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Can One Scene Ruin an Entire Game?
By ImJustThatKinky • 6 years ago
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I’ve talked about how Reclaim Reality sadly didn’t reach its $2,000, goal. I voiced my complaint when it comes to how they implemented the voice acting in the game. But another person in a forum voiced why he believe the game will not succeed. Here’s their hot take:


Well, no offense but I will probably pass, you game does look very good and interesting but the whole tentacle sex machine thing is putting me off quite a bit, and honestly I don't really understand what you target demographic is, most of the game is yuri so I assume it is the yuri community, but while I obviously can't speak for the majority, I do know for sure that a good chunk of the yuri community dislike that kind of things, I learned about your game because someone made a thread about it on the Hella Yuri group on Steam and the tentacle machine thing is putting off quite a few people.


Well, for me at least, it is difficult to enjoy a game if I strongly dislike a significant part of that game, and I assume a lot of people are in the same situation. I do understand that not all the robots have tentacles, but the combo heavy yuri with rapist robots is just really weird, most people who aren't really into yuri will probably not be interested by the game because the yuri part seems quite important, and many people who are into yuri will not be interested because of the robot stuff, so in the end you will only reach a small minority of people, which isn't a problem in itself but your goal is $2,000 per month by the end of the month, this seem very ambitious and frankly quite unrealistic to me, of course I might be wrong, time will tell.


Now I’ve never got this point of view. I played many adult games to get my rocks off, and one scene being presented in the game that wasn’t to my taste never deterred me from the game. The game is mostly yuri, and you can avoid the tentacle scene. So why does it just existing in the game makes you write the whole game off? You’re losing out on a lot of yuri goodness because of one scene! I won’t play the game and enjoy 3 amazing yuri scenes, just because of 1 tentacle scene. That doesn’t really make sense to me.


But hey, I hate yuri. I think it’s boring as shit. But when they finally add full voice acting, you better bet your ass that I’ll be hitting up that tentacle scene. I’m not going to let 3 boring yuri scenes stop me!


I fuck with this scene heavy!


Can one scene ruin an entire adult game for you? Is this person overreacting over one scene? Should the developer remove the tentacle scene? Tell us in the comments below.



Anon - Ozymandius241 6 years ago
Most certainly. When I came across a tranny scene in one game I just outright quit playing.
Yurian 6 years ago
I guess that person has some valid criticism. If you're asked to commit to paying for something monthly and 25% isn't to your taste that's probably an argument against it. The argument that they are adressing two target audiences that don't overlap much seems therefore valid from a business perspective. So yeah, you can just skip scenes but if you pay for them that feels bad.
---------------- 6 years ago
It depends. If it's something like a VN where one route is the gay option (or straight option, or whatever), that's not my cup of tea but OK. If I'm really invested in one route, but there's a scene where the player (but not the character) gets to see the girl cheating on the MC with a fat old guy, smiling happy while bent over a desk, then I'm out, done, kill it with fire, goodbye.
Necromorph 6 years ago
I mean, just look at Assassins Creed Odyssey and it's DLC. Shitty business practices aside, the fact that the devs didn't bother making your romance choices matter and the shit they got for that should go to show that yes, one decision or one scene completely out of the left field can ruin a good game or something you're enjoying.
Anon - Momoyo 6 years ago
I like Reclaim Reality as a game but find it kinda 'eh' when it comes to the actual action. Third Crisis has the opposite problem for me-the action is good but the game itself is kind 'eh', though that's partly because the style isn't my cup of tea and I can admit that. Honestly, I like the stories and characters of both games a lot and I hope more games go for that sort of presentation.
Anon - anonymous 6 years ago
Of course it can, it's not just whether it's skippable or not, if it's a whole fourth of the game then it's a big aspect, it's another side of these characters you like in a way you don't want to see them. If you don't like tentacle rape then you can't just ignore the fact that the characters you like get tentacle raped. One aspect can turn you off quick
Anon - anon 6 years ago
of course it can. Imagine mostly vanilla story, but one scene is rape. So if someone was into the vanilla mood, and there was one rape scene in the middle I can imagine it destroying everything for them.
Anon - Presence 6 years ago
Starless ruined my life
Anon - anon 6 years ago
The answer to that is yes, it can. The question you should be asking is "is that an appropriate response".
Anon - Ihira 6 years ago
I'm honestly going to go with the belief of overreaction. I'm not going to say that person doesn't have a right to dislike the scene, but to throw flak against the dev for it? Honestly, what happened to the days where, if you don't like it, ignore it.'? I haven't seen the scene myself so I'm not going to pretend to understand the context, but I honestly don't care about a change of pace here.