The MC is indeed a nice guy! Until it's time to not be. I'm deftly dodging story questions
Not quite the kind of nice guy I was referring to.
Overview made it sound like he was getting revenge on his dads wife who he had never met which is the kind of thing "nice guys" would do in all their women hating ways.
Revenge target is definitely not dad's new wife in this game. We are inclined to think that as, you are correct, that
IS the typical Adult VN "revenge" story (e.g. Reunion, Revenga etc.)
For this game, if I were to hazard a
guess right now, I'd say it's revenge for MC's mother who I suspect did not die by natural causes.
Story spoilers below:
1. The MC is oddly curious about current criminal activity in his hometown. The dad initially points him to garage break-ins (but they are small fry whom MC almost contemptuously lets run away once he ascertains that they are not the people he is after.) Matt points him to the "devil's balls" gang, whom I presume we are going to be "investigating" next. Both also heavily imply that there are crooked cops in the city. As we also know one of the potential LIs is going to be a trainee cop, there's a good chance that a "corrupt police" angle is going to be coming into the story at some stage.
2. While he dismisses anyone who comments on his physique with a "college had a good gym," that's not the real story. We know that he has also been training Mixed Martial Arts (home gym scene) and firearms (garage scene). He has been preparing himself for this - and this isn't the preparation one does if the target is just an ex, a gold digger stepmom, a past bully and the like.
3. The drive by hit-and-run that happened in the past is written in such a way that may lead us to think the MC was the one hit, but it doesn't specifically say so. What if he wasn't (or not the only one?) The timeline fits with when his mother died, and MC categorically inner-monologued that to him it was no accident.
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PS. High chance dad also dies before the game is done. If the Glock 17 is a "Chekov's gun", the blood pressure medication is a bigger one, but that's another topic.
PSS. Good game Dev, really enjoyed it so far.