Let me ask you this. Do you think many people fondly remember the
first time they had sex? Chances are they don't, because they were drunk, fumbling awkwardly or in pain. Now that time when you explored a particular kink and fucked like rabbits for most of the weekend? That's something couples fondly remember
We're not talking about the first time someone had sex though, or at least that's not universally the case. Since this is a game, we also can gloss over the fact that a woman may find it painful or may not even have an orgasm from it. But even in the real world, the milestone they will still remember is the first time they had sex with person X, and not when the actually had their first orgasm from it or did it without discomfort.
Seriously though, I totally get where you're coming from. Romantic tension / "will they or won't they?" / crossing of lines is a big draw. I just don't agree the tension is even close to resolved yet (nor necessarily will be after the first time they've fucked). Crossing of lines only looks absolute from the outside. From the inside it's just moving the line.
The tension doesn't go away entirely, and new tension can take it's place, but it's not really the same tension. It's not the tension of "will they do it?". It's now the tension of things like "will they make it work?" Or, so often in these games "will he blow it?"
Stringing 'will they or won't they?' along for far too long is also probably the most common complaint about TV, so that's not a great example I think. It also ignores the possibility that in a significant number of these cases they were already going downhill and broke their status-quo in a desperate attempt to spice things up, and we should hardly be surprised that it often doesn't work.
I'd argue that it's relevant in a discussion of incest games or at least erotic games in general because taking too long to consummate things is also a very common complaint about these games, as Nefastus himself pointed out. Yet many tv shows and developers have used that tension to keep their tv shows or games going for several seasons of dozens of updates. It's the story during that time that matters. This game has the advantage of a good story, although going back to my original post, the pacing had advanced a great deal with the party. I think things were going fine with the daughters before the party. To use your own words, the party seemed like a way to "spice things up" but in a way that wasn't really needed. But still really fun. It just advanced things at a rate that will make it interesting to see how they're handled in the future. To me, it felt like it took a quantum jump forward, and it also kind of made public that there wasn't quite something paternal about the MCs affections for his daughters. Maybe I dislike it especially because it's taking away from that incest tension and the wrongness of it by being so public about some things? I can't really say. If I could understand how my brain works, it would be a miracle.
Sure, once everyone has gelled together there will need to be things happening to keep it interesting, but let me ask you this; would the episode with Jennifer's family have been any less interesting if it happened after we sleep with her instead of before?
I think anything and everything will be interesting with Jennifer. As I've mentioned before, she's the stand-out character for me, which is strange because I'm so used to incest in the games that I tend to dismiss the non-incest characters or at least not value the sex scenes as much as the incest ones. But I think the hardest I've cum while playing this game is to Jennifer. As for the daughters; while I am looking forward to sex with them, it's largely because of their family relationship and the chance to break that taboo in game. But without that, I'm not sure I would be so interested. As long as Jennifer's story is still going strong at that point, I'd probably still go back to her being the focus of my interest. As I mentioned before, it's a shame she can't turn out to be the MCs long-lost daughter from a one-time affair. Then I'd get an especially compelling character combined with my favorite taboo.
