1) NO SANDBOX AT ALL!!! I hate sandbox VNs with every fiber of my being! I'm not interested in AVNs because I want to worry about showering, money, making choices at the right time of day or not so I can access a scene or some shitty reward. There are few VNs that I've played with a sandbox that don't get in the way of the story flow or that simply get really annoying after playing it a hundred times.
2) NO MINI GAMES: Once again, that's not why I got interested in AVNs. Besides, some devs have the tendency to force you to play their stupid mini games by
3) MODELS WITH DIFFERENT BODIES: Being pansexual, I like variety. I'm not like some people who spend 25 years eating the same dish in the same place. I like the possibility of choosing and even "mixing the dishes" if I feel like it (especially if it's a personal. That said, I like VNs with women, men and trans/futas with bodies of different sizes, colors and shapes.
3.1) VARIETY, WITHIN "NORMALITY": A small development of the item above, but totally important for my opinion on the subject. Note that I put the word normality in quotation marks; each to their own fetishes, I have no intention of kink shaming anyone & I know that human sexuality it's far more complex that most people think or want to believe. I only talking about what works for me in an AVN. For me, variety is not synonymous with "anything goes". I like variety, but within the normality possible of human biology (I don't know why, but while these words come out of my fingers, jokes about Captain Kirk's sexual taste come to mind, lol). Chubby, thin, muscular or not, big or small boobs, big asses or not, I love them all; but at the limit of what human biology it's possible.
4) POSSIBLE FREE HAREM: Yes, I'm a Pokemon guy, so I have to fuck them all!! When it comes to this item, personally, reality or suspension of disbelief is out of the question. I want to fuck all the characters! Of course, if there is the possibility of romance and a polygamous relationship built throughout the story, it will be more than welcome, appreciated and praised.
5) NO TENTACLES, FURRIES, THERIANS, NECROPHILIA, SCAT & OTHERS: Again, I have no intention of kink shaming anyone, each to their own, but with these tags, I'm out. My exceptions would be urination (I like golden shower) and rape, IF AND ONLY IF it's the case of a consensual fantasy.
6) NTR: Probably the most controversial, loved and hated tag on this forum. I've played maybe two or three AVNs with NTR; The Adventurous Couple and Perfect Housewife. Some aspects of these particular AVNs were quite satisfying and gave me good cumshots. When it comes to NTR in Visual Novels, I'm the type of person who likes to be shared by my wife with her friends (male, female and/or transgender) rather than sharing. So, I think that when it comes to Visual Novels, the NTR tag doesn't cause me as much repulsion as it does with other people. It all depends on the type of NTR and how it's conducted within the story. In the case of the two AVNs I mentioned, the couple encourages each other to seek sex with other people, with no possibility of separating, at least as far as I've played. Something like an open consensual relationship in which both experiment, but whenever possible they do it together.
7) ONLY 3D ANIMATED ONES: Although I have played some good and fun AVN's without animation or with frame-by-frame animation, this is still my preference, without which my interest is greatly diminished.
Having said all that, I think the AVN's that come to mind that come closest to my ideal game (in no particular order) would be:
- Fetish Locator
- Come Home
- Long Road Home
- Lust Academy
- Misfits (despite his half baked animations)
- Being a Dik
- Family Affair
- My Dorm
- The Shrink R&R
- The Hellcat lounge
Cheers to those read all that!!!