 They noted that, in most video games, "it feels like affection is something that must be earned from scratch or something that must be justified in some way", as well as being "painfully underrated and deemed unnecessary in some cases".To avoid the player feeling this way in "VA-11 HALL-A", Sukeban Games made the friendships between Jill and the other characters "[something that's] come to be", instead of something that has to be earned.