Multiple Non-Harem Endings...... =_=
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This kind of thing is rampant. Is there a specific Japanese Hentai term or something like that for this?
Where the MC is playing harem all the way through and the endings are all regressions to lower and lesser states than what the game play was, which is not only not Harem but usually an f-ing bummer besides. Like if Fast and Furious had them settling down to be valets.
Harem game. Yah! Fun. Play play. NOW CHOOOOOOSE!!! CHOSE! ONE! (or even none now, apparently)
It's so pervasive it must be a fetish with a name. Maybe something that translates like "Harem, No Harem".
How do devs not realize this will make for a massive disappointment and downer of a conclusion to the game? Every. Single. Time.
"Support us." "Join our Patreon" "Buy us a coffee." Just so they can completely fuck over the MC, every character, and almost every plot point.
(it had to be a non-Harem style though, to be consistent with the story's universe)
Harems don't last forever
No it didn't. And in reality, outside literally owning women and cults, harems don't exist, period. But here we are pretending they are ok and healthy and going to draw the "reality" line over their longevity? WTF?
The non-harem ending is the thing that feels absolutely contrived and forced.
I mean props for taking the harem tag out. If it likewise has a non-harem ending because that is dev's choice fine. Just say that. But don't pretend it
had to be that way for "story reasons."
How. Just how? Three of the girls just start saying they want him all to themselves out of nowhere close to the end? Is that it? Is that your story universe reason? Ignoring the fact that the rest of them never say such drivel and many of those also have independent connections between each other and all totally happy and satisfied. Or is the dogshit reasons MC gave for mustering everyone out? Or is them going on to bigger and better things somehow supposed be mutually exclusive with them all coming home together?
There is so much hotness and relationship building in this game (even with leaving a lot of potential on the cutting room floor) only to have what they did develop they just pissed away.
I know if this is seen I am going to get reductively cast as someone who is just upset because they wanted more sex but knowing I had tapped out all the novel sex scenes I stilled played through hours and hours of game just because the story was so good. All the while seeing all the hater comments on here and fully anticipating I could leave a good review when I had finished playing the game. But no, no I can't because of that ending.
Putting the no harem ending aside entirely I would have taken no ending over this. Save everything. Win the day. Fade to black. Complete ambiguity would have been a better ending for characters.
Except Sam. Sam got a good ending, consistent enough what had been developed during the game. Good for you Sam.