This again....
The lack of an over-arching story is a very valid criticism for something that styles itself a type of novel.
Do the reviews here equate to money in the dev's pocket, or what? Do y'all have a sense of personal ownership of this project and feel a need to constantly defend it?
I fucking LOVE this serialized-romp... but break down the acts for me. Where is the hero's journey? something?! anything!?
its just a romp of fuck to fuck to fuck to fuck. it works for me, but it is totally a vaild critisicm. And the bullying of other opinions here is... saddening.
I will NOT correct you. It is a rather
important point.
This is after all styled as a "Novel". To any purist, this comes with certain expectations. Like you mentioned, Acts, transformations, resolutions (we are still far from it) and a few others.
What this is, in spite of being styled as a novel, is a sort of Diary. In this specific genre, the expectations are completely different and it is styled more like a biography (even if fictional) rather than a "Novel". From my understanding, this "medium" is still young and still looking for what standards to use. It can't completely use the purely visual mediums rules, because it is meant to be more static. It can't use the purely written mediums rules, because it has a visual component. It can't use the cartoons mediums, because it is meant to be interactive. It can't really use the (also still developing) Video Games rules, because the interactivity is limited. What rules to follow, right now, is still a work in progress. Should it be judged by a lack of structure, if it wasn't meant to have one? Should it be judged for having too much choice or too little choice? Should it be judged for the dialogues qualities, if there isn't a standard to measure it?
The major point I am trying to make relevant, is that right now, quality needs to be subjective, not objective, until, with time, the community will be able to coalesce on a group of standards to help with the measure of quality. Right now, the measure is; I like it ===> it's good. It is a nightmare to quantify? Yes, it is. It is a nightmare to Classify? Even worse.
Should we be "demanding" from the authors a strict adherence to rules created for completely different mediums, with completely different objectives (even if they can be reduced to Tell a Story) and going to entertainment goals that have been relegated to the "low end of literary quality" by the moralities polices. Should we judge this has harshly as a literary product? Or as loosely as a Porn Movie? Somewhere in an undefined middle? What do we look for: Structure? Progression? Immersion? Dramatic Qualities? Is this a Play? Is this a Movie? Is this a Game? Is this a Drama? ...........
Since we (collectively) haven't reached a consensus if a standard is even desirable, needed or possible, any other measure above "I like it" is not really feasible.
Some of the works we see here (and I am sure that very few even see more than 10% of what is available) differ between objectives so much that they seem completely unrelated, even when they seem connected by covering the same "kinks".
So, I am sorry,but I feel that it is yet very soon to even try to say if having a story or not is a good or a bad thing. Much less if what type of story is even desirable hasn't even been determined too...
There is a overabundance of question marks in this post, because it isn't meant has a statement, but has a thought provoking and conversation starter ( maybe not on this thread).
Don't feel obligated to reply.
Peace
