Been a while since I've visited, just reading through the pages. You make this game seem goddamn amazing lol. If you praise it this much, the writing must be quite good, but how's the sexual content? Mainly, I remember opting out of trying it because of my assumption that MC transforming into a female would be a big portion of the content.
It's not a big portion at all -- just occasional side content and all FMC sex scenes are avoidable. You can also avoid a big chunk of FMC content by simply not playing the cheerleader side quest in the early game (if you're a minmaxer, though, this means missing out on a Skill point). The MC has shapeshifting abilities and his female version is just one of the forms he sometimes uses.
With regards to the cross promotion topic, I would say Tlaero should do whatever she feels most comfortable with even if that means saying no to absolutely everyone. I don't think it's a marketing must even if it can help, and I wouldn't expect a flood of new patrons on either side based on a single cross promotion. I've personally gotten a little weary of all the cameo appearances of well-known AVN characters like Jaye and Cece. It was cute at first, but now I tend to find it more immersion breaking than anything else. I prefer to think of every VN as existing in its own universe unless there's already a clear and well-established link between games (such as we see with the Elsaverse).
In general, I don't regard a cross promotion as indicating a dev's personal endorsement of a game unless it's directly presented as such. Instead, I tend to just assume it is a combination of marketing and friends doing each other favors. For instance, it's not unusual for a dev to promote another dev who has helped them in the past with coding problems or some other development issue. If I didn't care for a game Tlaero promoted, I'd never think, "I can't believe Tlaero is pushing this crap!" Instead, I'd be more like, "Awww, Tlaero is so nice to all her dopey little friends."
It would have much more weight if she wrote a long post about a game here and explained in detail why she liked it or recommended something to me personally.
Another point I want to make is that it's hard to predict who will like what so you shouldn't necessarily assume your audience wouldn't like something that is worlds apart from your own work if it is good in its own way. People who enjoy Tlaero games might also enjoy a wide variety of other, very different adult games. We're a tough group to pigeonhole. Our boy moskyx provides a good example of this phenomenon. When he's not translating Tlaero games or maintaining the
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(see, there's actually never a bad time to cross promote!), you can sometimes find him on here discussing games as diverse as WVM and What a Legend! which definitely aren't likely to make the list any time soon. Anyway, my point is that tastes vary widely and people can sometimes enjoy vastly different forms of art and entertainment so even very unlikely collaborations might be worth considering under some circumstances. There was even a cross promotion between Chasing Sunsets and The Adventurous Couple -- I can hardly think of two AVNs that are more different in terms of content and (I would assume) audience makeup.
