I really did not see the sequel being this huge an upgrade for me specifically, in particular a fantasy setting inspired by the medieval Orient is a HUGE upgrade over the first game's setting imo.
While I wanted to like Netoria 1 the setting just seemed needlessly "unique" in a way that was not appealing. This was especially confusing in light of how coherent and well realized naked ambition was from the same dev.
The setting in Netoria 1 wasn't really planned like most of the narrative elements. Netoria 2 went through much more pre-production.
That being said, I'm a big fan of the first game, i finished it twice. I especially loved the multiple route and the fact that we could avoid NTR. (more so in one of the last update of the first game ) Can we still do that here too? The fact that some gameplay element where directly correlated with NTR where really interesting. (it's not because i wanted to avoid it that it wasn't fun to play around )
So yeah in essence i wanna know if we will be able to avoid NTR and if like the last game, it will be a challenge to do so. (i liked that it was a bit hard but still feasible ). I guess it depend on which POW we are talking about if i understand right : ) .
In Act 1, there are three outcomes that can happen. Zaman and Shah stick together, Zaman gets together with Vashti and Shah with Azar, or Zaman and Shah break up with no further coupling. Both Zaman and Shah staying together and being NTRd have the same amount of content.
The portrayl of those events is heavily flavored by what POV you're on. Azar won't be able to see Zaman+Shah scenes directly for example. And the end of Act 1 has a bunch of POV exclusive scenes setting up the story for Act 2.
This, seems like a mess.
So if Im only interested in one character's fetishes, then essentially Im buying a game for full price but, only getting a quarter of the content? And if you are interested in more then you need to replay the game however many times to see it instead of just making some saves?
Or can I play as Zaman and let the gf hang out with Azar for cuckoldry play? Or does playing as Azar mean Azar gets cucked? or does he do the cucking, which if Im after being cucked and to get cucking content I have to play as Azar but hes doing the cucking, then that doesn't work for me that would be Netori. Then theres the transformation stuff, sounds like you're trying to fit too much niche stuff into the game making it too shallow. Even if I love say, futa on female if a game only has 1 or 2 scenes of it Im not going to buy a game for that a lone.
Now if I can play as Zaman and share the gf and let her join another man's harem that would be interesting and unique if there was a lot of content.
The above passage should answer some of this, like how in Act 1 all POVs are playing around the same events from different perspectives.
In Act 2 things branch off way more, with the setup done the game becomes about the POV characters really getting into their personal journey and their battle with their POV villain. The way I think you should look at it is essentially the POV system is letting the various routes of the game be much more different than they could have been in Netoria 1. Because they never have to interact what happens on Zaman POV can be drastically different than what happens on Shah POV.
For example, Zaman is a TF focused character. He's a woman for all of Act 2. So all the storylines on his POV in that act revolve around his transformation. But if you play Shah POV, none of that happens and instead it's all about Shah's journey to become a more assertive and confident person, or her failure to. So whichever POV content you find interesting, the whole POV is going to be about that content. There's not really sprinkles of various fetishes or anything. Zaman is all about MtF TF, Shah is all about sharing content (and femboy stuff if you want, it's mostly asthetic), Azar is all about netori, and Vashti is a little more complecated but she's mostly about domination/being dominated.
