Well, I'm of the exact opposite opinion. Vanilla is good. Best ice-cream flavor too.
It makes the girls sensual in a way we can relate to. The fact they bother to tease and seduce you before the act, is very sweet (and hot).
If you want rapey aggressive monstrous MGs, there are many other games to pick. But we vanilla little people, don't have much to put on our plates
Rape is like combat in normal games.
If you want intense scenes in h-games, rape is the easy go to, just like how combat is in most regular games.
Games like Phoenix wright don't have action scenes and can still get intense scenes, but it takes more effort to do so.
Games like Bayonetta can get intense and frenetic early because of the action focus.
That being said, there's A LOT of vanilla h-games. The vast majority of VNs are 99% vanilla. So are the vast majority of Simulation[SIM/SLG] games, including the best selling h-game on DLSite Teaching Feeling.
A huge improvement over the original monsters'n girls, but still has the issue of most of the sex being in the cowgirl position. I'm not a fan of making a monster girl themed game and most of the sex being something you could have with any normal girl. The foreplay scenes were often more hot than the sex itself.
I actually like how they handled foreplay here. It's pretty true to reality, where the foreplay is about getting the guy as aroused and ready as possible before moving on to the main event.
Outside of the bat, and the vore monster, there's no cumming in a foreplay position.
Honest question, but what would you do differently? Just curious.
I also had the same feeling, the sex scenes feels too vanilla for a monster girl game
I've had conversations with DHM in the past. He's a big fan of Kyrieru in every way. This includes sexually. He could make a FeMC game where the girl gets raped by monsters as well as this type of game, so it's not like he exclusively likes this type of content. Obviously he won't go into the deep end with it (thankfully.)
Heck even creators who are exclusively into femdom stay like this for the most part like Zell23
and me.
Scene-wise my personal problem was that they don't look very well-drawn, which is weird because the dev's ordinary art and animations look absolutely fine. Some of them escape this and generally look the business (like the small blonde vampire and oni girl) but others... look more like one sprite edited a ton of times. Kind of like how Nonki animated with his Final Fuck series.
I disagree. The pixel resolution is limiting what he can do, and animation has more importance than pure technical pixel art skill.
The sex animations have a very high framecount.
I do feel like he was heavily relying on references for some animations.