Well, that would be a lot easier if these things weren't shoved into our feeds w/o indication. I'd argue these shouldn't even be considered visual novels. They're novella's with the rare picture.
Every single one of these devs is putting together the exact same puzzle with the exact same pieces, just slightly differently. Every single one of the relationships in these games should be promptly ended. The characters in each game might look different, but they all have the same, identical role and behaviors. They've taken something inspired by choose your own adventure novels, transitioned it to a visual format. That way you have less text-based context, and it's quickly translated visually. These phone games then remove the last remnants of context, go back to being fully text-based, and what we're left with is two characters seemingly gaslighting each other while both parties friends insert themselves into the problem. The MC is being told he doesn't care, while you are actively choosing every decision to show you care. So, excuse me when 5min in I'm choosing every option that shows how apathetic I've become before the story ends with just another argument.
People would be infinitely more accepting of these games if they weren't all the same generic bs. There's a reason why the hundreds upon hundreds of these games all only have a handful of supporters. Once you've seen one, you've literally seen them all. It would be like if every "traditional" VN was about a college kid hooking up with a drunk chick at a party and promptly ended before the sex scene. That's how generic, lazy and boring these phone games are. We're not hating on these games bc it's AI, nor bc of it being a phone game, but bc it's the same regurgitated, generic slop.
