>>542629727
No, I've been reading VNs a long time. I simply enjoyed Ria's route a lot. Every so often a route will click with me in a certain way. Most don't.
>>542629780
Not quite, it's a silly moege for the most part but it does a genre switch the nakige in the true route.
>>542629794
I don't think it's quite the same as a plotge where everything is linear and there's stuff you need to know in the boring parts. With something like this you can just skip the routes you don't want to read without losing anything.
>>542629943
I know it's common and I'm sure that's why they designed it that way, because it's conventional. I remember reading katan's review of Sakura no Uta a while back and he said a similar thing about that, that sticking to these kinds of unlock conditions and forcing the player to read parts of the game they don't care about to reach the true end is a design flaw.
>>542629959
If you end up liking Ria you can also her second route in the fandisc, so there's more to it than just the base game.