I come in peace y'all and I don't wanna start any arguments but I just want to know why NTR lovers love it so much. Coz I've been so curious about how the genre became so popular because I always felt like the opposite (netori) would be more popular imo. So can explain what about it y'all like it so much.??
Netori is just "meaner vanilla", in my opinion.
Most harem games - which are probably THE most popular kind of AVN - where other guys than the MC exist and play some role, already have some subtle netori of varying degree.
I dare say netori is actually the most common form of NTR, it's just rarely called out as such, because it's usually a lowkey byproduct in works where the MC gets all the girls.
Eternum is a good example, in my opinion.
And Corrupted Kingdoms has quite a bit of it. It's one of the more fun parts of the game, too.
But the issue with Netori is, it's too close to normal "popular guy" power fantasies already known from harem games and therefore too mundane to carry entire stories, at least for a lot of people.
Many players are also simply too nice to enjoy stealing from others all the time.
It's nice as an occasional "side dish", especially when the guy they're stealing a girl from is some ugly idiot or anonymous guy, but it can get quite tiresome as the main focus of a game.
What doesn't help is that in Netori-focused games, the MC is usually a cocky asshole and the cucked guy a nice guy.
A lot of folks simply don't enjoy that, because they're a nice guy irl themselves and probably relate more to the cucked guy than the MC, regardless of the games' perspective.
About why
"NTR" (Netorare) is so popular, this is what I think:
I think for a lot of players, Netorare is more a sadistic fetish than a masochistic one.
It's more about enjoying to see
someone else worse off than you, or seeing a popular guy like Kirito lose his beautiful Asuna to some ugly MF.
Many of them don't really self-insert into the MC.
I remember reading about a survey where the majority of people said they don't really self-insert much when playing games, which I think is particularly true for netorare.
I can confirm that for myself, at least; I enjoy netorare the most when the "MC" is some blind, deaf, absolute tool I can
not identify with, who fully deserves what happens to him, so I can just play god who happily leads that idiot to loss and ruin.
I prefer 3rd person POV over 1st person POV for that reason, too.
In my opinion, that's why a lot of Netorare is
a) shown from 3rd party POV a lot of the time, and
b) the "MC" is quite often displayed as weak, selfish, ignorant, dumb and very small-penised.
Of course, I'm sure there are netorare players out there who enjoy it
because they self-insert and
do have that masochistic inclination, but I think one reason Netorare is so popular is because it can be enjoyed from both the masochistic and sadistic angle.
Netorase can only really be fully enjoyed if you clearly lean towards the cuck mindset.
Netori can only really be fully enjoyed if you clearly lean towards the bull/cucker mindset.
Netorare can be enjoyed by
both groups, it's just about taking the POV you're more comfortable with.
Because you
can self-insert as the MC, but don't have to.
You
can self-insert as the one who cucks the MC, but don't have to.
Or just watch it from 3rd-party sidelines like a movie, with lots of cheating and corruption going on, without ever identifying with any of the involved guys.
In most cases, NTR is more cruel, involving rape, blackmail, or humiliation.
Yeah, a lot of japanese NTR is like that.
One reason I'm very picky about which NTR games I even give a chance, I enjoy it less when it's too cruel.
Not every NTR fan likes to see themselves in the MC’s shoes
Exactly.
As for Netorase, it just doesn’t make sense to me. If the husband allows another man to sleep with his wife, where’s the challenge? Where’s the conflict? Without resistance, there’s no tension — it just turns into a consensual fetish, with zero emotional weight.
Well, there's the "if her bull is too good, I might lose her" tension.
But apart from that, I'd say that's precisely the thing:
From what I've gathered, pure Netorase is a rather wholesome fetish, in a way.
It doesn't
need much tension, because that's not what players are really looking for here to begin with.
Taking Netorase Phone as reference (which is the only pure netorase game I've really played), the fetish appears to be first and foremost about making the woman you like happier, by giving her a more fulfilled sex life than you could on your own, without the "cheating, betrayal and losing her" aspect.
In summary, I think it kinda boils down to this:
Players with a more selfless and cucky inclination prefer netorase.
Players who consider Netori the least evil are more likely to just play harem-, maid- or BSDM-focused games to live out their dom side, so Netori as a dedicated genre remains a niche.
Everyone else (+ some of the netorase players) plays NTR and just wishes NTR games were better and offered more variety
