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Hahaha I understand very well that it is your opinion. I never meant to imply otherwise as it is always assumed that what you say is your opinion, as well as mine.Let me try to simplify my point and philosophy on this. This is just my opinion and while in other posts it might seem I was making a claim that "this is how things should be and everyone should agree", I merely did not preface every single one of my opinionswith "In my opinion" in order to not have to write "in my opinion" before every sentence I make.
I am only specifiying this since there have been several implications in your point that my preconceptions are what everyone should abide by.
I shall try once again to state my opinion:
In my opinion, anyone can write whatever they want and write it however they want to write it. I have the liberty to state my opinion as long as I do not insult the author or judge how he is as a person. I can only state what are my opinions of the piece of content he produced. The reasons I do so are merely for a small hope that others might agree or that someone might read my opinion and think "if I make a game, I shall take this opinion into consideration".
That being said, it is my opinion that not all pieces of media are the same. Everything is dependent on the presentation and in the management of expectations. It is, once again, just my opinion that Adult VNs like the ones in this platform are presented in different ways to an aspiring reader. Some present themselves as light-hearted romances, some are mindless fuckfests, other go deep into human psycology and the nature of our desires.
It is my opinion that every such story is correctly advertised and tagged in order for everyone to know what they are getting into. Synopsis should be longer than they are, in my opinion, and there should be a well-painted picture of what something is about. There is art in writting synopsis, the best authors have the synopsis in the back cover painting a perfect picture of what is in store for the reader.
For example: if the synopsis for this game including something like "... but you there is more to Haley's past then what she leads you to believe, and uncovering such past will lead you to a path of fighting your inner demons and help grow closer with your sister", and a "Rape Themes" tag, I would be perfectly fine. I would be even more fine if the situation was actually addressed and not just ignored to be solved off-camera.
It is my opinion that in stories that present and advertise themselves in simple terms and do not tag certain content in them, should try not to include content that contradicts with the theme that you set for your own story, especially if it completely changes the tone that you wrote for your story in it's first half.
But your comment was "I believe this is a porn story, so I don't think there is need for anything like that". Your argument is as follows. By definition of porn story, stories are simple. So because you state as assumption that this is a porn story, you reach the conclusion that the story should be simple. Therefore, your argument is a tautology. The problem lies in that your assumption is not necessarily true, not in your conclusion.
My point was telling you that your opinion is precisely not truth so no, these are not necessarily simple porn stories (even if as I said I agree with you about your statement about Haley). In fact, if you have not, I strongly recommend you to read Acting Lessons. You will see that there is more to the story than simple porn (to the point in which I say with confidence that you could remove all sex and the story would be considered equally good).
However, once again, you are assuming that the reader should be foreshadowed about any kind of potential plot, even if slightly. That is in my opinion very wrong. That is why I mentioned genre shift. And any other setting in which surprise effect is intended and/or needed.
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