alex2011

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On another note, I just got confirmation that the mods of this website see First Impressions (of the first 5 minutes of a game no less) as legit reviews. This makes no sense to me. A first impression cannot possibly stand for the whole game, or any form of media. A first impression is just that, a first impression. Not a review.

Imagine reviewing Star Wars over the opening exposition, or a burger over just the bun. Ridiculous to me. I want feedback and criticism. I can't do anything based on a first impression, it has zero value to anyone. There's no way I could possibly improve off this.

It's one thing to say "I disliked the first 5 minutes", and another to say "I've only played the first 5 minutes so everything else is bad too." The former is fine.
Especially with how the human mind works. A first impression doesn't even take five minutes, the human mind makes an impression within the first few moments, literally seconds or less, of seeing something. Those impressions could be totally wrong and could have been made upon first sight of anything in the game and, if the person is a particularly stubborn one in terms of how hard it is to change their view of something, that first impression could be long lasting or even permanent, permanently tainting their view and resulting in potentially unfair reviews.

I'm not surprised though... the mods not giving a shit is a staple of this website....

Best thing you can do is just ignore the "5 minute" reviews.
What this website would need is a complete overhaul of the review system.
Runey seeing them probably isn't the problem, it's potential players or even potential patrons if I had to guess at what he meant, who don't always have the judgement to be able to just ignore terrible quality reviews that don't get written based on the whole experience.

I substitute “opinion” for “review” for all intensive purposes … granted it probably is less than ideal for you especially if you are trying to improve ranking. I have faith in your product and a couple meh reviews shouldn’t set you back much … However I feel your frustrations!

I bet you have a few bad reviews somewhere because you use HS or because sandbox or because no blondes in HH (other than the store model on the computer) … and the X reviewer just dinged you because they are narrow minded twits.

On a side note …most of the time if I moderately dislike something I rarely bother to review it … My reviews are mostly for things I love or things I hate & the things I hate have to have seriously flawed problems before I leave THAT review.

*edit* there ARE blondes (somewhat) Ashley & Hana & TV Elf Sylvia?? even mgr milf …(I’m struggling remembering names) … but no SUPER BLONDE blondes like the store model (was the intention of my comment) mostly to illustrate that there are lots of random reasons for people to be pissy for no good reason …silly snowflakes.
Ashley is an artificial blonde, so not sure if she counts, but Sylvia is definitely a blonde and so is Hana.
 

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I can only give '5 minute reviews' if I don't like the game at all and when I don't like the game at all I don't say anything whatsoever. What's the point?

I never give reviews anyway but I don't post if I don't like, no one cares if someone doesn't like something.

Sorry for the long post, I got carried away. :geek:
 
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Uthuriel

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I can only give '5 minute reviews' if I don't like the game at all and when I don't like the game at all I don't say anything whatsoever. What's the point?

I never give reviews anyway but I don't post if I don't like, no one cares if someone doesn't like something.

Sorry for the long post, I got carried away. :geek:
Writing a "5 minute review" is still lazy in my opinion.

My current run is over 41 hours long. After that much time invested I can give a review and say if I liked the game or not.

Most people can't even download the whole game in 5 minutes to begin with, so they spent more time downloading the game than playing it. Seems like a waste of time to me.
 

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Writing a "5 minute review" is still lazy in my opinion.

My current run is over 41 hours long. After that much time invested I can give a review and say if I liked the game or not.

Most people can't even download the whole game in 5 minutes to begin with, so they spent more time downloading the game than playing it. Seems like a waste of time to me.
Of course it's lazy and useless and pointless, is it a problem though? Good games prevail, like this one.
 
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Writing a "5 minute review" is still lazy in my opinion.

My current run is over 41 hours long. After that much time invested I can give a review and say if I liked the game or not.

Most people can't even download the whole game in 5 minutes to begin with, so they spent more time downloading the game than playing it. Seems like a waste of time to me.
Yup! People need to play through and reach to the end of the game to see the good and bad of it before they should post a review, not just that but need to be honest and constructive criticise the strong and weak point of the game that you found and what you want to see improve/change. That would make the review worth a read and have actual value points
I played lot of games on the site up until now but even I rarely to post a review unless I really think it worth a review and always tried my best to bring out the good of it and why I believe people should play this game. Most of the time I just post a comment about the good/bad, what system need to be improve and what content/kink I want to see and always ended with wishing the dev the best with his game to encouraging him to work hard. People need motivation and kind words doesn't cost money anyway, not post things like "arts too ugly, boobs too big, body proportions is wrong"... just to shit on them without any helpful advice
 

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Writing a "5 minute review" is still lazy in my opinion.

My current run is over 41 hours long. After that much time invested I can give a review and say if I liked the game or not.

