There's too many to pick just one. For me it's not at all romantic when it makes me feel bad for turning down all the other women just to pick one. So far I like them all. Nothing wrong with making an optional unnatural path where a certain Li is cool with it
. Can still have the 6 solo Li paths,won't hurt to add one more, which adds an option to gain way more players
Doesn't matter the setting. I've seen harem in about every setting. Medieval, space, normal working dude, a son with no job, etc. It can work anywhere . Why can't a group of women like a normal dude and all get along ? Nothing weird about that. They are already saying he is something special a few times in the game already. Almost all the harem games I've played mc is a normal guy.
Don't get me wrong, I like all the girls. Making a choice is gonna be hard. And I
like harem games pretty often, but bolt-on harems that are added as an afterthought and don't match with the tone of the story aren't usually satisfying. It's true that plenty of harem games feature an unremarkable unemployed inexperienced "18"-to-21 year-old protagonist whose father just died and has moved back home to reconnect with (seduce) a tsundere older sister, a sweet naive little sister, a sexy-but-doesn't-know-it mom, a slutty aunt visiting from out of town, and a bevy of horny neighbors of various ages, etc. Those stories start off unrealistic and stick to that standard to the end. They're fine, some great, and there's a billion of them.
What I thought was pretty unique and attention grabbing about Office Perks was the realistic setting of a bunch of single, attractive young people socializing and trying to find their path in life. Definitely, the girls bodies are a bit hotter, and the numbers this player puts up are hard to match, but so far this isn't much of a stretch from my late twenties. It's a feasible scenario that young women won't try to tie a guy down...
yet. Some might not be sure of their feelings or if the relationship has legs. Some may assume that if and when their love fully blossoms they'll only want to be with each other. Some of the girls could be competitive and enjoy vying for a desirable mate. Some may be worried about scaring him off, so they'll let him really swallow the bait before trying to set the hook.
Some girls might want to keep playing the field a while longer too. Sorry, my NTR-sensitivity training advisor tells me that it's triggering and immoral to even mention that last one; please don't read it if you've been cucked before in fiction or reality. My point is that there's plenty of real world reasons women tolerate men two-, three-, or even six-timing them, but realistically all of them are going to want to settle into a standard monogamous relationship beyond the short term.
The shady employer is even realistic for me. I've worked for no less than three shithead small-business owners who engaged in: bullying hourly employees to work extra hours off the books; cheating employees out of wages, 401K matches, and expense reimbursements; embezzling business funds to take a 4-month vacation; using the business as an illegal tax-shield; "employing" their family who literally never even show up to the office or do anything but call in to a weekly stand-up meeting; refusing to pay contractors by arguing incessantly about "proving" how many hours they worked; etc. It's believable that small business owner would be dumb enough to get involved in criminal elements and act like a total flake as has been teased here.
I'm not saying that Amomynous can't make a harem work well, but it'll be difficult in my opinion. Up to this point Office Perks has the tone of modestly heightened reality rather than the outright ludicrous fantasy leaping over mountains of logic in a single bound typically found in harem games. The most unrealistic thing in this game is that the MC would think to invite all his fuck-buddies to the same party. Brass balls on this ladykiller. I'll give him that.
The argument that the harem can be optional, that if you don't want a harem you don't have to choose it, rings inauthentic to me too. Because what man doesn't
want a harem? The reason I get to fuck only my wife while I'm limited to high-fives and side hugs with my ex-fiancée and an ex-girlfriend whom I see rather often is not because I can't get them or don't want all of them. It's because they would never agree to share me. If the game gives MC an option to build a harem, it's more unbelievable that he would decline than it is implausible that the option would be available at all. A dude with the huevos and the game to bed several smokeshows repeatedly over a couple weeks isn't turning down 6 women that are willing to be in his harem.
Well, I've said more than my two cents here. I look forward to Amomynous' decision on the matter.
