As long as you don't finish the game you can finish the corruption route. There are a few scenes along the way that you can miss, but the endings vary so much that you'd need to play through the game a couple times to see all the variations of the corruption endings anyway. Some of the 'purity' route endings also result in Aura being in a less than pure state.
That's intentional and a part of the curse. Even Rose suspected some brainwashing just based on how much Aura denies even possibility of being brainwashed. So it's not about the cleverness it's really just a direct effect of the curse.
I think you are missing the point. It's like you are under impression that aura-dev wanted to make corrupted Aura likable but failed it. Maybe he would correct me but after two years of watching the development of this game I think that making the Bad ending to feel bad for player was really an intent all along. The whole "interesting sexy scenes that liberate Aura" was just his way of luring players into corruption choices, the same as gameplay bonuses of such choices. And when player goes down on this path and breaks the character - soon he faces the consequences. Gameplay and story consequences.
If it were just part of the curse then there wouldn't be any introspection on her part. There is dialogue about it but it's so weak willed and lackadaisical that it feels utterly disconnected and inconsistent with her character on any level whatsoever. And we're not just talking about differences of opinion in her personality change, there are moral ones with no compelling justification for it in her IRL scenes which is where she is primarily insufferable.
Well, I don't see it as a porn game, just a good rpg-game with optional sex scenes. I like the story, characters and gameplay. And I don't like the evil cruel Aura and that's why I am trying to avoid such scenario. I didn't even see the bad ending, just read some facts about it. So I am against corruption of Aura and if you don't like the consequences of corruption you could avoid it by not giving up into corruption. The whole "Aura gets into fights with her friends, bullies and insults them before moving on to the next shoe shopping scene" is optional and you could get to the end without it. It's harder but that's the point.
Spoilers below, I went into a rant to give my take on your points.
It isn't the shift from being strong-willed and opinionated about her hobbies and interests, it's the weak rationalizations and acceptance of the change itself that I don't find compelling. Particularly on the moral aspect of her behavior. This is also why I'm not really a fan of mind control because it just teeters too much into "It's magic I ain't gotta explain shit" land. Either the mind control is written to be subtle, believable changes and lowering of inhibitions that Aura can rationalize her shift in a believable way so as to not alert her that something is wrong, or it just goes into the lazy copout of, "Wow! My moral compass really pulled a 180 these past few weeks!", Nah she wouldn't notice cuz mind control bro.
I'm not saying that author didn't do it intentionally, it's pretty clear that went down that route intentionally. What I don't like it's forcing the player to feel bad (make him feel disgusted) choosing the route of corrupting Aura. I don't want to feel "forced" to choose a route or another. Sure, some route can have a bigger emotional impact than the other, no problem with that. I mean making you regret said choise and making you feel bad while she punch her friend until barfing in front of other to make her act like she want. That's basically a psycho at that point, not even a bully.
This IS a porn game and it was born as such, just because before releasing the 1.0 of the game, the author introduced the nsfw part doesn't change the core of the game. Let be honest, we played this porn game for the erotic part of a girl slowly get corrupted into a bitch (or bimbo), not ending into a situation where you get turned off because you want to enjoy some sexy corruption. If you want to deny this, you are not speaking the truth and just defending the author choice. What kind of porn game make you regret choosing to persuit the corruption and NTR part of it?
Ye, too bad all the values and every part that Richard find amusing and love about Aura just get destroyed and removed all together. Just to point out a scene of inconsistency. When Aura stop the development of her game and tell everyone to "touch some grass", Richard is completely disgusted (even if doesn't know it was Aura all along), like at first has respect for the author of the game, then he's so disgusted seeing becoming like the "meat humans" he hates. Aura become exactly like that, how Richard is not disgusted like was when read the comment about the game? The reaction doesn't match what Aura actually become. Also, reading the story, Richard doesn't value that much Alicia, he just look at her like a normal human, but still an inferior one, as he likes only Aura because is the only one that see in her "a true human value", but those values get torned apart and she become a shallow copy of Alicia, but strangely Richard loves how Aura become. Why? It doesn't make sense. Just because he was able to corrupt her? He didn't do anything to do that tho, Alicia did all the work. He enjoyed because Aura lost her original values? But if he hates "npc humans", why turning her into one that would get bored easily if his plan is to have Aura at his side forever?
