Hey folks, calm down. On one side, it's a porn game and fictional and there's plenty of similarly icky behavior, some of which got removed but plenty that stayed in the game.
Legality and morality more often than not have nothing to do with each other, thus using the former to argue the later won't really help.
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous to call it rape after he's spent weeks grooming her. Believe it or not, context matters.
On one side, true. He totally wants to get into her pants, yet on his terms not hers. At this point there's a fallacy, a problem, where one could argue they are trying to rape each other. Each wanting sex, but none of them allowing it... at the time.
If you drug someone aftfer she flirted with you, the judge will see it differently.
The context actually does not matter when it comes to the definition. Sure, most of us are perfectly ok with the scene and also would consider themselves lucky to be in that situation, but from a legal point of view it's very clear what happened.
Using a false or fake persona is sometimes also considered by judges. If you pretend to be someone else, someone the other party wouldn't have a problems with, it's also a big no, for most judges.
Maybe, maybe not. But since she didn't ask ...
You don't seem to know the expression "only 'yes' means 'yes'".
So basically you are saying that drug someone so she can't object, it's ok? Good to know. I mean ... after all she didn't object, did she?
If that was really the case, SM, bondage and other fetishes wouldn't exist or would always be illegal and prosecuted as rape.
To end my argument: "The MC is willing, but unconscious. He's done a very similar thing to her, without her knowledge. The MC is actually not completely asleep, just imagines it being a dream. As shown in the end, since he was awake, even though he thought it was a dream and didn't object, all's good. He is also the one that, as others have pointed out, trick-groomed her into that.
If anyone wants to use drug related parallels, it's like flirting with someone (and them back), trying to drug them but ending up drinking the wrong spiked drink, still having sex in the end.
It's been many updates since the last time I played this game, though, and I hope they solved the weird family interaction inconsistencies... possibly having continued those storylines.