Dude this is a porn game that is a self-insert power fantasy where you have sex with hot femboys and whatever else that the dev decides to put in. Unless you like cuckoldry, seeing a character that the player wants to have sex with having sex with someone besides the PC breaks the power fantasy. What's depicted shouldn't be healthy or realistic if it breaks the power fantasy. Having Dave stay "pure" for the PC assists in the power fantasy. It shows that the PC is so awesome and so cool and has such a such a big fucking cock that Dave will only perform sexual acts with them, instead of being replicable or another notch on the belt (especially since Dave's doing it to someone who I would describe in the nicest way as pugly). Is it hypocritical or a double standard, yes. But power fantasies are filled with hypocrisies and double standards, because it's there to make the player feel good. Cheating is like the best example for this. PC can cheat on their partner because it can help the fantasy in that multiple people want PC, but if PC get's cheated on it breaks the fantasy because X person doesn't want PC anymore. But you are right on one thing, if you want this game to change you need to give RadLord money. So give him your money to stop this game's potential fall into a cuck fantasy, give more then the cucks on his patron.
TLDR: If you agree with this guy your a cuck and if you don't want his kind to corrupt this game more then they have, give Radlord your money.
I want to start off by thanking you for all the feedback. Geniuenly, I do love hearing what people have to say about my game. I also want to applaud you since the 'power fantasy' angle is probably the best argument I've seen from the crowd of people who disliked the optional Dave scene.
My response to that is: Hazelnut Latte isn't about a power fantasy. I have tried to make these characters seem and act like real people. You don't earn points in relationships, instead individual actions are what affect how characters treat you. They have lives and interests outside the player. If you cheat on Hazel during the first date with Jeze, there are consequences. How you respond to characters and what you choose to do has consequences. You cannot do everything in a single playthrough. There are many game over screens. I am not trying to sell a power fantasy. Dave is an example of me doing that. You don't get to be in a relationship with Dave. You two grow apart and he moves on. There will be more characters like that, so buckle up.
No one is corrupting the game, and no one has asked for this scene specifically. I thought it would be a funny scene to see how Dave is doing. Though I have listened to feedback and have stated the changes I am making, and no one is complaining, so hopefully, everyone is happy. I'm also going back to Ep 4's script and clarifying that you are going your separate ways with Dave, and there is no hope of getting together. I thought I achieved that with subtext, but clearly, I needed to use text.
And Rad my favorite little guy I know you read these so I, a nobody on a pirating bord, want to tell you some things. First, please settle on an artist or art style for the official pictures (the fan art can look as different as it wants). It's very jarring seeing differences in style and sometimes quality between everything. Generally things look good, but some of the sprites look off. It's mostly Tay (his eyes look weird but the rest is ok), Robbie (just completely get rid of his old sprites, the new ones are better), and Hazel (again weird eyes). The art style just needs to settle on one. I would recommend whoever did "Meet Tay" and "Meet Maki", but the people who did "Greg's Call", "Morning Wood Rub", "Hot Femboys In My Area?", and "Hazel's Restaurant BJ" are also good choices.
This critique is interesting since the same artist does all the art for my game. Outside of gallery unlocks, which occasionally feature guest artists or fan art I really like. (with permission, of course) But everything you see while playing the game is Kokman.
As you probably know, the game is still in development so we are constantly adding new art and updating old art. As the game goes on my artist gets better and better! This means we need to update the older content to match his newer level of quality. Which is what we're doing! All the time xD So, I appreciate the critique, and yes, we are constantly updating. Hazel is on his 4th sprite design, and I'm sure in about 2 years, when Kokman is EVEN BETTER, we'll need to update it again.
Right now we're in the process of redoing older Hazel scenes to match his newer design.
My second and final thing, I don't think you know what NTR means. It's not just cheating, but the pov character is getting cheated on with a focus on degradation (e.g. "you have a micro penis, so I'm going to fuck this guy while you watch and jerk that little thing off"). It's trying to make you feel like your nothing or not worthy to help you jack off. So with how you use it in "Jeze's NTR Kitchen" isn't right with the scene, something like "Jeze's cheating Kitchen" would probably work better.
In addition, everyone seems to have a grossly different definition of NTR which makes talking about it complicated. I see NTR as just cheating, cucking optional. I knew some people wouldn't like seeing Dave be with someone else, so I warned the player and then made the scene optional. People here criticized me for not making it optional enough. Okay, fair. As I've posted previously, in v0.13, you can skip the whole thing, even the aftermath. Though now it looks like Greg has a heart attack on call, but hey, I'm just listening to player feedback.
That said, sure, I'll think of a better name for that gallery unlock. I picked NTR since I think it's accurate and has fewer characters, so it fits more easily.
Again, thank you for the feedback <3
