To be fair Luxee has handled their trans characters in both games like trash in the beginning. In PL the trans character was use as a pump and dump. I vaguely remember the character asking to be apart of the harem and the MC was like fuck no and you never saw them again. That was until Luxee went back for the final update for PL and allowed you to go back and let them in the Harem or not.
Wait, there was a trans character in PL? Was this only in the 1.1 update? I'm pretty sure I went through it 100% in the 1.0 update, but I'm not sure if I went through it 100% with the 1.1 update. Or maybe I did see and am just completely blanking, if it was a one-time-use character. The game was first posted here in 2017 and 1.1 was in 2022, so that very well could be the case.
Overall It's bizarre how Luxee has handled their trans characters almost like there was some kind of resentment towards them, but changed only when people complained. I'm not expecting anyone to really remember this given the first iteration of the game was almost 6 years ago at this point.
I won't speak of the character in PL, because I don't remember, but for Nea in this, it seems like it's somewhere between "being a good ally" and fetishistic, to try to write a serious love story within a run-of-the-mill harem porn game, where it's not because the character
is trans that it feels like this, but because the character feels like a Mary Sue of any plight that trans people may or may not experience - the majority of said experiences not being specific to trans people - and used as a shield to defend against legitimate criticism. There's zero consistency between the Nea story and the rest of the game.
In comparison, the trans character in Midlife Crisis is presented as primarily a sex object - consistent with every other character - but
does have a personality and character development - consistent with every other character, but touching on some topics that wouldn't really make sense with a female character, or even a gay male character - and the game allows the harem to function because it's not building this character out of glass. She fits the story. I would say Nea doesn't fit the story of Apartment 69, but the game
is about Nea, first and foremost, so I'll say
the harem of Apartment 69 doesn't fit the story of Nea.
Offtopic rant: Seems like Luxee has kind of given upon this game. I expected at least an update by now via their website tracker. Yet here we are going into the 2nd month of 2024 and still silence. Im not really holding any hope at this point because lets face it almost over half a decade has gone by and there really isnt anything to show for for it in terms of a cohesive storyline.
Holy crap, I had no idea it has been that long. It feels like just a year or two ago I first wound up on this site from one of those sites that used to host Flash porn games...
