[...]Twilight and Fifty Shades are horribly written books[...]
but... but... Twilight isn't poorly written. it is a bad story with horrible cliches, flat characters, a simplified world view, atrocious moral implications and a few major plot holes, but the one thing it has going for it is the writing. Did you really read it with an open mind and thought it was poorly written? I find that hard to believe.
Aside from that, I don't have the context to say anything about this game, but I agree with you conceptually. If a work of art is poorly constructed, no matter if it's music, literature, or games, we should call it out for what it is, although I'd argue that the blame always goes to the people who are embracing it, and never to the artist. If people are donating despite the lack of stretch goals, then it's their fault.
Even if you are only looking at the sentence structure, Twilight is sub-par. Examples here, and that's just the "punctuation abuse" tag. If you browse through the main site, you'll find other abuses of the English language.
Yes, this. The writing is truly awful in terms of prose composition, and it's by far not just sentence structure. Unfortunately, many bestsellers have the same problem now, which perhaps is why SS is suggesting Twilight's writing is redeeming? It's hard to say.
Since the correct comparator in terms of genre is other fantasy/urban fantasy, compare the writing in Neil Gaiman's
The Ocean at the End of the Lane, or Gaiman and Pratchett's
Good Omens. Just read the first three paragraphs of each, and consider how evocative and engaging the latter two are, as opposed to the stiffness in
Twilight.
