Hey
RanliLabz , so I started playing yesterday and wanted to give you a a quick, immediate feedback. So far I've played until I got my hair back from HanZi.
This game has a lot of things I like, even love, but also one thing that imo stands out negatively. As I said, direct feedback:
- I like the graphics and the huge diversity of races/characters.
- I like the possibility to enable/disable certain kinks. The number of kinks has me a bit worried though, that future development will be very slow, because all the kinks will need to have scenes - even though some may only be watched by very few people - and that will mean many renders, much work and you are only a single dev. That is a purely selfish worry though, because it is how a game should be. Also I have most kinks enabled, some purely for curiousity reasons though. I'm not a fan of CBT for example, but I can stomach it and wouldn't want to miss possible H-scenes because of it.
- I don't like that you can be bicurious/bisexual, I love it. As a bisexual man irl I am always happy when a game incorporates that, but there are far too few out there (yet?).
- I like that so far every sexual activity the MC engages in is pretty much consentual. Don't want a blowjob from Kex? Avoid her and choose another ending. Don't want to blow a pandaemonium prince? Don't make bisexual choices and look at his crotch all the time. It's up to you. Easy peasy. Even after being tied up by HanZi you can choose not to go through with it anymore, which pisses him off, sets bondage = no, but it's still consentual.
Then Titiana casually rapes Anna in the shower. An officer raping a subordinate. Anna screams for help = non-consensual = rape.
That (Titiana's rapey/abusive character in general, but the shower rape in particular) doesn't fit the rest of the setting so far. Until then the game is very sex positive, which - again - I love!, but that rape scene is very far from being sex positive. This is like a rotten apple affecting all the good content apples around it. I have quit quite a few games after such story developments. I don't want to quit this, because of the other reasons, but we'll see.
I surely hope, that Anna is not ok with this.
(Too many devs/writers try to justify rape by giving the involved characters Sexual Stockholm Syndrome and making them enjoy the rape in the end and thus try to downplay rape, which is a very toxic mentality. This is in brackets, because - as I wrote earlier - I haven't seen the aftermath of it yet and this is pure speculation at this point.)
So yes, that's the thing that irked me, badly.
So if I might ask/hope for something it'd be: Please go easy on anything non-consentual stuff happening to the MC and his friends and love interests in the future, or at least let it have bad consequences for the rapist/abuser. Again: I see everything with an actual choice - no matter what kink - as consentual.
All the best, will give more feedback after I'll have played some more.