Holy shit mate, I am speechless by the huge wall of text but since you asked, let me try and give some thoughts about it
Thank you, I guess.
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I know there are some people who do not take the sluttify option because they dislike the whole corruption shtick but I think those people do not count as "Pure run fans" but more of a "Corruption dislikers"
You see, there are also corruption dislikers who still want to see the hot stuff, which would be me, for example, yet the corruption shtick which seems to have taken over the lewd game scene recently does not allow that to happen without defiling your MC. You cannot start this game with a sexually-experienced or at the very least curious Warden, who comes up with the idea of sexually satisfying the prisoners herself, from Day 1. No molestations, no protestations, just 'Oh, that's interesting! How about we try this?' That would simply dismantle the entire fantasy of spoiling a pure flower rotten.
Pure runs in H games are mostly more challenging as the option to corrupt the character is often the least punishing and more rewarding as it gives you both a way out of the fight/event etc while giving you the sought sex scene
Yes and no. There are games where the dev all of a sudden acts the maggot and your slutty MC meets their early game over for being too frivolous, just this one cock too many. I hope this game does not offer 'bad' endings for slutty runs and each possible ending will be equally satisfying, with no moralizing 'should have listened to your momma'.
So, in the end, would there be more or less pure runs if Corruption was guilt free? The number wouldn't really change and it would depend on the story or mechanics of the game
You should re-phrase that to 'if there was no corruption at all'. Again, reverting to live action porn, imagine if they made them into virtual novels, where every now and then the action would stop and you could choose if the lady at the door should just pay the pizza delivery guy and bid him good night or should she let him in while she's looking for her purse... Option 1 ends in no sex scene, option 2 leads to a standing anal by the kitchen table, which is something that she proposed and he agreed. And you don't receive a trophy or bonus material for watching this flic this way or another. Do you think anyone would watch this porn choosing non-sexual scenarios more than one time, out of curiosity? Would such a thing catch on, the same way that 'pure' porn game playing has?
The reason as to why Karryn's Pure Run is fun to run is because as you said, the Devs made it so that everyone and their parents are super horny and
Yes. Now, why are there so very few game MCs (female especially), who are just as super horny, or whose sexual maturity and assertiveness can easily match the drooling gazes directed at them, from get go? I'm not saying there are no games featuring deliciously (albeit unbelievably) perverted female characters, because there are. And guess what, there are no pure runs in these games! You cannot play 'Slice of Venture' any other way than trying to unlock all the sick and deranged scenes scattered all over the game map. Bad endings you meet is when you weren't quick enough in your pursuit of perversities and failed to unlock such and such scene by in game Day X.
That's not it, they just do Pure runs because
A) It is possible
Yeah, it is also possible to watch a porn flick and skip all sex scenes. It's fun, probably.
B) To complete all the routes
It sounds like there is a fully fleshed out route in this game, but let's be real: there will just be several endings based on he MCs final slutty stats, institutional corruption and presence of hymen. It's not a multi-branching virtual novel and the route is just one: beat all the bosses while keeping the prison afloat. The battles are the same, regardless whether Karryn uses her halberd or any and all of the sex skills she was corrupted into mastering.
C) Because it is challenging
Ok, though I found a more interesting and sexually charged challenge. The one you mentioned at the bottom.
I'd agree with that, if the non-sexual combat module was at least half as complex and illustrated as the sex combat side. But it isn't. Just look how many sex positions are available and compare them with her repertoire of thrusts, slashes and kicks. And the apparent lack of combat drawings equivalent to sex drawings. You can have a defeat sex scene or... nothing. Or is there a pure victory scene? As a pure runner, you are not being offered an equally exciting playthrough. You're basically playing a censored version while putting more 'effort' into it, which is fine, as long as you find it fun, challenging and 'rebelious'.
Just check Remtairy's previous game Melty's Quest, she is an open slut and literally grows stronger by having sex
I've played it and it's painfully amateurish in execution compared to KP. Glad to see the enormous progress.
Yet there is still a pure route (And let me tell you it is hard as fuck if you try it first like I did), it involves her not having any sexual stat by the end of the game and the reward is a powerful dress
I'm sorry, I'm not into cross-dressing, regardless of how powerful the attire is.
This is probably one of those areas where porn and gaming don't mix well. I am not playing porn games for any in-game rewards other than porn, though I am aware that a lot of porn game players play them for the gaming experience, which more often than not is so so when it comes to this particular genre. Just remove the porn, and you're left with... Karryn swinging her halberd in the air wearing clothes two sizes too small and a pub simulator that isn't even online.
For the same reason, I don't really dig all those 'secret' endings. Unless they're porn in nature, naturally.