Fam I said I agree with both sides. I said that understand the guy wishing we got something different from Acerola. In fact, I partially disagree with your statement. Tear and Phantom Thief sold very well. Also I don't really see the point of bringing up Sex Knight Cynthia's release date considering that Demon Queen Melissa came out half a year later and is still a top 3 best seller from them. But I do agree that without Cynthia, Treasure Hunter Claire and Alchemist Colette most likely don't come to be.Y'do realize that Cynthia is one of their oldest games ever and one of the ones that started the trend of cum collecting RPGs, right?
It also flopped because the publisher that localized it released a terribly buggy mess, during the winter holidays, and then didn't fix it for a long time, because of aforementioned holidays, which was obviously a disaster.
As for this game... I can honestly say, as someone who's tried every single one of Acerola's games that have been translated (and a number that haven't been), that Monica's game is the most innovative at its time for their NTR games series. It was the first time they actually allowed one of these games to have the "debt" be beaten without the girl slutting up at all on the first playthrough. In all their previous NTR games, it was mathematically impossible, unless you cheated. Also the first time they added even a sliver of real gameplay via the adventuring stuff.
There's a number of things, and they might not seem big... but there's a reason why Monica was, at the time, their best selling game of the NTR games by a WIDE margin.
Acerola might not rock the boat much, but they do try things out in various ways, to varying degrees of success. Sadly, whenever they DO rock the boat a lot, like with the Tear game or the Thief game, their sales tend to drop, so no one can blame them for not trying much when their fans don't want them too.
As for the rest of your comment, we're on the same team her pal. I think Monica is easily their best title to date. There's a reason that it's their only game to have DLC as well as animated extra content. It's why a lot of us are disappointed that the patch messed up the voices, especially as Kagura seems to operate on a schedule us mere mortals could never hope to comprehend.
Acerola is easily upper echelon for H games, no one is arguing that. We can also admit that things seem a bit repetitive.
Two things can be true.
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