Phew... Do you have a sense of deja vu that we've discussed all this once or twice or seven times here in this thread? I mean, us as people who have been in this thread for quite a while.
No shot you just learned that yesterday! The game has been getting retroactively changed since before the reworks even started... How in the fuck did you miss that?
Of course, I am ready to share your grief, but point by point.
1. Fluid relationships. Really? Is this even a topic in 2024? Do I really need to tell you about certain crowdfunding platforms, their attitude towards certain adult themes, the sudden crusade against certain types of content, all that stuff?
If you still want to discuss family relationships in adult games, then first please give me a link to WiAB's Patreon.
I mean I can relate to taking a long time to accept that nothing in Ocean's stories is ever set in stone but I did at least notice it. Can you imagine a best selling author publishing a novel then a couple of months after the publishing a new edition comes out with changes to the entire story. Then 3 months later another one. By the first year anniversary, and 5 editions later, characters have popped out of nowhere and we're supposed to pretend they were there all along. Names get changed. Personalities altered. Physical features replaced. And the story is so far removed from the original edition it's barely recognizable anymore.
2. Fluid content. So after five years you still haven't realized that this isn't a finished book in a gift cover but a work in progress, alpha version, early access, draft script, yada yada... unfinished work that can be changed? The fact that most authors prefer not to change anything while they are working on their scripts or visuals, even if they are not happy with the result, does not mean that this is a rule and that everyone should follow it. Seriously, you should have hung out in some other threads for those five years (I can suggest some good places
), and then just come here and get the officially published version on Steam. Then you would have a finished piece of Summer's Gone without five years of suffering and pain
Now if he starts seriously changing the first season released on Steam, that would be really strange. Bugfixes and micro changes don't count, of course.
Sounds insane when you think of it as a book or a show/movie right? Because this isn't how good stories are told. When you see a new chapter from a manga coming out, how often does it make sweeping changes to the previously established chapters?
True, although if a show doesn't live up to the creators' expectations, they simply close it in the middle of the season and start something different. Just like some of the AVN developers.
But then again, we're talking about an indie developer releasing an unfinished game in parts to early access for his supporters. Public release of the first season only happened at 10 May, 2024 on Steam.
By the way, I was supporting a couple of fantasy authors, and they use the same workflow as the AVN authors on patreon. So they too had rewrites and changes to previously written chapters, although not very often. But this happened until the next book was finished and posted to online stores. So I don't see much difference with AVN authors here.
This being a VN with continuous development, with chapters and seasons doesn't excuse the shitty storytelling.
Sure, if it was really shitty, but this is the best storytelling you'll find in AVNs. Problems?
It just makes me think that Ocean may not only be clueless about where all of this is heading but also not care enough about his stories to fight for their integrity.
He clueless about everything, it was established five years ago. No need to repeat it, just do it better than him.
So far, he is the only one who delivers, despite all his cluelessness.
