Memorin
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- Sep 6, 2017
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You might need to replay the game a few more times because some of what you say is wrong.Solid game, but imo not exactly well thought through. So, you are some average joe having "out of his league" girlfriend, a stereotype I really don't like. I didn't feel any affection between them, their texts are pretty cold, more like between colleagues than partners (get a bit better later in the game, though), the amount of time she goes somewhere on her own, not even telling MC... yeah, they sure are really close.
She as well seems to be a good girl to the "no sex before marriage" point, but first thing her best friend tells you is "she's out of your league, you should let her fuck others". It doesn't make any sense. The author as well pushes Ben to the front too fucking much. Even if I was all for sharing her, friends are off limits, so the ways author pushes Ben is seriously annoying for me. Especially the whole "send pic to Ben" all over the place. He's not going to get anything, not even a pic. But I'm sure plenty of players wants exactly this - best friend banging your GF. Never understood it, to be honest.
While writing is overall solid, the choices we get are... not good. Really don't like when you have to purposefully act like a douchebag or avoid your GF to get to the netorase path. I understand doing that for netorare path, but netorase is about love between the partners first and foremost, purposefully choosing options to degrade the relationship to get there doesn't make sense. So I have very mixed feelings about this game. Hope it's going to get a bit clearer in the future and that there is going to be netorase path without Ben (unlikely, but we'll see).
For one, the MC is not your average joe, at least compared to your usual phone MC. Dude is at least on the same level as Ben - does all the things Ben does except he doesn't go to the gym, but you can easily remedy that on the very first chapter - only that he's a programmer. In fact, one would argue that the MC is more competent than Ben because the latter doesn't seem to have a real job per se and is still in the sleep-around-and-find-out phase.
Chloe says you're "out of Mel's league" but if you treat her well she herself falls for you, so who's to say her opinion is always right? Or maybe she's just jealous Mel got to you first. As for Jennifer, you start right out of the bat with her showing clear interest in you. No matter how you look at it the MC is not an average joe.
Mel isn't a "no sex before marriage" girl. The two of you already fucked even before the game begins. It has been brought up to the dev repeatedly that Mel shouldn't be as "conservative" with her private pics in the Lovers route and they will be doing something about that.
About Ben, look there is no such thing as writing a story that satisfies everyone. It so happens this is not your thing. Understandable, but Ben will be a thing in this particular phone game. You'll either have to accept it or look elsewhere.
Finally, you do NOT have to act like a douchebag or avoid your GF to get the netoraSE path. Literally pick the most lovey-dovey choices ever but still pick a plethora of NTS choices and you will get NTS. In fact most people played it that way. It's only during the NTR route that you have to act like a douche and push her away.