I don't necessarily think that a different type of MC was needed. I really liked this game, I think that this game is really appealing to people who are into femdom and findom and Katrina is the reason why I still have the game in my watchlist even though it's really really unlikely that it'll ever get revived.
I think that the problem was that with the setting the game had you can make an amazing femdom game, but a sub-par maledom game and maledom is what most people prefer. So many people got drawn in by the pretty graphics and because most people aren't into femdom, there were many complaints which probably killed the motivation of the dev.
The fact that this thread isn't completely dead and people are motivated to make posts about the game years after it was abandoned tells me that it probably had potential although regrettably we'll never find out for sure.
Yeah it could have worked as a femdom game for sure which was part of the problem in a way
, then this was advertised as a male mc harem game, not femdom first from a male or female perspective game where a stupid male makes more sense, but even then you are just playing the opposite power fantasy. For real tension and interest you need both sides to be capable and about even.
Or you get more or less our average Disney movie, where some kid outsmarts and beats way more powerful opponents that are stupid like hell, great kids power fantasy, realistic though?
Some fantasies just work very badly together, male mc harem and femdom is one of those, which is why I am always surprised why almost every harem game seems to must have at least one femdom character for the fetish. Which gets even more weird if that male MC also is heavily into maledom overall, switches do exist but are defo not a big majority either.