I will always just try to play from save. 90% of the time I can remember the story and characters. But I also track all the AVNs and what patch I have played and write myself a little note on the game for future reference.
Always, I love that psychopath stuff. Although there are only a few games that I can think of that have done that. Ecchi Sensei off the top of my head.
What about VNs that just provide the illusion of choice? Plenty of games just give you different dialogue options but none have any really meaning. Or games that the only choice you make is a binary"do you want to have sex?"
I played Satisfactory on first release and loved it. I am just waiting until it's out of early access.
In AVNs sandbox shouldn't be a thing. It makes sense for a building/factory game, not for smut.
Before this whole virus/malware thing I would have said that it probably was a waste of time. If hidden hacked malware becomes more prevalent this isn't a bad idea.
I disagree, I play video games all the time with the sound off. Doesn't mean it isn't a game anymore.
I would go mad if I didn't play my own ambient music playing Civilization. I also listen to my own ambient music while reading VN as well.
Seeing as both franchises have been destroyed by woke politics. I loved star wars and star trek growing up. Now I despise both. I hate what the rainbow hair twitter harpies have done to our entertainment.
I have never seen the show so I can't really say. That being said I would say that the first two books are pretty good like game of thrones in space. Long books but are easily digestable.