I really hope this game turns around, but I agree with a lot of the criticism... though some of it is clearly fans of hard netorare wanting the netorase game to be netorare. I much prefer the swinging, sharing route, with no humiliation... and it can be so AWKWARD to try to aim for that route. Sometimes it feels like the difference between two emojis is enough to make you more of a cuck even when it clashes with the vibes you had built till then.
My advice to Le Stag would be to hold off on making more than one or two more chapters, and instead go back and revise a lot of the writing and dialogue, especially what the player can say. It also feels like so much dialogue is re-used for both routes that despite being in one or the other, and selecting every single dom or sub response accurately, you'll STILL wind up getting sub dialogue. Honestly, it half feels like Le Stag named the game Netorase Phone and belatedly realized he kinda prefers Netorare, so he's toeing the line while only passive aggressively putting in more dom stuff by demand. It is ONLY because people are complaining that he's even doing any rewrites, it feels like.
And I'd like for the dom/sub toggle to come back in the options, or for some toggle that, if you're gonna keep message responses so vague, puts a little icon at the corner of each dialogue choice that tells us if it's a dom or sub response. That'd be immersion breaking, but frankly, it's already wildly immersion breaking how Ashley changes her personality based on an emoji.
My advice to Le Stag would be to hold off on making more than one or two more chapters, and instead go back and revise a lot of the writing and dialogue, especially what the player can say. It also feels like so much dialogue is re-used for both routes that despite being in one or the other, and selecting every single dom or sub response accurately, you'll STILL wind up getting sub dialogue. Honestly, it half feels like Le Stag named the game Netorase Phone and belatedly realized he kinda prefers Netorare, so he's toeing the line while only passive aggressively putting in more dom stuff by demand. It is ONLY because people are complaining that he's even doing any rewrites, it feels like.
And I'd like for the dom/sub toggle to come back in the options, or for some toggle that, if you're gonna keep message responses so vague, puts a little icon at the corner of each dialogue choice that tells us if it's a dom or sub response. That'd be immersion breaking, but frankly, it's already wildly immersion breaking how Ashley changes her personality based on an emoji.