I have always been suprised and disappointed about the lack of love for Ashley and (Android). I love Lin above all others, but why are so many so against those two? I don't get it.
No idea. Aside from Lin, Ash is easily my favorite. In fact they are tied for the spot.
Also, update I got the bar on day 60 (about 3 hours of gameplay in) without rushing for it. I just went along buying what ever I needed as the game asked me to.
Yanderes are a "you love them or you hate them" kind of archetype. Though after the event where Ash opens up on the overlook without her hair dye, a lot of her yandere tendencies become muted.
With Android, I'll admit I wasn't incredibly impressed at first as she seemed to mainly be a comic relief character to play off of other characters in conflict. But once she got a human disguise and her identity crisis story began, she has become one of the more interesting characters in the game.
Id guess its based on their personalities - Lin and Kali are the most popular as they are portrayed as in Lins case the wholesome waifu character you woud want to marry and Kali the hot geek gamer into a bit on experimentation which appeals to well... gamers and this is a porn game. Ashley by comparison is (well was) the femdom esc yandere and Android is similar in a lot of her content from a full on femdom setting to her less than mature (for obvious reasons plot wise) behavior as she attempts to be human. Those are just less popular trope characters in general - i hear you though, ive always had a thing for an unpopular character myself in Jin (to great cost it would appear...).
Either that or people who did like them moved on so aint as vocal no more as if you liked the possesive femdom rape you at knife point for your seed aspects of Ashleys character then theyve all but gone for good as instead youve got the meek school girl who just wants a family and happy to share you and there isnt anyone that comes to mind to fill that kind of interest no more. Android likewise was a very shy, bashful and naeve virgin keen to please her master - these days? a moody shut in as personal dilemma takes the forefront of the story and her attention and shes the far opposite of too shy to even show her face now even getting a kick off of humiliating others in public. These are dramatic changes.
The popular characters in Kali and Lin have yet to have these massive changes nor likely will. Theyve had personal turmoil certainly but its not changed what people loved about them in the first place and no matter how lewd and sordid they get they still are the holding the roles of the tropes theyve always embodied despite this. Runey made some fucking awesome new scenes for Autumn (optional Exhibitionism ones) and you could see the odd comment already with it not sitting right with people but shes the devout religious and sexually naive character. If there is a better character to appeal to the "i wanna deliberately corrupt her and make her into a shameless whore for me" type of character in the game ive yet to meet her, hell Runey even did an arc where she thought giving him sexual pleasure was the key to saving his life lol. She seems to be falling head over for the MC and his ways, shes a great character for the willingly corrupted to impurity story and long may that continue as it help her stand out in a harem game which is so stacked with girls you can fuck in more than just a throwaway cameo i literally think to myself that i cant wait to see which of those Drows we will get to have repeated fun with first? haha
Still the more scenes you get that appeal to the more sordid content lovers like me (Dungeon whores for the win!) the more it will put off the wholesome Waifu content lovers that are opposite of me in what they like and they are by far the more numerous in all honesty (and why far more characters get storylines making them fall for the MC being a good dude vs being dominant alpha male expecting to be sexually pleased on demand even if they started very different - Ashley the Yandere gone meek and submissive, the shameless selfish bully brat twins who needed punished now selflessly helping others without even being asked and resenting their old selves, cocky sex addicted and proud of it Jin being replaced with Lin mk 2 promising to change her ways and take weeks of celibacy on demand to become a sickly sweet better person and so on).
Most of the comments I see on here suggest it's her crazy side, that yandere personality she starts with. As most gamers form an opinion of a character early in the game, usually upon their first few interactions, that's all that people who dislike Ashley see before their opinion is formed. It takes quite a bit of her story to get out of the full yandere front she has up, so only people who push through see the normal Ashley before the opinion is formed against her.
Then you add in what Van said, you love them or hate them, there is no in between, no middle ground. People will either like that she is seemingly dangerously crazy or they will hate that.
As for Skode, I have to agree that Autumn makes a good 'corrupted religious girl' type character, but I don't think that's the problem. The problem seems more like she's being rushed into corruption and I totally agree. She went from basically being unwilling to do anything at all because of religion to willing to be an exhibitionist in her own family's establishment in maybe two steps. The only real good explanation for that quick a change, and by real good I mean the only one that fits well, is brainwashing, but the MC doesn't have that ability or anyone in his hotel who does. Sorry, Runey, but it had to be said.