yeah, Ashley's path entirely hinges on a single choice in that a dialog with Emily...
everything else is pretty much forced after that. she is very aggressive, knows her way around men, and how to lower their resistance to zero, and MC is a horny virgin.the MC indeed has a base, he can function for the most part in society, being polite and respectful enough, around men. it's mostly around women that he is completely incompetent and inadequate, which entirely by chance, works for him in the best way possible.The point I made about the social skills you develop in childhood is a base from which you develop as you grow older.
The reason I carried on playing was that I hoped the character would improve somewhat. I liked the story with Samantha when he attempted to rescue her, it was quite a powerful scene which I thought was very sweet of him to do, even though he got a really bad beating for it. Then we have the interactions with Samantha going forward and eventually the sisters story which I really enjoyed too. I put aside the way the mc acted so I could read those stories. The fact I don't like the way the MC reacts or speaks sometimes, doesn't mean I dislike the game, I just dislike the weird behavior of the MC at times especially during or after the sisters story.
I can verify what you say regarding showering us women with compliments is the polar opposite mostly, unless the male wants something, which makes me cringe. I understand what your saying. I guess I was just giving my thoughts and thats all they where and if I offended anyone including the developer, it was honestly not my intention at all.
I just thought this game would have been better if you could select who you wanted to be with at the end of the game, which would have been wonderful. I know the developer at the beginning said you will end up with Emily, I just hope that is not the case, and you can actually choose. I know the points are for each individual girl or side girl, and Emily seemingly is the focus. I know a number of people would have liked this to even have some kind of harem system, which is kind of fun I guess. As i said, it's not the game I have the problem with, its' the MC behaving unrealistically that's all. I love the fact that he compliments the girls, but sometimes I think it's just fake because as you have said irl this kind of thing is not common sadly.
Haha yes he did take a rather long break of more than a year from chapter 8 to chapter 9, which was tiny compared to what went before, but at least the new episodes are coming far quicker than they used to do.
you expressed your opinion and had a healthy discussion afterwards, that's entirely fine. it's just that your first comment that triggered the discussion, you came off as demanding some other dev takes over and change the game completely with the same characters.
you are invested in the game, you like some parts, dislike others, that's pretty much the standard experience. the dev can't please everyone, but at least he should stay true to his initial vision/intention, instead of losing his way and trying to milk his supporters like we have seen so many others do.
we still don't know for sure if we won't be able to choose at the end. that could change depending on the dev. all we know for sure is what is in the game : Emily is the only one with love points and corruption points, all the others have corruption points only or are event flag based. a relationship with love growing out of a corruption path is not unheard of. in the last side story, Emily forgave MC for being a manwhore, but it's not canon, it could be very different in the canon main story.
