If a game contain rewards / unlockable content, based on reaching specific situations.
Do you play the games again and again, using a combination of save points, to reach all available unlockable situations?
Or do you cheat?
Just finished DMD ch1, and despite going through every available option, choosing the best situation (using saves to go as far back to take back an action, to get another action available later in the game), I still only had 38/69 unlocked images in the reward section.
Since I wanted to move on to ch2, I didn't bother unlocking everything the "correct way".
Instead I enabled developer mode, and used the console to unlock the missing reward images.
Most times I play through game normally. After that, if I want to unlock some more content, maybe try the other way (different path). If I cannot unlock something for long time, I mostly search for a full save, unlocker or other means of unlocking full content.
I don't think I've every cheated a game to unlock rewards. The disjointed H scene's without the added context never really drew my interest. The build up in the moment while playing through is part of what adds to how hot a scene is to me.
It really depends on the game. I usually only cheat for fun or if something is truly too difficult for me. I personally am not a fan of super challenging games as I do not have the time to spend to get to a very good level with every game I play.
You always want to go through an interesting game to the end, and if the game gets boring and you're only interested in a certain character, then you can skip a couple of dialogues and get straight to the point)
I think it's up to the game itself. I'm playing games because it's fun. If I like game in some aspects (art, story) but have some problems with gameplay (too hard/boring/grindy) I can cheat because of it. Maybe it's a bit of disrespectful to developer, but the main point of playing games is to have fun, right? If gameplay isn't really interesting to me, I'll find my way to change it.
most of the time i play through the game, then in the end i cheat to unlock scenes. i dont really like going back through a game to unlock a couple scenes.
I only cheat when a game updates and breaks my save or if the grind is deliberately slow. I don't mind a bit of grind but some of these games feel way to unbalanced with it.
Only if the game makes it unnecessarily tedious or the story or gameplay is just that shit. But usually I try to unlock it myself, oterwise I couldve just gone to Hitomila anyways...
I like to try to play through once and if there are a few images or scenes missing, then I'll either use a walkthrough if I liked the gameplay or just cheat to get the last few images. If it's really grindy though, absolutely I cheat if I can.