I gotta say... this is the first time a VN makes me lose interest early because of the amount of dialogue, without anything happening in between.
yeah honestly I find the info dumping / lore is what I dislike the most about this AVN even the learning magic part too I found boring alot the LI and banter is what keeps me playing this game can't get into the AVN otherwise tbh
The dev is aware that this is an issue for some (I personally love it), he's been going back to earlier chapters to streamline dialogue and to add more renders so its more show and less tell. He did a poll on it recently actually. What I will say is that the dialogue is heavy upfront but thins out as the story progresses. There are still moments where conversations between characters go on for a bit, like the one between the MC and Fiadh in the most recent update, but that's mainly because they have things to talk about. The ball that is coming up is likely to have a lot of dialogue as the MC is introduced to the wider political arena and potentially the main antagonist(s).
In my case, I do find the setting interesting because I like reading about different worlds and settings, although I think he'll constantly need to revisit many of the topics because there's a lot of information that will be forgotten as it's normal, but I still a Glossary or Codex could help a lot here.
There is one, top left corner.
I am more worried about the general lack of conflict between the girls. We are I suppose still very early in the story yet pretty much any possible conflict between the wards seems already solved or on the path of resolution. While I was not expecting a very dramatic story, if you introduce the wards and families and how they seem to have their own agendas you'd expect that conflicts between the girls would be an important part of the story, at least until we solved them later on.
These girls have known each other all their lives. While there are issues between Bael and Laela as well as Orlaith and Laela early on, neither of the issues Bael and Orlaith have are actually issues with her specifically but with her father (and brother), she's just the nearest target. There weren't really any conflicts to be solved besides these two. Expanding the conflict between Bael and Laela was one of the options in a recent poll (he would go back and adjust it in earlier chapters). Most of the issues for these girls come from external sources. Additionally, they all know about their society and relationships, so they were never going to fight over the MC even if the relationships formed really early.
I love the banter between each LI and the wholesome moments, but I am a bit worried with the last update because I am starting to think the story will lose the novelty quick if everyone is already good with each other and happy.
I mentioned it above, but the next update is the ball where the MC will be introduced to the families of magical society and also meet who we believe to be the main antagonist(s). The MC has only been back at the house for two weeks, still lots of building to do.
Yeah Leala's choices are really fun like that. I'm hoping we don't need to fully max out her doubt though cuz I gave up one of them to keep all her other points above zero.
If I remember correctly, you only need 2 Doubt points for the latest update, I'd have to go back through it to be sure though.
