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Well, thankfully, it doesn't happen too much on my other projects at least. But yeah, a lot of people seem to have a problem with this one for some reason xD

I guess it's partly because, weirdly, this is my most viewed/downloaded project, so the number of people exposed to it is bigger than my other projects.

It's so bad though that the total rating for Yandere Heaven on itch has lost almost an entire star so it's sitting at around 4.1 out of 5 total at the moment. It sucks because it means if people are searching for stuff to play on itch and searching by rating, this project will get pushed to the bottom of the pile the lower the total rating goes >.<

Many of the 1* ratings don't have a comment so I have literally no idea why the person who rated it hates it so much, haha.

But a lot of the 1-3* ratings are all gripes with the project that show the people who rated either don't get that this one is a fandub or they don't care to take that into account when rating :(

I've tried to make it very clear on both the game page, and as of the new update, in the game too x3 But it still didn't help because right after you left that lovely rating/review, someone else left a 3* one saying "Art and voice acting carry, plot kinda mid/game mechanics could be better with more options"

Now, that's a totally fair review, BUT, it's like it doesn't take into account that this is a fandub >.< I actually agree that the story/plot isn't super amazing, but I've faithfully localised it. The plot is what it is. I'm not gonna try to change it or improve it because then it wouldn't be a proper fandub anymore >.<

Same goes with mechanics. I can't add game mechanics to this particular project because it wouldn't work with my goal of making it a faithful fandub. The source material is just CDs x3 there are no choices and mechanics in CDs. If I add more choices and mechanics, I'd be deviating from the CD content, and I don't wanna do that.

At least a 3* rating makes sense with that comment. And the person who wrote it probably doesn't realise that anything under a 5* rating on itch is almost the equivalent of giving a 1* because itch's rating system works really stupidly. Basically, if a person doesn't feel like they want to give 5*, it would be more helpful to the dev if they just didn't rate at all >.<

BUT, it's clear they haven't rated the game with the fact that it's a fandub in mind. I'd like to hope that anyone who has heard the original CDs would appreciate what I've tried to do more and understand why there aren't choices and fancy mechanics and stuff.

There are a lot more less reasonable ratings on the project though, with a fair few giving 1* and saying that they liked it but it's too short o.O Or they liked it but there aren't enough choices. 

At the end of the day, everyone's entitled to their opinion and I know you can't please everyone x3 There will always be folks out there who don't like stuff for one reason or another, but I just wish that people would be more considerate to devs when rating stuff is all >.<

My biggest concern is that people who don't realise this is a fandub project and think it sucks don't realise it's not my story and stuff. They might just think I make bad games if they think this one is bad, and then they probably won't bother to check out all the other stuff I've made which is totally different and actually my own original content, haha. So it worries me that maybe this project is a bad advert for my portfolio as a whole because it's not particularly representative of my other content >.<

I'm probably overthinking things x3 And there are still plenty of people like you who have enjoyed this project still :3 So that's what I should focus on really! It's just kind of hard to not feel disheartened sometimes when people leave crappy ratings for the project when they don't understand what I'm trying to achieve with it.

At the end of the day, it's a fandub I started for fun. It's not supposed to have a deep and serious storyline with complex characters. It's supposed to be casual and kinda silly like the CDs x3 That's what makes it fun to work on cos it's so different from my original stories and characters which tend to be on the darker/more serious side!

Thank you though for all your support and encouragement :3 I keep trying my best to ignore when people are mean or silly, haha. My brother said people who hate on free games are daft and I shouldn't spare them a second of my thoughts xD He said he will never understand how anyone can be mean about free games cos it's not like people have paid for it, so if they don't like it, they haven't lost anything, haha.

Ahh, well, I always read all the comments and stuff on itch and try my best to reply to everything because if someone has taken time out of their day to write something nice, I want to make sure I can show that I appreciate it ^-^ and I appreciate all your kind words very much! So thank you for being such a kind soul :3