Johnny Dough
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My Biggest disappointments (really really good AVNs that went totally south):
- City of Broken Dreamers, Hillside and MIST because the stories went totally south after a while (CoBD after Henry dies; Hillside after Zak is killed; MIST after MC and the girls run away and leave their house); Hillside will never be completed, anyway
- Summer Scent because it will NEVER be completed and the Author is definitely stuck with the story
- Estate: Dominate because it's abandoned even though its scammer dev claims he's still working on it (yeah, whatever).
Thanks for writing that. I thought I was getting pickier over time—well, I am—, but at least I feel better knowing I'm not the only one who thinks CoBD derailed. I don't remember which chapter number was, but I started to lose interest right after they ran away with the girl with special powers (I even forgot her name), and the MC finally hooks up her (and there was a scene with a giant robot attacking them). After that, it indeed becomes a fuckfest with no plot. I even stopped following, but when I saw it was complete, out of curiosity, I decided to check how it went (down). I could barely read it and pressed control, like, 99% of the time. If there are alternative ends, I don't even care to check them.If you guys dropped COBD after chapter 5, I wouldn't recommend giving it another try. Things go clearly downwards from Chapter 8 on, at least in terms of writing. So if you weren't hooked before that point, I'd say don't bother with it. To me, it works as a nice and intriguing game with an open ending at the end of Chapter 7 -or Book 1 for Steam players.
Ataegina was another game the same happened: amazing part 1, meaningless part 2 and finale. Tales from the Unending Void seems to be following the same path. And Lust Academy never had a brilliant story in the first place, but now it's even worse. I wish developers knew when to stop...
I didn't play the other games Ottoeight mentioned as disappointments except for MIST. I agree that after they leave the house it's not as good as before, but I don't think it's comparable to CoBD or Ategina. At least, in MIST's case, it was almost in the end. Also, MIST was more like a game, so, at least you had things to do. Overall, I think it was a great game and probably in my Top 10 (or even 5) of all time.