As much as I love Chloe, I agree. It's like AL in a way where you're thrown together with Megan right off the bat. I didn't mind, as I stayed loyal from the get go, but yeah, within the first 10-15 minutes, or less, they're boyfriend & girlfriend.
Ack! Yeah, Acting Lessons was the first AVN I ever played. Don't get me wrong, I still thought it was decent overall, but I just didn't like how the MC was basically forced into being with Megan whether you wanted to be or not. I appreciate there was a story the dev wanted to tell, it just left me feeling more like I was reading a web-comic half the time. I found Melissa's story to be more compelling.
I know she says at the beginning she's trying not to dress/act nerdy this year, but speaking as someone who was a shy nerd at that age, that sort of abrupt personality switch I find difficult to believe. If it was that easy for her to change, then she was never what she said she was to start with. At least in Being a DIK, Maya has the excuse of having to do it as an initiation task to explain it. Chloe though goes from Oh my I've never been touched down there, to Oh yes, do me in the park, so fast she should have whiplash.
Well if you play your cards right, when Chloe asks you to leave with her, you don't have to, and you can stay behind and be with Anna, or any other girl you have a high score with or who likes you, otherwise you go with her, or worse yet, don't be with anyoneContinuing this, and I still don't know what to make of it. The whole sex-ritual cult thing is a weird plot and some of the girls are giving some very mixed signals. Abigail starts off like she's auditioning for Queen Bitch, then suddenly wants to be "best friends" with the MC? I know she's angry with Jason for cheating, but that's a pretty jarring about-turn when she'd previously shown little to no tolerance of the MC. I mean she even had to be threatened by her sister to speak civilly to him, that's how low an opinion she had of him. I suppose this 'friend' thing could just be a petulant spur of the moment statement because she's angry. I'll have to see what happens in their next encounter.
Then there's Rose, someone who claims she is/was a shy nerdy girl, but who I'm having trouble believing is anything of the sort. She's fine mixing with people at parties, is fascinated with Sunny's sex-ritual and has no problem chasing and scoring with Jason. I suspect she's the Hollywood Nerd trope, i.e. not nerdy at all, but hey she's got glasses so that counts, right!?
And now the elephant in the room, Chloe. I thought Jenny's girls in AOA Academy worked fast, but they've got nothing on this girl. She basically jumps on the MC and decides he's her boyfriend within like half an hour of meeting him? That was strange, but okay, suspension of disbelief and all that. These games always pack a lot of events in a short space of time, so... whatever. But then she goes from innocent virgin to having sex outdoors in, what, a couple of days?
MC has only just met Lisa, so I can't really comment on her yet. Eva started off as Abigail's nicer older sister, but is quickly becoming creepy. Her involvement in the sex cult just puts her more firmly on the Stay Away From list for me. Anna is the only person in this game who makes sense to me. She's been shown to be conflicted regarding the MC and is struggling to deal with her issues. That seems more real to me than anything else so far. And I can't do a darn thing about it as the MC is locked into this stupid relationship with Chloe.
I don't feel other games I've played so far have had this much of a problem with characterisation. Am I being too critical? Maybe they do and I'm just noticing it a lot more in this game for some reason, but I don't think I am.
She's not bad by any means, it's just the way she goes from 0-60 in like ten minutes of play that sours me on her. If the same encounters were played out over a period of a few weeks of gametime, I'd be far more amenable to her. I'm not a believer in love at first sight. Any relationship worth its salt should have its fair share of time spent cultivating it. Chloe obliterated that guideline.
There's 9 days/weeks in the game, Chloe leaves on day/week 8, the main plot revolves around her. If you go with her, great, I like the ending, if not, you can be with any girl you have a good score or sex history with. If you've done things with Anna too, you have a shot with her, or anyone else. Anna is my #2, but never did her ending
Well it's unavoidable if you pick the right choices with the right girl. Since I chose Chloe, I don't see any of that, but if you're with Rose for example, yeah you're probably going to see it if you make the wrong choices.
the only objective merit I give it is that it is very comforting, you practically have sex with any female character you meet and there are so many endings that you can hardly be left in the lurch
Many "endings" you mean.
Just baits, none of his games have harem ending. Rushed ending is trademark of Daniels K.
That's true, there are no real harem endings. But during the process the player is allowed to romance every possible female until the last minute, although in some cases going for a specific scene with one charecter will lock you out of another one with a different girl which happens at the same time.
These are the better ones from this dev
Took me a little more time but in the same boat
The thing is that nowadays there are more good VNs than I have time to play. I mean it literally.His games are like the junk food of porn games. It's not special at all and its mostly time waste but still he is reliable with updates and completes his games so people play his games ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
These are the better ones from this dev
Others are even worse.
Took me a little more time but in the same boat
