I agree completely. The one upside to discussing others is to give people who enjoy those games more ideas of things to play. In most threads I follow that is one of the most common questions asked 'what are some other games like this?' So that helps with that a bit.
I am not bias against HS games, any more than any other 3D style game art, but some are better than others, and this one one of the best. (Wish I could figure out how to get the nipples to poke out like that).
Whole the art is important, writing, plot, and game mechanics all play a part too. This one gets high marks in most of those categories. The art is good, the open world mechanics are well done, the story and characters are written in a way that makes me care about most of them and want to learn more about them.
WA's was my first harem eroge which I had played before, followed by HH and MM immediately after i've done with one, all of these three were picked by me even without knowing their reputations
Seeing how a bunch of ppl here avoiding HS based games, I guess I'm pretty lucky for having a good HS games during my first three
At first I was kind of wondering the reason of why they avoid or even hating HS pretty much, but after never getting tired for playing HS games, I'm kind of understand one of the gist of it
Out of 40 HS games which I've had played so far thanks to f95zone, imo the number of game which (majority) considered as good are pretty low, in terms of artwork, premise, pace of story, and while actually won't be a really big deal at first: a broken engrish which (kind of) ruining the story because it's hard to understand by the reader (player)
Still, I won't mention any shitty games from my experience because I'm always convinced that with some more effort, they could produce a better game later while at the same time keep promoting any good HS games to them whom seem avoiding it, unless they're basically just dislike anime-ish artworks