if you're wondering if this game have future NTR/sharing/cuckholding content, I doubt it. They have a separate team that does that type of games under "inceton NTR". the main games do not have those type of kinks.
Are we still doing the dance where we pretend that they do actually have two distinct branches? The difference its one part of the studio is open about it, while the other hides behind backstories, flashbacks, videos, photos, voyeurism that is 'important for the plot' and the 'MC doesn't care yet about her', even though they have the same narrative purpose and are designed to get the same type of reaction as the text book tags you listed.
This , beta spineless MCs that are never proactive in the story and shitty endings that would probably make Daniel K. cream his pants are all they are known for outside of their echo chamber.
Yea, i like it too. Feels like the standard romcom tv serial but thats ok. I don't get the hate for the dev. I did enjoy the Mia series, its the only game i've played by this dev though.
If the game follows the romcom troupe, protagonist will likely mature and develop throughout the series. Fingers crossed.
Also i kinda hoping his ex will return too, regrets her cheating and changed for the better, wanting to make up and reconcile on MC's terms. Noone or hardly anyone has done this kind of redemption character story before so it'll be breath of fresh air.
Acting Lessons has a returning ex after cheating, but I bet there are hundreds more seeing that 'cheating' as MC backstory is one of the most tired and played out trope. Same with rape for LIs
I avoid as much as possible taking into account opinions from the so-called "Reviews".
Many of these opinions come from people who believe they are some Pulitzer Prize jurors.
Meh.
And somehow I have yet to play a single game from the front page of Top Rated games that wasn't at least good - to great in terms of characters and story, so I say they are pretty accurate on this site, at least in the upper portion of the rating and when the sample pool is large enough(50-100+ reviews)
I prefer to play the game and form my own opinion. My own tastes are the main thing. Not the words from other people.
If you don't have to be selective with your time, thats what everyone should do!