You don't have to play chess to proceed in this game; you never had to. With v0.4 (Public Release), you also don't need to unlock Strip Chess (for the first chapter only) to progress to the next chapter. I agree with you about it's impact on the player base. Thanks for the honest feedback.
I never said you had to play the chess to progress, but it is still content nonetheless that some people won't get to experience because they don't want go through all of that. all the juicy stuff in the game is locked behind annoying puzzles. In some games that might be alright, and some people might enjoy that, but I would assume I'm speaking for a fairly big majority when I say that a visual novel is supposed to be relaxing like reading a book. After all, they are just adult picture books in a way. No one wants to read a picture book where they can't turn the page until they do a really convoluted puzzle first. It's the main reason a lot of visual novels are letting the player choose between sandbox or a more traditional experience since sandbox even can be really tedious.
If you don't like it, don't play it. Many of us actually do enjoy the extra stuff. Seriously. Chess is a major part of HS DxD. I love that Naitoh put in the effort to add that and set his game aside from every other VN. All it does is give alternate outfits for a single room so you aren't missing out if you don't wanna do it. As someone who learned chess by playing with their father at age 4, I love it.
I personally don't mind the chess because I'm aware that there isn't much content behind them, I was just adding it as something to be mindful of. There are a ton of other VN's that do similar things for players to unlock bonus content, which I like. The real issue is accessibility, is there really a reason to lock players behind unnecessarily long codes? If they are gonna have a feature like that it should be tied into optional content like the chess since it takes your focus away from the story since your trying to remember the code. There are people in the world who don't have that kind of memory retention. If your passionate and want to show people what you created, shouldn't you try to make it accessible to as many people as possible? But in all honesty, do you really need to whiteknight for the dev? It's feedback. Regardless of whether it's positive or negative, it's something for the developer to take in and reflect upon. THEY decide whether or not to listen. I'm not telling them how to make their game, I'm making a suggestion. THEY decide whether that suggestion is worth consideration. Not me, not you; them. It's ultimately their game to develop after all. I just felt that it was a waste of potential, since I genuinely think they did a great job on the visuals. It's just hard to appreciate them and understand what's going on when I'm distracted by meaningless puzzles and such that, to my knowledge, serve no purpose or have any relation to the story at all. 🤷♂️
Ah! I see now what you meant. I do agree, as does the dev, that the code thing in chapter 1 was rather long and complicated. All other chapters have been much easier to unlock the chess game. As to what I said, I wouldn't call my defense "White knighting". It just seemed like you were going on and on about how it made the game not worth playing, which I see now isn't the case. Tone and inflection are lost in translation thru text. I apologize if I came across too strong and appreciate you taking the time to clarify.
Hey Naitoh, thank you for granting the wish of many frustrated people who watched the anime and have been pissed off that it teased us because it is all about sex and yet nothing sexual ever actually happens because it is an anime for kids therefore thank you so much for granting us an adult version who doesn't blue-ball us at last. 😉
But could you please actually include the events from inter-chapters INTO the actual story?
Because you are actually frustrating us too if you grant us sexual content only to tell us that it didn't actually happen because each chapter continues the story right where the previous chapter left it which implies that everything between chapters is some fan-service which didn't actually happen in the story which is very frustrating so could you please actually include it into the story?
I think you meant "Are you oblivious to what I've just said" because "delirious" doesn't make sense in this context, you don't master english, do you? 😏
Also, I think you meant "made for ADULTS, NOT made for KIDS" because it doesn't make sense to insist on "made for" in this context either since you want to differentiate adults from kids. 😉
And do you actually believe that repeating yourself with caps will change anything to the fact that High School DxD is a SHONEN, NOT a SEINEN? 😅
If you don't even know what "shonen" and "seinen" are then you better stop humiliating yourself showing off your ignorance when it is obvious that I know more about the topic than you do, I'm just sayin'. 😉
"MA" means "Mature Audience", NOT "Adult Audience" otherwise it would be rated "Adults Only", "Mature Audience" basically means "high-schoolers" just like the characters of this story, all teenagers, NOT adults, I'm just sayin'. 😉
I say delirious because you're so caught up in believing what you say that you don't understand how morally wrong you are.
