To be completely honest, I have absolutely no interest in playing as Jason. Jason falls into the black best friend trope by default with Dustin as the mc and was the best friend of the original mc. It's really hard to express my dissapointment without any disparaging remarks for the dev. I haven't had time to play much of anything due to work over the past 10 months and also wasnt following the developement in much detail. When I saw the artwork in the op change originally, I was a little confused, but thought the dev gave the option to play as either Dustin or the mc from the demo. I didn't look much into it, so thats on me.
I'm black. I've played games with non black main characters all my life. Don't really mind it either. However, aside from games that allow to to create a character, you dont really see many games even in the mainstream that have black mc's as the intended protagonist. Much less, a porn game that doesn't fall into the the overused tropes for black characters. I mean a story designed with a black mc specifically in mind, not just a cosmetic choice. This game was originally 1 of 3 that I've seen and played on this entire site and one the three isn't written natively in English.
So imaginge how I feel finding this potential gem but being unable to actively play or support right away. Then months later when I finally have time to catch up on things, the direction of the game has dramatically shifted. Our original mc is now Dustin and as a compromise you get to play his black best friend Jason before the events of the main game... The mc from the demo and his story is what got me interested in this game. I do not mind Dustin being playable for those who don't like playing black characters or just prefer Dustin and his girls. I wouldn't mind Dustin's version of the story taking priority for the sake of drumming up support for this game. I fully understand going with demand but playing as Jason isn't a good enough compromise for me. If the original set of girls are intended for Jason's story, why not use the original mc instead? Why not make the origial mc's girls available to Dustin and Dustin's girls available for the og mc? (Obviously with whatever adjustments needed to make sense) I guess wanting to make a unique scenario is understandable if thats the reason behind Jason being used, but its still really disappointing.