Discussing the possibilities of partners for the MC's Hell Week sex challenges, reminded me of something that has bothered me since I played this release. Recording a sex act with any of the girls, and then handing it over to the DIK's would be a really cruel thing to do. Consider Jade. If that ever got into the hands of the university administration, her teaching days would be over. Even just showing such a tape to the DIK's would most likely get back to the girl(s) involved, and forever shut off any further relationship with the MC. Or if the DIK's were somehow allowed to observe (not too difficult for the outdoors sex), pictures would be taken and word would get around.
Of course, this is just a porn game. So things can be overlooked, if we wish to overlook them. But, in real life, all of those must-be-verified sex challenges are a really crummy way to treat any girl. I wouldn't wish that on Quinn... or even Wendy, much less the ladies I really like.
Sorry to break the light mood, but...
This actually ties in to one of my eternally-unresolved issues with Cake's writing. The tonal shifts, that inability to suspend my disbelief, etc.
There are times when it just seems like he doesn't know what he wants his stories to be. Or, if he does, then he doesn't see how having no internal consistency (i.e. everything is drama and srs bsns one moment, and the next, it's a slapstick comedy) hurts the overall effort.
Now this isn't to say that other forms of media don't flip back and forth between funny and sad and dramatic and all of these things. They do. The best movies/TV shows have the ability to make the audience laugh and cry and all these other things. But there's at least a sort of overarching "This is how the world works in this story's setting, these are the things you should expect" that stays consistent throughout.
DIK is madcap and zany with folks running around naked, with Derek being a complete buffoon, etc. But at the same time, it also tries to insist that "No, really, serious stuff is happening." And it's just so jarring going from Maya pouring her heart out about how rough her life has been to "And then 'Fuckface' was wearing a penis on his forehead."
It becomes so much harder to gloss over the darker elements of the storyline (like how the HoTs are basically engaging in prostitution and drug trafficking) when the next scene features a drunk protagonist thinking the statues in someone's house are real soldiers trained in jungle warfare or whatever.
, i just wanted to insinuate how ridiculous that Jade comment was.