I'm perfectly happy with the way I used capitalization to get my point across.
I don't care about shonen or seinien, I care about the fact that someone like you thinks it's okay for kids to watch an anime with such provocative and sexually suggestive content.
Mature Audience means it's for adults and no one younger. In this case, in the United States you must be 17 and older to watch HS DxD. Which means only adults are aloud to watch it, and this applies to many other countries as well. I don't see what the characters in the series has to do with anything, when I'm specifically talking about real life.
I really hope someone like yourself has no children because that would be worrisome, but I find that unlikely. "I'm just sayin'" x2 😏
The more you talk and show off your ignorance and unintelligence and the more I pity you... 😟
And I find it amusing how you keep accusing me of what you do yourself as if you were arguing with yourself more than with me. 😏
This topic is not about morality and especially not about YOUR perception of morality that you are delirious enough to believe that your perception must be everyone's perception, morality is a subjective and debatable concept therefore it is pointless to attempt to impose your own moral values to everyone and only unwise and arrogant self-righteous people do so.
You actually didn't get anything across since all that you have been doing is running in circles going nowhere like a dumb dog who runs after their own tail, moreover you obviously don't master language which doesn't help your case, as I said, the more you talk and the more you display your lack of intelligence.
Let me guess, you are a religious zealot, are you not? You certainly talk like one at least. Like someone who was indoctrinated and taught concepts that they don't actually understand because they never actually thought about them by themselves, they merely repeat and spread the ideas from other people with fanatical devotion like mindless robots which only execute the processes that they were programmed to do.
Are you actually thinking that high schoolers are ignorant of sex? Because that would be very naive of you. 😏
And as I said, HIGH SCHOOL DxD was, as its very name entails, designed for high schoolers, meaning teenagers who are not yet adults but are no more innocent children already but still kids as they still lack autonomy and life experience to become adults.
And the anime doesn't actually contains any sexual content, only SUGGESTIVE content, it is not a hentai, it is not a porn anime, it is not even a seinen which means an anime for adults since you are so ignorant and foolish to argue about topics that you are clueless about and so arrogant and vain that you proudly claim that you don't care about actual knowledge and accurate truth because you care only about your own delusional beliefs, it is an ecchi shonen, it is a suggestive anime for horny kids whose hormones are all over the place because of puberty but which doesn't contain ANY actual sexual content, hence the need to develop an ACTUAL adult version which DOES contain sexual content and not merely suggestive content to tease and blue-ball. 😉
Actually, why are you even here if you are so prude in the first place?
I hope you do realize that we are on a porn visual novel's page and that therefore here is a place of lust and that your puritan prude ass is unwelcome here, right? 😾
Which begs the question again: Why are you even here if you are so prude in the first place?
Because you think 17 years old is adult? People are still in high school at 17, they didn't even enter college yet, they still live with their parents, they are not old enough to live by themselves and their parents are still responsible for them therefore they are not autonomous and independent, they are still children socially and legally.
You are adult when you are autonomous and don't depend on anyone anymore and not before that.
My children would be far smarter than yours, that's for sure. 😉
Congratulations, you mistake writing a book as intelligence. My lack of more complex words doesn't mean anything, I'd just rather not waste my time straining my brain on someone who's willing to deny the fact that they're a weirdo. Yes, I'm accusing you because you keep claiming it's made for kids, and of course it comes full circle because you continue to either misunderstand what I'm saying or are so unwilling to accept the truth. Someone who flaunts their "intelligence" or "IQ" really are just idiots who lack social awareness, and it quite honestly seems like a sign of insecurity. Once again, I don't understand why you're circling back to compare the characters in the series to real life high schoolers. Especially when I've been talking about people below the age of 17. I am religious, but there are things I find wrong about religion so I follow my own path. I don't have anything against anyone here who wants to enjoy themselves, as long as they're of legal age like ourselves. I also believe the same applies to the anime or manga. It's not made for horny ... I'm not going to say that because that's just gross. It's made for horny adults, saying horny this way feels weird but oh well here we are. Before I write an entire book, I'll stop here, I'm sure you'll find a way to beat around the bush on your original claim like you have been.
