Thanks for the lore accuracy confirmation, this is gonna make the experience much betterA mini-dissection of this game:
After playing this game for quite a bit, lemme dump my thoughts...
As someone who grew up in this country for a while, shits pretty accurate in terms of settings, character personalities/mannerisms and even the scenario. Heck, it's also fun that you can recognize which airport in the Philippines this was as well as what hospital Tonyo ended up being hospitalized in, nice attention to detail honestly. Same goes with chismis culture that Chona brought in.
However, there is a lot of narrative dissonance I'm seeing with the audience in the threads in particular as well as a lack of understanding or rather context in Filipino culture. I think the first thing is that a lot of you guys are looking for the Traditional NTR story given it's NTRMAN but that immediately clashes with the setting, characters and scenario given it's the Philippines. For example, a typical NTR male protagonist would be meek, nice, weak, bad in bed, betaesque and will get cucked by the end. This is directly in contrast in terms of a portrayal of a shitty filipino husband. Their traits include probably uneducated, working minimum wage, is machismo, dumb, ego driven, neglectful, prideful and kinda an asshole as well as rather go drinking than confront their problems. in this game, Tonyo is accurate to the trope of a bad/neglectful filipino husband in filipino media but as a traditional ntr male protagonist, it conflicts heavily. This is one of the dissonances i'm seeing.
Secondly, Christa. I'm assuming people were expecting her to be fully innocent then slowly gradually becoming corrupted. However that isn't the case here since like I said with Tonyo, she's more in line with a traditional filipina women falling for a foreigner trope than a female ntr protag. To give a little more context, a lot of filipina women, despite being nice and innocent looking, are horny little minxes and so her being like that from the get go is pretty accurate. It comes down to the conservativism of the country hence that side is more so shelved then to only come out in bed. As for her falling that easily to james, I honestly say this is also accurate given the time frame. (I added the time frame, the story took place about almost a month). This is mostly due in part of the culture again here since a lot of media in the country focus on romance and the thrill of falling for someone in a taboo or strange situation. For those saying, oh it moves too fast, and its unrealistic, like man oh boy you've not seen the philippines lower class families, people be starting a family after dating for like a month or even get married, it's that bad there. some families have like 10 children in a span of 10 years.
Next, James. I don't get why people want him to be black since a lot of filipinas looking for foreigners are either hunting for old and rich asian or white men. From the people I know, they don't typically go for indians or black men on these dating sites. Not that it can't happen, just generally speaking. Now, why did James stay with Christia, simple, James is a horny fucker sure but like a lot of american foreigners preying on filipina women, they're lonely and will do anything for someone to fuck and give them an ounce of their romance and love. Its like that saying, that of filipina women will love you better than other women or something.
All in all, Christa and Tony is ntr-like but to me falls more on filipina falling for a foreigner cheating romance story than it is true netorare.
Another interesting note though, is that NTRMAN didn't fully write this, another guy named Summer Cummings (I'm assuming he's the filipino considering how accurate some things are in this game) helped him write this. Just curious to how much this person contributed to the overall quality of this story. Is there any other info on this guy and if he worked on any previous NTRMAN games? It's easy to blame NTRMAN for the writing due to his declining mental health but I'm a tad curious to see how this other guy contributed.
All in all, do I like NTRMAN still? Yes. Do I believe he fell off? Absolutely. Is this a game good? No, it's mid but i've seen better. I only give it a pass since it's very accurate to filipino culture but as an ntr story, meh.
Anyway, considering we still have another game with chona, based on this:
Summary: Somewhere in Southeast Asia, a struggling single mother wrestles to provide for her young son. Her work may be obscene, but her heart remains with her only family—at least, at first. As time passes, the lure of wealth and luxury begins to pull her away, her focus shifting from motherhood to the seductive promises of her vocation.
I'm assuming Chona is selling herself online and is a sex worker but gets a rich client that offers her a lot. If any of you watched Dandadan, and remember Acrobatic Silky's origin, this might be it but the ntr timeline.
Thanks for the lore accuracy confirmation, this is gonna make the experience much better
6gntr
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It's a vanilla game made for women who dream of marrying a rich Western dude. You can't relate to the ''cuck,'' he's an asshole the whole time, and the bull is a good, sympathetic guy. The previous game was kinda similar... trying to push an empathetic view on the bull's side, trying to make us think exactly the opposite of what netorare should be. He's listening too much to those Discord comments... it's really concerning
