I can see why. Or more like can't. Because there's no indication or incentive to interact with that particular Rose. You'd think that after adding Alicia into the spot it'll just railroad the events as Aura's corruption is progressing but of course not, that'd have been too convenient for the player.If it helps,
A lot of people make that same mistake.
And they all come raging here about it
Well,I can see why. Or more like can't. Because there's no indication or incentive to interact with that particular Rose. You'd think that after adding Alicia into the spot it'll just railroad the events as Aura's corruption is progressing but of course not, that'd have been too convenient for the player.
I basically said exactly this in a previous post manyyyyy pages back and got barked at, its hard to give genuine criticism without someone defending the awful design choices. Like for example, there is a really hot scene in an underground bar(which takes you forever to get too, even if you ctrl-skip through assloads of meaningless exposition/dialogue) and it only has 2 scenes. Initial > follow up > ??? Nothing else. You're somehow able to keep generating "favor" or whatever the resource was by working there, but its pointless as there is nothing else to do and the entirety of that area is devoid of any other content.
There are bottlenecks, including the art budget and development time. Also such scenes would have to be integrated with the gameplay, which in a way punishes players for doing the H by adding Corruption. You'd have players complaining "oh I can't do all the H because it Game Overs me". The H aspect of the game is taxed for being in a JRPG, both in time and budget. The game in your signature OTOH is free to be a fuckfest with a bare skeleton of gameplay that isn't particularly meaningful.
Case and point, but I'll take the bait I guess: What is your definition of 'meaningful gameplay' then? Surely its not RPGM's mindless turn-based combat? You could strip that completely out of this game and it would be infinitely more enjoyable in a heartbeat. The "gameplay" of messing around in the MC's head, and slowly twisting her into a total slut, is great and I don't mind it at all, and find it to be unique and its what drew me to the game in the first place. However, the entire rest of the game falls apart after that, when you have to sit through a slog of thousands of lines of dialogue, and all you wanna do is push the character around and get them into sexual situations because you know... its a porn game, and yet you have to "fight" the game to get too any of it, and once you finally arrive too it, it ends immediately(almost).
Having a challenging gameplay loop that is driven by player skill and knowledge of the game. In SKA you:
That's what you don't get. It's not a porn game where you just see sexual situations one after another. It's a good game that contains porn scenes. And that means a player is supposed to play, not just wait for another sexual situation.
one other gripe of mine is that the fantasy world feels quite half assed to be honest like among the many examples aura defeats a demon general and there isnt a grand welcome back at the city gates, actually no welcome back at all
(And yet it's advertised and sold as a porn game. Why should the expectations of those be faulted who expected a porn game but instead got a full fledged RPG with porn sprinkled here and there?)
There's no 'full fledged JRPG' here (also, why J? Is the dev Japanese?). I honestly can't understand the glazing this game gets. Like, if the bloated, poorly written plot in this one can be considered as something 'full fledged' then 90% of the slop under the RPGM tag on this site should be as well. No, really, it took me 10 hours to get to the banquet of greed (or whatever it was called) only because of all the bloat and poor design choices. I was holding ctrl most of the time despite being an avid reader (I'm a sucker for long VNs and RPGs) but the dialogues in this one are just plain painful to read. Literally makes you feel like you're losing brain cells every time there's a dialogue between Alicia and Aura.And yet it's advertised and sold as a porn game. Why should the expectations of those be faulted who expected a porn game but instead got a full fledged RPG with porn sprinkled here and there?
The ratio of being a RPG and porn is not made equal....by a long shot. No wonder the most critique this game has is the lack of porn content.
I mean look at the poll shown in the roadmap post.
In all honesty this should have made already into the base game by release and not as an update afterwards. At this point many players already have or will have completed the game and given the scope and length of the game I doubt many will be revisiting it and just rip the CGs off.
Take the porn out of the game and it would still work perfectly fine and stand on it's own. That's how much the porn feels like an afterthought in the whole process of developing the game.
Would have risen the game in popularity as it has without porn content? Who knows but it was the thing that hooked many players in so in that regard it's a shame that this aspect didn't get much love from the dev.
