For everyone who hated Sakura Spirit: sorry c:
For everyone who can tolerate Sakura Spirit, another game from the same guys called Sakura Angels
It's even 25% off right now!
Posted Jan 16, 2015, 10:54 PM UTC
This better happen
I sometimes get Angels and Angles mixed up when reading.
I was really hoping you said Angle.
Yeah, I think Steam should have criteria for what's sold on there. It has to be a game. :l Sakura Spirit isn't even written well.
Not sure why people are disagreeing with you, it is actually terribly written. The entire game is fan service.
It's cool. It happens.
Is it really Steams place to be judging "Games" on their writing? I mean I can understand Steam not putting up games that are like actually legit broken, or if they are deceptively described like that one zombie survival game that I can't remember the name of. But if a game is just shit, but otherwise it works as intended and isn't lying about the content it is offering, and people will give them money for it, why should it not be sold there? I feel like this is one of those things the free market will solve, and if people demand poorly written VNs, you just have to accept that is the world you live in.
I didn't mean that Steam should judge the writing. That was my personal opinion. But they shouldn't sell what is essentially a cleverly disguised audio book from a writer who wouldn't be able to sell their writing on Amazon. Gamers get duped instead.
Well we are getting into a discussion on the whole "Not a game" issue, so we would also have to question if things like Dear Ester, Gone Home, Graveyard, ect. belong on steam since these things are also debated as not being interactive enough to truly be called games. Personally I think of Steam as more of an "Entertainment software" distribution service rather than a game distribution service. Also I don't think anyone buy SS is getting duped, there does not seem to be anything misleading about, anyone getting it should know exactly what they are getting into.
Believe it or not, but visual novels usually DO have gameplay, in the form of (at least) dialogue choices that branch out the story. It's a genre that's been going on strong in Japan and has only recently gotten popular in the west. But, as with any genre, there are the good ones, and the bad ones. And Sakura Spirit is pretty damn bad.
Which is my point. Sakura Spirit has nothing that qualifies as gameplay. Choose your own adventure books I read as a kid had more gameplay.
When you say "Game", will there be any actual interactive parts, or will this be another semi-erotic picture book?
Take a guess.
What really makes me giggle is that, as far as I can tell, there's a Quick Save (Qsave) and Quick Load (Qload) option in the in-game menu. You know, for those heart stopping moments when you're right in the middle of the action and you need to get things just right!
Mind you, I've only seen it second hand via-grump. The "Q" might stand for something else.