That depends on the girl.
Right, that is kind of my point. There is no harem in the game because the dev said so, not because it doesnt fit in with the characters of the story. If you make characters that are sleeping around with several people and then dont give the player that same agency with the characters just to get people to play different routes it feels weird.
Eh, I don't know about you but in my group of friends, there are women who are somewhat on the slutty side and there are some who are on the more conservative side. The same with the men.
Characters who are sleeping around with several different people isn't equivalent to the player having a harem.
Well, harems also exist in the real world, just in cultures other than Western ones.
Personally, I don't look for realism in games.
Yes, yes, possibly I'm a hypocrite, but if it's the MC who does it, well done. But if a character other than the MC does it, I don't like it.
Well, as far as I know there are no elves, minotaurs, ogres, dragonborn, gnomes, etc., and that doesn't mean I stopped playing D&D. Like I say, I don't think it's important for a game to be realistic.
To be clear - I agree with this, games needn't be constrained by "what's realistic", often high fantasy is the most fun. The guy I was responding to was asserting what happens in this game was a contrived occurence from the dev as opposed to a more organic set up - and I interpreted this call for pragmatism as wanting realism. But yeah, realism often isnt fun (as I know too often arguing with sim-fans in traditional non adult games).
Maybe Harem is the wrong word since it has a literal definition on this site. But the story so far isnt one that seems like the girls, or guys for that matter, care too much about everyone sleeping around. Two of the girls already sleep with 2 or more memebers, and the 3rd seems to think the idea of it isnt crazy while watching them have sex.
I guess I see what you're getting at - from a "feeling" perspective it seems incongruent between how the npcs act and talk, and how the mc actually progresses through the game; and I could understand this being a valid complaint. If the characters exist in a chill, "whatever dude just chill and have fun" universe, the mc very much exists in an "autistic min/maxing" universe.
I doubt that many harems in the real word are anything like harems in VN games. The unrealistic part about VN harems is that the LIs don’t act like real people—i.e., they are not jealous of one another and do not jockey for power within the group. LIs in VN harems act like sex dolls.
That's up to you but this game seems to aim for a fairly realistic experience.
Completely agree, and as I mentioned in my review this is my favorite genre of game; not really 'harem', not really 'ntr', not really 'rpg' but a soft blend of all elements that feels more like real life. Though reflecting on what microjive said last night, I do think to better fit this mold it could soften up the conditions/thresholds for certain outcomes to make it feel more organic and less stringent.
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