It is true that the "canon" for the previous one was
the goddess , however, it was not the
"I burn and kill indiscriminately" one, that would fit well with ""War, Death, Dominance, and Vengeance"" and bloodthirst and power hunger and it was not necessarily the pure badass bitch as you suggest either.
One could have done choices and situations where she was not dominant, and have more submissive than dominant points, and by having enough dominant and having done the right choices at ther right moment, still get to the be
the raven canon ending , and even getting the full explanation of the
three sisters story .
I am 100% sure, because I did it in my playthrough, and effectively, I tried more than one to see different endings.
I have not tried the
"War, Death, Dominance, and Vengeance" path in this game, so I may still be wrong, but honestly, I think it is the easiest and the most "caricatural" path.
With "caricatural" I mean it is like those movies with "evil mastermind genius that want to conquer the universe" of so many Hollywood movies, the "evil vs good", were Luna has less depth as character (though that is of course my opinion, from which you and anybody else are free to dissent).
"Easiest", because she does not have bombs, but is like saying "they do what I want, or I bomb them" and she can always use violence or her
goddess power, honestly, more than a
goddess , sounds like a spoilt brat, and effectively, we will see if the dev gives more details about what exactly happened later, but it seems clearly from the premise of the game that
she did not do such a great job as Raven in managing the World :-D .
Effectively, someone that goes too much too often on a rampage and in that kind of "I get every whim of mine" will end up having a shaky base of followers that will abandon her at the first opportunity, and a goddess without followers, is not much of a goddess...
As her second personality says at a certain point even if
she has beating the mercenaries captain to get them to go there, to keep them in line she can put them down or give them some benefits/perks, but ideally both, the same goes with the followers, if she can do only
war, fear, destruction , in the long term she will be alone, a queen of ruins and corpses.
Notice I do find myself entertaining the movies I was referring to (well, depending on the movie), and of course I do not expect a porn game to be realistic - but definitively the other path is more difficult to navigate, but even for that more interesting, at least for me.
"For me" - it goes by personal taste, and indeed, it is perfectly possible and legitimate for a dev to make a game that satisfies only a very precise "kink" or target public, but it is a good "commercial" move for a dev to be able to satisfy to some extent different kinks and attract people with different interests, and I think Frozen Synapses is also working in that direction.
I do agree that for sure that
not having awakened immediately the full goddess powers make things more complicated.
However, I suggest you try again the other path, because it is not true that the only possibiltiy left in the other path, the
"motherly" one is to get
prey to, and develop, her lust and basically only open her legs and be pushed around all the time.
Although I am not using all of them myself till now, there are plenty of situations where she can get dominant points, she can end up having more dominant than submissive points, establish a number of relations where she is clearly dominant as "kink" but not only
e.g. Jahira, Diatima, Amabel, the count's son , which is hardly a submissive attitude and effectively can open scenarios that are definitively not of sweet submissive Luna.
E.g.
if the Luna choses to have the brothel in, the maitresse of the brothel could make an offer to Luna and she could do stuff there, but she could also have Jirvah go there to spy while doing other stuff ;-) taking one (or an entire gangbang
) for the cause using (and increaseing) her dominance, since everybody knows men talk too frely in certain situations ;-) and the brothel wil attract people from afar; depending on the choices, Luna has already pushed Diatima in an uncomfortable situations because needed information, so she may push her for the common good other times.
Also, if if one does the right choices
she can get in a situation where even if she had not been dominant towards the baron, not become his partner and not put hastings instead, having the mercenaries soldiers; the tribe that will come; the princess on her side; getting the resources from the brothel plus her followers from the land of the count (merchants, but with money, which means they can pay and get mercenaries); plus the count loan and support also to reinforce her castle and her more faithful guard; the Count's son to have around adoring her she can actually find herself in a situation where she in a condition of rebuffing or reverse the cards on
(if she was not already dominant or did not have the baron disappear already) the baron and possibly even the king (even more if at a certain point she could
turn the around/exploit the potential marriage and somehow take over the count land).
Managing all that (without forgetting the money, if the dev remembers to take make all the expenses effective) and other resources, is anyway something where she will need to take
(she did already) decisions that are not so "motherly submissive".
And for now, aside one or two bugs, it seem Frozen Synapses has managed to integrate well the rest of the story with that management part, in a way that does not require extra effort.
You should not forget one thing, linked to the
"mother" .
Contrary to what some people say, e.g. bears and wild boars tend to avoid humans, however, "moms" are a different matter - they will attack and fight literally to the death (their or yours) if there are little ones and perceive you as a potential threat.
A mother can be very meek with her children, yet when doing what she feel necessary to protect her children (or in this case "her children") can be almost or totally ruthless.
Also, on the reverse side, humans going at least back to Hobbes (well, it was a philosopher, not a naturalist, but in those times "philosopher" was still used a bit as "knows everything", they did not yet separate disciplines like us) got the idea that being "alpha" means being aggressive and even looking primarily at ones self-interest, referring to the "wolves alpha male".
In reality, alpha males in wolf packs are in command but because they take care of the group, make sure the older and sick are not abandoned by the pack and are protected by the stong ones, and alpha males have been seen playing with the little ones "playing dead" and letting them win.
Which means, again, if she is
too bent purely on war, destruction, dominance and revenge she will be very "alpha" by human thinking, but does not mean she will be able to reinforce and expand in a solid long-lasting way (the short term, can work fine) her church
, and that is what she needs as a goddess