I'll forever wonder why do people want vanilla so bad in literal NTR games
even more when some of those people want 50% of the game to be vanilla.
arent we here because we want to see the mc get cucked? i can understand wanting a happy ending, but i see so many people wanting ''proper'' vanilla that i cant help but be confuse about it.
I believe the thinking goes like this:
Opposites enhance each other. Great vanilla can improve the NTR when it hits. Choices are more impactful when mean something.
If it was a downer VN purely meant to depress the player into oblivion, then players will learn
not to get attached to the characters, and thus the NTR hits less hard. If you
believe the characters might stand a chance, you might be more invested into them and even start cheering for them. Which makes the NTR hit giga hard when it happens to the beloved characters you worked so hard on.
It’s why NTR of vanilla series/characters hits so damn hard compare to a typical NTR doujin where you know the characters are doomed from the start. People naturally form attachments to good things/characters, whereas they probably couldn’t give less than two shits about the 2 inch micropenis timid cuck who got his gf stolen by the bull. Since NTR depends on breaking down treasured bonds, you could argue that great vanilla is sometimes a prerequisite to making excellent NTR. Curse of Kubel understands this formula well.
I don’t mind pure NTR or vanilla/NTR mixes, as long as the NTR is good in the end.
I feel the very best NTR will have significant vanilla moments as well. The problem is that vanilla content is extremely expensive to make, especially if you're also paying for art and voice acting.
Also, it’s important not to confuse good NTR with gooning material. Good gooning =/= good NTR.
The most popular "NTR" games here are massively propped up by people who don’t even read NTR proper but want something that's more "exciting" than vanilla.
You really don’t need much to goon. Some people just need to hear housewife and BBC, and that’s enough to fulfill their "NTR" needs. (See the annoyingly popular NTR Phone games which aren’t even proper “NTR,” but have copious amounts of H-scenes.)
Since I am severely NTR-rotted now, I cannot feel for anything anymore unless it’s a hundred hour slow-burn NTR epic where the first real H-scene happens at the halfway point. Gone are the days where I just needed to hear the words "Sesshōmaru and Kagome" to get me off.