I don't really agree but hey we all like different things. I personally love the roster of characters even if the cliche is over done it just clicks with me in this game. Never once it made me want to skip dialogue tho even if it did I wouldn't anyways , if I ever skip dialogue in an AVN that's when I might as well drop it and stop playing no point in playing if I have to skip dialogue to get through part of the game. I went in not expecting to like this game but I already like it more than Melody I couldn't finish Melody I ended up dropping it , might give it another try. I didn't play past Season 1 of DMD just forgot to go back and finish the game I played it during a time before I was into AVN's or knew what they were really. But I recall really only liking the daughter didn't like anyone else.
Indeed. No use in arguing about tastes. This is subjective. What's objective in my comment is he used to cater to a certain audience and now seems to have changed focus, but I'm not on his Patreon to know if there was any backlash... All I can say is, by looking at the graphics on Graphtreon, his audience is now half the size of its apex. This is not a recent trend caused by this game; it's a trend happening since his last high in mid-2021, accelerating even more with the end of Sunshine Love. In fact, it caused a little upsurge in his number of patrons (no access to Subscribe Star supporters, but I bet, there, they're even more tipping to the DMD side). So, maybe this was his idea: try to cater to a new audience to revert the numbers. Great. Good luck to him. As we were talking before, it's just a matter of taste. He may not please me, but I don't have the infantile fantasy that everything has to revolve around me. In this case, it's a little sad—for me—because he used to be one of the devs I liked just because of the girls, but, overall, I think it's healthy to have many kinds of games for different kinds of tastes; in fact, I think game developers should segment more instead of trying to cater to everybody. Having characters that don't interest me is one of the reasons for pressing the control or even the tab button. This leads us to the next topic...
Again, I think this is subjective and about someone's preferences. Indeed, starting to use control constantly early in a game is a sign it will end up in the dustbin, but since we're talking about
visual novels, sometimes the dialogue is not good, but the story is, and the images tell it well. Yes, because
dialogue is not the same as
story—this is a mistake for some newbies and/or amateur and/or unskilled and/or untalented writers. Even when it comes to books in the strictest sense, that is, with no visuals, a good writer will plan the story, plan the plot, plan the sequences, plan the scenes, and, along with it, plan the characters; then, and only then, he or she will add the dialogue (and, in this case of no visuals, describe the scenes). Unfortunately, here—and I'm not saying here in this game but in the whole world of AVNs—this is rarely the case. And if you think I'm being rigorous, or picky, or whatever, let's do some statistics: only here, we have 624 pages that have 30 games in each (OK, the last page, usually, a little less, but let's simplify things), that's 18,720 games. I bet you can find 187 good games. But let's not digress... What I'm trying to say is, that I press control—and, of course, it's not control all the time, but control here and there combined with speed reading and focusing attention when I think it's relevant—because, in my opinion, there's something good in the game that makes me wanna play it besides some dialogues are not that good or have relevant information. But sometimes it's not even that... There are games that I agree are not worth playing or were in the past but degenerated into a mess, but are completed, and, out of morbid curiosity, I want to see how they end, even if it's just by watching images passing fast through my screen. And that's also the fact that I'm less tolerant about bad quality any more... I don't know how long you've been playing/reading AVNs. I started during the second year of the pandemic, about three years ago. In the beginning—probably, due to the novelty—I read all the classics and better-rated games (or course, "all" is a manner of speaking—some were thrown away right from the start, but I read the majority). Then I started to see the same things over and over, and I became less tolerant of crap.
