Yeah, corruption is specifically my jam, and if Hero Youth leaned into it more instead of nudging away from it, combined with the overall theme, I would have been SO much happier.
For example, what -I- would have done:
Instead of boy mode/girl mode just being a straight hard mode/easy mode toggle, I would have made playing as the girl have -consequences-, such as corrupting the school/town/sister faster... and different endings based on total corruption.
I guess in a sense that's what he did, but it could have been a bit more.. eloquent, I guess.