Oh yeah, I'm only playing with cheats too, I just hate how minute you have to be in order to get yourself a perfect run. The in-game journal doesn't have half the events listed, and throws bullshit at you in the last second. Plus the fact that the time of the year cheat has been removed is annoying as fuck.
Annoying as it is to have the time cheat removed, it was done because skipping was causing issues with event triggers.
Stuck like that. Andrealphus said getting birth outside of an ending screen is something for the third game.
Same. Second replay. It’s not really a game you play to fap to, is it? I actually enjoy it as a game, with the added perks of some sexy scenes as a bonus.
Hate to burst your bubble, but the "Infinity Sword +4" and similar have been in many a computer RPG (many used D&D rules anyway) and probably permeated pop culture. Not to say that Skads isn't a dice lover, but it's way less esoteric than you might think. (Personally I can still remember standard sword damage values and stuff, but yeah)
I play it as well. I can see the point about speeding up the start a bit though. Maybe not to the extent that I will buy everything from the start but the third time leveling up your stats via suntanning can be a bit slow-ish.
I absolutely see your point, it's somewhat grindy, but in it's defence, it feels ... balanced, I guess? Suntanning takes time, working to make money takes time, even if you buy books to raise stats, they don't raise them that much or that quickly, and you still have to work to get the money to buy them ... Everything seems to progress roughly the same pace, which is good, might have become lopsided otherwise. It's a slow but steady pace if you micro manage correctly. Patience is rewarded mostly, IF you get martial arts from the master in the first summer, if you don't you're sorta screwed. Or you have to VERY patient.
Oh, don't get me wrong, I absolutely see your point, and some very specific issues aside (like waiting three months to continue Alexis because you couldn't complete her in summer, waiting for christmas to get Lavish's panties because you chose "unlucky" as a trait, stuff like that) I do think that this offers a very good basis on good development. And I can be patient if I want to ("What did I need again to continue? 50 Strength? Well, to be safe I'll train to 90 before I continue the path.") and it even is kinda fun to me.
I do agree that that should be the first resource (similar for "Android version" with no mobile tag), but tags aren't always accurate and up to date.
