This review perfectly sums up my thoughts on the last two Henteria games:
It almost makes me question N_Taii's views on women, thinking they would fall so easily for degen schemes.
I mean, if we're looking at it in the grand scheme of things, that isn't really a problem with Henteria as much as it is a pattern with most NTR/corruption stories as an overall genre, because they are typically framed with a male audience in mind and focus on the tragedy of a woman being "
stolen away" by someone else rather than just leaving of her own accord or actively choosing to cheat because she wants to. The drama hinges on her being convinced, pressured, or coerced into making a choice that she initially wouldn't.
And while most "modern" NTR is written for men, it's not exclusively a male fantasy. You can just look at the long and complicated history of old school bodice ripper novels, which would usually put a female protagonist in the position of being swept off her feet by some dangerous, "undesirable" man — usually in more of a social sense than a physical one — or being forced into a love triangle between having a comfortable life with a good, responsible man or an exciting life with some adventurous, unpredictable rogue. Plenty of those novels were sexist
as hell, and that's fine... because that's what fantasies are for. Exploring things that would be problematic or just inconvenient to deal with in your daily life, where you are free to engage with them at your own leisure.
I've voiced a ~lot~ of complaints about Haylen lately, and yet I genuinely don't agree with this criticism.