I will start saying I utterly love it, even if I know where the disliking comes from for somebody! I think it's mostly about tastes and opinions, since we approach something quite unusual.
First, the way the story is told. It's not like anything you've seen before, an experimental narrative that involves reading, interacting, animation&music, and yet mostly reading (a lot of it). What is there to read? Weird descriptions and chatlogs. Yep, chatlogs! I won't go into details, I'll just say it gets nice and creative!
Anyway this kind of narration isn't perfect. Fact is, Homestuck is a good experiment, it just doesn't work for some people. Not everyone finds it immediately comprehensible or has fun reading a mess of things that only make sense later. It can become frustrating after a while.
About this, I also like how everything is useful to the plot, even the boring stuff. It's not always good for the sake of entertainment, since it kind of force you to pay more attention than the usual, but I find this to be quite a good thing. Ok, some stuff isn't THAT useful to the plot, but still kind of relevant to comprehend details and analize characters a bit better. The con is maybe the fact that that'd be better to get into characterization through more important events instead of strange chatlogs that look like they serve no purpose. What I suggest though, is to read it "lightheartedly" at first. You can read it again if you liked it and have time, and you'll probably discover a lot of things you didn't notice before.
The music is good. The art is, well, not even that important most of the time, except to communicate things at the bare minimum. But it gets really good at times, in different ways. Colors are VERY important. The roughtly animated flashes honestly fascinates me, some of them are just epic.
The characters are good and well done, some way more than others. Still, everyone of them is really "flawed" in their own ways, and the kids/trolls look exactly like people who still have to grow up and learn a lot. SPOILER: the price for it is often death and/or physical and emotional pain. If you're searching for something to have "feels" about, there you have it.
I'd like to get into stuff a bit more, but I'm running out of space. Let's just say Homestuck is interesting and weird and I think you should give it a shot!
You won't regret it! Or will you?
I will start saying I utterly love it, even if I know where the disliking comes from for somebody! I think it's mostly about tastes and opinions, since we approach something quite unusual.
First, the way the story is told. It's not like anything you've seen before, an experimental narrative that involves reading, interacting, animation&music, and yet mostly reading (a lot of it). What is there to read? Weird descriptions and chatlogs. Yep, chatlogs! I won't go into details, I'll just say it gets nice and creative! Anyway this kind of narration isn't perfect. Fact is, Homestuck is a good experiment, it just doesn't work for some people. Not everyone finds it immediately comprehensible or has fun reading a mess of things that only make sense later. It can become frustrating after a while.
About this, I also like how everything is useful to the plot, even the boring stuff. It's not always good for the sake of entertainment, since it kind of force you to pay more attention than the usual, but I find this to be quite a good thing. Ok, some stuff isn't THAT useful to the plot, but still kind of relevant to comprehend details and analize characters a bit better. The con is maybe the fact that that'd be better to get into characterization through more important events instead of strange chatlogs that look like they serve no purpose. What I suggest though, is to read it "lightheartedly" at first. You can read it again if you liked it and have time, and you'll probably discover a lot of things you didn't notice before.
The music is good. The art is, well, not even that important most of the time, except to communicate things at the bare minimum. But it gets really good at times, in different ways. Colors are VERY important. The roughtly animated flashes honestly fascinates me, some of them are just epic.
The characters are good and well done, some way more than others. Still, everyone of them is really "flawed" in their own ways, and the kids/trolls look exactly like people who still have to grow up and learn a lot. SPOILER: the price for it is often death and/or physical and emotional pain. If you're searching for something to have "feels" about, there you have it.
I'd like to get into stuff a bit more, but I'm running out of space. Let's just say Homestuck is interesting and weird and I think you should give it a shot!