- Feb 27, 2020
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Speaking as someone who used to be an unabashed Atelier Sakura lover, your description perfectly encapsulates why I've gotten burned out from their games. AS's adherence to certain tropes can often come at the expense of believability.Not exactly the case. MC stops participating in their swinging parties because his grandfather is in the hospital, and he spends most of his days visiting him. He didn't just stop. The other 3 aren't being mean about it either. They had been swinging for a while before MC has to step away, and since MC didn't tell his gf to stop, they didn't really think it was a big deal to continue without him. The moment his friend realizes that MC caught them in the act and ran away, he called him out to talk about it. That's when his friend realized that it was different than before, and by not including him, it's cheating. His gf came to the same conclusion and was ready to stop before MC confessed the "cheating" excited him. So, they decided to continue their arrangement, and MC and his gf remained a happy, though unconventional couple. There was no maliciousness to it. They just didn't stop to consider that it was different without MC present, but were able to come to an understanding in the end.
I'm purely going off your description ( haven't played the game) but is that seriously the trigger for ntr? The MC didn't explicitly tell the gf and his friends that they need to inform him before they have sex? Like that is genuinely asinine. If you flipped the situation and the MC fucked his friend's GF while the friend was dealing with a personal tragedy, then the MC and the GF would be considered to be cheating. It's generally understood that fucking people in committed relationships is cheating, especially if you haven't talked about it first.
But no, since it's AS, this is actually a positive development because every protagonist they create must be a cuckold. The MC can be a cuckold by choice, a cuckold by accident, a cuckold by circumstance, a cuckold by aphrodisiac, it doesn't matter as long as the MC is a cuckold.
Anyhow I sincerely hope you enjoyed the game. Didn't mean to rain on your parade, just needed to get some things off my chest