Know I'm taking the crowd on here (and I ain't even trying to make you mad) but I don't understand the vehemence of the vanilla fans. The plot of this game is literally propelled by Hunter's predations on the female cast. You get it? Nothing in the story moves without Hunter because there would be no central conflict. It'd just be you farting around in another incest game going from scene to scene. Sterling gets closer to the family in due course, sure, but he also has to protect them and confront his own feelings BECAUSE of Hunter.
I'm pretty sure NTR is relegated to bad endings because the plot couldn't continue without it and the butthurt would be enormous if it couldn't be avoided. The guys paying for the fucking game generally like NTR content the best, which is why this "WhatIf" is the way it is in the first place.
I'll never understand why Hunter pisses you guys off so much, stop hopping on Sterling's dick as the "Giga Chad" just because he's your self insert. Really guys: Hunter isn't personally fucking your hoes, okay? V I S U A L N O V E L, ya dig?
You make it sound like all the supporters of the game are NTR fans lol
This is far from the case. I myself supported the dev last month and I will do so again when chapter9 drops.
And I dislike NTR, cheating, sharing, cucking ,rape etc...
Most people that are not NTR fans, just lurk
Most players are fine with NTR being in games as long as its avoidable and not canon.
Its all preference too. Whether players self insert as MC in games or not, has nothing to do with it.
Games and Novels are ment as escapism. To get away from reality and enjoy pure wish fulfillment fantasy.
Nobody wants to play a game or read a novel and get sad and depressed because of its content.
Just like NSFW/Adult games where the majority dislikes any form of NTR or elements like cheating, sharing, swinging, cucking etc... Novels are the same. If you go to Novel Updates(its similar site to this one) you will see that people are asking for novels with Harem and/or Romance with no NTR.
Like my personal favourite novel Womanizing Mage
And its not self insert all the time too. Some people are just uncomfortable with anything close to NTR even if they do not see themselves as the MC. I have also seen people see the MC's in Adult games as their imaginary friend. You know if your IRL best friend's girlfriend cheats on him and then he is all down and feeling bad, you would feel bad too to some extent.
Different strokes for different folks.
At the end of the day, NTR and all similar elements to it (cheating, raping, blackmail, sharing etc...) are not for everyone.
Some people would not even play games with such elements even if avoidable.
EMPATHY
But you are right. Hunter is the antagonist of the game and is a driving force. He was the one that pushed the MC into becoming a real man and drop the wimp act.
But the entire plot of the game is not around Hunter. Its around the girls and the MC.
Its still not a NTR game tho. Since the NTR in not canon and a Game Over, and a very small part of the game.
And lastly, the WhatIf's are not canon stuff. And there wont be just NTR WhatIf's, there will also be Vanilla WhatIf's.