I admit that in the beginning I started to play this game because of the corruption aspect of it. But with the time this motivation has changed. I remember how I realised that I am completely ignoring all corruption scenes when after new update I decided to look at the new content and immedeately without thinking started to skip new corruption scenes.
Yeah. Do you know how sometimes children use a lot of creativity and effort to break something and after success immediately upset that it is broken? Richard is like this. He doesn't hate npcs he just uses them without any empathy like some tools. He is a real human, others are just meat, why should he hate meat? So he values Aura but by breaking her Richard returns into the superiority mode before his first loss to her. He is still human and not weak to be turned into meat like Aura.
Dude, every corruption lead to a sex scene in Roya, how is not a porn game for you? You are just denying the evidence. Not to talk about how the changes to Aura lead her to become a sexy bitch (even if a psycho one). Literally is the sex in Roya that move the corruption forward.
Ye, too bad that what Richard state multiple time during Aura corruption that he wants Aura to become his queen foverer, not like a toy to play for some time and throw away, Richard think of Aura as the woman he want to spend the rest of the live together, but said woman doesn't exist anymore as, like you said, is just a "broken toy" at the end, a shadow of former Aura. Again, it doesn't match his goals/wishes with what Aura becomes. Richard never said that wants Aura to be his "temporary toy", but say the opposite, wanting Aura to rule over the other humans together (he state this multiple times in the game).
Maybe we have different definitions of porn games. For me nsfw scenes don't define game as a porn game. Original Fate/Stay Night has mandatory sex scenes in each route but it's not a porn game for me. If you describe what makes a game into a porn game maybe I would understand your definition.
Try to remember when he said it. There was no such thing in Intro. His proposal after putting the Curse was more like "Become my sex doll". Even after his loss there he describes it like ""The hunter is as great as his prey". He is the hunter, Aura is prey, no equity. He didn't think of her as a Demonic Queen at all in the beginning and that's what I was talking about. If you have a quote from the game prooving different then bring it.
In fact FSN was originally described/created as porn game, but maybe you didn't know that. Only after, because of the success, it was created a new edition, removing every reference to porn, making it into a non-porn game, but doesn't change the fact it was born as such.
Only because you have your head-definition doesn't mean it's true. You are just denying what it is just because you want to give your interpretation that the Earth is flat. Dude, no.
Well, if you think that sex scenes in the game makes it porn I wouldn't argue. It's really pointless to argue about definitions without any benefit. And I know about Realta Nua version and still say that original Fate/Stay Night is not porn. I don't see how it is related to the shape of Earth but it's your problem. And your expectations that SKA as a perceived porn game shouldn't make you feel bad in corruption scenes are also your problem. Not mine.
That was his original intent btw. To turn a 'human' like Aura and degrade her into 'meat'. The irony is that despite that, the curse ensured she was the polar opposite of her original self and still very much "Human". He realised that a bit too late and alters his plans. Hence why if you make it to the two Demon Generals in Winterfall, he says that he is the only one that Aura can truly belong with, even pointed out how he upgraded the throne and had 'two seats' instead of one.
Sorry, but no. Since the begin Richard state that wants Aura to become his Queen, I don't remember if was in the tutorial, or short after in the real world, but the plan never changed.
Could you provide a quote? Tell us in which scene Richard says such things? I clearly remember how he acted in the beginning and what he said. There wasn't anything about the Queen.
Reread what I said as I clearly stated I don't remember the point. If I could remember it I would have already said, no? Or you want to start a thread-war just because I don't remember when it was said? Also now also you want to say that Richard never wanted Aura to become his queen since beginning? