What do you think about minigames in a VN?

[sexypeanut]

Reading this thread when you're working on a minigame for your own project is not a good idea...

Or perhaps it is, because you can already see there's a trend of what you could do or not do

The player will not be required to play the minigame, as the money will be earned throughout the main story, but he can speed up the process of earning money, if he wants to, by playing this minigame, understand?

With this Vegas-style bar theme, I also intended to include some deck minigames, as they fit well with this theme, but none of them would be mandatory.
I just think they would work well to create that bar/casino environment.

Well, thematic and not necessary (but speedy). I think that's a good thing to do. However, as MrSilverLust pointed out... better to care about them during the polish phase, as they aren't part of the core gameplay anyway

 

[GucciGang69]

Depend on what type of the mini game. Most people dont like mini game when its not fun, boring and useless. What i mean useless is that no reward for the mini game! For example summertime saga minigame is not smooth, buggy , feels grindy and not fun while subverse (even though its not perfect) offer fun shoot gameplay. You can make a mini game worth to try if you give good reward for example you can get bikini, gstring and accessories.