Oh my how did I miss this. Well a well thought out post requires a well thought out discussion
That's not actually how that choice plays out. Savin himself said she'd never be a trad wife. You'd just stop her from going down further extremes. There was supposed to be some pregnancy/big belly stuff where not building the temple wants her to only be impregnated by the MC versus wanting to be knocked up by anybody or something. I can't remember specifics.
Let's see, I'm sure I have it somewhere~
Aha!
That was, oh apparently 2 years ago. Obviously that still hasn't happened. Speaking of things that haven't happened.
I'm not going to touch on the companions note for note but~
Sub is supposed to be the more player centric flavor of Arona which is why she's passive and let's the PC actually pick the scenes. There's nothing wrong with that conceptually but most of what's there in building her relationship is the player going 98% of the way to trigger it to the exception of the sleep withs. And she's got good scenes such as the all orc camp pregnant scene or the special ending if everybody is pregnant except Arona which has her being more PC centric.
But it seems the kind of character she's meant to be is slowly shifting into something else.
As for the aforementioned talk of things that haven't happened years later:
Exile Arona I don't doubt will be half baked forever.
The
problem with Kiyoko as you've mentioned is that she's isolated and has experienced no growth for quite some time. Given she's renounced any claim to her social and political position in reality the subdued face she shows in public is still acceptable. But the lack of perspective from somebody who predates was semi there during the wrath war is a bit at odds. Her talks haven't grown with the game either so the constellation prize isn't there either.
None of this would be much of an issue if she had continued to receive new interactions as we moved across areas as she has a great foundation. But the only scenes she's had anywhere are threesomes at the den.
However, if I'm going to be extra honest. That's probably for the best. No doubt Tobs is hard at work on the next part of Kinu quest. If attention is ever dragged back to Kiyoko I can't imagine it ending well and it'd likely read even worse.
I used to support the project. Can't say I regret what I got for the times around the start when the game was laying the foundation that it might at least attempt to offer people who bought into the second what they liked out of the first. Though to be frank if I had known in advance that the game had no intention of being a sequel to CoC1 I wouldn't have bothered and invested my time in proofreading submissions in other games.
He used to be able to write erotica.
But '
used to' died yesterday.
In the same way you sometimes see musicians fall-off. That's Tobs. And the same delusional confidence I've no doubt he exudes due to the friend group that undoubtedly supports him (versus proper artistic respect when rendering critique) is that same delusional confidence that had Melle Mel release that comically outdated and bad diss track