The beginning of GGGB: "Hello. I am the main character you will be playing. This is my life. I will now rattle on through exposition yadayadayadayadayada." Very natural.
Writing and art a step up in ORS for sure. I think slower release speed and less extreme sex & ramp-ups in ORS are the main gripes with most people.
That and the rewrite, but I suppose you could fold that into slower release speed. Personally, I like the more "realistic" writing and inter-character dynamics of ORS. It's quite an ambitious game with two MC's, multiple branching, artwork, etc. One would think people would also take that into account when they criticize her.The beginning of GGGB: "Hello. I am the main character you will be playing. This is my life. I will now rattle on through exposition yadayadayadayadayada." Very natural.
Ok SerHawkes, I get that you are miffed about Ivy; I am kind of too, but to say the story is average to below average, really? Especially with all the unmitigated crap shovelware on this site?
Lets see: A set of antagonists that aren't all that thrilling and bland. You have Seymour, who wants to control Lena and make her a sex slave. How is that interesting? You have Axel, who is also obsessed with Lena and can't take a fucking hint and is apparently involved every fucking where. Do we really need Axel to be at a gay bar next? Jeremy is just a BBC kink and has no depth to him at all whatsoeer. Stan is... Stan. And yet the revolving drama each chapter is: Will Lena be able to afford anything while slutting it up or not? Will Ian not get cucked and become the writer he wants to be? Will Stan die in a fiery crash and be replaced?
Ok, let's assume you are right, although I would still contend you on multiple points, you are still holding Eva at a higher standard than most writers on this site. Her not meeting this standard doesn't make her game average or below, it's still better writing than the majority of the games on this site, making it de-facto above average.
Entirely debateable, given the flood of shit/fetish games and no writing talent, sure.
Agreed. Eva's no poet and no award-winning writer by a long shot. But we're talking games here. Not just games. Porn games. My butt poops out better dialogue and more stimulating narrative than 95% of games on this site. Eva's writing: Good enough, considering the competition. (TBF, my butt has won a Poohlitzer).
So, if we won't agree on the finer points, will you at least concede that ORS technically has above average writing? Further, when the time comes that Eva graces us with Ian's dick in Ivy, and the characters are more fleshed out, I wouldn't keep seeing you get in a tizzy about Ivy? I just think there are more valid things you could criticize her for.
If and when, we shall see. For now, truce.
you can use some software where make control buttons as you type on keyboard
Stopped reading at "The story is average"
The fact that you had to quote me says others wise. Have a lovely day.
I agree Eva's games fall into the trap of following a strict "release cycle" development plan that often loses track of what would work best in terms of a full-fledged product. But that's pretty much the only thing I agree with, everything else reads like an extremely shallow read of most characters and mismatched expectations of what you think the story should be and what it is actually trying to be.
SerHawkes has some weird obsession/hate for Jeremy, it's not even funny to see it anymore.
And an equally weird obsession with Ivy. Who, by the way, is every bit as one-note as Jeremy, but apparently that's okay in her case because she's his type or something. I don't know, man.
