Finally actually played this game and wow... haven't finished it yet but just had to say, this game is totally messing with my brain. Ok so... context...
I pick up a movie because its super-violent, gory, aliens, swords, machine guns, rawr!! In real life I'm not quite a pacifist, haven't backed down from a fight in my life, but I don't go out of my way looking for them and I don't enjoy them. But that's why the movie is great, yea, cut them up, burst from their chest, oh daaaaamn they got a flamethroweeeeeer! And that energy is pumping, and the stuff happening is terrible, but yea, I'm here for it! And then one of the main characters gets cancer. And throughout the whole thing we're taking breaks from the violence and going through his chemo, support group, etc. Now... the violence is obviously way more gory, horrible, painful, intestines everywhere. Anyone who can enjoy That shouldn't bat at an eye at the other stuff but... fuck cancer.
That's the headspace I'm in with this game. The girl is being harassed, assaulted, groped, its hot, there's some ntr tucked away in there.. its pretty dark and I am Here for it! Humiliation, degredation, get dark, yea! ... And then randos keep forcing her to tuck away her hair and telling her about a woman's place in non-sexual context and... yea, totally triggers other feelings in me and most of them are violent and totally not toward the women. From kind of the same reasons as yay-flamethrower but fuck-cancer.
This isn't a complaint as such - the game is very well done in that it triggers these emotions in me (and for a bunch of other reasons), and I know its totally realistic in those respects, but damn, playing through it is a roller-coaster.
