Sad that another one died because of nonsensical patreon and your typical bullshit shitting down payment methods.
Something similar is happening with mastercard and eroges.
I wonder who is behind this decisions...
As always, it depends on the writing and the role of the friend.
Action centered games always need a brother-in-arms, because women can not fit properly on that role.
Personally, the idea of playing as a girl was never something that I considered an attractive aspect of a game.
Pretty girls are sure always a good addition but I believe, considering the majority of the market, that they should be used like in Final Fantasy 7.
There are very rare exceptions...
Damn bro, sorry to hear that.
Some girls very mediocre, but mostly will be good or fantastic and very close to what you see on the internet.
Don't let that beat you down, you probably had a bad first hand.
I believe people around the internets dislike f9 for the same reason people in every single space created by humans dislike, abuse of power from those few in power.
That is the single most common element of every single disliked societal circle since the dawn of time and will never change.
Unreasonably grinding mechanics.
I value the time spent in the game more than anything it has to offer. If the game has some strange mechanic that is constantly stopping you from progress, or purposely wasting your time chasing numbers, than I will drop it.