Came to say something similar.
Really not a fan of the whole "anti-slavery revolution" plot line.
This is kind of very separate from the rest of this post. I can't do anything about your preferences, all I can do is tell you to look elsewhere for your preferences in this regard. Or just keep playing and sit through it. Not much is going to change.
But the rest of your comments seem like genuine criticism of the event, which I will happily address.
The main problem is, these sorts of topics are pretty serious, and they need to be treated with a certain amount of gravitas to them. Currently going through the event where
and I can't help but think that this whole event is just an enormous bunch of naive wishful thinking.
Certainly, and I do. I've done a quite insane amount of research on every topic you see in this game, so please understand that I am not just throwing stuff at the wall.
I've seen how anti-communist protests looked like in my country. There's no way that 20 college kids would start anything meaningful enough to bring about any change. The truth of the matter is, the police wouldn't even need to shoot them, they would just beat them unconscious, arrest them, then drag them into some secluded interrogation room, and only then continue with the real handiwork. The father, telling his subordinates to lower their guns when he sees his daughter? That's not happening. He has someone above him - if he's the chief in town, then it's the chief of the regional police. If he's the regional chief, then it's the central command. If the state is this hell-bent on stopping anything pertaining to the anti-slavery movement, this sort of social unrest would make national news within an hour, and then the chief head of the police would be coming down on this guy's ass, because if he didn't, then the politicians would be coming down on his.
And the best part is - the dad-policeman would know this. So sure, he might not use live ammo, but he would definitely not stand around for hours on end, just waiting till the college kids get bored with their terrorism make-believe, and instead would just tell his subordinates to overpower a bunch of teenage girls and make quick work of them within a couple of hours.
You really have to read between the lines in a lot of these events. I don't want to plainly state every rule and cultural taboo, I want you to get a "feel" of it, which certainly can result in some confusion, but that confusion is also sort of be the point since you fill the shoes of an immigrant who doesn't understand the laws or culture.
But I think you have to be one sick motherfucker to give the order to shoot at your own daughter, fake bullets included. I would think it much more unrealistic if the chief of police would threaten his own children physical safety. And he was pretty close to it too, but his humanity won over in that moment. But he even says this is out of his control, like you mention, he just isn't willing to risk physically harm his own daughter, and I think that's very relatable. And who knows, the chief of police may get fired after this. This is a story where change like that is absolutely possible.
But come on, terrorism make-believe? Teenage girls? I cannot take you seriously like this. This is a protest of 20-somethings.
The whole event relies on the premise that the public opinion already does not condone the idea of slavery.
It is actually the complete opposite, it is established that most people very much do want slavery. Syl'anar is a democratic republic, so slavery can be voted out, they just like it.
If the public opinion did condone the institution, the media being there would mean exactly squat, as the police would catch more flak for not dealing swiftly with the wannabe terrorists, rather than for being violent with them. And if the public opinion does not, in fact, condone slavery, then there's no point in any revolutions in the first place - you just need to get the word out and connect people together, something which would be already happening sporadically on the internet and in the public spaces.
In the event, it is made clear that the chief of police is keenly aware of how this situation is constantly getting worse for them, this was something I intentionally wrote.
Again, very confused about how literal anti-slavery protesters are terrorists in your eyes, you really lose A LOT of credibility when you say stuff like this. Like, you want the police the beat these people up but you think the ones being trapped are terrorists? What.
But you seem to be under the impression that I didn't intentionally write the scene as it was written, I wrote the media in to show the police fucking up so the citizens of Syl'anar would begin to sympathize with Lin. I understand that you are confused, but I am fine with explaining things to you. It's why I'm here.
Instead, we get a feeling that any criticism of the current slavery system is being heavily censored... While at the same time being told that this system is being condoned by the society - you don't need state censorship in a system that is approved by the society.
You do. Hitler did this. It's text-book authoritarian. Oppress the minority so your grasp of power is never threatened.
There have been 3 elvish uprisings, they are very well aware that slaves don't like being slaves, and considering they are 33% of the population, a civil war would be bad.
What the author has created, to me, seems like a world where the government unilaterally introduced the institution of slavery, with most people disagreeing with it, but for some reason they are also at the same time convinced that everyone else condones it - which implies heavy use of social engineering and governmental propaganda, which in turn implies that the world has much bigger issues than just elves being enslaved.
To be clear, people want slavery, this stems from ancient religious beliefs, the government made it law. There is heavy use of social engineering and government propaganda, you've seen it in game. And yes, this world does have much bigger issues than just elves being enslaves. Yes, Harem Hotel was never just about slavery. It's also a story about poverty, power, greed, religion, and so much more.
And all of these topics are entirely fine to explore in fiction - but not in a light-hearted porn game about a dude boning ten chicks in a hotel, inherited from his grandpa. In order to treat these issues with proper respect, you need to plan for this sort of shit from the very beginning and design your story around these concepts - instead, this seems like the author just blindly stumbled into this storyline, and continues to dig deeper, to reach God only knows what.
What on earth gave you the impression that this is supposed to be a light-hearted porn game about a dude boning ten chicks? Literally nothing about that in game would suggest it, you even seem to understand that inherintently. What you're really saying is that you wish it were a light-hearted porn game about a dude boning ten chicks. It never has been. I have always planned for this shit from the very beginning. You seem very confused.
