Y.....y...yeah, well wheres your game?!
Usually the devs themselves trot out this kind of disrespectful, anti consumer take when they can't defend against a single point of criticism of their game. It's rare a "fan" would go this direction when it's
not your game either.
Sunk cost is a hell o a drug. Yeah, everyone would have preferred FOW to make an actually good game. Everyone knew it wouldn't live up to the hype, as from the start it was bullet hell + VN layout a pretty lowtier idie affair. Yeah expectations and "good" is subjective. It's just hilarious they objectively missed every bar they set for themselves, even the bar of releasing a finished product.
That they failed at gamedesign 101 with their core design decisions and it led to this patchjob mess of things like having no progressive relationship building integrated into your gameplay yet still tossing in a date mechanic.
That they did "full voiceacting" yet as an
animation studio neglected to actually mocap or animate the sprites talking.
That they have so much "lore" outside the game changing with every reddit AMA because they haven't actually justified or explained mantics or their gameworld inside of it; and effectively can't due to voicework constraints without going back in the booth.
The list goes on, every feature and design point of subverse is it's own paragraph on how they fucked it. theres almost 140 reviews here and the hilarious thing is the detailed 1/2 star reviews making up the bulk of feedback
don't overlap. Almost every detailed negative review is addressing a different facet of why it pretty truly deserves it's F- 2.5/5 aggregate rating.
Most everyone seeing this about to hit .0000000000000000000000000000000000000001a expected a cringe but functional "stop the badguys" story, bullet hell-smhup gated story/game progression, monster sex, and some kind of evolving system of dialogue and interaction with the girls to make the "linear" plot game a "sandbox" experience. A lot of people gave them the 2 years and benefit of the doubt they'd make something meh but worth playing full of waifus and monster sex. From the gameplay demo and announcement of the shortcut of the pandora system, most everyone knew this game would be exactly as you see here.
You wouldn't need to doggedly, yet unsubstantively, defend a game you only have a backer pledge stake in if it was actually the product you were promised.