Don't want to sound mean but the people here saying it's good writing are just ignoring the fact that it's just another typical visual novel game with a spineless retarded mc. i guess that's one thing harems and ntr have in common. I mean yes for an ntr game it's good but when comparing to some other games like being a dik the writing falls short imo.
Lol so much this, and your the first Ive heard repeat what I've often griped about - both pure harem games and pure ntr games trend towards lazy writing and stereotyped characters - the truly interesting stories are those where things aren't so black and white; much like the real world.
In A Perfect Marriage, literally every male in the game is trying to fuck the wife (ok that's somewhat realistic) but not a single one has any reservations (that's not). You know you're playing a typical ntr game when it feels like a full court press on the mc, no one's on his side, yet magically everyone is aligned in their goal to screw him over - there are no competing interests.
Perhaps I've being harsh, but having just played this recent version, I'm getting so sick and tired of ntr-minded writers passing their drivel off as something more nuanced; like there's some agency. It's a contrived setup to have the wife cheat on husband, nothing more, nothing less. It's particularly frustrating when you're a fan of swinging and sharing themes but not the spineless ntr variety; which seems to encompass 80% of the broad category of games with sexual tension between the mc's LI and other npcs.
I know it's more work for devs, but consider making a complete product; one where if you play the role of the coolguy chill husband, her actions aren't identical to that if he acts like a weasel towards her. Perhaps I'm being premature here with APM; and the third act will demarcate these paths from the otherwise indistiguishable story. Hopefully.