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I think that the landlady / roommate tropes are so well developed by now that their practically synonyms for mom and sis...Obviously, they are not. The incest is in your head. The dev might be winking and nodding at the player base, but if they actually wanted incest in the game there are ways to put it there. That you're imagining an NPC is actually a girl you had a crush on in high school does not, in fact, make her that girl. Your crush isn't in the game. Neither is incest. For there to actually be incest in the game you're going to need a mod, or at least a patch.]
So let's say that happens, and now there's incest in the actual game script. What if I, a player, don't want a given NPC to be my sister? Does that mean there's no longer incest in the game? Does that mean that the incest tag should be removed because I don't imagine an incestuous relationship?
Of course not. You're free to create any interior fantasy world you wish — it's part of why these games serve a different niche than regular porn — but it doesn't mean your fantasies are actually in the game. D is not a 5000-year-old succubus centaur, even if that's what I "feel" she is.
Most landlady / roommate games don't make any sense at all without a patch.
But anyway.
That you mention "imagining an NPC is actually a girl you had a crush on in high school" is an interesting point.
The reason why some games let you pick names for practically all love interests, whether "related" to the MC or not, is to create immersion and self-insertion.
Yes, such girls may not look or behave anything like your high school crush, but it still enhances the fantasy.
Especially when the story itself is not particularly strong, allowing the player to mentally fill in the blanks to make the characters more like the actual persons you know.
If you dislike incest you can of course not use a patch or create a patch which renames mom to landlady but the story won't make a lot of sense anymore. (why is it a taboo / wrong to fuck your landlady???)
Edited to say: I have no opinion when it comes to tags. They are often wrong, irrelevant or incomplete anyway. It is what it is.
For the record, I also have no opinion whether DmD contains NTR or not, and whether the tag is justified, or not.
I don't care at all about any of those things.
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