But I assume that is at the expense of naughty content, right?
What use is THAT?
This is a AVN... what separates and A..VN from a plain old VN style game... is, well, the A bits... so being forced to forgo that content, to complete the main story, just seems self defeating.
Are we not meant to enjoy the adult content?
If you allowed a pathway BACK, that would mean no one had to miss out on ANYTHING. Real life? Meh, this is a GAME, people do not play GAMES for a real experience. No hunting sim, is going to top going out hunting, no fishing sim the same, no driving game will be as fun as going out racing, even if only at your local kart track, and likewise, no AVN will have sex or romance, or associated dynamics, even close to comparable to RL.
Anyway, I am done. Add easy Loyalty boosts, even from 0, or do not. I am just a player of your game.
But I wanted to like this game, some of the scenarios are Hot... Megan, Eugene, Deborah, Julie. and I am sure the Zoey and Kimiko thing would be hot too... all of them are somewhat inappropriate relationships.... forbidden fruit tasting the sweetest.....but if I have to work this hard to play it, it just is not worth it.
I am completionist. Not the Steam Awards pleb kind.. but the kind that likes to progress every story arc and character arc in a game, and having nothing left, but radiant missions IF it has them. Never played a game I did not 100% ... (well except Skyrim, because the Civil War arc is balls and worthless trash that everyone SHOULD ignore, so is the Blades mission to kill Parthenax)...but this game deliberately sets out to block my completion of story arcs, by projected morality of the author.
I am outta here, if I could give this a zero star review, I would.
Done. But only because I could not give it negative stars.
Slop? Do not confuse lazy dead-end game play, for being unique and offering quality. Just make your game a romance, and be done with it is my advice. Or do not make the dead-end game play elements, and allow redemption from any point in the game. Forced replaying is not replayability.
If you want your game NOT to be a dud... either commit to it being solely a Romance AVN, or address the game breaking flaws of the Harem elements. Just hard locking progress away behind a flimsy morality system is lazy. If you really want to be able to call those games you seem to disdain SLOP, then you should try meet your own bar. Work out narratives, ones that are complex, and deep, emotional if you must (no one says it should be as easy as giving a jilted love/lover a rose and peck on the cheek), that allow one to move through those polarities. Specifically, the Loyalty Locked game play, because there is little to NO lock on Corruption path. Not doing so, will be seen by many people, as just a lazy, no hardcore gamer wants hard locked, dead-end, gameplay. Maybe you are not aiming at gamers... ok, fine... then perhaps another medium than a video game might be better for you.
If you ARE going to make a GAME, then if you have elements like hard dead ends, that have no warning, and no way back from, without restarting, but are not really narratively essential either, which these are NOT, sorry... then you will get bad press, and people will laugh when you are tone deaf enough to call OTHER peoples AVN's slop.
Make what you want. No one is saying you cant. I can share my thoughts, and ask for features, that is the price you pay for putting it out there and allowing public comment. I cannot make you do it though. What I can do, is tell you as someone who is a ground level, dawn of, day 0, gamer, of over 45+ year experience, that if you want your game to actually not just be slop of a different colour, then make the hard locked, dead end elements, work. Actually justify them, and warn of them, and make them consequential, much more than you do, or drop them, or just make your game solely a Romance AVN and remove any chance of them altogether.
You do none of that, and betray gamers hours of investment in your game, irrespective of if it is a free game or not... then you can expect every poor reception and bad rating and negative review you get. Just something to think about.
Have nice day too.
