Before I address his comments, I want to ask you to think about the writing in this VN. Is there anything at all that suggests Stiglet was having problems with the writing? Forget the dodge to the sandbox. When you read the VN did you feel that Stiglet was having problems advancing his story? I submit to you that his writing was sound. The foundation was laid and the story was progressing. He had no need to reach for as you put it, "oh, here's a hot mommy".
In his initial comment he said that Stiglet was unable to write a non-incest based story and moved to a sandbox to cover the fact that he was stopped in his writing.
Period.
You're free to interpret his writing as you choose. It's there for all of us to read.
I wouldn't have bothered to engage except for his comment that he wasn't surprised that without an incest theme Stiglet couldn't write an interesting story. Later he disparaged Stiglet's incest based "The Visit" as uninteresting to some.
We each have our own interpretations of what we've read. Little point in arguing about that. Anyone who's following this discussion can go back and read the thread and form their own opinion.
Considering that we didn't really advance into the erotic scenes with other crew members beside the doctor leads me to believe that he was struggling with the writing. The whole shebang with the doctor wasn't very inventive and you can't really rely on that for all the other girls on the ship.
I think he watched the first two episodes of Battlestar Galactica and thought to himself that if you'd to replace all the characters with hot women this could be a nice setup for a game, but failed with translating that into an erotic type story.
It's not about what's currently in the game, it's more of a how do i advance while still maintaining the same tone and not make it into a campy porno. Putting a pair of glasses on a girl does not immediately make her a scientist, you have to do some clever writing to convince some of us. And all that confined into a sandbox structure with a bunch of different characters with separate storylines that also have to work in conjunction to eachother, that can be quite exhausting.
But personally, i don't think it's the lack of incest that killed the game, it's the setting. By having it take place on a ship you're kind of depending on making the characters being the ones who carry it's weight on their shoulders.
You can't go to the beach, no restaurants, clothing stores and all the usual. It's a totally different vibe.
