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Pulltop's new VN, why I might not play it


Clephas

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Pulltop's new VN, Miagete Goran, Yozora no Hoshi o looks beautiful, has a large cast of voiced characters with sprites, and generally is an obviously high-budget VN... but it is also a VN I'm not really interested in.

You might want to ask why... after all, I like Pulltop's games in general, and it doesn't look any worse than the others by the same company, in terms of production values.  It is also being hyped a lot (inasmuch as VNs are ever hyped) and a lot of the people who have just begun playing Japanese VNs are excited... unfortunately, veterans are somewhat less so (with a few rare exceptions).

Here are the reasons:

1.  The existence of an the protagonist's memborship in an astronomy club.  I'm going to be blunt... no other club has so many protagonists as members of it in all of VNs.  For every four moege, there is one with a 'tenmon bu' and the protagonist is either a member or helps out.  The obsession with stars is more of an otome thing, so I can't help but wonder why... I really am tired of reading VN lectures on constellations I don't give a crap about.

2.  The existence of two osananajimi heroines... the osananajimi heroine is the biggest cop-out heroine type.  The reason?  Because the simple statement 'we are osananajimis' becomes an excuse for laziness in character development and relationship development.  It also becomes an excuse for one of the most fundamentally idiotic tropes out there... the 'osananajimi>lovers transition'.  I have yet to see one of these that wasn't annoying and made real sense when you took a step back and thought about it.

3.  The decision to include a non-entity protagonist.  Understand, one of the signs any given VN-maker will almost always give - without realizing they are giving it - when they are going to make the protagonist a non-entity or cipher is failing to give the protagonist his own character profile, even when other male characters have one.  I am sick and tired of this reliance on using 'normal' protagonists with a group of heroines harem.  It doesn't work and it doesn't make sense, so I wish they'd just stop it.  It is one thing if the heroine's link to the protagonist is non-love/non-interest before you get on the actual path... it is almost conceivable that way.  However, the dense idiots created by most of these companies just don't work as harem masters.

 

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you can't blame them for doing the safe thing and not risking anything on the other hand there could be a really good story hidden there, maybe there is a route that it is really well written, without playing it you will never know :P 

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True but when you are like me or Clephas after reading more than 500 Visual novels, you are just tired to read the same thing over again and again. So without any originality in the story I don't want to risk myself in something that I don't like. I suppose it's the same for him. Nevertheless, I always read review or test from a lot of people so if the game is good I will take peek. 

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I don't necessarily think originality is necessary... I just want them to take a step back and think about whether they really think a doofus with a below-average IQ who is sort of 'nice' would be able to form a natural harem of bishoujo waifu candidates.  Suspending disbelief for that particular trope over and over got old years ago.

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