I haven't played the game yet.
Just rendering videos and spoiling myself when I check the HD-Videos.
But we all have to make sacrifices.
You have a lot to look forward to because the story chapters of SotS are great.
To be honest my biggest gripe with the game are the perfunctory side-girl chapters which reduce the story content of the game to half of what would be were SotS produced in the same way as earlier NLT Media games. In predecessor games every chapter was story based but with SotS we get a forced hiatus, every other chapter, thanks to robotic side-girl action.
There are only two reasons I can think of for a disappointing schedule like this: (1) To reward players uninterested in the game's story, who crave its animated sex scenes, with booty call action obtainable quickly and easily with minimal effort
and (2) To give the developers a breather and allow them to reallocate time saved to creating story episodes and improve the custom built game engine they've constructed etc.
Personally I'm only really interested in story based episodes full of well fleshed out and interesting characters, complicated relationships, involving plots, coherent dialogues, puzzles, quests, tasks, humour, drama, peril, adventure, shocks and surprises rather than shallow side-girl action, no matter how well animated it may be, especially when said action reduces the sexy storytelling entertainment which delights me most by half.
(When SotS is complete it will have only 50% of the story it would otherwise have had thanks to side-girl content.
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The side-girl thing is not my thing but, fortunately, the rest of the game is fantastic and certainly my thing big time.
