QoL Suggestions
I have played more than few AVNs to experience different approaches of developers. I want to share quality of life improvements can be done to AVNs. I am not saying the game is bad because of these but there are other developers implement these, some don't. I wish these could be added to most of games.
Save Pages
Quickbar slot of Save Pages should have the current page. I actually thought the game can only support 9 pages of saves. The first game that I feel 9 save pages would not be enough is BaDIK with all the branching. However, you can use as many as possible pages.
Only games I see quickbar adjusting are Eternum and Artemis.
Quickbar has 20, 21, ... instead of 1, 2,.
Transition to Free Roams
This is mainly for BaDIK. In the game; after you enter free roam, you cannot go back to interaction while using scroll wheel. You cannot go back to free roam if you start interaction too.
Fortunately, swiper where you cannot even go back to previous chat is removed.
Right Click - Skip
Most of the games have this feature. You can right click to Skip and game ask you whether you want to skip next choice. If you say yes, you will skip to next choice. Only game I noticed that this feature does not work is BaDIK. With so much branching and content, it has much more replay value than any other game. I hope it will be added.
I wish we can get a "skip to next choice" option in settings. But I have never seen such a thing.
Gallery
This is mainy for Eternum. We cannot access gallery throuh main page. You need to load a save to access them. At least you do not need to revelant save file to load. After unlocking, you can access them even if you start a new playthrough.
Soundtrack Name
Popular AVNs have generally good soundtracks. But most of the time you need to find out what is playing in what scene. A hidden music player in right top corner can be added like Summer' Gone. So that we can just see what is playing.
Half Dialogues
This happens a lot in Sicae and MBML. Same render is used again with additional sentences. I look at back to where the next sentence start to see the same sentence. Then I have to skip it to read next one. This might only bother me. I wish dialogues are cut into two renders instead of given half dialogue first then complete one.
So far, these are the quality of life improvements I came up with. I want not to contradict developer's vision. I could rant about free roams, money management are not needed for AVNs but these are developer's choices and I respect them.
Posted Jun 18, 2024, 2:42 PM UTC