- Dec 3, 2018
- 6
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I am glad to see people bringing complaints about this game. Most that come to game specific threads are consumed by the specific games the thread is about and refuse to critique it.
I think this is the problem with Patreon games. It is beneficial to make it just captivating of a start to get patrons/following with inflated promises then be continually mediocre enough to get people to keep paying in hopes it gets better.
I donated a year back and just recently decided to play. This game doesn't really respect the players time. So much of nothing happening that I honestly am surprised people are not bringing this up more (surprised people donate to have time wasted). Then I find out I am 70% done with current content but I feel I have played VNs 1/4th as long with more meaningful depth and content. This isn't about H stuff. It is about huge periods of no scenes or events even if you hit all the requirements.
Even more of a waste of time is the 'happy' scenes. Like wtf? How did no one complain about the middle school tier writing inside these events during first release? Specifically so it could be removed and never mentioned again as a stain on this title. Particularly a game that for the most part had decent writing for the cast, sometimes even really well done (I never excepted Chunibyo or similar real world things to be mentioned). The happy stuff is so painfully bad and anti-scary that it was a big factor to me bailing on this before seeing the story finished, something I never do. I also never skip scenes but skipped every happy scene after poorly written and set up first 'reset'. Happy scenes compounding the fact then I got to points where no actual dialogue happened for 5 minutes at a time, the same +1 affection loop to start next cycle to next +1 affection hoping a scene triggers. Just fuck off, stop wasting the players time.
I like the content (besides the terribly written 'happy' garbage) but the fact your choices barely matter at all and it is spread out over the most monotonous slow loop of single night choices, like no. Just no. It is already bloated to the point past slow and near dead stopped and more keeps coming. I can get over a huge part of the cast not being sexual (lmao in a wannabe harem game), the sameface the girls have, the scenes/events that literally lead no where for plot, the out of order scenes/dialogue when it happens, the creators poor attempt at existentialism, the attempted time loop/reset that is never properly setup, ... but the time wasting is just confusing with how many examples on renpy exist that avoid this.
People keep defending these poor choices, or better yet refuse to accept/acknowledge them. Injecting there is some deeper meaning to the writing when it shits the bed and has no setup (pretending there are deeper meanings here when there isn't writing to back it up doesn't make it true even if the creator says it might one day be true, are you Evangelion fans ffs???). The slow game gets longer and slower all the time and with no substance and reason to it. Sucks I will never get my time back wasted on expecting any resolution to anything that happens as the game swells up as a nothingburger.
I think this is the problem with Patreon games. It is beneficial to make it just captivating of a start to get patrons/following with inflated promises then be continually mediocre enough to get people to keep paying in hopes it gets better.
I donated a year back and just recently decided to play. This game doesn't really respect the players time. So much of nothing happening that I honestly am surprised people are not bringing this up more (surprised people donate to have time wasted). Then I find out I am 70% done with current content but I feel I have played VNs 1/4th as long with more meaningful depth and content. This isn't about H stuff. It is about huge periods of no scenes or events even if you hit all the requirements.
Even more of a waste of time is the 'happy' scenes. Like wtf? How did no one complain about the middle school tier writing inside these events during first release? Specifically so it could be removed and never mentioned again as a stain on this title. Particularly a game that for the most part had decent writing for the cast, sometimes even really well done (I never excepted Chunibyo or similar real world things to be mentioned). The happy stuff is so painfully bad and anti-scary that it was a big factor to me bailing on this before seeing the story finished, something I never do. I also never skip scenes but skipped every happy scene after poorly written and set up first 'reset'. Happy scenes compounding the fact then I got to points where no actual dialogue happened for 5 minutes at a time, the same +1 affection loop to start next cycle to next +1 affection hoping a scene triggers. Just fuck off, stop wasting the players time.
I like the content (besides the terribly written 'happy' garbage) but the fact your choices barely matter at all and it is spread out over the most monotonous slow loop of single night choices, like no. Just no. It is already bloated to the point past slow and near dead stopped and more keeps coming. I can get over a huge part of the cast not being sexual (lmao in a wannabe harem game), the sameface the girls have, the scenes/events that literally lead no where for plot, the out of order scenes/dialogue when it happens, the creators poor attempt at existentialism, the attempted time loop/reset that is never properly setup, ... but the time wasting is just confusing with how many examples on renpy exist that avoid this.
People keep defending these poor choices, or better yet refuse to accept/acknowledge them. Injecting there is some deeper meaning to the writing when it shits the bed and has no setup (pretending there are deeper meanings here when there isn't writing to back it up doesn't make it true even if the creator says it might one day be true, are you Evangelion fans ffs???). The slow game gets longer and slower all the time and with no substance and reason to it. Sucks I will never get my time back wasted on expecting any resolution to anything that happens as the game swells up as a nothingburger.