But the story has lost more and more momentum for me. That is certainly also due to the route I followed,
but not only! I played the route "daughter only" for much of the story. On the one hand, that was because
I was of the opinion that if a girl takes the risk of having such a relationship with her father,
she shouldn't be cheated on with her best friends (But there wasn’t a bad ending because they’ve all
always been lesbians!?!?). And Georgina (also surprisingly with lesbian tendencies) was always too "plastic"
for me.
As storylines branch, momentum is lost. The limiting factor in ALL indy games is developer time. You can either have a scene added to four different branches or four scenes added to one branch (give or take a few percentage points in asset reusability) in a given amount of time..... that's one reason I cringe whenever some developer rolls up with his first game and a blurb about how "YOUR CHOICES MATTER!!!1!!"..... yeah, that's kinda fun, but I'd rather have one long, well-developed story lines than two story lines 50-70% as long, and that I have to replay the whole game in order to view.
The lesbian stuff is basically what people want. (I'm generally not a fan of excessive amounts of naked dudes cluttering up my screen when I'm trying to fap, so personally I'm very happywith things going in a more lesbo direction.) Competing girls deciding to fuck each other instead of hate each other is one of the oldest tropes in pornography. It's shit from a writing point of view for many reasons, but it's great as a fantasy-- it's something that almost never happens in real life, so porn is our opportunity to enjoy it.
But that is also a point of history. Too many conflicts are resolved without anyone having to pay for them.
Even with Rachel, the potential for conflict has been minimized.
Yeah, because conflicts make for good writing but lousy porn. In this particular game, the balance is all tilted toward porn. I'm ok with that, since I don't play this game for the writing. (Frankly I find it tepid.... the prose is mediocre at best, the plots are silly and predictable, and the dialogue is like something from a smutty version of an after-school special. But the pacing is good and the porn is hot, so I'm basically happy with the product and send Mr Dots a few shekels every month.)
If you want a great example of an H-game where the porn-vs-plot dial is twisted hard the other way (i.e. the porn suffers if it will make for better writing), try
this one.
But what I also want to say is that, although I haven't "cheated" on the girl so far, I have no problem with
hardcore scenes as long as the two experience them together and use the other as their sex toys.
In the game "Deliverance", for example, that was implemented in an acceptable and erotic way for me.
Yeah, you're on a minority path, sir. Since it is not nearly as popular as the harem lines, it gets less attention from the developers for the reasons discussed above.
Have you checked out
Melody? Same development team, similar strengths and weaknesses as this game, but very focused on 1:1 relationships. I've found it to be a notch above DMD, although it lacks the spiciness of the taboo premise.
