As i got to know Diana i wanted to get rid of her
This was my first instinct as well, until I noticed that the MC shared much of the blame. I wanted to take a few steps to try and mend the relationship by doing basic and common-sense things like not looking at Chris' cleavage with Diana right beside him.
That is the biggest question in the whole game, i don't see why Chris would have any interest in the MC.
If I try to think of reasons that make narrative sense, then I can only imagine FemDom (providing a heavy 'guiding' hand to the MC) or a toxic relationship where she thinks she can fix him. But I imagine that the narrative will lean into magical thinking and that Chris will just be more compatible with the MC, and they'll live happily ever after. That said, I'm not even convinced that the MC actually cares for Chris or if he's just desperate for a new experience.
I don't think we'll see any character growth on his part. So far he's lacking any introspection and is shown to be incompetent and spineless. If the narrative isn't driven by his own growth, then it will be driven by Diana and Chris instead, with the women further bonding over his humiliation.
For Haley's Story i liked it, at least until the sexual assault with the teacher came up, which really kinda ruined my whole expirience, or at least really made me lose most of my interest....from what i remember it also kind of felt really pointless to add
That's my takeaway as well. This kind of experience leaves marks that she would carry forward into new relationships. But we never really saw any of that until her confession. It came out of nowhere and felt fake because of it. This could have been a reveal that Haley's arc built toward with her finally realizing that the relationship with her teacher was actual abuse and nothing like what she has with the MC. Instead it was treated in a very one-dimensional way, apparently just to insert a "villain" into the story.
Anyway.... I'm convinced at this point Viit might actually be writing his own story. He brings up emasculation a lot in this VN, and if I think about it, that was more or less the theme for the MC in both Haley's Story or Taming of the Brat, at least to a point. Far less noticeable in HS since she was clearly the star of that one. But I don't recall the MC being assertive in either of the past VNs, possibly not even a single time. (To be fair, it's been a long time now, so I could be wrong.)
It's common advice to write what you know, but I'd like it more if the setup was unapologetic about it. For instance, the MC and Diana could be in a dysfunctional sub/sub relationship, needing Dommy Chris to act as the glue between them. Or, the MC could be more dominant but relegated to being the househusband after a stroke of bad luck. He'd feel emasculated but also driven to do better.
It's fine to have an MC who is more submissive and passive and in need of a guiding hand, but this same MC then needs to be grateful when he gets this guidance instead of fighting it every step of the way. This MC reads like a sub who thinks he's a Dom, and I can't be certain if this writing is on purpose. Maybe the story isn't meant to be anything more than wish fulfillment, where a loser ends up with two pretty women.
I didn't notice much emasculation/humiliation in Taming, but I might've interpreted it differently. At least that MC was driven and inspired, which makes the occasional remark less impactful. His ego can take it, and he isn't being kicked while he's down. At least in my interpretation, which might be very generous.
In HS I only started to notice it after a while, with my breaking point being a scene where she almost begs him to spank her, and he doesn't. I had more patience with that MC because he was inexperienced; I even found it endearing at the start.
That's at least for sure true in this game, and I'm not talking about a toxic level of assertiveness or anything. He either just accepts and takes being the brunt of jokes, or he "fights back" like a toddler with responses in the vein of "Nuh-uh! You are!" The "jokes" aren't even very good anyway, so why he gets so pissed is beyond me. Then, he ofc takes things too far, like telling both Diana and Chris their bosoms are too small.
I mean, if the goal of the writing is to portray the MC as a man-baby, then it's doing a fantastic job. I don't even have an issue with that characterization in itself. My issue is that I have nothing to grab onto. The MC is so reactive that any choice we get feels fake and only there for the pathing variables. Why can he stand up and "zing" Clarisa at the pool when defending Chris but is unable to crack a good joke or comeback otherwise? This same behavior makes us even question why he's still in a relationship or even what Diana saw in him in the first place. If the writing can't convince us that there is still love to be lost between Diana and the MC, how will it be able to sell players on the throuple?
