Just FYI - I'm not arguing to say you're wrong, only offering a different perspective. Also, you do make a couple of mistakes about how the dynamics of the code work ... which tells me that it is actually working exactly the way I wanted.
"she's not mad "because you didn't ask about her day" - Well, her stats drop because of it either way.
Actually, no. The stats don't drop if you don't ask about her day. Each of a number of things you can do with her provides "points" and the stats drop if you don't have enough points. For example, watch a movie with her. Have a cup of coffee with her. Take her to lunch. Give her flowers. Help her cook dinner or do the dishes. Talking with her about her day. Even telling her about your day gives a point
if she is otherwise happy. You can even get a point if you play video games
with her as opposed to playing video games by yourself and ignoring her.
"quality time with her. And you stopped going to bed with her". " Even when he came to bed, I was rarely in the mood to sleep with him. " - so after everything you do for her, there are even more thing that you SHOULD do for her. As the meme goes : That's not your wife, that's a list of chores. "I'm not blaming you entirely" - Boy!! The cheek on this woman. She blames her husband, society, the pandemic...just not herself.
Not a list of chores. It's just the normal kinds of things that two people in love would naturally want to do. And where do you pick up that she is blaming everyone
except herself. She can fix her own perspective and her own behavior, but she can't fix her husband except by talking to him about it.
I mean, what is SHE doing for him? This dreaded "women's work" ? Get a job. Hire a maid. Done and done. Marriage saved.
Nah. Even when they've had "The talk", she still lied to him about the actual problem. The fact that she's a size queen (lesbian Jenny is pure nonsense) that's been faking most of her orgasm throughout their relationship - probably why Christian isn't keen on going to bed with her that often anymore. After all these years he must have finally picked up on that tidbit, consciously or unconsciously.
Marriage isn't transactional, at least not most healthy marriages that I've encountered in life.
Also, the "size queen" Jenny isn't hard-coded. There are a couple of things that have to happen first before that becomes "the story." (Though it's possible that it will happen eventually no matter what you do, it just takes a LOT longer.)
If she had told the truth, he could have researched other ways to "spice up" their sex life. Like toys, not cuckoldry.
Actually, toys are going to be a future addition to the game, for the "make it work" path. This is still a 0.1. release.
But the point, if you keep going, is that he is not doing good research. He is looking at suspect online forums, and they kinda turn him into this. So yeah, plot convenience, because this is ultimately
intended to be an NTR game. That's why there are so many warnings about this at the beginning.
Then, like the bullfighter's estoque she gives him the "Things are definitely not so bad at this point that anything drastic will happen". And any normal person would probably tilt their head and ask "Drastic? Really? What does that mean?".
If Jenny were MY wife, I'd be packing her bags myself at that point.
No. That's not an actual woman, that's an experience. Something that you stumble over on your way to happily ever after.
This is why it's a good NTR (not NTS) game. I empathize with the MC. Poor Christian.
I take that last line as a great compliment. The focus of the game is NTR. The different paths are there to provide a spectrum of how hard the NTR players prefer the NTR to be. There is everything from swinging together (though still very little content in this path), to an open marriage (both husband & wife have a free pass), to voluntary cucking (which still looks very much like the open marriage path at this point), to outright lying and cheating (by either or both of them).
I'll even give you a little bit of a sneak preview, just for fun: part of how the "make it work" path will move (in addition to cheating) will be exhibitionism that leads to hotwifing.
There will
always be a "pure" no-cheating, no-sharing "happy marriage" path, but much of the content will be designed to shake the couple off of that path. That will be the challenge of the game, for those who want to play that way. For everyone else, the game will be the NTR game it was intended to be.
