Re: Do you play VN/Eroge just to fap, or for plot?
A lot of the eroges I get are of the magical girl genre so there's elements in each one that are the same, but I have an inherent curiosity about whats going on in both the general story despite knowing that it's probably not that much different than any of the others I've played, as well as what's going on in h-scenes since I really like it when the narration is presented with 1st person perspective while she's being fucked.
Although I was curious moreso about Triangle's Sacred Lineage, since the player seems to be the main antagonist in the story, but at the same time the perspective changes between him and that of the two main heroines. It also has a really complicated branching system that decides which scenes and ending you get. Between which of the 4 choices you pick during the school hours (I'm not sure if the player character is incognito at the school or what), what type of monster you bring to capture the heroines during the RPG battle part, how much HP they have left when you do it, or if you defeat them.
Dropping the girl's HP down to 0 is bad. Curiously, I found an interesting special ending you can get at the beginning when you do just that against her when you're supposed to capture her. She goes into shock from all of the blood and refuses that the player character is ready to accept their death and is desperate for you to live even though she was definitely in danger of getting the shit raped out of her. Although there is the fact that in that scenario she ended up going overboard with her princess powers and killed a man, so that would probably scar her for life. I found that to be an interesting characterization played straight in a genre that's plagued with imitators imitating imitators, and something you wouldn't find in another magical girl eroge, that being said it was an abrupt ending, so not really a real route at all.
Sacred Lineage also has a really good battle theme, more catchy than I'd expect from an eroge.
So yeah, that's probably the one I'm most curious about as well as its sequel coming out at the end of july, for most other VNs I put fap first and just break out ChiiTrans if it works to find out what the girl is narrating, roughly, since those parts are never voiced compared to her inner thoughts or whatever. It goes without saying that the artwork, character designs, fetishes included, and variations in h-scenarios is the preliminary factor in deciding whether to check an eroge out or not.