I'm bored of this dialogue with a deaf individual therefore this will be my last answer to you then I will ignore you because your replies don't bring anything to the discussion since all that you do is camping on your positions with a closed-mind unwilling to actually listen to what people have to say, only repeating the exact same unevolving speech again and again like a broken record which is boring to listen to and projecting your own insecurities on people as if you were arguing with yourself more than with them which doesn't require anyone but yourself to argue with yourself and I am unwilling to serve as your mirror because that is boring since you don't actually listen to what I say since you are more focused on arguing with yourself using me as a mirror to project your own insecurities on therefore this will be my last participation to this monologue of yours.
Did I mention anything about the length of my writings or complex words or my IQ? No I did not, they are your remarks, not mine, therefore replying to something that I did not even mention is futile, as I said, you are not actually replying to me but to yourself, you are monologuing and using me as a mirror to argue with yourself and I'm fed up of playing this boring role.
For example, you claim that "your lack of more complex words doesn't mean anything" but it obviously means something to you since you mention it on your own even though I did not, I only pointed out your misuse of words and lack of mastery of language because you put caps on the wrong words in your sentences, I actually didn't mention anything about using complex words, this is your own insecurity that you project on me as if I was the one to blame you for it even though I actually did not even mention it, it comes from you alone.
"I'd just rather not waste my time straining my brain on someone who's willing to deny the fact that they're a weirdo." This should be my line actually because you obviously are making me waste my time with your monologue and you feel insecure about the difference of level of intelligence that you perceive in our interactions while you are unwilling to actually listen to what I have to say and you enclose yourself into your own delusional beliefs, you even used the word "delirious" on me, once more, you project on me what you think of yourself.
"and of course it comes full circle because you continue to either misunderstand what I'm saying or are so unwilling to accept the truth." There you go, you reply to yourself while pretending to reply to me again, I don't actually need to reply anything to you other than making you remark that you already replied to yourself while pretending to reply to me, this "dialogue" has been a monologue from the start and I have been nothing but a mirror that you used to argue with yourself, you even mentioned a "lack of social awareness" which are your own words and that says it all, "and it quite honestly seems like a sign of insecurity" that you project on me, my point exactly.
"Especially when I've been talking about people below the age of 17." No, you have not, you actually mentioned "17 and older" but nothing about "below the age of 17" up until now.
You are religious, I deduced as much because it is a religious thing to rely on faith into delusional beliefs rather than on actual learning, understanding and knowledge, you demonstrated as much when you claimed that you don't care about the knowledge that you lacked and that I shared with you and you kept repeating your own beliefs again and again while rejecting new knowledge and evolving your perception.
I already stated that High School DxD is a shonen and not as a seinen and I already explained that shonen are japanese fictions destined to kids while seinen are japanese fictions destined to adults, therefore I already stated that High School DxD was designed as a shonen which means an anime for kids and I don't care that you deny this fact because it contradicts your own delusional beliefs, I don't have to add anything to this fact.
"I'm sure you'll find a way to beat around the bush on your original claim like you have been.", you mean like you have been doing from the start and as I already stated, I'm fed up of this boring monologue you have been having with yourself, I'm bored to play the role of your mirror and since you have been replying to yourself more than to me, you don't actually need me to continue, just keep replying to yourself as you have been doing without using me as a mirror to project on me what you think of yourself, I'm done with you anyway, farewell.
I already answered to this question within the discussion which followed my initial comment and it would be redundant to repeat what I already said and that you can already read however if you have more to discuss that has not been discussed yet then sure, I will discuss with you as long as we are not repeating the previous discussion. 😉