Sure, there's the crowd that just wants to bang daughterus and to them I say "There's other games for that, fam".
But once again, I will be the someone coming in to say it.
Kiyoko and the Kitsunes, as a whole, are boring.
The absolute best engagement you have with her is when she's in the orb, and we're already talking about a point that won't show up if your PC has no dick (And sure, it's valid to not cater to everyone but tell me what the kiyoko equiv for female PCs is?), And that has you walking through some pretty interesting decisions. For instance, primary one that comes to mind: To get Kiyoko content, you're selling yourself to Keros. No ifs ands or buts, the game outright has someone tell you "THIS IS A BIG DECISION FAM".
Now, obviously, there's no equivalent yet. We've barely talked or touched on the other divinities, salamander twins aside, and definitely nothing on the level of binding ourself to them. But right away, you have to make a (let us assume for the sake of the planned game as a ewhole) major decision to access Kiyoko. Cool. Choices matter! I actually support this bit.
Now we get to what I claimed was her best part - interactions in the dreams. There's a long post on the coc forums about how kitsune aren't really japanese here, its vampire culture, and I agree, but I won't bog the place down in a rant on that. Anyways! Kiyoko in the orb! Slutty fox waifu who REALLY WANTS YOUR DICK! Her appearance changes the more kits you put in her! This is all very good. There's a lot of smut, there's varied smut, and there's a sense of progression here. It appeals to lots of types of players. It appeals to the player who just wants a lot of content, it appeals to the player who wants a kitsune, it appeals to the player who wants the power fantasy of a horny fertile woman all over their dick.
This is all, as I say, very good. We even get babby Kinu, who is cute and we can floof the tails and pat heads and have a pure innocent daughteru so smile at and be fluffy (literally) with.
and then....you have the Kitsune Den. Releasing Kiyoko. Which, I might add (I may be Very Wrong about this since I haven't done this part of the content in a while) you barely get told this is where you need to go to do this? maybe I'm wrong. I'll own it if I'm wrong on this point.
Instantly, things get long winded. Massive, detailed exposition written in rather middling manners. Long agonized descriptions of inter-character interactions that, at best, have the PC be a wide-eyed gawker (not the worst aspect, really, if the intent is to have us be The Outsider) and at worst have us be a passive wallflower (really not great in what is ostensibly a game). We meet several NPCs that we are expected to consider exceptionally important (Nakano the edgy bishie, the sisters, Komari the den mother) and we meet them in a long gauntlet slog dungeon. From a gameplay perspective, this dungeon also has the 'problem' (quotes because its my opinion here) that if you fail under certain circumstance,s you just....skip the whole thing. There's barely any actual change except you dont get some loot. If that's the case, why not just have a dialogue option where the PC explains wtf they're doing here and skip to post fight stuff sans Kick Ass name Taker loot bonus?
Moving on. We continue to have long, static exposition. Several times the narrative jumps around, often confusingly, thoguh I admit I was basically skipping every thing that wasn't a sex scene because it had committed the cardinal sin of a video game, it bored the player. I can already hear people leaping to defend the writers. No. I refuse to hear it. if you are playing a game, a thing designed for entertainment and (in this case) getting your rocks off, the worst thing the writer can do is bore you. I want to say, I read every last bit of exposition this game was giving me. Shit was interesting! Kasyrra is a neat villain. the winter city sounds fascinating. Even Arona and her quest to deal with the orc tribe was interesting as we examine the cliches of Big Burly Orc Camp. But the den scenes? Boring. Staid. Overly rambling. I didn't care. I was pressing buttons waiting for my smut scenes. I just wanted to get my fucking fox wife out so I could bang her some more, because ostensibly, that was what this entire thing was.
Finally, I could. I did it. I...had to sit through a fucking novel again as my fox wife comes out, gives me a "oh hey, you did it, neat" and then I'm basically not even there again as all the fucking foxes talk to each other, ignoring me. I get it, Observer, I'm the outsider, but I also just DID THE WHOLE THING THIS BOSS LADY OF THE FOXES WAS HOPING BEYOND HOPE FOR. I'd like a bit more then a pat on the head and a "okay hun let the adults talk."
Okay. Whatever. Fox wife is out. Now to...oh, it's just her orb sex scenes with a few variants and WHOA HEY KINU. Hey, neat, time skip, that's neat, kinda cool. Wait, why are you shacking up with nakano? When did this happen? Did I somehow sequence break more of the god damn novel...no, flashbacks. Amazing.
Does this maybe explain it? I don't fucking care about banging Kinu, she's pretty mediocire anyways when I can go slam my dong into Brienne whenever I want. I don't even really care about the people that do like Kiyoko and ehr content, more power to you.
But don't get high and fucking mighty and say this is just salty daughterfuckers. it's shit fucking writing and the Observer has a stick the size of a small nation up his ass about anyone who dares not fall in praise of his god damn wankery, hiding behind "y-you're just salty you can't fuck kinu!' 'you just don't see my vision.' 'you can just skip it!' Sure I can fucking skip it, if I don't mind being 4+ major content patches deprived of content in this rapidly bloating game. Wasn't half the point of COC2 that we were going to NOT do the "fuck 'em all' waifu bloat?
