Time for a super autistic rant:
Even in a porn game, a story needs a level of believability. The more mundane the subject being addressed, the more jarring, and obnoxious, it is when it is portrayed wrong, because a larger and larger percentage of the player base playing it will just stop and look at the screen and say "no, what the fuck? That isn't how things work."
So, this isn't about anything beyond the first 5 minutes of the game (because that's all I've played, thus far) but the eviction was pretty stupid.
Bullet points:
1) Generally speaking, you have to be served by an eviction notice.
2) You have between 48 hours and 30 days to leave, upon receiving legal notice.
3) If you have to be forced out, the police are called to remove you. A landlord laying hands on you is assault
4) Regardless of money owed to the landlord, they have no right to your property unless you leave it behind, and it is considered abandoned. No matter what their lawyer says. In fact, even if they were able to claim your belongings to compensate for money owed, that still is a court process.
5) Even in the most gun-loving, reddest of red states, if you are forced out illegally, told your property is being denied you, and told that you will be met with a man with a gun should you try to take it back, that would be considered armed robbery, or some related violent crime.
I get it. The game wants to start with MC and his mother on the streets, with literally nothing but the clothes on their back. But there are ways to put forward that scenario that have a degree of believability to them. This entire scenario just kept screaming at me "that isn't how this works."
How about this. House fire. MC and mom wake up, house is on fire, and they help each other get out, but they have nothing but their clothes and MC's phone. Fire destroys everything else. Same opening scenario of everything lost, turning to their aunt of help, and having nothing. And, icing on the cake, it's believable.
Maybe the landlord will pop up later? Maybe, for story reasons, the destitution route is needed? But as I see the game now, it just seems needless.
Second point.
Why the hell is MC taking the blame for their situation? He is a college student. He lives with mom, in her place. Who would ever believe that he, somehow, fucked up bad enough that they got evicted and lost everything? And how cowardly is MCs mom that, as an adult, facing their homelessness, she jumps at the chance to hide behind her collage aged son taking the blame for them losing everything?
