- Jul 20, 2018
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Being real here Both Acerola and OneOne1 games have literally been loads of copy and pasted CG and monsters from their older games with slightly altered plot of their first successful games.
I don't see the point in playing them when it's just a CG swapped recycle of the past game they made because they are too scared to make anything new since it may fail.
Like the last different game Acerola made was that Phantom Thief Celinna game years ago, at this point both Acerola and OneOne1 are on Norn/Miel/Cherry Kiss Games tier caliber of games
I honestly thought the collab would let them do something different but it's just a combination of their beaten to death game ideas. Thus I can't understand why people get hype every time these two circles release a game
To understand why a LOT and I do mean a LOT of people like both ONEONE1 games and Acerola games, we have to go around a bit.
Imagine a couple. Neither partner is particularly attractive, nor particularly unattractive. Neither of them really stands out. Neither of them is godlike at sex or whatever. Yet things still get spiced up when one of them does something a little new, or dresses up with something the other finds hot, or if they try out sex in a car for the fuck of it. Or any other number of small things that make the sexual relationship fun. Even if it's the same two people, with the same average looks, with not particularly impressive skills in sex.
Acerola and ONEONE1 games are like that. They're not necessarily the best in this or that aspect, and overall they may even be considered average. However, with each iteration, they change enough to make themselves new and exciting for a lot of people. The girls might be similar from one iteration to the next, but there's enough difference in the details to make it all fun again. The stories might have similar beats, but again, the details can change everything pretty heavily. Even the games themselves change various small aspects as ONEONE1 and Acerola experiment with different mechanics.
For both circles, I've played their games for ages now. For Acerola, I seriously started with Demon Queen Melissa, and played every one of their RPG focused games since, and even dabbled in some of the NTR/Cheating games. I can honestly say that while each individual iteration didn't have huge changes in the game-play, they have definitely been changing various things and they've been experimenting a lot. ONEONE1 I started really following at around that one game that was a side-scroller who's name I can't remember. They too have changed a plenty of things, albeit subtly, even in their pure RPG games.
The complexity of Ideology in Friction is MILES ahead from what they had in their earliest RPG games. Sure, the combat is simplistic and whatnot, and that hasn't changed much, but the story, the routes, and the free roam events have been improved massively.
All in all, these two circles have good formulas filled with fun stuff. You don't need massive sweeping innovations and improvement to keep things fun. Consistency is its own form of quality.
I'm often hype for these games, because no matter what, I know that I'll have a lot of art from artists with styles I enjoy, stories that I can enjoy once translated, and plenty of variety in terms of what the characters get put through.
All that said, I do agree that this is one of their weaker releases. It's not surprising, since both circles are new to Unity and also, this is the first time they've ever worked together like this. Acerola has been working pretty much exclusively with Wolf RPG for a looooooooooooong ass time now, and they only dabbled with animations seriously once in their entire career. It was to be expected that this title would be iffy, no matter how much they tried to hype it out. It doesn't help that the circles have fairly different tones for their games, and it's pretty clear even without understanding the story, that they struggled to find common ground.
It's likely while there's only the one girl in ONEONE1 style, and also why the game doesn't seem to be promoted or sold by ONEONE1 at all.