I dunno, it never felt never 'ntrish' to me, and I really dont like ntr games but love sharing/swinging setups.
I would agree 'technically' it's cheating, but the tone and overall feel just isn't there- for me anyway. Maybe it's because Ann is introduced as completely new to this world of sexcapades etc - so the whole Vanessa 'do you know what she thinks of Chris....[She thinks he's her BOYFRIEND!]' I interpreted that more in an innocent naive tone, like she's a middle-schooler-emotion-wise and doesn't quite know how to classify him.Except the exact same thing happens on Ann's love path, where MC isn't corrupting her.
Whether or not he corrupts her is completely immaterial to the fact that on the Ann Chris path she does cheat on the MC by not following through on her promise to talk to him about what her and Chris talk about. She doesn't tell him that Chris wants to date her let alone the fact that she agreed to it. MC wouldn't even have a clue she was if Vanessa didn't snitch her out about it, so Ann was even happy to keep it a secret.
Ann's happily dating MC, Chris convinces her that she can date two people at once and that her boyfriend would be fine with it with no reason to believe that's true, she goes along with it. That's NTR.
Doesn't matter though, talking to you is like talking to a brick wall, I'll remember this if I'm ever lucky enough to come across any girlfriend of yours though
On the love path, it's not clear how her and Chris are proceeding. There are several prompts to mc if he's okay with this, but afaik nothing was hinted at or suggested. I'd chalk this up to less some deep deception and more just ttrick hasnt gotten around to writing the ann-chris stuff on non-corruption path.
so long story short, ehehe, you're both right, I think it's 'technically' cheating, and i guess 'technically' ntr, but it sure as hell doesn't feel like the other ntr games I hate. Chris is constantly checking in with him instead of taking the lazy-writing-bully path, this is a big part of it I think.
Or maybe a better way to put is in reverse: I have a strong suspicion a hardcore ntr lover would NOT like the way the Ann ending threesome played out, with mc having full agency.
I'm 100% happy with the current- it's exactly what I would expect for her corruption route, she still likes mc, but shes more promiscious. I don't think the "boytoy" vs "boyfriend" distinction means much on the corruption path, and I think that's kinda the idea. Contrarily, on non-corruption there should be a significant difference between the two.
The real test or challenge will come when we finally get Ann-noncorruption path Chris story stuff, then I'll either come back and agree with you or say it's done well.
