This is the end of the line for me with this game. I was almost forcing myself to play through the last 2 updates but this time it was just too much for me. The only girls I like are the cousin, Vicky and maybe twins but they're more like a fuck buddy types, the rest I couldn't care less about. When the "stuff" with Nicole happened obviously I didn't like it and at that point I thought that everything was going to magically improve when I get to actually break up with her. Ït didn't...
I still don't care about most of the girls, the ones I care about are just not enough to keep me playing, Mc behaves "strange", the dream and flashback sex scenes feel totally unnecesary and out of place (I don't play these games to fap but I guess if someone does they're there for that?), the story feels like it's not really progressing (I didn't finish the update so maybe it does in the end) and the dialogue still feels like it's automatically generated by a robot.
It's just dull and boring and I don't see a reason to keep playing. (IMO of course)
Amen. I cut the Dots team a lot of slack because of how much I like 'Melody', but I'm running out of patience with this game for all of the reasons you mention. I play VNs because I like immersive, sexy stories and this isn't one of those - yet. SL is only a 'story' in the most minimal sense - there are characters (with odd, difficult-to-read dialog), events (many of which are contrived) and interactions between the characters (that are mostly implausible) but nothing engaging the way that VNs such as 'Love of Magic' or 'Now and Then' are. The 'story' in SL is a bunch of word-soup used to try to connect pretty renderings and it's boring as hell.
And, before the inevitable angry "well then don't play it" posts, the only reason I'm 'playing' this and DMD is that I was really moved by 'Melody' and I know that the Dots team
can tell a compelling story. I'm hoping that the Dots team can accept respectful input and make the same effort to tell a good story that they made with 'Melody'.
That's why I'm posting this, as a patron, and not am not here just to vent.