hi,
I voted all of them.
I wonder why did you make
story and
characters into one option?
I can like good story, but imo. it is not necessary to have
any story to have good characters, resp. dialogues, banter etc.
(currently re-playing umpteenth time, optimizing playthrough)
Dungeon of Lulu Farea has no/ hardly any story, but characters/ dialogues/ general writing ability is really good/ hilarious/ enjoyable. That game is also good example of "gameplay" being important to me.
I voted "other" for: I like very much when I can notice some extra care or "love" has gone into making the game.
When in
Eiyuu Senki all them little battle-/ worldmap-/ listing- comments exist/ and are voiced/ and are so nicely in-character, resp. help fleshing the character.
when in MGQ-paradox there are a billion lines that will only happen when you have so-so in the team-of-8 while talking to other-so-so or certain NPCs (the one reason to play with that scientist angel).
Also all them ~100 or what characters have several idiot-actions (when making them job:"gadabout" or otherwise causing "playfulness"), and while only some of them are funny or outright hilarious, all of them are nicely/ adorably in-character.
Yeah, I am aware that this is not sth. you can expect to have often, actually I think the guys at Torotoro are absolutely insane / it is a 1-in-a-million miracle that that game actually made it to release.
But already little things in this regard can raise appreciation a lot. Little extra things that were not necessary, but add.
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one thing I dislike, and actually quite sometimes find myself caught in, is bad balance of gameplay or story vs. lewd. Of course sometimes I'm interested more in gameplay, or story and sometimes I am give-me-the-lewd. Being forced to just one of them for hours before then just-as-hours of the other may result in "meh, gonna look elsewhere".
I am not sure if this can always be avoided, probably only with some certain games/ structures.
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chainedpanda - just some sympathy from a fellow insomniac. it sucks. :|