@RobinGreenthumb One thing I agree with you is that our play styles are polar opposites.
I don't want to be confrontational, but most of your post reads like a bunch of excuses for everything without actually providing valid counterpoints for most of my statements.
For example, tropes aren't inherently a bad thing but when they aren't handled correctly as a setup for an interesting plot, they become clichés. In the case of StrangerVille, the fact it uses well known tropes, without adding anything new, a plot twist, or even a more postmodernist take to its tropes is what makes it an example of poor storytelling.
