"I sincerely appreciate your hard work and the time you spend on game reviews"
...
"It is a humorous game in which you have to play as a girl who takes revenge on her boyfriend for the fact that he did not want to marry her. "
@squipo@CarlMuckenhoupt
It was listed in a section that looked like it might be about branching power upgrades so I guess this makes some sense. "Cultivate the meridians, nurture cinnabar fields and study the martial arts from various sects."
"The design is so messed up and I don’t even know what the mission is. It’s so much worse than the previous generation where I could touch my breasts. I think the content of the mini-game is too stupid."
contemplating the ridiculousness of an otome game where all the boys are based on my own fictional crushes, who VERY MUCH do not fit into the same universe.
in this corner, a century-old vampire who's murdered his way around the globe!
in this corner, a mystical knight who's been tortured by a shadowy religious institution!
in this corner, a sad teenage boy who likes to draw girls with big tits!
@scottmichaud Well if I pointed out that he's a ninja turtle, three of them can still manage to fit into the same dramatic story well enough, but the soft teenage boy whose response to a fight is to curl up into a ball is going to have a problem with this plot.
@CarlMuckenhoupt To me it kinda depends on what we're talking about. Some things have changed a lot since the 80s and 90s (which is as far back as I can remember).
question for #indiedevs : do you make the kind of games you also like to play? I did VN/RPGs mostly, a few card games, one first person adventure and some sports/strategy sims (but loong time ago). However the kind of game I play most are souls-like, though I can't make them for obvious reasons (too difficult to code).
@winterwolves i do LIKE vns and rpgs but they're sometimes more commitment than I have available in my brain/schedule so I actually play a lot of simple replayable action games where I can easily go in for a short session and then stop.
@smellsofbikes Accident is maybe overstating it, don't panic! I kind of missed a step getting onto a train and my leg went down the gap. Nothing broken, nothing even bleeding, just scraped and bruised and banged.
I'm getting more and more people asking for guides, even for really basic VN where you can just rollback if you pick the wrong choice.
Maybe the demand for kinetic novels (VNs without any choice) is bigger than I thought, or otherwise I don't understand this need for a guide for everything...
@winterwolves I generally dislike kinetic novels BUT i'm also going to expect there to be a guide fairly swiftly after a game comes out. You never know, some games are pretty esoteric with what combination of choices you need to get to an ending, and when you've been stumped in the past you like having the reassurance that there's a roadmap!
It doesn't mean I don't want choices - I absolutely want choices. I just want to be sure I can get the content!
Your male protagonist romancing four girls while plotting to kill a fantasy Emperor is not yuri. It's also not historical, WWI-based, or a platformer, unlike the tags you picked. #CurationWoes
@glennmagusharvey Ever since Steam started nearly forcing people to put more tags on their games and auto-suggesting tags randomly, tag spam has gotten out of hand...
@glennmagusharvey Predates the big chatGPT push iirc. THey have a limited set of tags and they have their own algorithm ideas of what tags most commonly go together and what might be related to the description you put on the game webpage, so they suggest ideas for you to pick from.
Some devs will just 'sure whatever' and take all of them. Or not even know what they MEAN. If you're not a genre expert in some of these tags you may not understand them.