- Jul 20, 2019
- 9,005
- 17,576
I think what may have also clouded things was that at the start of the production of the game, the Dylan route was intrinsically linked to the blackmail and corruption kinks. Dylan was the instigator of Aiden's blackmail. There was no romance, but the gradual coercion of Sophia in Aiden's tasks with the ultimate degradation of her being so broken that she becomes willing to have sex with her son.Where did I voice an expectation that all tags for a game would mean the same amount of content for each? I didn't. I pointed out, rather, that the incest tag was one of many & that the eventual takeover of this kink, while possible, or even probable, was by no means inevitable, or discernible from the information given in L&P's mission statement/promo blurb. If any game including a MILF character with children, or with "Mother" in the title has to follow some unwritten rule to include incest, then it is just as credible to see the word "Wife" as an indicator of non-incestuous extra-marital activity, preferably from my POV with adults involved.
If we're going down the route of suggesting that I was incapable within the first hour of playing to realise what I was getting into & we are dissecting the game title, I refer you to the AWAM by-line of "How far would you go....?" AWAM not being my first corruption game, (by some margin), this phrasing suggested a facility, on the player's part, to take events &/or kinks to a distance of their choosing. This had been the case in some other examples of the genre I'd encountered. Indeed, it proved to be the case. Certainly for the blackmail it was. So, I've taken incest as far as I want to go & now paused it. Given that I've stopped playing, with nothing further to play in prospect, is not quite what I had in mind but it has certainly worked. If AWAM had been as incest-focussed as you maintain, I wouldn't have played it from 2018 to 2022.
What I was after, (& for a time found), was a game with a quality of renders & writing above the level of trash porn. That's not pretention talking, just a result of the fact that I've already seen & read enough trash, which has a place & serves a purpose but wasn't meant to be what AWAM was about, if you read L&P's mission statement. I've also seen & read some good erotic stories & look forward to someone's efforts in outdoing AWAM. 3D is a perfect medium to tell a story, whether erotica or trash porn.
I maintain that the game possessed a veneer of realism & I've always been at pains to use the term, "veneer," because nobody with experience of playing 3D porn games expects to encounter true-life realism. That veneer could have been augmented in simple ways, e.g. Sophia being seen in the same outfit more than once, which would not have wasted time. L&P chose not to do this but instead to create so many routes & branches, that the veneer started to wear away. As a case in point, the current PD13 can be cited, i.e. after the day she's had Sophia is now in 'groovy chick' mode at a nightclub. How does she fit it all in? Where does she get the energy? ....& the day is far from over. No-one needs to view the characters changing appearances in order to know that any realism present has been gone for some time. Yet, it must be remembered that realism was a key original selling point & was promoted by L&P. I certainly "bought into" it, because back in 2018 I had no reason to doubt the Dev's word.
Regarding wanting to "remove incest from an incest-themed game," I've never suggested this in 5+ years of AWAM following. I don't put my own tastes above those of other fans in that way, although I've been on the receiving end of it numerous times. What I would have liked would have been a better balance of the various kinks crammed into the game. This might have been possible with a few less routes & branches, along with an end to duplication but that's another ship that never left dry-dock.
When it comes to the target audience, surely the best indicator of the group to appeal to, that must make the most business sense, is to be found in the promotion of Dylan to "joint MC." I freely admit that I never saw that coming. What juvenile terms will be used to describe Sophia's vagina, I wonder? Will they match the breast-focussed scene at the salon? That's assuming Dylan passes Sam in their virgin schoolboy race. "Love box," "honey hole," "garden of delights," are just 3 for L&P to ponder. There are many more with far greater obscene connotations. How far will he get? Well, at least we know he's already had a good time with the "fun-bags."
But then (I presume) L&P discovered that the M/S fans were an underestimated resource, so tempered down Dylan's role in the blackmail, and ultimately removed his involvement entirely. And added all the different paths for Dylan fans, like Amber, Marie and the bonus storyline.
Which I think is why so many now are complaining that the game is so nonsensical and appears that L&P hasn't written the script and is making things up as he is going along. Because for the Dylan route - he is.