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It straight up takes a solid 4, 5 hours of practice to be able to play the AoTTG as intended. That applied to the original game too. But it's like learning to ride a bike. It doesn't make sense until it suddenly just does, it'll click for you, and it'll be incredibly natural to play when it does. I understand if it's a deal breaker for you, but I promise it's incredibly fun and satisfying when you invest the time to learn how it works.

To give you a better explanation, this game requires an absolutely absurd level of speed and precision with your inputs to be able to move effectively. When you start playing, even as a skilled PC gamer with a mouse and keyboard, it'll be hard to even move around. A controller just doesn't provide the level of precision at speed you'd need to be able to enjoy the game. I don't know if there are any plans to make it controller compatible or if it's possible, but I just don't think this is the kind of game that would be very fun on controller. It's like playing a driving game on mouse and keyboard. It can be done, but it's just not as enjoyable as other input methods.

As others have mentioned, the writing and characterization is sincerely a league above. Each of the characters simultaneously feels flawed, with features that makes them grate, while also having virtues and facets that make you care for them, understand them, and not be able to judge them. Each of them fills a well known archetype and falls in line with those stereotypes, but breaks away in ways that both make sense and surprise you. Even Erin, a character and archetype that seems designed to make you hate him, is just understandable and reasonable enough that you really just can't help but like him too. 

This is the kind of NSFW game that makes me wish it wasn't even NSFW, just because the writing is occasionally so wholesome and complex that it overshadows the NSFW aspects; Which is a good thing, for the record.

Really looking forward to seeing what happens with it going forward.