As understandable as this may be in "a modern woke world" as Disney is propagating it these days, it's definitely not what I expect from a hardcore porn game that started like Project Myriam did. You were presenting us a naturally submissive Myriam (I may remind you of the high school scene with her teacher) and you offered us with every update "new choices to make Myriam more our own and write her story". But this doesn't really feel true any more. Myriam is departing from the submissive path no matter what our choices are. She gets way too confident, even too dominant for my taste. With every new chapter you are heading away from the original Myriam. She even submitted to the judge not because this is her nature but to "get back" Marc. Character development is important, but it should follow the player's choices.
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There is quite some difference between "full on asshole" and that whiney wimp Marc has recently become. Even the dog has more balls than him...
"Project Myriam" is a great game and I am very impressed by and grateful for your seemingly unlimited dedication,
Zorlun, but I don't like the direction Project Myriam is heading to. I understand it's difficult to please everyone's taste but why offering the choices to shape Myriam's development if she's getting one of those modern "strong women" anyway?
Don't know what to say, despite all I can put in a game, I can't stop players understand it or feel it in their own way, as I said, Marc has some character development but his done yet, as usual player choices will make things evolve differently, having the possibility to have him go back to being more assertive or submissive in his relationship with Myriam.
Same with Myriam, there is character development, but nothing set and done yet, she just passed an ordeal, and now she's going back into a phase of exploration, with a new found acceptance in her sexuality and desires, after that, the player's choices will lead to different roads and different Myriam.
But the trouble with character development is that it takes time, as do the game, so with all the different things happening in the game, it's bound to have some times when any player feel that he doesn't have his preferred content served. So I understand the disappointment, but all I can say is be patient and I hope you keep enjoying the game as it grow. And in the end I know it's hard to find the exact game for any one as a player, it was kind of what pushed me to try my own in the first place. ^^
Alright, by now I'm guessing this is yet another game with no actual fucking femdom in it, right? Seems every choice that raises her dominance stat is the non-sexual option and the sex positive responses boost her submissiveness or exhibitionism. Every guy who's not her asshole husband just has to have a big dick, including her son. Who by the way turns out to be a cheeky brat because of course we can't not have shotadom in this, now can we? Meanwhile her dog just raped her. This is not the kind of bullshit I signed up for when I came in here for the incest or bestiality.
The game start with a MC very submissive at start, so any femdom from her point of view will take time to come up, as all the lesbian content did as she start with a man at first.
So again, all I can say is patience.
I commend the so-called player agency of tailoring Myriam to be the kind of character we want her to be, given all the choices. I know that took a lot of effort and it's impressive for someone's first game. But this has a bad case of men writing women. And when that happens, we usually get women being portrayed as one-dimensional characters who can't do two things at once. Like be dominant and horny at the same time. Much less be dominating someone and getting off at the same time. What makes it worse is something I mentioned earlier, the real stink of a male writer. And that's how even though it's a female protagonist, we still have to read all the perverted thoughts of the men around her. Because I guess they matter, huh? How many times do we need to see some dude going "Oh man, look at those tits! I wanna grab that ass so bad," etc. Rinse and repeat as if her sex appeal needs to be reinforced by them every five minutes. It's annoying as hell and totally unnecessary. This is supposed to be her story, not theirs.
One of the goals was actually to make her more complicated than just slutty, prude, submissive or dominant, and be able to have her be a mix of those, enjoying one time to be submissive and another enjoying to be in the boots of the dom; to be able to be slutty when she wish and slap the shit out of someone another time.
For the extra thoughts coming from other characters, it happens with males or females, and just serve to build the ambiance, but I get that it can be felt as annoying when you only wish to view the game via the MC.
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I can't say I have the same understanding of what I do than what was expressed here by people, but I must say it's always interesting and help refine the game and my process later on. It brings me back to my irl life, as an artist and gallery manager, it's often funny to see the difference in a creation, what the artist made and put in it and what the spectators feel and see.
Thank you all for the food for thoughts and I hope you keep enjoying the game despite all, Project Myriam stay my first game and is very experimental, don't hesitate to pm me if you have some thoughts or questions.
