Has P&L actually said that the game is going to go bad and families will split up? I’m getting WAY ahead here, but I’m reading all of these posts of the game getting “dark” and “bad” and families getting ruined and such, which would be a logical thing to happen IRL if all of this taboo sex went on. But how it ends is the way P&L writes the ending. I’m not predicting anything, I’m just suggesting that this being “erotic literature”, I don’t see where it HAS to end badly for everybody. Unless P&L wants to teach his audience the folly of taboo sex or something.
First off, there are numerous different Routes. If you compartmentalize one Route, it could get fairly crazy for a bit but it wouldn’t necessarily mean gobs and gobs of people having sex on one route. Whether there is one sexual liaison, or five or so, that, in the erotic literature world, is a manageable number, if much of it is kept secret and lies were told.
Take for example a Dylan/Sophia route. Dylan and Sophia go nuts and have sex. One alcohol-fueled time, or ten times. But they keep it secret from Ellie and Liam. Then maybe Sophia comes to her senses and stops the Dylan sex, and at the same time Dylan falls in love with one of the teen girls and gets into a relationship with her, and decides that he’s no longer obsessed with his mom. Liam is preoccupied with his job and his gambling and other projects and doesn’t catch the vibe, and that’s the end of it. Far-fetched? Perhaps, but it could happen in this type of literature. Or, if Sophia is caught by Liam having sex with the mailman or Morello or someone, while Liam is caught having an affair with Cathy or someone at the office, they slowly patch it up and move on. Some couples do that.
You can invent this sort of thing for most any other Route. Maybe Aiden gets sent to Juvenile Detention finally. Sam gets a hot groupie. Neil gets booted out of his house or they split up and have to move away. Morello takes out Bennett. Liam buys an Antonio for Sophia and likes watching her use it. And the rest live happily ever after, or at least move on.
Again I’m not predicting anything. It’s up to P&L what he wants to do. But I’m just saying it doesn’t HAVE to end real dark and messy. I like happy endings!