Poor proofreaders/Edits, lots of typos
Could be way worse, but I agree. There are a lot of grammatical mistakes. Many of which have been there for several years. At least it's readable and easy to understand.
You'll be happy to note that this is being worked on. A revamping of the skills and the items are currently under way.
The dev team tries many different things. Some work out fine; others don't. When they don't, they will either toss it out (i.e., voiced characters), lock the content to work on it later (i.e., the store being gated), will try to revise it to make them work better (i.e., partial successes and failures using skills), or panic*.
Fragmented story, A man can't enjoy a good story driven game if the main and side plots don't mesh together properly to form a good narrative... motives and development is soo random
Character Development, This games is more focused on how to Fuck X or Y and kinks that it fails to make players care for them on a deeper level.
Considering the modular nature of the game, and the dev team's attempt to cater to a wide range of preferences and fetishes for the end-users, it may seem that way. Trying to marry traditional, mostly linear VN style gameplay with an RPG system that wants to create a sense that there's a living, breathing world out there is
hard.
Modularity is probably the only feasible way to go in a hybrid system like this. While it may lose a bit of that natural cohesiveness in regards to storytelling when compared to more straightforward visual novels, the RPG elements and the less-linear, varied paths to reach certain, crucial moments of the game's story more than makes up for it. It's also easier to track down issues and squash bugs when you can just check whichever module broke things. This surely contributes to why the game of this complexity and magnitude doesn't have too many softlocks.
Dangit
Rein. *Deletes large portions of the post.* I was almost done typing up my post when you ninja'd me, lol! It's better to hear a response from a member of the dev team anyway. It's good to hear once again that y'all are on top of things. You guys do a real good job communicating with your fans. Glad to hear that Hel is getting more content soon. Woo!