As much as people don't like/hate the guy I can just tell this is being done to spite Bubble (who from what I could tell got fed up with Savin's shit and ghosted).
I mean they already did stuff to spite Hugs and even Wsan.
(And before anyone says "and nothing of value is lost", it's the principle of it that irks me. Also they can choose to remove one character but a femboy companion they clearly don't wanna work on anymore and even made even more hellish to touch upon they refused to (or hell, any companions that aren't having content really, seeing as them being dead goes against the supposed companion design philosophy))
I mean, I hate Taka but I get where you're coming from. If they made Taka optional and not randomly inserted and shoved in our face, or let BlueBird rewrite him, then that'd be fine. It's definitely spite motivated since they could've removed him or made Bubs rewrite him at any point in response to his negative reception but are only doing it after Bubs ghosted them. I do think it's not as comparable to the Berwyn situation or the Hive since Berwyn is a whole can of worms and drama and the Hive was just unnecessary, whereas Taka is more a mess that gets responses ranging from annoyance to hate to even apathy. It'd be better if they refined or let someone who volunteered try their hand at something before cutting him. I will argue at the very least Taka being removed would be a continuation of removal policies and not the sign of things to come makes it a lesser blow in that regard. But I'm picking up what you're putting down.
The whole "your soul is special" is even more of a joke. They took away so much, we might as well change it to "your soul is... "special"..."
"You are special and the only one who can transform. Please ignore the characters in the line awaiting their mandatory futa expansion."
At this point the only thing special about the champion is that Kas has a shrine and fanclub dedicated to them. Mirror Stance is unique but highly debatable since it seems like something anyone can learn but just hasn't. Besides it's literally just turning watching and emulating a move into a stance mechanic.
I forgot what the trope is called, ignorant foreigner or some crap, but they are doing it...in someone else's country where they are they foreigner and invasive species! With that said, sp many other characters don't have even a fraction of content they got.
The kitsune have such weird writing it's like a mashup of attempted trope subversions. They're the outcast underdogs but they have iron age tech and weird tree magitech, they're thieves but it's okay cause their barterdom kink makes them superior, they're parasitic life forms that are killing the environment but that got retconned with the hints of it being the case left in. If they or Tobs had any self awareness it could have potential. Someone could ironically write a novella on what's wrong with the kitsune.
At this point I just interact with Hatsumomo because muscle mommy lumberjack gives literal and figurative wood, Kura because Egyptian woman as a kunoichi is an aesthetic I didn't know I needed, and Totally Not Kohaku because she sells stuff. Unfortunately actual Kohaku requires entering the tree.
Now this legitimately pisses me off, i actually praised this came for the class system alone and then even incorporating it into some scenes. There as another coc like game that came out before coc2 that had one in it and i loved it, but i think it died. But this was part of the reason i was so invested, to see how hour characters expanded on the classes we chose and not just generic, "The hero of X" or "Attack with weapon win fight".
Edit: It was fall of eden
Oh yeah that all got thrown out. The only class with any bearing is thief for the cunning since cunning is the primary and usually only stat check.
I MEAN TO BE FAIR I am bi and he is one of the very few notable male characters we got that can fuck and even marry. Husbando status or no, the scant few that want men here have to scrounge for crumbs and a puff of lint.
I even make my own personal joke even that the overabundance of women (regardless of sexual config) in these games (and really any porn games I get into that aren't DoL where I can configure genders) make me so desperate for more men and make my sexual preference in the former dry up so much you would think I was straight from how man-deprived I am. I need balance in my smut and that can't be achieved by removing the already small pool of guys as is. x'P
No joke I straight up had to get out of the fengame community to get my interest in fictional women back bc it made me feel unwelcome as a bi woman who isn't into seas of chicks or futa. I doubt anyone here really feels the same way as there doesn't seem to be much who want guys here either but hell if I know.
Well now I feel bad. Savin was asked for more dick and he just added more horsecock futa. Porn games do trend towards a focus on female characters. I can't fully imagine what it's like since I'm only into women and the occasional femboy but more variety in character gender would be welcome even if not everyone engages with it. BlueBird is rewriting Quins so when that's done you may have a new husbando to enjoy.
Anyway I don't even notice there was an update. What's it about?
Brint is omnipresent and now appears in the beginning no matter which exit you take, Cait got some new scenes so Savin can say she wasn't forgotten even though Jstar wrote most of what the update lists for her, And the three Leothran girls are in. Oh and a couple CGs, one for the Kohaku content last update and another for the Cait stuff this time.
The smut is so poorly handled and a turn off that we've devolved into shitposting and writing literary critique about the porn game. Perhaps it is we who
came too close to the sun.