I hadn't played in a while and came back and saw there were a lot of story changes but..um..is everyone going to get into deeper and deeper tragedies? the twist with Maria in particular really changed the tone of the events to the point that i stopped triggering them because it was worrying about if a character would actually get hurt or taken away for real.
Coren, I think part of understanding HH is that almost all the NPCs are damaged, sometimes in ways they don't know. With some of them it's fairly superficial — Emma comes around reasonably quickly, Felicity has a longer path — but with others, it requires a traumatic event. Maria has hers, Ashley has hers, Android has hers. They're disturbing, of course, but they put the characters on their
real paths rather than just being sexual playthings for the MC. There's no question what's "wrong" with Autumn. Kali's teetering on the precipice of being a true monster, and it's not entirely clear (yet) which way she's going to fall, though she's still an NPC and so I assume she'll eventually come out on the side of good. (Or maybe not, which would be a bold choice.) The only slow, steady progression is Lin, and she starts as a perfectly contented slave. By the time HH gets to its current state, a "contented slave" can't possibly exist. Not for Lin, and not for the MC.
Harem is right there in the title, but this isn't a simple harem game in which everything's made fine by your dick. I mean, I think I and most people see where Runey's going with this, but despite the beach and the shower and the dungeon, most of these women are
not just blithely content sex partners anymore. I don't know if things are going to get worse or better for Maria. But you should be prepared for strife. This is a deeply flawed society, with fundamental injustice that's affecting nearly all the NPCs. Challenging it isn't going to be frictionless.
