Oh, and another thing: this game might be somewhat of a metacommentary on porn games in general. If nothing is real, why not just do what you want to whomever you want? Sensei runs with this attitude. So take it as you want.
I can definitely see that when looking at it from an outside perspective.
Thanks very much for all the responses. It's very reassuring to note that everyone is generally on the "I'm not here for the rape" team. I assumed this was just another porn game given where I found it and was obviously horrified to be so intensely wrong.
Interesting note on Game of Thrones. While I didn't particularly like it, whether in book or TV format, I definitely wasn't repulsed from it like this game. I think it was a difference of expectations going in. Going into GoT, I expected grim-dark medieval fantasy. I knew people get murdered, I knew the good guy frequently loses, and I was ready for it. I think I either missed or overlooked the warnings on this game. There's also something about Koitatsu models which scream innocent to me. It actually took me an uncomfortably long amount of time for me to realize, wait a second, this is super fucked up. It took my brain a while to transition out of porn logic.
In addition, point of view matters a lot. Most, if not all, of GoT is told from the point of view of characters with reasonably sympathetic or rationalized points of view and they frequently get the opportunity to justify them given the view point changes. Unless I missed it, Sensei is both the only point of view and never attempted to justify why he's trying to seduce anything in a skirt. Honestly, this makes the idea that he's being mind controlled to one degree or another easier to swallow. If I had to compare this to a book, I think I'd compare it more to Lolita. It seems apt.
I think it'll be like biting a lemon, but I think I'll try and play this one through. I know it's fucked up, you guys all know it's fucked up, but I think changing my expectations will make it tolerable. I'm intrigued enough by the plot and the vast acclaim to want to know what it's all about. Sometimes you try new things, sometimes it sucks, sometimes it surprises you. We'll see which one this is.
Yeah, no, not this time I'm not. I'm too attached to the characters to be here for the rape, plus I like rape to be hard and fast, meaning they would all be having full penetrative sex by now and not by choice like the few penetrative scenes actually in the game at this time are.
Yes and no, player Sensei is the most frequently used point of view, but we do get the occasional scene where there is a second conversation going on elsewhere at the same time that requires a different point of view to see it because player Sensei isn't there. Judging by your responses regarding how far you are, you haven't reached these scenes. I would definitely agree on the "Lolita" comparison.
Then I am glad to see you are fighting through the discomfort and I hope you come out of it pleasantly surprised.
It is in the event Triple Whammy, and it is game\images\Events\mikupostbeach24.webp. It's not animated, but Selebus uses sound effects and Ren'Py's screen transition effects to give the moment, ha, impact.
I kind of want someone to take that second or two of gameplay, turn it into a 10 hour youtube video, and maybe give it a funky dance beat. It's great. I was so proud of the girl who slapped him.
No more out-and-out sexual assault committed
by Sensei. He's still grooming schoolgirls in his care and manipulating them to have sex with him, which may not fit rape per se but is still Extremely Bad And Uncomfortable, but also there
is textbook sexual assault committed by another character onscreen: sexual contact that is explicitly said "no" to and continued in the face of that no. If you're not sure what I'm talking about:
Kirin fingering Ayane during What a Wonderful World.
An apt comparison which gets explicitly made by one of the characters in Chapter Two. There probably
are some people who are playing this game just to sexually exploit the characters in it, but, uh, as
akselx points out, they are the people this game is taking aim at, much like the people who played Spec Ops: The Line because they wanted to be an all-American military hero rescuing the helpless exploited civilians of the Middle East. Actually, yeah, now that I've made that comparison, I'm going to lean into it: like SO:tL, this is a game which exists in a genre but in part skewers the sorts of escapist fantasy impulses that lead people to that genre specifically.
Good luck, and my respect for trying out something to which you had such a strong negative initial reaction. If it gets to be too much, by all means, bail. The world will keep turning even if you don't vibe with something a lot of other folks like.
Thanks, I knew the event, I just didn't know what file in the game folder to look for so I don't have to open the game to see it. While I do like replaying, I tend to save that for when I actually have new things to do and then replay old events when I finish the new ones. I see, so it was a still image that used transitions, well played Selebus, you fooled me, an experienced programmer.
I could probably do that last part once I'm clear of literally the hundreds of other things I specifically volunteered to do and need to see through to the end.
