Despite the presence of what to me are many "red-flag tags" in the game, I keep seeing this game (and the dev's previous game) being heartily recommended by many ppl. After looking through and researching a bit (wouldn't want to run into any unwanted "surprises") I decided to give the game a try.
Pretty good, honestly.
I do have one question though - can you trigger Carmen's scene without the MC going full romantic with her, saying he wants and desires her in the long-haul and all that crap? Cause at best, I'd want her around as a fuckbuddy, or something akin to that, in a mutually beneficial arrangement without any "sweetness" to it. In fact, with her, I want no sweetness at all, if I can help it.
The events in the game make it so that, rationally, I'd want to "do the experiment" with her. If nothing else it'd be beneficial for the MC and his goals and Carmen gets her enjoyment, so win-win. But that's it, I wouldn't want her as "part of the harem", so to speak.
I don't like Carmen as a LI at all though, but don't dislike her as a character. Regardless, thank you for being upfront about her past and setting proper expectations for players. If her colorful past got revealed after I had started to commit to her I would've been pissed. But the way it was done felt very fair for me, my personal impressions and preferences for the character notwithstanding.
In my run I've mostly selected the kind actions. Is that a factor?
Oh and btw, one small gripe I have with the game is the fact that some actions require a specific number of "karma points" in one direction or the other. Some of the "kind" choices I made were selected only so I could reach a given threshold (15 I believe, and before i went back to redo some choices I had 13). Other than that, game's pretty good.
Pretty good, honestly.
I do have one question though - can you trigger Carmen's scene without the MC going full romantic with her, saying he wants and desires her in the long-haul and all that crap? Cause at best, I'd want her around as a fuckbuddy, or something akin to that, in a mutually beneficial arrangement without any "sweetness" to it. In fact, with her, I want no sweetness at all, if I can help it.
The events in the game make it so that, rationally, I'd want to "do the experiment" with her. If nothing else it'd be beneficial for the MC and his goals and Carmen gets her enjoyment, so win-win. But that's it, I wouldn't want her as "part of the harem", so to speak.
I don't like Carmen as a LI at all though, but don't dislike her as a character. Regardless, thank you for being upfront about her past and setting proper expectations for players. If her colorful past got revealed after I had started to commit to her I would've been pissed. But the way it was done felt very fair for me, my personal impressions and preferences for the character notwithstanding.
In my run I've mostly selected the kind actions. Is that a factor?
Oh and btw, one small gripe I have with the game is the fact that some actions require a specific number of "karma points" in one direction or the other. Some of the "kind" choices I made were selected only so I could reach a given threshold (15 I believe, and before i went back to redo some choices I had 13). Other than that, game's pretty good.
