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"ohh they have meaningful branching with this path going there and here -- . As I said, those are just cleverly designed to make you think they are."I understand you like them because you have additional time to invest and focus on more "finer detail". Which is fine.
Im a gamer myself since 1995, and I can assure you, I've seen the very first porn games from West and East, like Lula Series and Leisure Lary. Etc.
And you are correct I believe that Samurai Vandalism is a complete trash. The more ambitious game is the more trash it become, and I'll consider it so until they finally address the elephant in the room, and that is establishing the character and character progression(Not just ONEONE1, all of them). It's not neglected, it's insulting. Im sick and tired of 20 years of looking at same shiate tripe of flick a bean character that have magic button that goes from "yamate kudosai" to "more cum to the cum gods" , it is something so simple yet so incomprehensible to achieve. Why? -
Because they need to create parallel events with different expressions, conclusion and maybe change of story. And true branching in this genre doesn't exist except for unicorns like that frankenstein violated heroine.
And before you tell me -- ohh they have meaningful branching with this path going there and here -- . As I said, those are just cleverly designed to make you think they are. I'll explain below.
Second issue I have is mood system. It doesn't exist. Not today, not ever. It's always yes,no,maybe. If no -> raep, if yes(0,100 corruption) you get three answers , "yamate kudosai my first time, yes mucho sexy and Blllhhhggahahrghahh cum,cum,cum" , rinse and repeat until you start to find patterns so obvious, you'll predict how it's coded. And how every event is basically segmented in few ways based on such values. And as a programmer myself, creating a value or algorithm that triggers text response or question, action or reaction based on mood in percentage no less (for even easier coding) is a two day task.
It's not a problem if you treat the game as hentai, quick jerkoff with occasionally funny/interesting text throw in and when a game does not overstay itself.
But when you have to invest 20+ hours, then my appetites rise. It's becoming increasingly boring knowing that you can start event based on different parameters, but in no shape of form will you ever have ability to change outcome. Or having even one trigger. Naturally im talking about sexual events, since this is a fucking hentai genre. It's always trigger based on current value, CGs or animation inside triggers for different poses if any, text below and conclusion(that may or mayn't have triggers like cum inside or not) everything else is basically locked or non existent.
Text is always the same, cgs are always the same....it's fine CGs are difficult to produce, but text isn't, adding triggers aren't.
So why should I run around pretending it's okey gameplay with okey story, if it's basically visual novel that has three one dimensional branching based on avatars promiscuity. Rinse and fucking repeat every fucking hentai game ever.
And ever since I look at them as visual novels, their quality in my eyes increased, but instead of playing and experiencing "gameplay" i just take someones save-file and look at events, read, jerkoff, and toss them to oblivion. Bliss.
That doesn't make any sense. Each path literally changes the narrative of the story and how the Main protags handle it. The character literally changes completely based off which path you take, as events differ and change who they are.
I don't understand why you care for gameplay in a Hentai game. What meaning is there for a game that's main purpose is for you to fap to, to have a complicated gameplay that ruins the fapping side of it.
People play these games to fap, not fap to a scene, then spend 10-20 minutes trying to play an actual game, and then go back to fapping afterwards. Hentai games that separate the game itself from the Hentai are the ones that lose people's interest. No one wants to spend more time progressing through gameplay and combat than actually fapping to the subsequent scene that comes from it.
If I want an interesting gameplay and cool combat, I'll go play Elden Ring, not a Hentai game.
For those that value text in game, which I myself do, character development in a story and actually fleshing them out is what enhances the scenes that follow. Actually having an interesting story where characters change throughout it makes their eventual fall into depravity that much more enjoyable.
Yes the corruption in OneOne1 games is more fast paced than in say Grace's Labyrinth, but that games major flaw is having a rougelike gameplay for a Hentai game. I'm not trying to play Diablo or Path of Exile in my Hentai games.
You also didn't give me an example of a game you consider to be a very good hentai game. I'm not sure if you're a fan of JP porn games, or western ones that use Ren PY, but I've played all the highly rated Western games on this site, and while the creators spend more time on individual choices in those, IMO they simply cannot compare to the better art, animations, and voice acting that comes from a studio like OneOne1.
As I've mentioned before, a Hentai games purpose is for you to Fap to, and if the art quality, animation quality, and voice acting are inferior, no amount of clever choice making or triggers is going to close that gap.