Completely agree.
It's a really well-crafted game and developing set of storylines, with nifty (often neatly ironic, rarely destructively sarcastic) dialog ... and crucially a broad range of different but all "3D" characters - a set of variously engaging, crackers outlandish, vulnerable, intense, mostly likeable (in their own different ways, at least very human), lifelike-only-more-colorful & thinking, intelligent personalities.
The MC is perhaps the only rather cardboard-cutout figure in the whole piece, at least for me, with his steretype dread of his dad: however crazy a couple of them may be, the women and girls are mostly beautifully designed & "drawn" - not only as regards the artwork, that is.
Proving you don't absolutely NEED supernatural elements, ghosts, ghouls, demons, monsters, or even evil supercriminals, to have a game you want more of.
Come to that, wherever the plot ends up seems (to me) less important than the ongoing process of the game - especially the enjoyment of the vitally alive characters and how they speak and behave, what they get up to in their lives, and with one another.
I mean, tbh, the sex DOES rear its not-so-ugly head often, thankfully also, and liven all that up a lot, liven up the characters & personalities in their different ways, even if it grosses them out
- but readers will probably see what I am getting at.As for the particular interest (fetishization?) of virgin status. Well, whatever turns you on. Personally, I think it's good if we sometimes get past the images of virgins chained po-faced to a rock, the stage of rescuing intact/untouched maidens from dragons (St-George-like), or indeed being that maiden-consuming dragon ... as in real life too, I'd say "non-virgins" are often quite a bit sexier, if they have the eye, the riper experience, have standards (high, low or just idiosyncratic) rather than being an artlessly staring blank sheet. But that's also just a point of view, of course!
