That's not a pure run, a pure run is a virgin run. What you are describing is some edging type shit which is absolutely wonderful and I strongly recommend it. And I don't care how you play the game as I have already stated, you can even play it blindfolded but i'm going to question why. Dude said difficulty, everytime i see choose your difficulty in a game my brain reads it as how much bullshit are you willing to put up with? and the answer is not alot. This is one of the few porn games I know of aside from Holy Knight Luvria and since I can't do platformers Shadow of Yhidra where you could even bring up difficulty and it matter, but difficulty isn't affected by lewd stuff in any game i've run into so far aside from Jumble Strikers where High Corruption actually makes the game harder so really to me it's just a weird flex, like who are you going to brag to that you beat Ass Blasters 5 without blasting any asses? People are going to think you are crazy. Most games I have seen with a purity run being used, namely your typical CG hunter, it really just cuts the content down considerably. So my question stands, why would you play a porn game whos main draw is phonography only to avoid the pornography unless your fetish is cockblocking people and yourself, I just don't get it. I can't gatekeep it tho, literally impossible to do that since a pure run has been possible from the very beginning and like you said they are making an ending for it -still weird!
Well friend, you are thinking too much about it
The thing here is that you are correct, but also you are only correct because you think the way you think
Which means that using anybody else's way of thinking will make you automatically wrong and pretentious
Sometimes people just do stuff not to brag but simply because they find enjoyment in it, you might not find it enjoyable if you try but you are not them so of course you would find it stupid
In the post that started this chain of rudely worded replies you called players that do pure runs some sort of kink shaming snobs or something but that is wrong
Doing a pure run is no different from doing a speedrun or a nuzlocke or whatever other challenges those madpeople are up to nowadays
Why do they do that? To brag? To look cool?
Sometimes yes and sometimes no, people can do it to show the community their achievement but others simply find enjoyment in making strategies and routes to complete their objectives
You could go "How dumb, you just managed to beat the game without using any item, magic, summons and all in less than 30 minutes on the hardest difficulty but I can also beat the game on easy and I didn't have to think too much about it"
You might think he is dumb for doing it the hard way but that would just be because you enjoy the game in a different way
The point you are trying to drive is "Why would you not make use of content that the game provides and is the main selling point?"
And the answer to that are two very simple "Just because", "Completionism" and a more complex "Because what you think is the main selling point is not the main selling point"
What do I mean by that?
The game is not advertised as "Woman gets to become a slut in a prison"
It is advertised as: "
An RPG with original battle system and light management aspects where you play as a dangerously sexy female warden in a prison full of horny inmates. All sex scenes take place within the battle screen."
Look closely at the wording, the main selling points that they are trying to push are the "
RPG with original battle system and light management aspects"
Followed by "
where you play as a dangerously sexy female warden in a prison full of horny inmates"
Nowhere here says that the main selling point is the sex as even the last line "
All sex scenes take place within the battle screen." is written in a way to reinforce the Battle System
After that, even the About sections tells you straight up that it isn't about the Smut:
Karryn’s Prison ISN’T an eroge for the impatient or anyone who wants to come in for a quick fap ...
Karryn’s Prison ISN’T an eroge where you can skip and ignore all the instructions and tips provided by the various ingame NPCs. Karryn’s Prison isn’t like any game before it with its many unique game systems, and you will be completely lost and have no fun if you don’t approach the game with the intent to learn it.
Karryn’s Prison IS a game that will try to make you, the player, and also Karryn, lose and game over...
Karryn’s Prison IS a game that rewards experimenting and playing around the game’s various systems once you have begun to understand how they work. Although not necessary to do for most people to have fun and get their money’s worth out of the game
Karryn’s Prison IS a game that strongly rewards players who want to repeatedly reset the game through New Game Plus to try, tinker and play with different builds and choices.
Karryn’s Prison IS a game that rewards time spent on it to learn the game. Karryn’s Prison IS a game that rewards experimenting and playing around the game’s various systems once you have begun to understand how they work. Although not necessary to do for most people to have fun and get their money’s worth out of the game, Karryn’s Prison IS a game that strongly rewards players who want to repeatedly reset the game through New Game Plus to try, tinker and play with different builds and choices.
Karryn’s Prison IS an eroge where everything Karryn has done and have happen to her will influence the context in every battle and every sexual activity...
There are many more on their page but I am not going to copy all of them, go look them up
Even the lines about the Smut tell you how she will react differently depending on her status, that alone is a good motivator to see how things change while in a pure run
The developers themselves tell you that you can do what you want
Shape Karryn and the prison the way you want to with the Edicts system!
Struggle against or accept sexual advances with the Willpower and Desire system!
Become more and more vulnerable to sex with the Passives system!
To you it may not make sense, because you probably think "Since it's a smut game, people should obviously play it for the smut"
But then you'd be forgetting about the game part and as such ignoring everything else about the game
While the sex is part of the game loop as they expect, nay, want you to lose over and over while you learn with the little tid bits of information, it is not the main thing
It is simply another way of playing what is in the end a Game
And a game is meant to be played the way you find it fun to play
So to you who say that in this game, people who go for pure runs are dumb because they are missing out on the main part of the game, are not actually correct, they are fully exploring the main selling point which is the battle system enough to be able to play without having to go down the simpler route, they are playing the game in the intended way
But at the same time you are also correct because the smut is integrated with it, so they are missing out on the epic gangbang builds
I would know, I run high dex, stamina and energy build and battle fuck the enemies to death
Best build by the way, I only wish that the nerds stopped asking Karryn for footjobs whenever she's free, makes it hard to farm other stats
Also you seem to think that those who do pure runs do not do slut runs as well
But that is not quite true, after all you can be absolutely sure that people who do pure runs will absolutely do ultra slut runs if they haven't done that their first run
Therefore they actually skip no content
I would also know this since that is what I usually do, I got to see both worlds and 100% the game
And also you seem to see the Difficulty as simply obstacles in the way of your enjoyment, that is the main reason why you will never get people who do these kind of challenges and stuff
everytime i see choose your difficulty in a game my brain reads it as how much bullshit are you willing to put up with? and the answer is not alot.
Because you do not want challenge in your games, you probably just want a quickly rewarding experience and do not want to think too much about stuff and only get to what you want
You are probably willing to understand the basics of what each button in the game do but would rather be able to spam attack an enemy to death rather than learn patterns, buffs, debuffs, advantages and all the stuff that makes up an RPG
Which is fine but the argument "Why are you making the game harder for yourself when I play easy mode" is not one that gives you any point in favour
Lastly, as for why are the devs even making a pure run ending, that again is you missing the Game part of the Smut Game
If you paid attention to the story, Karryin is:
A) A virgin
B) Extremely strong
C) Extremely capable
D) In love with the Prince
So unless we as the player force her to lose or do dirty stuff, she herself wouldn't and would also easily whip the in shape while remaining pure
Lastly lastly, allow me to end this in a joke to remove the seriousness from the post:
What is Black and White and turns Red at the end?
