There's a lot of good ideas in this game and a lot of really outstanding renders. But there's also a lot of dialogue that sounds weird, stilted or odd coming from Sophia whether it's inner or outer dialogue. I also find the point system for this game to be really odd.
The early gym scene between Patricia and Sophia illustrates my issue with the point system. While I agree it may contribute to filthy by letting Ryan touch Sophia the way he does, why does it add to good wife points to ask him to stop? It's like her potential discomfort with how he was touching her has to do with being a good wife, not with her general discomfort with unwanted attention. There's just a lot of choices where I don't think she deserves good wife points. Maybe good-girl points rather than good wife points. If Ryan is touching her, I feel it only deserves good wife points if she says the reason she finds his touching uncomfortable is b/c she's married or inwardly feels like she would be betraying Liam by allowing the contact.
In fact, there's a lot of content, from my point of view, where the metric being tested is not whether she's a good wife or naughty wife, but inhibited or uninhibited (prudish). Maybe it should be filthy versus prudish/conservative/pure? Devs choice what "good wife" means I guess.
Shower scene same thing. I've been to plenty of gyms where men change, shower and walk around naked. The overwhelming majority aren't thinking of having sex with the other guys when they see them naked. It's a gym, of course, you're going to be changing in front of other men. Discomfort with changing in front of men in a changing room has more to do with inhibition and shame than sexual desire.
As for dialogue, there are some scenes like the basketball game with the boys that sound disconnected from who she is? She is portrayed as being a Sports teacher, who played college ball for two years on a championship team and yet she doesn't know what constitutes appropriate and inappropriate contact (a foul or not) in the game? It should only be dirty +1 if the boys engage in inappropriate contact that is potentially sexual in nature and she knows it. And such contact can be portrayed. I'm certainly not arguing against it nor does it mean you can't have [pure/dirty] interactions.
Instead, she's portrayed as not knowing. Her inner and outer dialogue feels inconsistent with her presented skills. It makes me think the Dev doesn't know so, instead of finding out, just presents her as naive or ignorant in circumstances where she shouldn't be. That certainly isn't the case with the guitar lesson with Sam, which I thought was a really well-written scene.
Just my thoughts. AND YES I KNOW ITS A PORNO GAME.
