- Mar 11, 2018
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- May 21, 2017
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This is the DUMBEST update, in terms of plot. I have never caught such Facepalms on my face...
- Jul 12, 2020
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You are clearly very new in the wonderful world of adult VN's....
Most games on this site are in development for years, several were started in, like 2017, and are still not complete.
Keep in mind that these are all indie projects with very small teams (or even single persons) working on them.
Regarding Eternum, there is a reason it is one of the highest rated games here. Just start playing, there is quite a bit of content already. Or better, start playing Once In A Lifetime first, it is made by the same author and completed.
- Nov 11, 2022
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I don't know...I realize more and more that I don't try to get all the paths in branching games anymore. Some of the most extreme examples would be BaDIK or ORS and for the former I still haven't played all the branches of the last update and for the latter I settled with one path and didn't do any other.
Maybe if the game is done and you really want to enjoy it to the last with a considerable time investment. But branching also means the player has to go through a lot of the same content multiple times, which either lets it grow old very fast or leads to skipping large parts of the game, which hampers the immersion in my opinion.
Add to that some unskipple BS like the some of the mini-games in BaDIK and it gets really annoying.
So the way Cari does it with Eternum by focusing in one main "canon" branch has some downsides, but I wouldn't fully agree that branching out makes very game better at least not with tons of caveats around it.
On the other hand I have to admit that the choices in Eternum are arguably the weakest part of the game, because a lot of them are either insignificant or the right one is very obvious which also makes them kinda pointless.