Most people can't even download the whole game in 5 minutes to begin with, so they spent more time downloading the game than playing it. Seems like a waste of time to me.
41 hours, yeah, now that is a good 'first impression' of the game! You are starting to get into now now! XD
 

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Ashley is an artificial blonde, so not sure if she counts, but Sylvia is definitely a blonde and so is Hana.
I 100% agree with you …I think I added an edit prior to your quote…

Blondes are blondes regardless if it comes from a bottle or not unless people are wanting the carpet to match the drapes but meh …whatever.

Hair colors have gradients and for blondes the lack of a“golden” bimbo blonde was a ridiculous example that I used … the “in game” girl that is the model for the lingerie (on the computer) is an illustration of what type of “golden“ blonde that isn’t included that could trigger a hater …

My main point was essentially that there will always be something for someone to bitch and whine about or to use for a reason to leave a meh review.

Ashley, Hana, are blonde.
Android, Ellen, and Emma are borderline somewhat
white(platinum), or even dirty blond but a valid case can be made that android is white and Ellen & Emma are both light brunettes…

Sylvia is most definitely very blonde but her attitude just removes her from “blonde” category (in my head) and places her into category of break her in dungeon which supersedes minor details like hair color ha ha ha.

However all 6 of the above listed girls aren’t the golden bimbo blonde of the lingerie model in Harem Hotel or of Felicia in Pale Carnations. Not that it maters one single iota but I’ve seen people whine (in reviews) for reasons even less important.
 
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I 100% agree with you …I think I added an edit prior to your quote…

Blondes are blondes regardless if it comes from a bottle or not unless people are wanting the carpet to match the drapes but meh …whatever.

Hair colors have gradients and for blondes the lack of a“golden” bimbo blonde was a ridiculous example that I used … the “in game” girl that is the model for the lingerie (on the computer) is an illustration of what type of “golden“ blonde that isn’t included that could trigger a hater …

My main point was essentially that there will always be something for someone to bitch and whine about or to use for a reason to leave a meh review.

Ashley, Hana, are blonde.
Android, Ellen, and Emma are borderline somewhat
white(platinum), or even dirty blond but a valid case can be made that android is white and Ellen & Emma are both light brunettes…

Sylvia is most definitely very blonde but her attitude just removes her from “blonde” category (in my head) and places her into category of break her in dungeon which supersedes minor details like hair color ha ha ha.

However all 6 of the above listed girls aren’t the golden bimbo blonde of the lingerie model in Harem Hotel or of Felicia in Pale Carnations. Not that it maters one single iota but I’ve seen people whine (in reviews) for reasons even less important.
I am not sure what a "blonde attitude" is, unless we're going back in time to strange stereotypes, but Sylvia, Emma and Felicity are natural blondes. Ellen and Ashley are not natural blondes. Android has white hair. The model is also not a natural blonde.

I know this isn't your main point, but I just wanted to clarify.
 
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Yup! People need to play through and reach to the end of the game to see the good and bad of it before they should post a review
That's a terrible idea. If reviews are ONLY written by people who play through a whole game, then they'll only ever be positive. No-one who doesn't like a game is going to slog through it for dozens of hours (since they don't like it), meaning the only people who play through a game are people who, to a greater or lesser extent, enjoyed it. The end result would be that reviews would be written only by people who all ostensibly agree with one another, which somewhat defeats the point of a review.

My current run is over 41 hours long. After that much time invested I can give a review and say if I liked the game or not.
No-one who doesn't like a game is going to be playing it for 40 hours. The entire point of "I don't enjoy thing X" is that thing X isn't worth your time.
 
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How much of that was spent AFK? even if half thast is still impressive. If none you deserve a verry deep salutation with a removed hat. And also I must revew my bas habits of leting games run while doing something else.
While there is a decent bit of that, thanks to me multitasking, and playing while I wait on renders and what not, most of that was spend grinding stats, and redoing some things for ...fun. XD
No-one who doesn't like a game is going to be playing it for 40 hours. The entire point of "I don't enjoy thing X" is that thing X isn't worth your time.
While that is true, to some extent, it's like basing your review on the tutorial, or the opening cinematics. Don't get me wrong, there are times when basing your opinion on a game on something short like that is justified, like my disabled ass not being able to do the combat in The Witcher, and not being able to even finish the tutorial (or just not liking a game's art style, someone's bad writing, or whatever). That said, I did not go out and write shitty reviews of it, I just said 'this is not for me' and moved on with my life. It is a very popular game, but it is not one I can even physically play.

In the case of HH here, it is basing it on the intro, the standard trope of inheriting property from a dead family member, where you move to a new place to restart your life. You can't really give a good review of a game, when you haven't even seen the plot. It is like reviewing a movie based on the opening credits. Sure, there might be things you really don't like in that first few moments, but it's not really a fair review. It could be they were doing that for effect, and made up for it in some way right after you walked out of the theater, and and you end up missing out on what would otherwise have been a great film.
 
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