- Oct 8, 2021
- 99
- 100
The developers wanted to turn pregnancy into a challenging debuff and not an inevitable bad ending when your character is still alive, which is why she retains the pregnancy despite it progressing very fast. It does create some contradictions with the bad endings that include pregnancy and birth after being raped by infected pigs, adult demi-humans and the priests/cultists. Giving birth in the town is going to create a huge mess like the demi-human raid, based on the bad ending where you fail the dream fight; this could serve as a route for a bad ending with the villagers blaming you for bringing death to their doorstep.Hands down the best game of the year so far.
Having said that, there were some things in the game I just couldn't scratch my head around:
1. Pregnancy post human-rape
After the MC is raped by some of the villagers, she becomes immediately pregnant and the fetus in her belly appears to be almost fully grown. Later in the game, you learn that the fetus is actually that of an abomination brooding, which explains the unnaturally fast fetus cycle. Strangely enough, Hanya is the only one who notices this. The villagers hopefully assume the MC is not pregnant with an abomination brooding which in turn shows the human birth is still possible in the game. There are no hints as to why the MC did not develop a human fetus or any indication that her rapers may have been infected by abomination brooding. Hopefully the developers provide us with an explanation for this soon.
2. Obsolete(?) status window
The developers added in a small status window in the form of a circle next to your HP/MP bars which keeps you updated on what is going on inside your body (womb in particular) after each rape. Unlike most expectations, the status window shows absolutely nothing in regards to the progress of your pregnancy as there is none; you are either pregnant or you are not. And once you become pregnant, you do not have the option to give birth apart from gameovers. You are forced to carry a fully grown fetus all the way to the end which only exists to hinder your movements. The only way to get rid of it is to forcibly abort(?) it via fighting an eyeball monster covered in a slob of slugs in your dream. IMO, there is no point of having a status window if you have 0 control over what happens to whatever is shown in it. Especially since you can be aware of/are shown whether you are pregnant or not without it.
3. Life feels too easy
The MC gets off too easy everytime she is raped. Sure, there are gameovers that lead to her being a seedbed for monsters but those are just what if's. Basically, other than her breasts changing in size/being able to lactate from parasites, the MC essentially faces no consequence after being impregnated. In the previous game, Rabianne had an excuse for this; she is in a dream/hallucination-like state and whenever she loses the time resets itself till she wins or reaches the final boss slug and becomes its seedbed. This game is clearly different and the MC actually travels back and forth dreams to have a magical abortion. But in reality, even if you choose not to have it, the fetus in your belly will never be birthed unless you reach a condition for a gameover. I feel like some rapes should and do have the potential to have an effect on the game that will last till you reach an ending. Again, I hope the developers come up with adjustments in the DLC.
As for the negative statuses besides pregnancy having consequences:
1. Defilement stacks make it harder to struggle
2. Two negative statuses reduce your total mana
3. The womb crest removes your ability to struggle when an enemy traps you, and it permanently allows for the chance of pregnancy status/debuff
4. Parasites stack in 4/5 leaves you pretty much done for when confronted with the "Holy Body"
Mentally speaking, this is a warrior nun that experience shit like this daily. It would require successful hypnosis or altered perception to change her way of doing things.