Imo Au-Pair was one of the best games and idea that Eric chasses you down on your progress is closest to playing "hard mode" in porn game story. So eliminating that factor which keeps you on your toes will indeed make everything blant. I'm not saying this should be turned into NTR completely, but fight and struggle to keep control.
As game HAS stats in it, turning on EASY / story mode would require just lowering antagonist points gain, so player would 've easier way to be on top. From visual novel perspective multiple endings aren't super demanding I think.
As of dull game check... what was the clone of BB with guy with glasses and blonde domina chick mother?
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IMO Au-Pair was one of the best porn games. So idea with Eric chasing down player on it's progress is closest to playing "hard mode" in narrative porn game. Eliminating that factor (someone who's going to fuck with your plans), that keeps you on your toes, will indeed make gameplay blunt. I'm not saying that BB-AS should be turned into NTR completely, but struggle with Eric to keep control over him should be kept.
BBAS already HAS stats points, so for Aleksey to enable "EASY / story" mode might require just lowering Erics influence points gain, that way player wouldn't be dealing with him as much.
And as example of dull game, you might check... what was the clone of BB that had guy with glasses and blonde domina chick.