- Jan 26, 2012
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I don't care about the balance of netori vs netorare/se games, so stay as they are. What matters to me the most is the quality of the woman and quality of the relationship. It's why Boku no Kanojo wa Gatenkei is such a highly rated games despite it being so old.
Same argument can be made for movies or tv shows. Weak characters usually results in a series being dropped or widely criticized. Biggest example is Game of Thrones Season 8 when quality of dialog and character interactions just disappeared and you're left with characters acting outside of their characteristics and failing to develop a sense of reality for the audience.
If you make a good game with good characters and logically characters, then it doesn't matter if it's netori or netorare I'll buy it. One example of things that turn me off greatly is dumb blackmail situations. I recently played the first Homestay game, the one with Danny that got translated into English: https://vndb.org/v20763
I played the mystery male route first, fantastic stuff. I love the explanation that he thought the woman that was sent over was spam, and Danny digitally altered the wife so she doesn't look like his wife. Totally agree that's possible and believable, unlike Rinjin's MC which had exact premise: https://vndb.org/v20484, only the MC didn't do ANYTHING about his wife getting fucked over and over again, viewed on tape. So good for Homestay here for the male side
For the female side, bonkers. The entire premise of Danny getting into the wife's pants was she wanted to stop Danny from making a move on the pre-teen (less than 10 year old) looking loli. So she's "stepping up" to jerk, suck, and fuck to "protect" her. What? If I tried to do what Danny did, I'll get kicked out of my homestay instantly. The wife will call the husband, the husband will either come home and kick my ass. Or the wife will just lock the door and call the cops when I go to school. So another example of dumb story turning me off rather than POV.
Another is the art being unrealistically ugly: In QOS ♠ Wife [RJ358957] that was just shared above has the woman with the ugliest pair of tits I've seen. They look like the fat whale at Walmart that you find here in America that can't get off their scooter. It's like: Do these artists not know what beautiful breasts look like? I watch Japanese porn so I know their pornstars have nice breasts. Globally every plastic surgeon that does breast implants have a universal sense of perfect breast. There's a very mathematically sound shape with nipples point slightly upwards and them being symmetrical and round. A simple google of "breast female breasts" do NOT have fat cow tits. So why do devs do this? I can't help but think that they're incapable and incompetent and hence I don't even want to know about their writing if they don't have basic symmetry in their head. So, why would I care if that QOS game is netori or netorare, it's not good either way.
I agree with most of what you said, although sometimes i have to turn my head off to enjoy a game (Homestay is a good example because of exactly what you said, i mean like hello FBI-chan here xD?), on the other hand blackmail is used a lot because sadly it works in RL, personally i like drugs, blackmail, mind control, etc if used well, blackmail is the best example i can give, as in a bad example of blackmail is "i have this photo of you fucking/sucking or OMG is this KISSING your completely legal* boyfriend ?!" *i add legal because if it was something like a teacher x student then there is room for blackmail*, but a good one would be evidence of a crime wether real or fabricated (false charges can be just as damaging).
Art is ironically more important as a turn off for me too, i have played and enjoyed games (or managas) with bad art but that it isn't eye cancer inducing xD, but some games with "good" art turn me off when the proportions are just ridiculous for the theme or setting.