What do you guys think of the gorey horror atmosphere that the game seems to be having?
It also seems we'll get more violent and gorey scenes judging by the "Brutal" switch.
I personally think it's quite interesting, adds more weight to the story, having violent sex scenes could be pretty cool, considering Dilan is immortal.
Good that it will have a switch though. ToT and Domina got flack for Karen and Franziska killing people without it being avoidable.
Dying or being enslaved (literally) forever can be hot, my problem with using gore to achieve it isn't just on a personal level but because it's a cheap way to make something cruel/brutal, and I highly doubt Teary needs to do that; Ayleen making her feet dirty again after you spend 5 minutes ingame time cleaning them is a lot crueler and hotter than ToT women randomly mutilating people because it's psychological and much much more creative. There are definitely more extreme hot ideas that Teary could introduce and execute much better than anyone else though (imagine Teary creating and writing a character that ends in Yvonne's endings without you know, being a boring character with cheap dialogues and bad art, for example).
Also violence on that level from such characters just never works for me personally; violence during sex is hot because you trust your partner and they're not actively trying to kill you or do serious long-term harm lol, you are not actually afraid of them but only feigning it. I guess if a character is loving but sadistic and it doesn't go overboard it could work, but certainly not in the Domina or ToT style where it's just like ??? why would I want to be killed or tortured by these assholes who hate me and it's their only personality trait. That level of cruelty and disregard works for less extreme things imo, Karen and Lady B make the most generic things more hot by virtue of that for example. I'm sure we've all had fantasies of someone who despises us doing something cruel and disrespectful to us, but you certainly wouldn't want to spend more time with them or have them do worse things (which in the case of immorto Dilan would be literally dying), you look to your partner for that

.
Outside of erotic stuff the horror/gore work really well due to the artstyle and it being a sprite-based game. You don't expect to see such things in a simple game engine so the shock works well, if it were a more advanced game it'd just be pretentious and uncomfortable imo but I like it here a lot, it also goes really well with the mysteries within the plot.