- Mar 16, 2020
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I totally get your feeling, my dude. As I said a moment ago overall the final update left a sour taste in my mouth and this for sure contributed to it(especially as how seemingly random it was). The three-letter word does not apply at all but it did not feel good to know that after you sacrificed your life they basically seemed to get over it by fooling around with each other while you were unconscious. Could've/should've been written better, imo. They also left him out of the lake thing, which if he was well enough to go three times in one night you'd think he'd be well enough to walk a few hundred meters to a lake. Idk. Whole update shaky to me especially given the quality of the rest of the game.I can't say I'm disappointed. From beginning to end I enjoyed nearly every moment.
With one exception. I kind of wish the threesome with Lily and Mia had played about a little differently. It didn't sit right with me that they had started doing stuff behind the MC's back while he was sick. It's no secret that the girls did stuff together when he was with them, kissing and stuff while with him, but them starting to do more, away from him just felt off to me. The whole harem was built on his openness and honesty with them but then they seem to have done a lot before letting him in on it. I didn't hate the scene, as far as threesomes go it was okay. They aren't my favorite thing and I'd personally have rather had each girl get her own moment at the end. I think these are the lines that got to me most:
MC: I see... You two have gotten a lot closer huh?
Lily: Yeah. We worked together a lot while you were unconscious.
Mia: And became great friends, I think.
Lily: Really great friends.
Mia: Yeah?
Lily: Yeah.
It just kind of felt to me like, in that moment, they became a couple. Not just two members of a harem having fun, but a real couple. Like Mia was asking if Lily really did mean "I'm in love with *you* now Mia," with her line of "Really great friends." And then Lily confirms that yes, that is what she meant. Then they start at it, and it is very much a love scene, almost as if they had forgotten for a moment the MC was there.
Later Lily says, "We can't leave you out of this," to the MC. But they had been leaving him out, and not just in that moment. For months. He didn't know and they had developed a real relationship. It seemed almost like what had once been a harem, with the MC as the one they all loved, was now a throuple and a couple. It felt almost like they had moved on in some way while he was recovering. They still love him of course, he's the father of their children, Lily's brother, and their hero. But they have each other now after comforting one another while he was "gone" so to speak. They don't really love him anymore like they did before, it has changed, and not in a good way if you ask me.
It almost felt like if the MC had died that Robin would have been devastated, I mean she was just because he almost died. And Noria might have died herself because of their connection for all we know. But Lily and Mia would have been okay and just moved on to each other, because that's kind of what they did. It makes it even more odd to me because Lily is his sister too. She was the last one to grow to love him, to accept the depths of her feelings for him, but is also the one who seems to find love with another now. It makes it almost feel like Lily might have always been with her brother just because he was the only one there. She did love him, or course, and want him to be happy and she wanted more than just that at the time, but was it ever really like, say, Robin's love? And after Lily being the one we had to fight for the most, to help her overcome her brainwashing, suffer her beatings, deal with the taboo, and yet still love came out of it. And now, she's with Mia?
I don't know. I love this game and this one moment doesn't make me hate it or anything. I just wish it had been handled a little differently, because as soon as they start to focus on the MC the scene felt so much better. It felt more like the rest of the scenes in the game. It goes back to feeling like the girls might *enjoy* each other, but they *love* him. Maybe if the scene hadn't started with the MC being surprised by it, it wouldn't have bothered me as much. Like if instead of acting with surprise when they shift from fighting to playing, if he had said, "Oh, you two are just playing again, I should have known." Then it's something he knows about and wasn't something done behind his back and while he was in a coma. The second half of the scene, when the MC gets involved is why it doesn't spoil the whole game almost for me. It kind of recovered a bit there, like the girls do still love him most and just are great friends. As opposed to how that line felt at first, like a euphemism for lovers who will now use the MC because he's an available cock, and they still like cock. Or maybe if those great friends, really great friends, lines had not been there at all it wouldn't have bothered me in the first place. Who knows? The back half saved it though, but the front half of this scene left me feeling like, "Damn, they fell in love while he was in a coma? That's cold."
Again, I love this game, it was great, and I can't wait till 395games_Rathieu makes a new one. I just felt like this one scene soured an otherwise near perfect game and ending. Could just be me, and I would still recommend this game to anyone.
As an aside I would love the next game to be a fantasy game where we are playing the characters from this game's D&D sessions. That would be great. Robin's Rogue and Noria's Druid and Mia's Wizard (or sorcerer, whatever magic user she is) and Lily's (I'm guessing) Artificer all being the main girls. With a hero who once defeated a shadow king in the past and is now facing a new challenge in this fantasy realm and needs to gather a group of beautiful heroines to aid him... or something. Just tossing this dream out there.