloth-chan herself... Don't get me wrong, we do get to see some new content with several of the main characters of Week 1, but it's either not really all that much, or it's just them so happening to be in the same scenes more or less devoted to introducing even more characters... They basically have bit walk-on parts, cameo's if you will...
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