See, but to you it would be the lesser evil. To two other people whom I just got done speaking to, they're of the opinion it would have been immeasurably worse. Can't win for losing: no matter what he did, people would have raked him over the coals.
So he should've just not done it. Simple as that. There were other ways to progress the plot outside of killing someone as I outlined. But no. Had to go for the shock value
And if you want me to focus in on the porn-game part, fine. Out and out porn game = no story at all, no gameplay. Just immediate access to all fap material: embracing that it's only there for one thing. But the mere fact that you hold strong feelings about Emiko getting killed to begin with is proof that you treated this as more than just a fap game - or else, you got really angry about a character in a fap game, which I am not going to accuse you of. As most would say that's pretty pathetic, and I'm not gonna paint you with that brush.
CoR is very much a porn game. There is fap material for every character and it's introduced very early on each characters arc. You mistake "porn game" for a "fuckfest". Two different things. A fuckfest is a flat out "hey, nice to meet you, lets fuck" while porn game has a story yes, but there is still a LOT of fucking. Like CoR. Infact considering how fast many characters go from "Hey, nice to meet you" to "I need your cock" in this game, it's almost a fuckfest.
Hell. Look at Corrupted Kingdoms. It's a porn game with a story and a lot of fucking. You don't see them going for cheap twists like this. Or look at Hail Dicktator. Again, a porn game with a story but no cheap twists (even if the latest storyarc is a complete bust).
Trying to pass off a lazy and cheap shock twist as good storytelling doesn't belong in a porn game
You mentioned Lessons in Love earlier. That, too, is a porn game. If we're gonna lump them all together under one banner because there's sex in them, let's be fair. But Selebus' own words on his game are quite similar to Zimon's, in that they want the story to be the beating heart of things rather than just window dressing. Or to quote Sel directly: "Not a sex game, but a game with sexual elements."
LiL isn't a porn game. It's a Denpa game. It doesn't pretend to be anything else than a horror game with sexual elements. Hell, the story to fucking ratio of LiL is gigantic compared to CoR. And even Selebus for all his fucked up creativity hasn't gotten to a point of killing off a child for shock value.
You can have sexual elements and not be defined solely by them. If this game didn't have anything else going for it, all characters would only function as fuckdolls - that was what I was getting at when I used the term. I mentioned it because I've seen folks angry that she got a card - suggesting sexual content was incoming - and "didn't get to do anything with her."
No matter how you try to belittle it, that is an extremely valid criticism. Every other character who had gotten a card also has sexual content for them, with the exception of Maeve and Isabel, and even in their cases it is justified to expect such content. The dev established a pattern and then broke it and now pikachufaces when people react negatively.
So no, there's no "kills your fuckdoll argument dead" to be found here. Because the argument is that without a plot, all that is left would be the porn. Mindless characters whose only use in-game is as fap material. I was saying that as long as events are taking place and a story is unfolding, it's evidence of the game making some kind of progress beyond "introducing new fuckdolls." Which again, without the story, is all you would have. No part of that was proven wrong or "killed".
As stated above. You are thinking of a fuckfest. Not a porn game. But I guess you're too busy fluffing the dev to understand why people are mad and are justified in their anger.
And fair enough. I stand corrected on the Koikatsu use.
