honestly im confused by peoples obsession to give porn games extremely grindy frustrating mechanics or make giant point and click adventures where you are searching everything for that one stupidly hidden trigger that lets you get on with the one reason you are even playing the game in the first place. I dont mind little stuff or having a more open game so people can avoid or focus on content they like but the obsession with spreading everything so thin and introducing random barriers is just annoying and doest do any of those games any good. most games i never finish or never look at again are games like that that just make me repeat the same shit over and over till some stat is high enough to allow me to progress
I don't mind some grind but it needs to tell you in the game what you need to do for the next scene, something like wait 3 days or check at night or talk to this NPC at this time.
I hate games/VN that you need a separate walkthrough to get scenes with, they need to be built into the game/VN.
Some of the games on here have over 30 pages of walkthrough to play and this is just wrong way to go.
I try to play the first time without any kind of walkthrough so I can get the feel of the game, hell I played one game that only took about 2 hours to play and never seen a sex scene but it said to have had many sex scenes.
I choose what I thought would move the girl forward but found out you must be an asshole to the girls to get scenes when the tag said romance.