There may not be outright rape right now, but I am fully prepared for it to be added just in case. I'm not exactly thrilled at player Sensei for his advances or Kirin for hers, but I'm still outright furious at player Sensei for his latest antics regarding Miku.
Indeed it does, Selebus knows exactly what he's doing there. I would actually normally be one of the people the game is taking aim at, I often hide behind the logic that games are mere fiction, but I cannot bring myself to do that here, my emotional connections to the characters are far too strong. That's why I can get so worked up when one of them does something bad.
I echo this final sentiment, good luck to Rex and may you come to enjoy this amazing story. We can, of course, understand if that ultimately does not happen and wish you luck if at any point you come back to this point of wanting to get away.
It's important to note that this is not meant to be a "fap" game like most of the games on this site, and MC is not meant to be a player proxy like those games, either. I kinda worry for anyone who projects themselves into Sensei as they play. That's a dark road.
The MC sits at the intersection of nihilism and narcissm, and that's a difficult combination to sympathize with. He's then inserted into a scenario that buys into that combination of traits, and it goes about as well as you'd expect it to. But it's meant to make you feel uncomfortable, and there are multiple absolute gut-punches in here.
Indeed, making player Sensei a proxy is one of the biggest mistakes a player can make and can lead to amplification of the negative feelings the player experiences to a severe degree.
If we're feeling at all charitable to Sensei ... which maybe we shouldn't. His initial reaction to the situation is to believe he has been isekaied into a world which isn't his own. Given the strong hints that he has just topped himself at that point it is perhaps understandable that he adopts a classic fuck everything that moves mindset. If you think you're dead and having some sort of bizarre hallucination as your brain shuts down, maybe it's reasonable to turn off self-restraint?
His reaction is actually fairly tame when compared to other fiction. This is where previous comments mentioning Thomas Covenant come from. Dude gets transported to another world and immediately rapes someone the consequences of which basically destroy the Land (repeatedly - rape babies happen).
The difference I suspect between Covenant and Sensei however is that Covenant spends a good amount of time regretting his actions (once he finally accepts that the Land is real, even if it isn't real - seriously it's a pretty fascinating take on how one defines "reality"). Whereas Sensei is doubling down and his inner monologue suggests that he was a scumbag before he jumped and what we are seeing is just him - he is aware of right and wrong and chooses to act as he does.
Given that he is discovering that the resets can benefit him and that the world rewrites itself to prevent certain of his actions having consequences, I believe we're likely to see a hell of a lot more id and considerably less super-ego going forward. He's a (sex)predator with captive prey.
Absolutely not, he will get no charity from me, he burned that bridge with what he did to Miku. I could definitely see the 'fuck everything, it isn't real' mindset, though.
I am still of the belief that there are two personalities, at least, battling it out in his head and the one we see more often is one that took hold when the game started, hence why the monologues don't stick to one style. When he gets more philosophical and poetic in his molnologues, that's the other personality leaking out, the one the girls knew before the game and his normal one. This second personality may indeed have taken on the 'fuck it, this isn't real' mindset and that may be why he does what he does. That is absolutely not to justify him doing it, that just gives reason to his actions. It's hard to say what this 'player Sensei' would do if he did make the realization it is real. Maybe he would go the Covenant route, maybe it would break him entirely, we don't know enough to make a guess yet even with those Maya dorm events.
The resets do not help persuade him this world is not fake, they exacerbate his mindset that things are not real and push him to even more drastic things that he knows perfectly well the real world would not let him get away with. He could be ramping up his actions because the resets cement the idea that this world is not real into his mind. Again, not a justification, just a possible reason. This is also one reason why I could very easily see him skipping straight to rape at some point if this mindset gets too far. I mean, if it isn't real, then just taking what he wants shouldn't be a problem...right? I feel disgusting even suggesting that as a hypothetical future scenario, ugh. Any other game besides this and Harem Hotel and I would be fine with it because fiction, but even putting myself in his place as a hypothetical scenario is seriously grossing me out and making my skin crawl. Selebus, what have you done to me.
I'd like to think that Sensei really wants to just fuck around with zero emotional attachment, since nothing is real, but can't help but to develop some the more he interacts with girls. This really bites him in the ass from time to time, considering he knows no other way to support and feed his fake amnesia.
I'm not so sure the amnesia is fake, he clearly doesn't remember anything at the start.
