anonsuit
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for me it depends on the text. on how pleasant it is to read vs how trashy it is.I can kind of understand skipping things in an rpgmaker game but if you're skipping text in a visual novel what's the point? The scenes in any of these games are the weakest part. The art is rarely good enough to stand on its own and it's worse on average now than it was years ago because of the proliferation of ai. I delete games pretty quickly now when I end up skipping around because I can just go look at something better if that's all there is to it.
for me trashy is what I call teatime.
in anime i can watch characters talk about tea, its characteristics and smells and how pleasureable they are to taste. but in writing my brain simply rejects that as wasted time.
simply because in anime i can drone out that section, i can focus on the character's faces, the animation or the sounds being heard but in a VN that description is usually the only thing available. and I am sorry if the writer thinks that the flavors of fake tea may be interesting to me. or that a phone conversation with the service company is interesting to me, of the 500th time an MC is being told good morning how are you, I am fine and you? I am fine tank you, do you want some breakfast?? yes I what is for breakfast?
or WHEN I HAVE 6 FUCKING PARAGRAPHS DESCRIBING THE BACKGROUND IMAGE! this is one of the things I do not like about
hangovercat
to not leave this message in a rant. as for books, for example I recommend do androids dream of electric sheep as a pleasurable read, while neuromancer is not that pleasing to read. They are both great books, but I enjoyed reading one more than the other.
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