I don't see it, what I see in Sel is someone who is fine with fictional content of a certain variety, the wizards. He's essentially the same as I am in that regard, we both accept wizard content in fiction. What the SO dev is accused of is going after actual people, which is not the same thing. Well, I mean, it is the same legally in the place that reported on what the SO dev did because that place doesn't discriminate between fiction and reality, but the place where Sel is from does.
Honestly, same, I gave it a try and it just didn't have the appeal on either side of the porn vs story fence that LiL sits firmly on the story side of. It was trying to be like LiL without the Denpa elements (not saying it copied LiL, it did not), which just doesn't work. That's why the Denpa elements aren't skippable in LiL, because they are essential, and that was a big mistake in the purpose of SO as explained by the SO dev. The story is why we play LiL and LiL without the Denpa elements would just be...uneventful and boring with the rest of the story the way it is. LiL would essentially have to be rebuilt from the ground up in order to remove the Denpa elements.
My main gripe with SO really just came down to how it rubbed me the wrong way.
The immaturity of the characters with memes, weed, and potty humor coming up quite a bit, stacked onto how choices either didn't seem to matter, or lead to exaggerated outcomes, and in retrospect how blackmailing and lewd pics of underage girls through out the story seemed to be natural(?). I feel like if the Yumi Nodoka stuff happened in SO, it'd be considered "hot", and Nodoka would have came out mentioning she just took a huge shit before blackmailing Yumi.
I think I quit playing after feeling annoyed
by other MCs messing around with the MC's aunt in the background, disturbed by the fact
a version of the MC's aunt apparently licked up dog cum and may have been fucked by a chicken, and weirded out by how one of the
new students found being cornered by the MC in a dressing room at a store, if I remember correctly, "so hot". Not to mention, there was only like one girl I actually felt entertained by, through out what I played, and where the story was going with her was probably my main interest, which I guess I'll never know now.
Honestly, if it was more like LiL then I'd probably had liked it more. It felt like almost the opposite in retrospect.
Edit: This was one of my only comments in that game's thread:
So, am I playing the game wrong or
I was hoping for something like Lessons in Love, but this game is more or less The Hana to LIL's Chinaka if you get what I mean. I also did not do Hana's route apparently, (First play through so far) so that is the version of the characters I'm referring to. Of course, I could have just made a bunch of wrong choices so if that's the case, feel free to enlighten me on what choices I should have chosen.
Could have probably been nicer, lmao.
The game really just rubbed me the wrong way, I guess.