So... @Select Gameworks, I just have to say... somehow I guess I missed this little gem of a game. The art style is really enjoyable and the overall implementation of the game makes it rather quite fappable, so I've gotta give kudos to the dev team. Looking over the reviews, I kind of feel like people kind of jumped on pitchforks too quickly with the rape in this game. For one thing, I skimmed a bit over the source work, and it looks like it's based in Malaysia/Singapore, wherein such seedier practices/power dynamics between the genders might be more imbalanced, whereas the reviews seemed a bit on the prematurely zealous in criticizing something well, which does happen to happen in life.
That said, I guess I do have a few concerns about the general direction of the plot. For one thing, one of the early characters that the dev did such a good job getting me emotionally invested in doesn't seem to be someone shipped to in the ending, so I wonder how much deviation the dev will take from the source material in order to round out the game, and to provide for multiple endings. Another piece I noticed was kind of a jarring pussification of the protagonist around 3/5ths of the source work. Now, in the game so far, it seems like the dev has kind of done a good job rounding out the aggressive/passive tendencies (wanted to avoid using the charged language of alpha/beta there) to give the player more choices, even though, at times it does seem like the choices don't seem to matter too much. So, I wonder, with the source narrative being written with a fixed direction and ending, whether or not a lot of the major plot points and direction are still ultimately inevitable, with player choice being in the end, trivial.
Arghhh... good job Select Gameworks, now this game is kind of stuck in my head. Did a damn fine job teasing the tip...