Didn't like it. The protagonist is soulless (and the way the game tries to evoke sympathy to him comes across as emotionally manipulative and hamfisted, constantly reminding us how pathetic he is), the worldbuilding is non-sensical (Why Police force don't use those power orbs if they are the ones who need them the most?), The plot is boring (The protagonist just keeps being dragged around town by every person he meets because he is someone important... apparently) and the update schedule is so long I can't imagine how anyone can have patience for waiting for updates. The artstyle are unique and guys are hot, but sadly that's not enough for me :-(
I understand that, but I wish you too would understand that there is so much patience people have, and if it took you whopping 3 — 4 years just for its main love interest to get its second day then maybe you shouldn’t make visual novels at all, because at this point its disrespectful towards both casual readers for tasting their patience and patreon supporters for wasting their money.
You sound bitter for whatever reason. I don't charge upfront for Patreon, and usually I withheld charging for the months that I don't update. And this isn't a business, Patreon is meant to be for those who wants to support. No one is obligated to. It is not compulsory. Stop treating it like one.
And disrespectful how? I'm not obligated to do literally anything/release content other than because of my want. You seem to be very entitled about it for whatever reason. I appreciate the support of my fans of course and it motivates me to keep making them.
This VN is free. If you don't like it, move on. Go outside, touch grass.
You DON'T have to read it. You CAN criticize it, but this isn't constructive at all. There's a lot of malice to it for it to even take seriously.
You do know they have a life right? They're not obligated to make updates frequently for anyone, it's just a hobby he likes making.
This is not some big project VN or something, this is just 1 person that likes making VN's and showed it to the world.
Is his update schedule wack? Sure it is but that doesn't mean you can decide on which person can or cannot make a VN because of their time management, like who knows maybe he got some problems in life that he needs to sort out before having free time again to make an update.
Also VN's are just a game you pass time with, not your life centered around it. If you really want to and wait for 4 years just for a single update then you have to get a life or just read some other VN's.
Note this is a work of 1 person and they can do whatever they want with it and it is not our place to judge him or his time management
Also if your going to give constructive criticism, be nice 🙂👍
> You do know they have a life right?
Okay? Then why even bother making anything? I mean as far as I am aware even doing this much work already have taken out from dev's life, so why even bother at this point?
> They're not obligated to make updates frequently for anyone, it's just a hobby he likes making.
The moment you entice your audience to spend their pretious time and emotional investment on your product you *do* become obligated to deliver on it, "it's just a hobby" isn't an excuse anymore. It would be one thing if it would be just a collection of short stories, but this is a somekind of slowburn mystery with multiple plotlines going on, an I can say with 90% that none of them are ever going to get resolved because both the audience and its creator will run out of patience before that.
> Also if your going to give constructive criticism, be nice
Ok you are right on that one, but with death of freedom of expression when you always have to be nice to everyone it's becoming increasingly difficult to just not let it all out. I always tried to be nice to vn's I've criticised and it led it to me writing some absurd posts and previews with something like "right now this novel is kinda shit but I still have faith in it" because large portion of fvns are so bad I have feeling they were written by chatgpt (althought at least this vn isn't of those so I guess I can give it that as a compliment)
Your right on those points, the dev has a really whack update schedule and I'd be lying that I can wait for a Gran day 3.
But even so, isn't that all fvn's? I don't see a fvn that has a weekly update, either it takes 2-3 months to put out an update or an entire year so you really have to lower your expectations and just hopelessly wait (this is copium) even my favorite fvn can have delays and there's really nothing we can do.
We either bash the dev to make more consistent updates (will not work) or fossilize until a new update comes out 😭 we can't really do anything.
Naho! I agree with you! really many or well almost all games here in the patreon which are short stories, have to wait many months up to a year because the "game maker" collapsed or other explanation.... why do they then make ten different games at the same time? I do not understand! homecoming morenatsu revisited is one example! the game has been made for years yet has not progressed anywhere because they are doing other games at the same time! really outrageous but money is good for them! Prehistoric Relations Crew is also one game that was updated 2 years ago and nothing has been reported or said what the reason is! alarming to my mind and outrageous that they do about!
"Why Police force don't use those power orbs if they are the ones who need them the most?"
Because orbs are dangerous af for their users and you can't force every police officer to use one. If their world have laws similar to ours, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to force anyone into bonding with orb (which is said to be dangerous on its own), because hu… err… beastman rights. Plus, you can't tell if orb will be useful in battle before bonding with it.
I haven't reached this explanation because the game was so excruciatingly dull, but, isn't it kind of the entire job of the police? To sacrifice their own safety for the sake of civilians? If yes then the government will absolutely want them to use them in order to improve their effectiveness at it, and if they don't want that — they won't be hired to begin with. And on that note
> You can't tell if the orb will be useful in battle before bonding with it
First of all, they don't necessarily have to be useful in the battle to help the police with their job, as it involves much more other things besides gunfights. But more importantly, you mean to tell me this world hasn't got a clue how its own rules work? For the entire time of its existence, no one bothered to conduct research to test those orbs and figure out how they function? I find that to be unbelievable.
Were you, like, reading? Orbs are simply not something to be relied on. Any sane person will use his powerful orb only in case of emergency and pay hefty price for it. Possibly die. Weak orbs may not even be worth using. And yes, orbs are still a subject of research. So I guess police of their world values lives of their officers more than insignificant ability boost (cuz, well, there are other tools and equipment besides orbs and boring police uses them instead of suicide tickets).