talion777
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- Apr 5, 2022
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It can be done, and there are games where you have the ability to choose whether you want to pursue individual girls or not, or groups of girls, allowing you to bypass some elements of repetitive or undesirable storyline, but they're few and far between and often require some common sense decisions (or admitedly sometimes seemingly odd decisions) in order to navigate the game. College game or not if something is well done then you'll enjoy it, just like movies, where people race to try to clone the magic of something original with cheap and ill conceived copies as soon as possible after release.The real challenge is to have varied story lines that allow you to replay without having to endlessly repeat all the same scenes over and over again.This greatly increases replayability but people are lazy and they want to be able to bang everybody in one go in a linear fashion, which to me becomes boring as fuck. I suspect that it makes the branch mapping so complex for devs that it becomes too challenging and too much work to try to maintain a cohesive storyline and continuity when most people are satisfied or with or even prefer linear storylines to keep things simple. As a gross and sometimes inaccurate generalization most people here seem to have an aversion to complex branching and any sandbox or free roam or puzzle elements that complicate their ability to fap without straining their brain overmuch. I personally like game elements that make the stories more complex, but I recognize that I'm in the minority, and I have to keep reminding myself that as much as we refer to these VNs as "games" they really are stories first, and not video games, and that the people who play these aren't "gamers" per se, and come with a completely different mindset and cultural values than what gamers do. For people who do both it's a bit schizophrenic. lolYeah, college themed games have been over blown. I stay away from most of them. Too much of the same same.
I don't mind interacting with them so long as I don't have to make them an LI.![]()