There are only a few devs I have supported but being on this site for a couple of years now, I have observed that the more detailed and carefully made games such as this, Battle for Luvia, Noemi's Toscana Rebirth, or some of the higher quality Japanese VNs are not liked by a majority of people because, in order to appreciate the depth of game design, you need to actually play the game. If you're just hunting for sex scenes during your playtime, you're missing the point of the games that develop characters.
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- Sep 26, 2016
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Some of the most popular games on here do both character development and sex scenes with each update. There is no "rule" that makes these mutually exclusive. And massive walls of text talking about pointless shit like the weather (typical in Japanese VNs) doesn't equal character development or depth.
I'd bet the succesfull devs on here spent considerable periods of time with just a handful of supporters in the beginning. That's how it works.
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I think its not about depth of the game or hunting for sex scenes. Combination of unity engine and sandbox gameplay just makes a lot of people steer clear of these games.
All of the other games I quoted have substantial amount of gameplay and none of them is a VN or has too much text, the point is people skip over the gameplay elements and want sex scenes in isolation.
(Japanese VNs are amatter of taste I guess.)
My point is that some projects are more ambitious than others and hence don't follow the conventions of classic renpy VNs that have simple text and renders. The talk should be about the game itself, not how big the update is or how much content there is. Some games don't look as smooth as others when they're in progress due to the nature of the games, that doesn't mean the devs should change the direction to please people every single update.
The "most successful" games are not spared from this either, you can look at the Summertime Saga thread, it's a shitfest now. The dev only comes out with an update when the content planned is completed, yet people complain about how the content is not enough, or it took too long.
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Yes, I was hinting towards that but I guess I should have clarified.
Curious about the game, is the MC another brown manlet/goblin? Female models look decent enough so wanted to try it out.
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This. Whenever I see the sandbox tag in a Unity game I think it's the same shitty game with repeatable boring bullshit that makes it a door opening or room roaming simulator. There are exceptions of course but the aforementioned is so common that I end up just avoiding them all.
Again, i have so many quest open, but i cant play this. Because after ingame 16. sept. the game stop. This is not sandbox, more like kinetic VN with Sandboxplaystyle. It is the worst. And to play after a exactly Wt is not fun at all. So make a Prober VN or give us time to play this as a sandhbox, so remove the "ingame time" Pls and thx
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Noemi's: female protagonist. Many male players don't even try to play. In addition, WalkThrough has 76 pages. Games that need 76 pages to explain each step in the game are rarely popular.
Battle for Luvia: WT mandatory too. Unity.
Japanese VN are generally censored and without animations. Some with 30-50 hours of gameplay. With 10-20 sex images. Some with tentacles, rape and other unpopular fetishes.
Nothing against you enjoying this type of game, but it is your personal preference and that of a smaller group of people.
I usually play two games with full WT: The Twist and SOB. Average story, but a lot of porn.
Here at Frosh Life you need to follow WT all the time, so you don't miss an event. Long minigames for little sexual reward. 18 year old players may like long minigames, but perhaps 40 year olds players prefer skip minigame games in adult games.
Now it is DEV's option to please all players. Or to a small group of players who want to play minigames and full WT game.
Sandbox games need in game hints (- go to the gym/beach/university day X / hour Y). Without WT being necessary.
Skip minigame is good for attracting more players as well.
In my opinion, this game would be more popular if it were a visual novel. MC automatically moving to events.
Sandbox work when you choose what to do and when to do it (with hint system). But if you need to follow a schedule of defined events it doesn't make much sense.
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Agreed. Just tried this for the first time and in my opinion the engine is burdensome and incovenient for the players (as usual) and the sandbox is unnecessary. Not my type of game, I'm afraid.
I played this game as far as I could go getting very little female nudity or sexual content in general. In a very strange scene, the MC's two roommates (who he has had zero sexual relations with) want to play doctor with him so he strips naked and one of them sticks a finger up his asshole to take his temperature. Did I really spend a couple hours playing this game to have one of the only nude scenes be a finger up my asshole by two fully clothed girls who haven't even shown their nipples yet? And his reward for doing that is a kiss on the cheek. No thanks, I am done.
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Yeah, and where exactly does one find the savegame file for a frickin Unity game???
Hi mate, i just wonder how you did it...
Which preferences did you use? Everytime i wanna make the "next scan" the result left empty and no further information was shown...
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Ugh, Japanese VNs... They're so cringy... You can tell the vast majority of them were made by people who have never gotten laid. I wouldn't really call this game detailed either unless you completely ignored the dialogue.
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very nice game (despite not fan of unity games) but feels like mc needs to do zillion things at the same time like improve swimming, chat with roomies, improve fitness, work at beach to get money (and there are plenty of money sinks since mc needs coffee for studying, water and sandwiches for training, etc and with current salary not much else is bought than coffee).
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