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See, this is willfully missing my point. The game's going to end with F&D married and D as a successful model. There will undoubtedly be options — D pregnant or not, additional partners in the relationship, and so forth — that might affect the ending in the same way that such decisions affected the endings in Melody. But the game's reaching the same place in four chapters that it could have reached in two. Their story's going to be the same: D meets F, F takes D in, their relationship turns sexual, they make plans to be together, they end up together. Which was, in fact, accomplished in the first two chapters anyway; they just weren't married yet.End a version of a game for others because you don't like it. Sounds fair. I think you wouldn't like the same in reverse?
Remove all F's or D's sexual/romantic entanglements with Elena, Jennifer, Georgina, the other father/daughter couple, and whoever I'm forgetting, and there's more than enough free space in the first two chapters to bring F&D's relationship (and D's career) to exactly where it's going to end up anyway. There's no longer any need to keep repurposing Rachel as the exact same antagonist she's been in every single chapter; she's an impediment, they overcome it, and everyone moves on with their lives. There's no need for Tara 2: Electric Boogaloo. There's no need for a pregnancy fake-out that everyone knows is going to be revisited at the end of the game.
I have no idea what sort of point you think you're making when suggesting that I wouldn't like it "in reverse." I'm all for sharing, even though it was done clumsily here, but the game didn't need it and it certainly didn't improve the story; it was box-checking to make sure as many fetishes as possible were covered. An actual reversal of this concept would be...what, exactly? Making me sit through two chapters of content I hate (or am bored by) to get to the content in which I'm actually interested? First of all, at least half of all games in the sex genre do exactly that. If it gets bad enough, as a rational adult I just stop playing the game. If a game opened with content I hated from the first scene on, I wouldn't play it in the first place.
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