I wouldn't call the game bad, but it's story really does just depend on the MC being the biggest fucking idiot to exist. I mean, how hard is it to say "Hey Mom, this guy that I was warning you about is sending me the nudes you sent him and has tried to blackmail my wife into having sex with him." and just show her the conversation where he sent them? I know writing is difficult, but come on.
Yes, i'm currently just shortly past that point in the story where the MC recieves the pics of the sleeping mother from Samuil.
The scene after the mother came back from the bathroom was the most letdown in the story i've expierenced so far. He even talks to himself that he has to act and warn his mother and all he gets out is "Hey mom, how is work? Everything fine?"
A simple rewrite of the situation without making changes to the story but making it more convincing would be:
- MC gets mother's pic
- MC has now the time, opportunity and evidence to finally get through to his mother
- MC tells the mother to stop sending pictures to Samuil because he will most likely just use them to blackmail her later on, MC is pretty sure about that all of the mother's pictures have already been spread throughout the entire camp and everybody saw them
- mother plays dumb and refuses to be aware of what MC is talking about
- MC shows evidence on his phone and what Samuil is up to
- MC brings up more examples of what his wife went through
- situation solved in a way that makes sense
- next day at evening when MC gets sleeping mother pics from Samuil
- Samuil is mildly annoyed by the MC that he now interferes with his plans for his mother after MC already did so with his wife
- Samuil complains about that the mother no longer wanted to smoke with them so they had to secretly drug her shortly before her shift ended
- they couldn't keep the mother from going home before the drugs kicked in, so they had to follow her home to break into the appartment after she went to bed to take the pictures (better explanation for why the mother is being half naked in a sleeping robe in the pictures, that's not how someone would dress at work when suddenly gettin tired from smoking weed during their shift)
That's where i'm currently at in the story.
I guess it wouldn't change much when the MC contacts the mother the next day and tells her about what happened during the night -> mother moves into a hotel for a while because she no longer feels safe at home (doesn't prevent future events at work since it could always be explained with "mother got drugged secretly") -> possible content: Rick learns about the MC's mother staying in a hotel and books a room there too later on
Now for Rick...how ffs is the MC giving him the house keys just like that after he learned about him wanting to blackmail his wife into sex...i mean, the MC doesn't even wanted him to come afterwards in the first place.
He could told him during a call "yeah, sorry, you can't come visiting us. me and my wife are at work all day long and don't have time to meet up"
Rick could have responded with "sry, i've already booked a last-minute ticked and i can't return it, so i will come over anyway"
When the MC picks him up from the airport he could reveal his room reservation got cancled while he was on the plane and Chris isn't picking up his phone, therefore has Rick no other option than staying at the MC's house.
For the house key scene: make it less obvious that Rick just wants the keys to get them duplicated for free access when the MC isn't home.
MC is aware that Rick is up to no good, so don't give him the keys. drop him off at home and go to work afterwards.
MC gets a call from Rick afterwards while at work, he tells the MC he accidentally locked himself out when he wanted to go into the garden. MC tells him he has to wait until the wife or the MC get off work and recommends to Rick to go to a café or bar for that time, he will give him a call when he is about to head home.
Rick explains that this isn't really an option since his wallet is still inside, he asks the MC if there is a way to get in without having the wife or MC to bother of getting off work.
MC tells Rick about the hidden spare key in the garden.
When MC gets back from the bar (or the morning after) the first thing he does is changing the hidingspot for the spare key, unbeknownst to him that Rick already went off to get the key duplicated while both were still at work
That's my essay for now, there is still a lot more i'd like to add, but i leave that for another time.
edit:
One of the worst, and most annoying tropes I run into from novels I'm reading are conflicts that could have been avoided if 1 person was mature enough to simply communicate like a another with another person. This MC does it every single update lmfao. At this point I just hate the MC and want everyone he loves to get what's coming to them. If MC can't be bothered to care, why should the reader...
I had to facepalm pretty hard when the MC was monologing:
I don't want my wife getting blackmailed by Rick into having sex with him, but she has already cheated on me anyway, so it's her problem to deal with.
W T F ?!?
Every NTR game main-character when he needs to act. xD