Shame. Towards to end of that playthrough some npc's actions were quite forced and i thought it was because of my previous choices. If it's the only way forward it totally removes player input. I had high hopes from the world building and build up and hoped for a more deeper and interactive story because of it. Oh well.
The only real choice the player has been given is if they want to see boobs or not see boobs on some individual story event; this has zero bearing on the actual story and is 99% of the time just an exhibition skill related boob scene. Beyond this, make a slave be a slave or let a slave know they'll one day be free. This lead to some different events specifically for those slaves and hasn't been expanded on in years. In that time frame, the MC found a voice of his own. His voice is "slavery = bad", so even if the player wants to make the slaves be a slave, it doesn't make a lot of sense in the context of the current storyline(or the fact this logic is only applied to specific slaves).
Those events were made in like, v10? v12? MC found a voice in like v14? So there was a shift 2-3 years ago around the time the city exploration was being added that we started to get an opinion from the MC on how he viewed things.
Runey has said repeatedly that the game is a visual novel. Go with that in mind that you're reading a novel and not a "pick your own adventure" story and your expectations will likely be met accordingly. The sandbox elements which were strong in the beginning have barely been touched in ages.
Come for the porn. Stay for the story. That's the basic breakdown.
