>>1156It's a quest, and quests can be fun. Everything until the introduction of the Troll is decent, but Hussie (the author) started to completely subvert the quest format, basically turning it into a webcomic while neglecting or mocking everything that makes quests fun, removing almost every instance of player choice. Regardless, most people say it got bad at Act 6, since that's when Trolls
really took off with Tumblrfags who came in and said you could start with when the Trolls were introduced and neglect everything else, and Hussie bought his own hype.
Consecutive failures when it came to expanding Homestuck, the most egregious of these being the development of Hiveswap, caused it to go even further into the gutter. $788k, largely KickStarter money, disappeared between Hussie and the developers, with both blaming each other and only one "playable" demo made. This demo was a single room, with a single character, and a single interaction. The Odd Gentlemen (the devs) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, despite being commissioned by
Microsoft for King's Quest and Neil Gaiman for Wayward Manor, of backer money, and Hussie allegedly spent some on Homestuck. Hussie moved across the country to try and direct development at TOG himself, but they locked the doors on him. A lawsuit settled the matter, and development on Hiveswap had to start from scratch with inexperienced developers. Its original release date was 2014, and it was supposed to be released in full. Now, it's
still in development, with only two acts released.
When it comes to the appeal of Homestuck itself, the characters are a big draw, but, again, Hussie ruins things with the Trolls. The moment the phrase "Troll romance" appears, stop caring about the characters.