Thank you for that. That would mean every game on this site would be a VN and that the 'VN' tag is useless unless there is a difference between games that are tagged 'VN' and the ones that are not. This game with its multiple storylines (and it has direction) is not a 'KN' but not quite a sandbox/freeroam even though it does have some sandbox qualities. Not a fan of sandbox but I will watch. Good luck to the dev with this project.
I agree with that statement but are you willing to play all the storylines and spend the time to do so? For me, 2 routes, lust and love. Play lust and then if the story is good enough, play love.
it's in-game. called "hint system" check the options/preference-menù
I prefer VN because I think any sandbox that allows you to "control the pacing" is completely lacking in storytelling. It's nearly impossible to have more than a watered-down overarching plot when you allow the player to control who they interact with at whatever time they desire. I despise kinetic novels (and also games that pretend they aren't kinetic novels with only choices whether to have sex or not), but I can't think of any true sandbox game that actually has a good story. Sandbox games that are basically linear do not count towards my opinion, but also the ones that basically soft-lock progress dependent on other character's routes, like Harem Hotel. That game is a sandbox but you don't control the pacing. If you try to focus on most of the content of one character, you'll find that it requires you to progress the other characters.
I guess it just depends on what's most important to you. I want it to be interesting, but I don't need it tot too be deep. Mostly, I'm looking for a mix of sex and humor, with likable characters and a story that makes sense and follows the rules that it sets for itself. Hypnosis itself is about as heavy as I want a sex game to go in that regard.
If paying supporters ask for it, why not?
It makes a game more replayable for one. Well more replaable for those of us that like to do that.
That only works in a game with 1 normal route and like 20 bad endings, which I wouldn't consider a good game. If a game has like 5 normal routes then the game wouldn't know where to reset the player to.
No, because not every game on this site is a VN. There are plenty of games that are sidescrollers, or top-down RPGs, or rhythm games, or even fully 3D free-roam first or third-person sandbox games. KN is just a subgenre of VN, not all VNs are KNs but all KNs are VNs.
I think there are great ways to implement this. But MOST sandbox games create a massive amount of unnecessary clicking to get anything done. And I don't just mean griding repetitious scenes, but literally clicking 10 times to go from your Bed > Living Room > Front Yard > Down The Street > Stop At Store > Go To School > Go up Stairs > Enter Classroom, etc etc. Some games add shortcuts that take you directly to the map, but even sandboxes where you have to click every room from a list of rooms to see who is there that day is way more clicking than necessary. Morning > Noon > Afternoon > Evening > Night cycles have the same problem, especially if the NPCs have schedules. Click, click, click, click your precious hours away.
I don't mind any of that at all. Obviously, some others do. Like I said, the control over what i do next is far, far more important to me than any loss of time. I guess its hard to put it into words, but when I feel like I've done something, within the context of the game, to progress things along and achieve or earn something sexy along the way, it feels so much better, and the payoff is that much moreso than if its just click click click next next next with a one directional VN. There's not a right or wrong as some people clearly prefer one and some the other, but I'm way over on the sandbox side.
I think what you like are games like ''Peasant's Quest'' or ''A Struggle with Sin'', RPGM games which allow what you described, they also follow only loosely something like a main story, good games thought.
