Can I ask how you guys are playing this game? In terms of playstyle I mean.
I like the corruption genre generally, but I kind of feel bad corrupting this person who is so heroic and has lovely friends who she both loves and love her. So, my instinct would be to fight it as best as I can, but then you also play as this villain whose goal it is to corrupt her, which is obviously a completely different headspace. Am I supposed to fight the corruption as the hero, but cause it as the villain?
I really like the game mechanics of this game, but I'm really struggling immersing myself into it because of the disparate goals. In some of the comments I've read it seems like the game might get harder as you progress, with this in mind, would playing the villain as a sort of idiot, and the hero as a hero work?
Personally, I like uncorrupted Aura more than Alicia but at the same time I'm into corruption and mind-control, and I do want to see lewd content, so my approach is such:
- Corruption sinks go first: opening every room, moving the character disposition levers, increasing brain tank capacity, configuring happiness sources/drains.
- No intentional sabotage. I do try to win fights without using the Knightess powers, but sometimes on hard bosses I can't bothered to beat normally, I do use them. No point ever using it for obstacles, Aura wouldn't go for that. Also, no savescumming except for first-time boss fights.
- I'm not sure about blessed water. From an RP perspective, Aura wants these to mitigate the effects of the curse, but it's not like there seem to be any effects before Soul Break, and nor does she know about Alicia's meddling. I any case, I buy some in case I want them later, but I don't use them, since I don't get anywhere near Soul Break.
- I do lewd scenes I personally want to see, generally ones that don't get too physical and the ones that increase stats for lewd content I'd want to see later, like Exhibitionism and Masturbation. And I make sure to get the pink version of those scenes.
On my last playthrough, I pretty much managed to avoid corruption beyond the corruption sinks. But I look forward to getting to a point in later updates where every time I use the Knightess powers or a few days pass, Alicia is going to get to make a move.
That said, I suspect for good players, the game will get easier, not harder, as they keep growing their pile of money and consumables. Depends on how hardcore aura-dev wants to make it. I'd prefer it to be increasingly more difficult to account for that.