I have no interest in playing this, but I guess I'm just curious. What exactly is the appeal of playing a game where your own character has no sexual content that isn't forced on them? I mean, why do you want to see your character be abused?
To me, I'd feel more justified getting through a game like this with it never happening. It's honestly the same reason I don't play a lot of H-Fantasy games, because the female characters are always getting raped by some manner of person, thing or monster. Whether it's the character you're playing or the members of a party.
I just don't see the appeal in taking an admirable female character then making the point of the game to be her degradation, humiliation and corruption into nothing more than a dick hole.
Ah, just to be clear, the game
isn't entirely forced; if memory serves, she can become a prostitute entirely of her own volition. Admittedly to raise funds for something of dire importance that she doesn't realize she other options for, but it is, technically, voluntary.
That said, personally, I just enjoy a decent RPG with a female protagonist. I understand that it's not supposed to be the appeal of the game, but when I started playing these games, there was a dearth of options, and one of these games where you're avoiding all of the sex can still be enjoyable if the developer actually had some ambition. It also adds some stakes to things; in a normal RPG, you can expect a simple "game over" if you fail a fight, no fights that you're not expected to overcome with reasonable ease, and nothing more dangerous in a fight than a few annoying debuffs. In a game like this, though, you'll often see something genuinely unpleasant if you lose a fight, have the option to degrade yourself to make a challenge easier or avoided entirely, and have more to care about in a fight than simply whether you win or lose.
It's no longer just getting to the end of a game, but
how you get to that end, and the consequences for failure along the way - both something that a lot of more mainstream games these days still seem to be neglecting.
That said, regarding degradation in general... Personally, I'm just interested in transitive states in general. I actively dislike force, for the record, but corruption through blackmail or bribes I'm fine with, depending on how they're handled. It's not about the degradation, per se, but in someone discovering that they enjoy something and embracing it; in
becoming the sort of person who lusts after everything in sight, and is willing to do anything to get it. And I'd enjoy it just as much if it were the converse, a promiscuous individual falling in love with a single person and giving up that life to enjoy a single person in detail - or even to give it all up in general, and find satisfaction in becoming a nun. These stories are somewhat more rare, of course.
Though to be clear, that's not the only aspect that interests me - a story about a kind person becoming cruel also appeals to me, or a cruel person becoming kind, a man learning to love becoming a woman or vice versa, a straight person realizing they're gay... All of these are various sexualized stories I've seen in the past that I've enjoyed. I like the
idea of becoming something that I'm not, only to realize that that's what I should have wanted all along.
All of that said, though, it
does tick me off that this specific type of story tends to associate "becoming wildly promiscuous" with "abandoning your pride and/or your morals". Just because I like sex doesn't mean I'll sleep with the guy insulting me every two words, or knife a guy for money, but most games I've seen tend to associate the two even when they're otherwise decent.