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This is probably worth discussing in some more depth because a few scenes in the game could be triggering to some players. Speaking personally, I greatly dislike rape content in AVNs (to me, it's both a turn-off and depressing), but this characteristic didn't stop me from enjoying AM2. I found there was always either some narrative value or context to the small number of rapey scenes that prevented me from reacting with disgust and quitting the game. Also, as you said, the scenes are avoidable which is hugely, hugely important.
I thought the early scene where the FMC (Rachel in my playthrough) and Jacky meet some despicable marauders does a good job of establishing the apocalyptic world of the game as dangerous and menacing even for mutants with superpowers. The violence isn't fetishized or visually depicted even if you get a bad ending there which I very much appreciated.
The scenes with Erin, particularly the first one, took me off-guard and I have to admit did make me uncomfortable. As far as I can tell (since I turned down both those sex scenes in my playthrough), Erin seems like she might have something of a rape kink. Even so, I couldn't imagine having the MC take advantage of her in her vulnerable state after she had trusted him to care for her and even after she calls him out for acting creepy. Maybe there's some playfulness or even a hint of invitation you could read into the dialogue if you tried really hard, but I'm of the view that you should need to have the longest, thoroughest, and most uncomfortable conversation in your life with your partner before even considering engaging in something like rape play. All the details, safe words, etc would need to be worked out ahead of time...sadly, minutiae like that rarely features in fantasy. Devs never think about all the players who might have minutiae kinks.
I was glad that turning down Erin's rape play scenes seems to be treated in the game as a true choice rather than merely as skipping the scenes. For instance, you don't see those scenes in the replay at the end if you rejected them in-game. Erin does reference the MMC taking off her clothes while she was paralyzed at one point, but I think he responds by saying something like, "Um, that never happened." This is a super serious video game we're talking about here so stop confusing fantasy with reality, Erin! In contrast, most sex scenes in the game can be skipped but are still treated as having happened off-screen. I skipped Annie's scene, for instance, but it still showed up in the synopsis. I was about as uneasy to see that as Hiro was!
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