I know this post will probably get a lot of facepalm reactions, but I honestly don't give a shit at this point.
This is a good game, I really like a lot of the characters and the girls look amazing.
I also accept the vision a developer has for his/her game, I don't mean to tell them what to do, I don't mean to pressure them, but I do have my opinion. They are like assholes, everybody has one.
For me, while I am completely fine with a game having no harem route or incest, what really irks me here is that the game most definitely plays with incest as a turn-on and fetish, only to then read that the dev is absolutely against incest, and it will never happen.
This reminds me in a bad way of another game with a similar approach, which I really don't like by now, WVM.
If you as a dev don't want or don't plan for incest in your game, don't fucking play with it, it reeks of a cheap gimmick to either lure in incest fans hoping for more or at the least flipping incest fans the bird.
Which brings me to my second point, no one can blame a dev for writing characters that the players like and want the MC to be with, on the contrary, that is a good thing, and it speaks for the dev's abilities.
But of course it is a disappointment if you are only able to pursue a single girl, while being able to start something with basically EVERY female character you encounter. Again, the way you can keep on balancing all these girls for a long time, hints at an option of there being a route for more than one girl, and again, it is completely shut down by what the dev says.
And here's where I really have some beef with this game. No harem, fine. No incest, fine. But these games are after all wish fulfilment, if you want realism, it's basically impossible to be the big hero or the one all women fall for (and I know there are a few of these games, even though they are not for me). So the game is already not that realistic, plus we live in a society by now, where the concept of polyamory exists and where there are relationships, even families with more than two partners.
To introduce basically dozens of interesting girls, but not give the option to at least have some polyamorous relationships available, seems restrictive, seems to go against the whole idea of games being wish-fulfilment (when everything else about this game clearly is exactly that, all women want the MC, all of them look like models etc..) and definitely seems like a waste of opportunities.
I happen to like harem games, but I don't like the WVM-type of game where all girls just fall for the MC and accept to share him without any problem. I like it when you have a relatively small number of possible candidates and you slowly, carefully have to move towards it and only when you do everything right, you get the girls to accept it.
And to be honest, this is a route that this game could very well have taken. Not with all the possible LIs, but with a few of them at once.
This isn't my game, this is Nyx's game, and she has to tell the story she wants to tell, I accept that, but I do have the right to my opinion that this is such a waste, to really offer only single LI routes, especially when it means you will at the end have to literally make dozens of playthroughs to get to endings with all the different girls.
And while some of you might not believe this, up until now I haven't spent any time reading through this thread and had so far thought that there would at least be a route with several girls ending up in a relationship with the MC at once, BECAUSE that is where the game with all that navigating and careful manoeuvring seemed to lead to.
Yes, there were one or two either or options, but for the most part, you could keep things going with almost all girls so far and for nine chapters in, that is a weird thing to be possible, if there aren't at least a few polyamorous options.
I don't like the idea of hurting so many sweet girls either way, so for me, while I still like this game, I will now wait until it is finished (if that happens) before I go and play through different possible routes. I have no interest in navigating this course until the point of no return, at least not, when I basically have to make singular playthroughs for all options.
If there was at least a system, where you could start each chapter, with set relationships, like in "Where the heart is," that would be different OR if there was a warning before each really important choice that will lead to closed routes or relationships breaking up. Then you could limit the playthroughs to a few up to a decisive moment, and it would be easier to manage and keep track of.
