It's always a little disappointing when you've been waiting for game updates for so long only for the dev to come out and say they're focusing on game mechanics. This game has managed to build itself such a loyal fanbase, most others would've been abandoned en mass with the huge gaps of inactivity this has had, but people have been relatively patient compared to other games. So why are you working on a fucking combat system when people have been screaming out for story content for years now?
This is one of the reasons why it's hard to like sandbox games (at least for me). Devs like to fuck around with maps and game mechanics too much and as a result the story stagnates and eventually becomes a series of disjointed scenes that often aren't activated in a chronological order and end part way through to be picked up later, it all just breaks the flow of the story. Anyway, enough about that, I really didn't come here to gripe about sandbox games, it's not the place for it.
I genuinely like this game, the characters, the story, the sex, the humour and renders. It's all great, I just hope it remains accessable to both the VN and Sandbox parties after so many years of waiting around to see if it'd get off the ground again.