I feel like you're overlooking the difference in HOW Sterling and Hunter win over the women. When Sterling gets together with them, it's because he's taken the time to build a relationship and earn their love and trust. The reason it seems like they turn into horny mindless playthings with Hunter is because Hunter is actually doing things like dosing them with mind altering substances, hypnotizing them, tricking them, or otherwise coercing them to eliminate their existing willpower as a factor and make them uncontrollably horny. Saying that it makes them seem like they secretly are just "naive holes" because of what Hunter does is literally slut-shaming women that have been drugged, raped, and brainwashed. Of course it looks different when Hunter gets them, because his methods are completely different from Sterling's and are designed to break the girls' minds. It wouldn't be a "mind-break" if they were sluts to begin with.
"not once in the whole main route have an LI outright rejected Hunters pursuit or noticed that theres something stinky going on with that well stinky old man."
They don't notice, because he's being sneaky and underhanded, and he's been practicing that for decades. The reason they don't outright reject him is because they don't know what he's up to. No normal person anticipates their father or grandfather doing things like Hunter does. They can't reject him if they don't know he's after them.
But where do you put the line?
For chapters 1-7 I would 100% agree with you on that (80% alcohol to ophelia, dropping substance in the soup etc.)
But as for the latest chapters (8-10) I would argue that the LIs are as much drugged in their interactions with Sterling as they are in the interactions with Hunter in the bad end.
In fact I would say that if they werent drugged by Hunter in the first place none of the naughty stuff with Sterling wouldve happened at all, not even close.
one example I can give is in CH 9 in the bad end with Cath and Amber, theres no emphasis on Hunter drugging them extra to get into their pants, in fact theres much more emphasis again on drugging Sterling to get him out of the picture so Hunter will be the one that satisfies them.
But still in the dialog theres far more inhibitions put up from the LIs when it comes to Sterling compared to Hunter scenes.
For example Amber shames Cath for having sex with her Brother but none of that comes up with Hunter which is still incest.
Another example in ch. 10 ophelia is as much drugged from the wine with Sterling but still only lets him fuck her in the ass while Hunter goes from 0 to a 100 real fast.
Edit: I wanna add that we both can agree that IRL girls that have been drugged are extremely far form how its presented in this game, we all know that girls that have been drugged and raped IRL lose the ability to speak think and see clearly and most of them certainly dont enjoy the experience (not even talking about carrying the baby of the rapist), while here the girls clearly know what theyre doing, so saying that im slut-shaming based on my takes on the game doesnt hold any weight according to that.
Can you still say that the difference in approach by the two characters is the only factor that decides the outcome of each scene?
