Trophy Thoughts

[Taruta13]

I know this is a pointless topic but it has to be made for every game that comes out.

 

By this time I have abandoned my last account and left it to rot. After subjecting my eyes to half-naked demonesses making out with the main character in this series, I have decided that visual novels are just plain bad for various reasons I won't list here. However, now that PSN is cracking down hard on shovelware, the companies like Webnitech are forced to pull their entire selection from the PSN store, meaning that(yes, they did release The Pig D Deluxe, which is only slightly more complex than the Pig D) and similar games like The Jumping [Foodstuff] and [Insert Name Here] Journey series are getting cut too, meaning that soon those stupidly easy platinums are no longer playable. A void is formed, and guess what fills it? Visual Novels, as they are just choose-your-own-adventure manga literature created by Japanese companies who discovered how to sell their games: Add in the Persona 5 fast-forward function so nobody has to read the game and the only thing they need to do is make the right choices to get all the ending trophies. Sakura Succubus doesn't even do that, there is only one path through the games and they are hitting for the lowest common demonimator, I mean denominator - red-blood American male bachelors like me who have never kissed a girl in their lives and want to experience sex.

 

I know most Japanese visual novels are aimed at anime-like romance with some nudity and porn thrown in(since the Japanese culture is more open about sex than us Americans) but still, I feel like this series is just trying to get men horny - too bad they had to add the Persona 5 fast-forward feature in so people can platinum the game. I did platinum A Winter's Daydream on all three consoles(Vita, PS4, PS5) and while it also has auto-advance, there is no speed up and auto-advance disables trophies, so I have to mash through text, so I can get a gist of what's going on.

 

I didn't know jack sh** about what was going on between the characters in Legends Talia when I platinumed it on my last account. All I know is that people in the know say the two female warriors were fighting a dark dragon and they both ended up in bed for lesbian sex. *shrug* The story only went for 30 seconds before ending. Seriously, who thought having a visual NOVEL, a medium which you peruse to kill time, would have an option to skip all the text? If I did that with the entire Midnight Louie series I own, I'd be confused and get rid of the books immediately. ?

 

But what does everything think? Should Winged Cloud be driven to bankruptcy or am I just cynical? One thing is for sure, I broke up with the Sakura Succubuses after their fifth outing was announced.

[JEDI_BROTHERS]

It took 5 of these games to figure out you don't like them?

[Helyx]

These would be more appealing if they weren't censored. 

 

Still though, I like boobies.

[Taruta13]

57 minutes ago, JEDI_BROTHERS said:

It took 5 of these games to figure out you don't like them?

One. The only reason I did Sakura Succubus 2-4 was because I was stupid in my last account and wanted to hit over 300 platinums. NEVER AGAIN.

[iriihutoR84]

There are different kinds of visual novels. Some have choices that help shape the story based on your decisions and some don't. There is no failure in one being linear, it was just designed to tell a linear story. All text-based novels and most video games do this so it's not really an uncommon narrative approach.

 

Feels like your other main complaints are "this game advertising itself with scantily clad anime girls with massive boobs is designed to make men horny" and "you can optionally skip the text". You're complaining about Legends of Talia ending after 30 seconds but that was your choice. You bought text-based games where you weren't interested in the story and then rushed through them for the platinum trophy. 

 

My trophy thoughts are that games that can be finished in 5 minutes should not have a platinum trophy because this inevitably leads to companies exploiting this as a marketing tactic thanks to sites like PSNP.  This makes people avoid experiencing the games as they were intended i.e. text skipping in VNs or playing only the first 10 levels in a 50 levels long Ratalaika game because those first 10 levels was all that was required for the plat. Text skipping itself is fine and helps you revisit parts of the story which you may be interested in re-reading. 

Edited December 2, 2022 by iriihutoR84