You're arguing with the wrong person here. I agree with you that this brings nothing to the table that anyone will enjoy, and the post you quoted didn't disagree with you at all. Instead, it was me just saying that the crossover is obnoxious regardless of whether there is Kevin-Emi sexual contact in The Cabin or not, because the dev forces some attitudes and reactions from the MCs of each game, such as Jamie unavoidably thinking lewd things about Hazel (Kevin's LI and Jamie's mom) in this game.
O, I wasn't arguing, more discussing. I had assumed you were mostly in agreement.
Nor did I think either of the posts I was quoting were disagreeing.
Beyond "Who's all that for though?" is just me writing down my personal thoughts, not me disagreeing with you. (that and explaining the reasoning for those that may not fully understand the issue).
Beyond that, generally speaking (non-cameo, non-sequel) crossovers between a developer's own games almost always suck for one or the other game, if not both (and it's almost always both). Brief cameo appearances? Sure, that's fine. Not really necessary, since we'd all much rather have more time, effort, and attention spent on the game's own LIs, but that's literally as far as it should ever go. I have yet to see a (non-cameo, non-sequel) crossover between multiple AVNs set in the same universe that needed to exist, and some of them make both games actively worse. I won't go into detail about different games here, but this keeps getting borne out over and over again.
yeah, the only good cameo, is when it's a shout-out to a decent game that's in the same genre.
i.e. they appear briefly as a "O hi" and then leave. Nothing sexual at all.
One game that I think does this well is "That New Teacher" where they just have a small non-H scene, and you can view the char in a "shout-out" section in the character profiles. (imo though.... some of those games shouldn't be shouted out since they're not the right genre match).
As for genuine shared Universe.... Rarely done well. Closest would be the "Town of Passion" game, with how there's a sequel that takes place in the same universe, just not same time period.
As for one that takes place closer it's be the zombie games (same dev), Where again same universe, but no sharing of LIs or even direct contact between the groups.
Basically, they could be their own stand-alone games.
As for avoiding incest LIs, that is very clearly not one of Cell's priorities or reasons. Jamie and Emi are very obviously brother and sister and are fucking, Kevin and Lisa are very obviously brother and sister and will fuck, and Grace and Kevin are very obviously mother and son and will fuck. Hell, the platforms who care about incest consider Hazel being Kevin's aunt to be just as bad, so there'd be no point to separating the family like that.
Hm? O I meant the issue that you get when you have 2 Male MC's that are related to eachother, because then you lose incest LIs, and just makes thins weird.
Didn't even think about the patreon aspect, was purely talking about it from a story/player viewpoint.
