JabyShrek988
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- Nov 23, 2019
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I take it you're referring to GF? That is a particular subgenre of this genre. There are two distinct situations: NTR with a crush and NTR with a girlfriend. The GF/WIFE/DATE example? This is "heavy NTR with an optional vanilla route."The problem with avoidable NTR is very simple. It lets you know that some or all of the people in the relationship aren't trustworthy. Imagine you have a girlfriend and you know that if you let her go on a night out with friends, she'll cheat on you, for example. Or that if you don't pick her up after work, she'll hook up with her coworker. Or if she goes to the gym alone, she'll have sex with the trainer. Is that a girlfriend worth it? The deception is within her, and you shouldn't base your relationship on keeping her under control. A premise of a healthy relationship is trust. In optional NTR, this trust is questioned in one way or another, and that's what makes some players who don't like NTR not play with optional NTR either. It lets you know that this person isn't trustworthy.
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When female characters betray trust after making commitments, I dislike the NTR. However, I don't mind those NTR situations until the MC makes no commitment or asks out.
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For instance, if the MC asks the MILF out here, there shouldn't be an NTR situation unless the antagonist resorts to heinous tactics like drug usage, kidnapping, etc. (going too far even here shifts the genre to a "heavy NTR" type plot).