For someone who played the game, I got a big question. How much impact does it have to murder the girls you come in contact with?
I'm curious how the game is designed. Is it a bunch of unimportant characters that you can be altruistic and help. Or evil and murder-rape-eat?
Or are they important characters (some, not all) and you're actively crippling yourself by playing in a way that the games deems "intentional"?
Depends what you mean by "Important." None of the girls you have the option to eat are "necessary" to anything in the game. Will you lock yourself out of content? Yes. Eat the girls, and you can't keep them as part of your harem or choose them as a consort, so you miss scenes. You also can't sacrifice them to gain another army/force (dependent on lair) or gift them to your men to keep morale up. this is
not necessary to win, but it does give you more options.
Eat certain characters (which I actually can't remember if they
can be eaten or not), and you cannot father a daughter with them, which does alter how the story plays out. (Though it's not totally clear how much will get altered as that part hasn't been expanded on much yet.) But from a purely gameplay perspective, you can eat everyone and still fully play through the game and story, you'll just miss out on a lot of scenes.
The game is designed is such a way to encourage multiple playthroughs, as it simply is not possible to see everything in one playthrough. For instance, you can only choose one consort per playthrough, so you'll miss the consort scenes for every other girl you didn't choose. The game isn't terribly long though, so it never felt like a drag to play through multiple times.
Also note that you can be evil without killing everyone. You can be nice and help people and get them into your harem nicely, or you can rape them and kidnap and imprison them, to serve as your playthings.