They're only implied to be your friends. Or rather, possibly know you. Nothing concrete.
They're actively asking people about you, but I agree.
Since the protagonist is a silent protagonist, we can't clearly feel the distance between them.
I'm gonna go off the strong assumption they're your friends though, since it's hinted that you're gonna go try to find them as your first goal.
Basically all the guys in the starting area somehow woke up in that area and don't know how they got that there. None of the locals know them. I think it's also implied that all the men woke up in that house too.
Then they would all be living there together, and yet only the MC uses it as his base. In fact when you buy the mana equipment, it's said it's for your home which the MC just casually claims then?
It's more implied that they just woke up in that part of the demon world. Not specifically that house, which is why most of them live in the Inn.
No. The reason it's significant and they address it is because the mc has the scents of other girls on him, even before he hooks up with the Imp and Werecat. Of course he has those two on him since they hooked up, the reason they point it out is because they still felt it was okay to claim him themselves despite him already being marked, which isn't how it works in this setting. It's the game pointing out that somehow you're going to be able to form a harem despite the MGE-verse basically being monogamy-exclusive.
I wasn't responding to any statements about significance, but just clarifying on the direct fact of him having multiple monster girl scents on him by that point in the story.
You're shitting on him, but all the things you point to as examples of bad writing are things that have definitive answers to them in-game. You either just didn't remember them or didn't pay attention.
And even putting that aside, acting like the writing's bad because you don't get all the answers in a very brief demo is ridiculous.
Yes, this is my experience with anything he writes.
Everything exists in a nebulous state so that it could be pleasing to anyone's fantasies, but because of that there are no
definitive answers when it comes to anything.
Like... what happens if an evil man decides to rape one of the weaker monster girls. It's said that "most" humans can't be "most" monster girls, but Dragon's mating ritual is predicated on her getting her ass beat by a powerful man. With the existence of Heroes we know full well that powerful individuals exist in that world too. If you had like a bandit king go rape a werebat or something, would the werebat fall in love. Could he then create an army of loyal monster girls to then take down stronger monster girls.
Questions like that can't really get answered by the setting because it hyper relies on the men being decent, or if not that, monstergirls being able to turn their men decent.
Or if you read Fallen Maidens, you'd see how crazy some of the developments in that setting are.
If you think about his writing too deeply it breaks down.
The nebulous aura around the monster girl descriptions meaning any girl can have any personality and any disposition if you want means it's kinda moot to talk about favorites in terms of personality affinities too.
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I'm saying all this as a fan of the series btw, cause I see the appeal in the concept. It's kind of a way I try to help newbies trying to enjoy the media more accurately step back from delving too deep into it. Because I don't think it's meant to be consumed on that level.
