...To have the characters all have their strengths and weaknesses, and acting the way that someone with those strengths and weaknesses might act, without any "that couldn't possibly happen" moments...
Happy to hear about your thoughts about the game. This line right here is the biggest reason I support more to you than any other creator in the h-game scene. I've played probably around 100 - 200 games / visual novels, both from the East and West, not including the plethora and movies, manga, and anime I've consumed. Too many stories have characters that act out of scope and specs of the character. The biggest example of this can be Game of Thrones (difference between writing of author of the books, and no-talent tv writers of Season 6-8), where they simply don't put themselves in the shoes of their characters and instead of dialog that moves the plot along without depth.
In the h-game perspective, the plot is the sex scenes. For ntr / blackmail content, it's the act of doing those things to the girls itself as the "plot". Too many creators force scenarios that are out of line to their girls simply to get their plot forward.
There's a few distinct things that makes this game stand out than others.
1. The number of characters is considerably smaller, leading to more development of their thoughts, as well as other characterization tools such as the things they do when they're not "moving the plot along" (sex), what they think about others, what their aspirations are in life, and what challenges they face to get to those aspirations.
2. The writing is a lot more mature and nuanced than others. For example, we get to hear inside of the heads of the cops as he blackmails Melissa into blowing him. We get to hear Carl's thoughts after he does a photoshoot for Becky. And the flavor of blackmail that the cops use on Becky is much more logical than many other games.
Here's a few things that I think can take the game to the next level:
1. Thoughts of women characters are lacking. For example, as Melissa is throating one of the cops, we don't hear her thoughts. As Becky strips for Carl, we don't hear her thoughts. What is Melissa thinking as she is exposed to the cops' dick? What is she thinking when he grabs the back of her head and pushes his fat cock inside her mouth, hitting her throat. What is she thinking that night in her bed, after that? There's so much potential for quality, fappable writing that extends beyond the sex scene itself. Some Japanese games do this well, when they show the woman POV of her having sex with her husband after fucking someone else, but they're mostly formulaic and boring like "oh the other guy was sooo much bigger", or "I can't feel anything". I think there's many lines of thoughts that are not put on paper, such as blowjobs thoughts, that are missing in the collective thinking of h-games writing.
One I can think of is when I got my first blowjob, the girl said to me that it tasted salty. (It's little details like this that adds to the character and make them come alive, the real reaction of a girl taking a massive cock inside her the first time, first time having her ass cheeks smacked around, and spread wide open, etc)
2. Gender swapping to write better: In my world view, women and men are not that different. Reactions of a woman being blackmailed for sex or blowjob, is not that different from a man. Sure, the timeline of this game is set a few decades in the past. But human thoughts are all very similar across race, culture, and sex. We all want to be accepted, love, protect those we care about, and feel disgust and trapped when we are confronted with obstacles. I think more agency of the women of this game can elevated to a higher product. Not the kind of false empowerment that we get on Netflix with its neverending LGBTQ agenda pushing shows. But the kind that makes you want to fight for the girl being blackmailed. The only way to write characters you care about, is to put them in your shoes. And that works even if they are of a different sex. Of course there are some experiences only women have (child birth, makeup, periods, breasts), but from my life experience many are largely exaggerated and overemphasized by the media. We are all similar to each other than we think, and in the context of how to handle blackmail / coercion, there's a few lines of action that coincide.
MIkedante - Apologies. I didn't think about the photoshoot as something for the gallery. Mea culpla. Maybe in an upcoming release I'll change the gallery to be "replay" instead of just "re-show an image/animation." That would make including the photoshoot workable. In the meantime, that's what save points are for... LOL
This game is small, and can be skipped in perhaps 4 minutes per chapter. There is very little to be gained for spending time coding a better gallery feature because some people can't be bothered to hold CTRL for 4 minutes or use Save.
