Not really. You have to do some work to finish a couple quests before you can get to the first sex scene with the hound. I'm personally not a fan of bestiality. As far as I can tell, the artwork was well done but the writing is mediocre.
there was also a scene with the Manticore monster before it somehow turned into a monster girl, if I remember correctly
Well, in the dom path, Sabia hardly gets fucked, Orcs and thugs or w/e for some reason cum as soon as they see or touch her.
Yeah the scenes in this update feels more like what you'd get trying to go the dom path but failing dom test.
No, but iirc during the tense discussion(argument) in the dev's Discord a while back concerning Sierra Lee's departure I think someone mentioned that was one idea SL had for the story.
Yep, the Sub path is a rape-fest. If Sierra was around she could have made the path interesting but the current hacks writing the game have no interest in it as you can tell for yourself from the bored and lazy writing. It's rape, rape, rape. I don't mind some non-con stuff but this is just way too much, and it's completely idiotic in the way it's written. There's no way to save this path, it's terrible and because dumb patrons will riot if it gets cut, the devs will not have the courage to start focusing on the plotlines that might make more sense, streamline the game and push out updates faster
Eh, wasn't it Sierra's idea to have rape at the very beginning of the game? I'm pretty sure there was something about it, that Nomo or someone else argued and removed it to have smooth and slow pacing instead.
Yes, this looks EXACTLY as if they were working at the game exclusively around the deadlines. I finally got around playing and apparently unblocking f95(site isn't blocked, but the parts are, which made it nearly unusable), wanted to agree with you a lot of time ago. Since i do scenarios in different games, with different amounts of coding, i'm sure i can say that this shouldn't take anywhere near to 9 months of work. Without inventing any new code, without having to draw pictures, only taking and inserting them in a very simple way, copy and paste lines at worst... Well. At least this doesn't look malicious, looks more like a student syndrome - leaving everything on the very last moment.
No idea on who wanted to implement the initial rape scene, but I honestly don't buy that it was only removed for pacing. It was removed right around when patreon started cracking down on certain types of adult content, like bestiality and rape. I don't recall if Hrienn ever got flagged for review specifically, but removing a rape scene from the very beginning of a game is a way to hide that the content is in the game, since I doubt patreon would dig very far into a porn game to search out later scenes' content (kinda obvious since so much rape is in later game scenes.)
I don't know whose idea it was to have the rape scene at the beginning of the game, and I don't think we will ever know. But that wasn't my argument, so thanks for ignoring it. My argument is that the sub Sabia path is a moronic fucking rapefest and that it would have never degenerated into this stupidity if Sierra was still the writer. It's just terrible "me fuck Sabia because she wet slut for Orc (Minotaur, whatever) dick" dialogue over and over, with Sabia at first hating being raped then accepting it. It is terrible storytelling because the same shit happens over and over again. Say what you want about Sierra's games, but they aren't this dumb.
This is fair. I did go down those paths, following the walkthrough. But here is the point. This is an H-game. To say you could avoid almost all scenes by not seeing them means you will miss them. Then what is the point? Good art? I won't see it it. Good writing? I'm sorry, you and me may differ but it doesn't grab my interest at all the way it did when Sabia was acting as a sort of courtesan to the different orc lords. One big change that you brought up was Tekrok, before the change he seemed to think that a submissive Sabia could be useful to him. Now he just basically arranges for gangrape? And acts like a bad parody of a wife-beating crimelord? To cover up for a conversation? It's just colossally stupid planning and makes the character seem dumb. Also he forgot about it the next day which is next-level dumb. It's just bad writing.
The whole reason of choosing the sub (Submissive) path is to getting off on other people dominating/humiliating you. It's the very definition of being a S in the BDSM context. The point of avoiding sex scenes is for the case that there is something that you might not like it, for example bestiality. So you can skip it if you want to. But of course, avoiding everything is completely pointless, it just means the sub path is not for you.
I think there's a difference between the sub path before Sierra Lee left and the sub path after her influence in the writing was drawn out. I believe a lot of people who are having issue with the latter actually liked the former.
