- Dec 29, 2018
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Yes, because that's the only way a Nicole romance path makes any sense at all.So you guys are literally demanding that the DEV write that Nicole and John cease having sex entirely from the inception of game, (or at least the start of the affair?) and just accept that to be realistic?
Nicole is a neglected housewife who initially agrees to fool around with the main character because she's trying to stop him from dating her daughter, and then she begins to enjoy it because of how starved for attention she's been since her husband no longer wants her. She is conflicted about it because she feels guilty for being a cheat, but is also starting to remember how good it feels to have someone that finds her to be irresistible. When main character stops seeing her daughter, the two continue on for the sole reason that they both have developed feelings for one another.
If she were in a good relationship with her husband, and having sex regularly with him, she wouldn't have any reason to develop feelings for the guy who is more or less blackmailing her into fooling around with him. Her not having sex with her husband is a cornerstone to this plot. You don't get to say it would be natural for them to be having sex simply because they used to do so years ago, or because they are married, because the game has already made it clear that they haven't been in a long time.
There was even a scene where Nicole asks her husband if she can shower with him, and he turns her down by reminding her that he can't get it up for her any longer. There have also been several scenes where her husband tells her that he's repulsed by her smell and refusing to be intimate with her. His change of heart is entirely because he suspects that the main character likes her and is doing it to upset the main character.
We had previously been on a standard vanilla porn plot about a neglected housewife finding herself tempted by a young lover, and as that young lover, the players get to have the fun of nailing the hot wife that the idiot husband is cheating on with his secretary. Ideally, this would end with us stealing the wife away by exposing the husband as a cheat, or by collecting evidence of his criminal actions, or whatever. But that's no longer what we have.
What we now have, is a main character who is in love with a woman who is fucking another guy. And that other guy knows you are in love with her, and is relishing the fact that you have to sit there and eat your liver. That's what the main focus of her path is now. It's a massive change, and a lot of people who previously enjoyed the path are now going to hate it. And it's an entirely predictable response.
This is why so many people here are quick to avoid games with optional NTR in them. That stuff pretty much always bleeds out into the rest of the game. We already had a taste of it earlier in the game when the developer had a scene where Nicole sucks her husbands limp dick to show that he can't get it up for her. That scene was not needed because there was already a scene where they talked about it. It was just there because the developer enjoys that stuff, so I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if we get a scene where John forces the main character to watch him fuck Nicole. Especially not after that conversation with Marilyn where she just ridicules the main character about it. It very much feels like the developer is testing the waters with this update.