Dangit, protagonist, I told you the brainwashing works better if you get to know them first. So, the game seems like it's following Penlight's example so far, in that it focuses on morality and tries to make the protagonist feel like shit if he goes through with the brainwashing. At least in the one-and-a-half routes available in the current version. Although it does go more explicit with the sexual content than Penlight, especially in the brainwash route. Right now the only path that goes all the way to an ending is the "don't brainwash her" route, and while there are hints of other path splits that could lead to you using the helmet again, it's more or less a straightforward non-brainwash route for now (with minor elements of the protagonist getting hypnotized and slightly dommed, although the apparent path split that would take him on the "become a sub" route doesn't give you the option to do so yet). There are four endings to that route, but only because of a set of decisions you make at the very end, and the only difference is the text in the epilogue, so I'd count it as being four variations of the same ending. The brainwashing route is incomplete, and once again hints at possible splits where you can take things in a different direction, but is currently heading down a "protagonist is completely evil but also unable to be satisfied with his conquests because he was too evil about it" direction. It does seem like there's another unimplemented path split in between deciding to go through with the brainwashing and actually doing it, so hopefully there will be a route where he thinks things through, talks with her about the best way to brainwash her while leaving most of her personality intact, and just turns her into his devoted girlfriend-slave (and accomplice). But if this is anything like Penlight, the dev might deliberately want to avoid having a route where the protagonist "gets it right" and gets a brainwashed slave who he's actually satisfied with. Well, hopefully they're open to making a route that falls in between the two extremes and lets the protagonist learn some of the important lessons of the game's core theme while still getting to do some brainwashing, possibly with the help of a brainwashed Rachel who loves him too much to let him destroy himself.
Anywho, so far the game has potential, but I can only cross my fingers and hope that one of its future routes ends up being the kind that would satisfy me.
