- Apr 14, 2018
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During my time here, I've observed the whole NTR trend with some degree of fascination. I've played a few games &, while that sort of thing doesn't give me any kind of enjoyment, I suppose I could see some of the appeal. It does seem to be a handy tool for immersion, plot & emotionally hooking the player, & for emotional sado massochists I suppose it scratches that itch.
I never really understood the extreme fatalist & defeatist bent to it though. The whole "No matter what, you always lose because you're so weak & pathetic" trend.
Personally I think that it would be WAY more interesting & DEFINITELY more fun if there were more games out there that incorporated NTR as a plot device rather than a replacement for plot.
For example, I played a Japanese game a while back, can't remember the title, but the plot of it was about a married couple. Husband works long hours at work. The wife works at a sandwich shop or something & the owner's grandkid, (some shota type antag), starts molesting & then raping the wife, blackmails her into being his "girlfriend", (though she becomes a willing participant soon enough), then the rest of the game is her living a double life, hooking up with the kid in secret until she ends up getting a secret apartment to share with the kid. In the Husband's playthrough, he discovers the affair, is devastated &.... Just accepts it & pretends like nothing happened. Now sure, for the NTR fans whom get off to that, sure. I'm sure many teary eyed, self flaggelating nuts were busted to that. & true, they are whom the game was made for as it's an NTR fetish game. But beyond that. Big Yawn. Boring.
For a really compelling game, I personally think that shouldn't have been the end of the game, but rather the end of the first act. The game could have been so much more if the story could continue from there. There are a lot of different ways it could be built on. For example, imagine this. The husband, now with little left to lose decides to take all the money he was saving from work &... let's say makes a high risk investment that pays off or some other mechanism that makes him wealthy & no longer needing to work at all, let alone so many hours. He keeps this all secret from his wife & still pretends to go out to work everyday, but instead, spends that time reshaping himself. Getting in shape, making himself more desirable, maybe getting a newer better secret love interest of his own, (or maybe more than 1), & re-builds his new life in secret while his wife continues with her affair. As this all happens, he tells his wife that he got a raise at work, (but not exposing how much wealth he now has), & convinces her to quit her job leaving her completely dependent on him financially. She starts finding herself drawn more back to him creating emotional conflict within herself. Without her knowing he buys, under a DBA, the building of her secret apartment, (making him her new landlord), Then when everything is in place, One night after "coming home from work", he tells his wife he has something for her & serves her with an eviction notice for her secret apartment. While she's in shock he tells her that he's known about the affair for a long time now, Has since become wealthy & has quit his job. The new landlord of her apartment was in fact him & he bought the whole complex specifically to evict her, (though the extra income is nice too). He then serves her with divorce papers & brings in his soon to be new wife, all of this completely flipping the script on his now soon to be ex wife. Now, with nothing left, the husband tells his wife he will let her stay under the condition that she reports her lover to the police for rape & extortion, (after all, that's how the affair started in the first place, plus the budding little sociopath needs to be locked up anyway), however, she will no longer be his wife, & she will from then on be his & his new wife's maid & maybe she can be their side partner, leaving her to live out the rest of her days watching another women replace her & have the life that she lost as consequence of her infidelity.
That's just one potential way the story can expand just off the top of my head. Wouldn't that game be more fun to play? The story that much more engaging? Plus there's something for everyone there. Though I'm sure there would be a few NTR fan's that would complain "No, I want my games to end in me losing everything & miserable". Well, for them, think of such a game as though it was your wife. Now it should be more fun for you. XD
Anyway, just a few thought's I had.
I never really understood the extreme fatalist & defeatist bent to it though. The whole "No matter what, you always lose because you're so weak & pathetic" trend.
Personally I think that it would be WAY more interesting & DEFINITELY more fun if there were more games out there that incorporated NTR as a plot device rather than a replacement for plot.
For example, I played a Japanese game a while back, can't remember the title, but the plot of it was about a married couple. Husband works long hours at work. The wife works at a sandwich shop or something & the owner's grandkid, (some shota type antag), starts molesting & then raping the wife, blackmails her into being his "girlfriend", (though she becomes a willing participant soon enough), then the rest of the game is her living a double life, hooking up with the kid in secret until she ends up getting a secret apartment to share with the kid. In the Husband's playthrough, he discovers the affair, is devastated &.... Just accepts it & pretends like nothing happened. Now sure, for the NTR fans whom get off to that, sure. I'm sure many teary eyed, self flaggelating nuts were busted to that. & true, they are whom the game was made for as it's an NTR fetish game. But beyond that. Big Yawn. Boring.
For a really compelling game, I personally think that shouldn't have been the end of the game, but rather the end of the first act. The game could have been so much more if the story could continue from there. There are a lot of different ways it could be built on. For example, imagine this. The husband, now with little left to lose decides to take all the money he was saving from work &... let's say makes a high risk investment that pays off or some other mechanism that makes him wealthy & no longer needing to work at all, let alone so many hours. He keeps this all secret from his wife & still pretends to go out to work everyday, but instead, spends that time reshaping himself. Getting in shape, making himself more desirable, maybe getting a newer better secret love interest of his own, (or maybe more than 1), & re-builds his new life in secret while his wife continues with her affair. As this all happens, he tells his wife that he got a raise at work, (but not exposing how much wealth he now has), & convinces her to quit her job leaving her completely dependent on him financially. She starts finding herself drawn more back to him creating emotional conflict within herself. Without her knowing he buys, under a DBA, the building of her secret apartment, (making him her new landlord), Then when everything is in place, One night after "coming home from work", he tells his wife he has something for her & serves her with an eviction notice for her secret apartment. While she's in shock he tells her that he's known about the affair for a long time now, Has since become wealthy & has quit his job. The new landlord of her apartment was in fact him & he bought the whole complex specifically to evict her, (though the extra income is nice too). He then serves her with divorce papers & brings in his soon to be new wife, all of this completely flipping the script on his now soon to be ex wife. Now, with nothing left, the husband tells his wife he will let her stay under the condition that she reports her lover to the police for rape & extortion, (after all, that's how the affair started in the first place, plus the budding little sociopath needs to be locked up anyway), however, she will no longer be his wife, & she will from then on be his & his new wife's maid & maybe she can be their side partner, leaving her to live out the rest of her days watching another women replace her & have the life that she lost as consequence of her infidelity.
That's just one potential way the story can expand just off the top of my head. Wouldn't that game be more fun to play? The story that much more engaging? Plus there's something for everyone there. Though I'm sure there would be a few NTR fan's that would complain "No, I want my games to end in me losing everything & miserable". Well, for them, think of such a game as though it was your wife. Now it should be more fun for you. XD
Anyway, just a few thought's I had.