What's it been, 4 years now since he's started making multiple thousands a month on this game? Pace has no only slowed drastically, but the quality of the content is getting worse and worse.
This had such amazing potential, wasted by a greedy game dev who wants to milk your money.
I've only gotten into the game recently so I can't make any statements on the pace. What I do know though, is that the early parts of this game are absolutely massive wordcount wise.
If after getting some money, he's able to cut himself some slack and not drive himself into the ground, I think that's fine.
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Regarding the quality... I'm a bit split.
The best romances in the game
for me are all early game.
Trisha, Jora, and Ancilla.
I don't even need to mention how well their romances were done.
Hell I even like how Camilla and Mika's relationships are written even if I'm not their biggest fan.
Kotone's romance is absolutely marred by the fact that she tests you on the
one quality that plays
absolutely no role in the relationship once it starts, and the one unmoveable aspect of her relationship, "trust" is the one she not only breaks first, but quite literally gives absolutely no shits about in you.
and none of the new girls have any romance.
Ceris is nothing, and I honestly kinda want nothing from her. Even though my avatar's a hellhound, my avatar's a MGE hellhound, and Ceris isn't one of them in like A LOT of ways. Cool and collected hellhound... Most switch character in the game... weakest hellhound in the labyrinth... the disrespect to traditional Hellhounds is astounding XD. Jokes aside, her submissive scenes are better written than her dominant ones and that's a shame cause that's not what I like about Hellhounds.
Ushris is nothing, and I also don't want anything from her. Maybe a platonic relationship at most.
Iabel is nothing, and she's not even given the same dignity as her sisters in even having a possible setup for her romance.
Beris is old, but I despise her, so I don't even know if she has any new content.
Tabitha's a sub which doesn't personally interest me.
New Mimic's got no romance, or any potential for one.
Sofia has truly, and I mean truly not developed... at all... in any way. The mysterious beauty thing she has going for her only keeps its allure as long as the player's interested, and I don't think players care enough to even want to romance her anymore. She never wowed me b4, and she's not even on my radar as a character anymore.
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That being said, the set up for the city is amazing. I'm seriously interested in all of the new characters. I love Slime village. I like the mystery being set up. The new scenes are also really well done.
In comparison to early scenes I think the newer scenes are just better written. Mimic's new loss scene is wonderfully written, going through a gamut of emotions and having a personality that doesn't exist in something like... i don't know... old Imp loss. Hell I love Ancilla's romance to death, and none of her scenes have anything on Ceris' visitation scenes. Like at all. And I say this as not the biggest Ceris fan.
Hell it's extremely clear how much better the scenes are if you read Belle (Minotaur Bartender)'s scenes from top to bottom.
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If I was to judge quality based on how much I like the romances the story has, then yeah. It's a definite drop. Buuuut if I judged based on how good the writing and eroticism of said writing is, then it's a definite improvement.