I think Dimajio is a very good writer. First of all, the overall tone of his work is mature - it's not just pretty characters banging stories, but it deals with sexual fantasies that real ‘grown-ups’ think about. Of course, the story settings aren't 100% perfect - some of them are overly absurd - but the characters' behaviour and dialogue within those settings is very realistic, and that's the biggest thing that makes me like his work.
Another thing I admire about Dimajio is that he's always willing to try new things, and his work evolves as he goes along. His first work,
Sharing My finance, had a humorous, light-hearted storyline and a cuckold for a character, but he didn't like the humorous approach, so his next work,
Permission, switched to a more normal tone, experimenting with the use of camera and video to tell the story.
Lost in Paradise is a proper sized game that utilises all the experience he's gained and experiments with the bully route. I don't think the bully route was something he really enjoyed working on, as far as I can tell. For his next work,
Pineapple Express, he ditched the bully route and experimented with the cheat route. I've seen him mention that the cheat route was a mistake, and I assumed that like the bully route, the cheat route wasn't his favourite either, but I was wrong: his work has always been told from the male protagonist's point of view, and he felt that this didn't allow him to tell the cheat story he wanted to tell. In
Exploring the Big Apple, for the first time, he's telling the story from the female protagonist's point of view.
So, as one of his readers, what should we expect from
Exploring the Big Apple? I think it's an epic cheating story, and I can't wait to see how he's going to portray the internal conflict of desire in people who cheat.
