- The game forces you into ENDGAME if you points get too high/low and you have no way of knowing, one day you go to sleep and the next morning [FINAL DAY]..thats so annoying I had to start over 2 times because I got premature ends.
I honestly thoroughly disagree with you on this one, in the sense that as far as I'm concerned, this is how NTR games should work. What I mean is that the antagonist should be active and continuously work towards their goal of corrupting the girl, and if the MC keeps failing in protecting her, then boom, it's too late. Enjoy the lewds.
I wish more so called NTR games did what Nebel does... that is to say, when making you play the MC that someone's trying to cuck, they actually turn the NTR into something that you have to prevent as part of the gameplay, rather than something that's easy to avoid with easy binary choices that are telegraphed from a galaxy far far away while giving you infinite time to do make your choices.
- The 'Kana System' is terrible, you have no way of knowing her location, you are forced to play hide and seek and look for her and everytime you move maps the time goes by so if you are 1 minute too late she may be gone.
I mean... NTR game, it should be a matter of effort of finding and protecting her. Plus, it's not that hard. If you pay attention, you'll note that the NPCs give you hints to her location every time. On top of that, you can find her before she calls/messages if you look for her.
Honestly, if anything, it's TOO easy to find her... Not to mention that you don't really have that much stuff to do during the night phase aside from running around to find her.
- The 'Time System' is terrible, why oh why can you not just pass the time through waiting on your phone, why do you NEED to go to a bench.
I wouldn't call the time system horrible, but I do agree with you that it'd be nice if you could pass time via just the phone or some such, if only so you can pass it in any location.
- The 'Exorcism Wards' are so annoying because you need to keep everything at 100% BUT there is a random chance that an invasion might happen and you lose HALF of all your progress if you failed to defend and the game tells you NOTHING about when an invasion will happen on any given day.
It's not that hard to check for invasions... On top of that, there's both a pattern to them as well as a duration. The pattern is that the boss attacks the highest of the three Wards that has any exorcism rating at all out of three. The duration, I don't remember, been too long since I played the game, but there was a minimum amount of time during which the thing doesn't show up after an appearance.
- The 'Surveillance Camera System' is terrible, I only found out on my SECOND playthrough that if you chose EASY MODE, you will be notified when you should check the cameras for NTR scenes. If you play on normal you are forced to keep calling to see if she doesnt pick up the phone, this can backfire however because if you call before a NTR scene you will 'save' Kana and prevent it from happening.....JUST PLAY ON EASY MODE.
You don't need to call to check the surveillance system though... You just need to check the cameras regularly whenever her heart-beat goes into the red. Not that hard to manage if your goal is to collect day-time events.
- The 'Event Unlock' system is....you guessed it TERRIBLE. There are multiple events that you will just NOT see on 1 playthrough which is so tedious and annoying. Kana's actions each day seem to be randomized at the start of the day and like I previously stated, if point values get too high or low then you are forced to endgame and locked out of all remaining content.
Eh, this one's a matter of taste. The game is more focused on being an actual game rather than a gallery with extra steps. Even then, you literally have the option to unlock the gallery after a playthrough, so it's not like you NEED to collect every scene manually the way some other games force you too.
From where I'm sitting, it sounds like you're either to impatient, or just want H as fast as possible to the detriment of everything and anything else.
The system with the scenes is, after all, intended. After all, the whole point is that the MC, and to an extent, the player, does not know exactly what's happening to Kana, or even IF anything is happening to Kana at any given moment. Even then, the game makes it pretty easy to find out.
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ANYway, it's genuinely interesting to see your perspective. Another example of love-hate for this particular game. That said, it seems like your focus is less to play a game and more to get to the smut as quickly as possible with the least amount of time spent on it. In which case, this game is simply not for you, at all. It's not what it was designed for. If your goal is to see ALL the smut in a single playthrough and spend as little time actually playing the game as possible, then yeah, this game is going to be terrible.
If your goal is to actually play a game that integrates the H-aspect into its gameplay loop, then this game is going to be great, for the most part, depending on preferences.
There's also the fact that it's a NTR game, and that leads to certain genre conventions too... but it doesn't seem like that stuff is the source of most of your head-aches here.
Out of curiosity, what would you consider as an example of a genuinely good NTR focused game? ...and I mean specifically NTR focused game because focuses on other fetishes means focuses on other mechanics and ways to implement them into the gameplay and whatnot. That's assuming you've played any that you consider good.