- Nov 17, 2017
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Im glad you see the many layers that can be submission to someone. There are a lot of fun different relationships there to play with. When you say depending on the character, do you mean the MC as in how you play him and what relationships you want out of others or more as in a submissive relationship with Amy can be a loving one but Carols submissive relationship can only be forced and non loving (just making up random examples)?
Interesting that you want to go though a phase like that. I feel like most games tend to give you an in to dominate a girl (you find something you can hold over her) so you can try and dominate her without any consequence by your attempt (or the consequence is game over). In those games, dominating her tends to be more of corruption (hey, I like corruption as much as the next guy, but those are two different things) than actual dominance. So I am intrigued by gameplay where you will have to learn these things yourself and hopefully get to do actual dominance.
I think thats the problem with most harem situations in a game. When you reach it, cause you have bosted certain stats high enough with the girls, its just and then they lived happily ever after and had a lot of sex. I guess it can work as an ending scenario, but more often than not it happens halfway into the game but there is nothing more to it. And it is just something that happens because, you have grinded the relationship/corruption/mindcontrol. Its not relevant how you get them into the harem. Or how it works on a day to day basis. What else do they do except for fucking? Is it a secret or does the world know about this, how do other people react? Is it just a polyamory based relationship or is it based on the devotion of the slaves you own? (Haren can be based on normal love rutes, pure domination or both). What are the rules in the relationship? Are they all considers equal? What binds them to you, love, dominance, fear, addiction ect. Are you mostly together will all or just one by one? Do you bring in others to play who are not a part of the harem? There are so many interesting narrative and relationship dynamics to explore than just now you can have group sex. And few (if any) games shows any interest in telling them.
Having a harem is kind of like an Avengers movie. There is a lot of characters there, who would be interesting enough alone. But now they are in the same (metaphorically) room, and will have conflicts, but also friendships and find ways they compliment each other and can become better as a group and individuals. It is a balancing act to give them all space to feel like individuals that does their own things but also show the group they make up together. Cause that shouldnt just be fan service, the interesting characters and the relationships with them should still be there.
