nah I played most big games on this site(so i have no idea what they are playing than) and I read the last 10 pages now and I am pretty sure they are trolling this are all people that want that he focus on sg only , hate ntr, want fast sex scene render shows or like other games and doing fanboy wars because they are scared that a ntr game with good story gets (mainstream)
First off, if you can turn off the NTR at the start this hardly counts as a NTR game, maybe NTR centric, that's all.
I don't know which games you consider the biggest, but most (not all) successful games here have better dialogue and characterization, that much I can say.
I like Oceanlab's games, I don't think he is a horrible writer, but the writing here has definitely had a turn for the worse.
The characters LITERALLY stand around making dramatic pauses before speaking some overly dramatic BS as if it's the highest level of enlightening one can achieve.
And what they say?
"I thought I could postpone it, but ...yeah... it found its way to me."
"What if you just let it rest."
"I would regret it for the rest of my life."
You can basically hear the dramatic sound blurb and I can't help but hear it with some fake accent spoken as if in a cheesy soap opera.
"Uncertainty was a comfortable blanket... and I am about to throw it away."
"Uncertainty is nothing but an illusion. Your subconsciousness is plagued by a shadow."
"I see my mother's eyes staring at me- with rejection."
And this is almost all from just one short scene. Seriously, I'm sorry to say this, but this is almost Dual Family level of pretentious douche monologue- and dialogue-ing.
Thankfully, it's not like that all the time, but if you look at this game and Summer's Gone, the characters really talk like in a cheap corny romance novel style at times.
So, no, I don't think the critics are all trolls, the criticism is definitely at least partially justified, and as someone else pointed out, if you read some actual well written novels, you know, the kind printed on paper, you don't fall for this type of cheesy dialogue so easily, especially not if it takes itself so ridiculously serious.
And let me say this again, so it is crystal clear, I don't hate Oceanlab or wish him anything bad, I actually still like both of his games and wish him success, but the writing has become worse in the reworked chapters than it was before.
