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perilegs · 5 months

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I would love to get into more new farm sim and visual novel games, but I feel like a lot of them not only fail to create their own unique games, but present a very sanitized story and characters.

For the uniqueness aspect - it's not enough to create "stardew valley but 3d and in space" or something. It's still a stardew valley copy. Taking inspiration is one thing, but what new are you bringing to the table if your only source of inspiration is one game? I've already spent hundreds of hours with these exact mechanics on another game, why should I do that on something that is basically just a reskin of that?

And I feel like when it comes to characters and story, a lot of creators are afraid of negative feedback or doing something wrong, so they keep all of their characters very "morally good" and pure and sanitized so there's no real character development. Characters may have a troubled past or struggle with something, but god forbid if it affects them as a character in any negative way.

Idk something about marketability ruining creativity.

#this is not just a problem with these genres! like i know in soulslikes its a problem how many of the games play out exactly like #hollow knight or bloodborne #but like idk man compare very marketable games to something like f&h? and incredible deeply flawed experience that brings so much to the #table with its gameplay mechanics and has interesting lore and amazing character designs #bc the creator did not focus on marketability. sure. once again. it has its flaws. many of them. and i get why they turn people off from #the game and i dont blame anyone who doesnt want to play it due to anything that happens in it. but like. it's a good game!#but yea the fucking sdv copies and VERY sanitized vn characters are driving me a bit insane #its so so incredibly bland #idk i just had to ramble about this augh #also i know i worded this very harsh but it just kind of gets on my nerves gfhjxbdk #maybe i need to look at my itch io folder of games i want to play and calm down #bc the world is full of wonderful deeply meaningful games with unique takes #leevi talks

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