Its a good review which I can agree with your point of view. The thing is " being a horny woman + all the men in the world perving " is the curse of all Female protag games is it not? GGGB certainly has that vibe , Ashley is always horny , all the man wants to fuck her (well maybe not dave at beginning) and she has fucked all the males and females who has appeared in the game. You could say some is by player's choice but the choices in PS definitely matter as well in choose who you want to perve or advance in sexual stuff. Even AWAM, the highest standard of erotic game content with no sex have almost all the men and junior dicks lusting for Sophia. The only thing stopping their dicks is the god of hand from L&P.
As for Fetishes , lol . Again really its the curse of Female protag. Corruption, incest, blackmail - Practically the 3 godfather tags of all adult games. If however, you are after a pure vanilla love story. Okay you are right but GGGB certainly didnt't shy away from those tags.
Humm, its been a year since you last tried PS, that has to be the discontinued version where she was indeed slut fuck fest mode. This version is way way better than before in terms of pacing. So it is interesting you still find the new version perv filled porn fest.
Lastly GGGB is a masterpiece. No one will deny that but if PS can get this far with just $500 patreon pledges, imagine what Paperwork can do if he had GGGB pledge volume.
This version is better then the original that I played, and I did feel the urge to give it a higher score early on in this play through... But it began to feel like some of the good things, such as choice, such as making a difference in the over all story, some of the deeper plot points, choices making a real difference in the main characters personality changes (depending on the choices you made) outside of sexual ones, etc, they seemed to become less prevalent/important and the story elements began to suffer... They either felt like they were being abandoned, and/or choices no longer played as much a role in the protagonists development, but instead were just to change the degree of perving you want to experience (in that moment) without making a real difference over the long haul of the story...
As to the comparison I was making with my reference to Good Girl Gone Bad, it was just to point out they were in a similar category... I made no one to one comparisons between the two... Both are female protagonist corruption stories with some choices that were just about erotic or no erotic influence, etc...
It was only shortly after the 2nd half of my play through of this VN/Game that I felt that the story was stagnating or just being teased now and then rather then going anywhere... And very few choices made in the first half seemed to matter as much in the 2nd half... In some cases, in earlier content, you could chose to avoid a situation, and it succeeded, where as in later choices, it more so effected the degree to what you would see, but played no real role in effecting the overall outcome... Such as the blackmail... You can avoid it early on, but it just resurfaces as though your earlier choice never really mattered, and it is no longer avoidable in the later choices... It then just becomes to what degree do you allow it to happen... And I am not trying to focus on that particular situation, instead, it's just a more obvious case to point out...
I also began to feel like this young woman was destined by the developers to never catch a break... The world was pretty much out to get her... And the only choices you had were to either allow her to just become corrupted and deviant, or let her just put up with it and struggle that much more... Her destiny seems to be nothing but, her being a victim and/or the focus of every sexual situation the developers could dream up... With 99% of the human race out to get her... It is a story device, used to such a high degree, that I felt it ruins the story overall, at least for me... By focusing primarily on back to back porn like scenarios, it then becomes a pointless porn fest... And less of a meaningful and deep story about the struggles of a young woman, dealing with what life throws her way, while learning more about her own sexuality... Just because there is a lot of dialogue and monologue and lots of pictures to look at, doesn't mean it's full of meaning and deep story telling, with a believable plot and characters you can empathize with... Sure, it has lots of "content," but that doesn't automatically make it top notch material that steps outside the porn box, to present anything but pointless masturbation material with very little in the way of meaningful and deep story to keep you hooked...
Is it better then before, yes, but not by much when viewed as a whole... I raised my scoring to 3 stars instead of my original 2... Why only to 3? Because it's an average overall product in my opinion... Not poor, just average... Being lengthy with lots of text and pictures, doesn't mean it's necessarily content rich or that the content is of the highest quality... It's average for what it achieves and presents, even if it is lengthy in it's overall amount of content... I've played/read much worse, and I've played/read much better... It's alright in my book, but nothing special...
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