There's also this (while we're on the subject of incest games): one of the key failures of both
Haley's Story and
DMD is that they don't solve the key problem. This particular game just threw up its hands, whether there's a beard or not, leaving all future questions/conflicts to the imagination of the player.
DMD somehow deluded itself into thinking that marrying the father and daughter was the goal, when in fact they're still an "agent"/"client" couple who live together, go everywhere together, and about whom a truly staggering number of poeple know the truth (including Tara, who has no reason to stop hating Dee). That's sure as hell not a way to "solve" an incestuous relationship. They both kick the can, and neither cares, but at least
DMD's devs pretended to care, even though they failed just as spectacularly.
I don't think there was a way to "fix"
Haley's ending other than a full confession.
Yeah, I hate that. I hate unlikely/impossible virgins, as you go on to describe. Just get on with the incestuous sexytimes and stop pretending that your impossibly hot sister has been considering becoming a nun.
You're talking about
Sisterly Lust? Yeah, Liza was a solid, well-considered character arc. I have deep difficulties with both Bella routes, but Liza and Rachel were wonderful.
That's not really my point. As noted just above, I think the Liza arc in
Sisterly Love is incredibly hot. Do I think an actual Liza, tied to her church and her beliefs, would have sex with her newly arrived brother? Never. I don't think it's realistic. If anything, I think Liza would turn them in to the (whatever that horrid made-up organization was). My argument is that I don't think finding the MC finally nailing Liza is proof that
SL got an incestuous path absolutely right, because I honestly think it's both hot and utterly ludicrous.
They spent a fair bit of time, including with a therapist, talking it out, and agreed it was wrong and would never happen again, but that her grandchildren didn't deserve a hostile relationship with their grandfather because he'd been a creep in the past. I'm not saying it was all sunshine and roses, but they made it work. There was never complete trust again (between them or between them and her kids), but they arranged their time together to compensate for that.
I'm not sure I see this, but maybe I do; if the attraction's there, it lingers or it doesn't. I certainly understand spontaneous sibling experimentation being a temporary thing. And, you know, that might be an interesting game. A blossoming of incest that fades away and then, finally, ends as one or more of the partners find someone else. There'd have to be more to it, of course, but it's not a bad framework.
It's the apparent age, not the graphics themselves.
I played the hell out of it when it was in development. Great game. Weird, but great.
It's fine. But Ava will always read as about 14 to me, and I just can't. I don't even care what the game text says, or how she can pass F95's rule whatever. To me, she's a child. My issue, not anyone else's.
