I see a lot of bad comments towards him, I really don't understand why so much hate
It's okay, I understand that there will be things that I haven't accomplished and so on, but I think...
If you are not able to design all those characters, program the progress of the visual novel, learn a little of the renpy language, think about all the texts, you cannot criticize at all
I also see comments saying that many things in the story do not make sense, well, what did you expect, my king? Is it a purely xxx work, or do you want a script at the level of the Godfather movie?
Relax a little and wait for the next update, after all when it arrives all the haters won't take a second to install it hahaha
Anyway, if anyone has renders of Willabelle, Emiko or Aubrey, please pass them on
Ok, I'll jump on this band wagon... I'm guessing that since, as a dev, I am "able to design all those characters, program the progress of the visual novel, learn a little of the renpy language, think about all the texts" then by your logic, I can criticize?
Honestly I don't like criticizing other Dev's. Braindrop does a lot of things very well!
The thing that pisses off people more than anything though, is that he has proven, and continues to prove himself to be untrustworthy.
He drops off the face of the earth and has no communication for a while and then pops up to apologize and promise a delivery date, and then doesn't deliver.
Most people would prefer that he take his time, provide updates as to what is going on, but not promise a delivery date until he was sure he could make it! Even better would be to promise longer than it will take and then deliver early.
If one good thing came out of having been a Patreon of his a few years back, It was that when I finally got fed up it caused me to start to think, "Damn, I could do this myself."
I am still working at getting everything perfect, but if I have learned anything from Braindrop it's not to over promise. If he would stop doing that one thing it would make a huge difference in the patience and grace people would give him.
I know that there are areas that Braindrop has me beat hands down. And anyone could jump in my thread and criticize my game for a number of things. My saving grace is my story. Everything else is improving.
Braindrop has great characters/models (When they figure out how to 3d print people like in Westworld, I'll take 3 Harpers please!)
Parts of his story are endearing(the latest Rachel scenes has me in tears)
He puts work into the background details in his scenes (the newest house is awesome, so much detail)
Are there flaws in the game, sure! But the biggest issue is the unkept promises.
If you promise 2 months between updates and deliver, then you build trust and respect. If you promise 2 weeks and are 6 weeks late, you may never get that trust back.
And from what I have seen on this thread, that broken trust and the accompanying lack of respect is what's at the core of almost every real complaint. (complaint that isn't just from a passing troll)