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Perhaps he feels those games are just on a level higher than most other eroge in terms of writing, ideas, impact, and personal enjoyment. I personally agree with him for the most part, but at the end of the day it's simply an opinion that shouldn't affect any other game that you have respect for.

That post doesn't compare any of those games to Daitoshokan or other moege, because they are different in just about every possible way and have different goals. Maybe he was too hopeful in assuming the people reading that tweet had a brain and followed that it's kind of silly to compare wildly different types of games. If you just disagree with his choice of best eroge then offer some titles you think are better; nitpicking the guy's statement for the entire thread isn't getting anyone anywhere and I'm inclined to believe most of the people doing this are trying to stir up shitposting.

I think the games he mentioned accomplish great things and all of them made quite the impact on me personally. Yeah, those games have problems that I'm sure both he and I recognize. Like Sakura no Uta and Subahibi having bad pacing, Oretsuba and Saihate being technically incomplete, Narahara's writing in Muramasa being needlessly dense at points, etc. What he said doesn't mean to completely ignore those things and look the other way, but focusing on them exclusively in the face of what they are and what they accomplish as a whole feels like simple contrarianism.

Eroge provides a medium for unconventional stories to be taken seriously, and I think that's a very cool thing. You won't find something like Saihate no Ima in any other medium, including literature. And before you ask, yes, I have read Japanese literature and I honestly find most of the modern writing that I've seen to be extremely boring and predictable. Outside of a select few works, it just doesn't hit me in the same way a great eroge does (wide open for suggestions though, by all means).

I read eroge because I'm an otaku at heart and the medium itself pushes all of my buttons in just the right way. Why can't we enjoy philosophical mindfucks and cute girls? What other medium can even combine those two things?