Been a minute since I was around. Caught up to the itch.io version of the game. I really like what you've done with Android. Her storyline hit hard on the absent but loving father/creator part, I haven't seen something like that explored in many stories and it was done well, and now moving toward some kind of benevolent AI race and the issues with creating something incredibly dangerous but trying to orient it toward good is quite enjoyable.
You might enjoy this channel on youtube, it talks about that stuff a lot and is pretty insightful:
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Lin, Kali, and the Twins seem to be expanding their storyline pretty naturally, and I'm interested to see where you are going with Kali and her sister. Seems like a kind of sisterdom/head wife situation which could be quite fun on the ero game side of things. Her activist classmate has also pulled back the crazy enough to be more tolerable as a person. I still can't say I have any affection for her, but I've warmed enough that I could see hanging out with her willingly, and don't have to grit my teeth through her dialogue. Lin's sister seems to be going a bit bland though, I hope you throw in some kind of curveball on her new personality so she doesn't just become Tall Lin. Nia investing in non-lethals was a good addition as well, considering the rules the MC has for staying with them. The Twins are probably the most enjoyable characters from the standpoint of ero game at this point in the story, they seem like girlfriends rather than comrades-in-arms.
The rest have leaned into more serious storylines and away from the casual fun of the early game, which is where I think some of your other commenters are feeling the divide. There is a sizeable gap between the serious material of the story outside the hotel and the light-hearted and odd-family oriented environment inside it, that dominated the early game where you spend almost all your time inside it.
I'm not really sure how to divide those two, myself. The radical from the lawful citizen and businessman...
Actually as I write that, it occurs to me that the MC and Lin storyline does have a significant historical parallel in Thomas Jefferson.
He was a business owner and man of international import, someone who moved the world (though the MC here is less active in his fame, kind of stumbling into it). He was also a man who condemned slavery and tried to have it explicitly forbidden in the country on several occasions, but was blocked by national politics and instead shifted tactics to make changes to the law in his home state where he had more power.
He was also a man who had six children with his wife until she died of an illness, then six more after that with her half-sister who was a slave who lived in their home as a maid. The parallels there are considerable, including taking her on vacations to foreign lands where she was technically free and took classes, but still stayed with him willingly and returned to her homeland. He made an agreement with her there that he would see their children freed, and he kept it.
He also owned a great many slaves at Monticello, which seems contradictory, but since freeing them would mean setting them out in a world where they weren't able to function in any way because of the cultural norms, you have a parallel to your Maria storyline. He set up a "village" of sorts inside Monticello, with a homemade currency that was paid out for work and could be spent in the general store that his family kept stocked, the blacksmith, seamstress, candlemaker, etc. Like an island inside a hostile country.
That might reconcile it. The MC participates in the revolution, but his primary mission is to keep the people under his care safe and in an environment where they can exist like normal people. Holding the hostile culture outside its walls at bay with the privileges and resources at his command.
And the game could expand gradually from there, increasing the resources under his control, through the girls, allowing him to make bigger and bigger changes. But not so much as a bloody revolutionary, but as a "world builder" making a better world inside their own corrupt culture that the people can't help but see as better.
lol, I came here to give a short note of encouragement and it turned into that. Still, a fun thought exercise. I think that's why I like your game. Makes me think and engage in "what if" scenarios.
Cheers!
