Max_Estrella
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- Apr 20, 2022
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Yeah, the more I look at it, the more I think the author should just scrap the update, redo it, and call it a day. It's normal to have missteps with such a long development, and even more when dev is determined to update every two weeks no matter what.I have hope that the author will pull it back together, but the last update definitely was horrible on every level. The Akemi route devoting it's entire runtime to off-camera sex between Mio and MC was a COMPLETE waste of time. Who possibly is here for that? Then out of nowhere that ending that either makes zero sense, or is "just a dream/fantasy," which is actually too lame to imagine- yet there's plenty of precedent of exactly that.
The cuck route is way worse though. It had such a good trajectory and tension, and all of that was completely deflated. Everything they could have possibly done wrong, they did. They completely destroyed the building tension and consequences, reset everything back to neutral, and now they're introducing a minor 'kink' as the new trajectory. Literally everything from Mio sexually falling to Ota, to the readers assumption that more was happening offscreen, to MC's acceptance of Ota's dominant attitude about Mio- all just completely unmade. Now somehow we're back to square 1 where Mio and MC reagree about never breaking the rules, how they are completely stable in their relationship, and the only reason that anything is happening at all is in service of MC's kink. What a total boner kill of a plot.
Akemi route is at a point where it makes no sense at all how Mio's behaving, and as you said, the cuck route has lost all traction and magically returned to point zero. After all the buildup, the moment of the bass drop, when the conflict should have erupted full force, suddenly dissolves into nothing and everybody decides to go back to the first status quo.
I feel they wanted to end the update with a shock, and they stepped on the thrust for the Akemi route, and felt the cuck route was going too fast and decided to roll everything back to the beginning so it could last longer, but man, there is no need for it. The game is good, the writing is good. Story has a pace, follow it and wherever you get at the two week mark is ok. Better to end the story and go on to write a new one after having a successful first game than to milk this one and leave it half assed and people pissed.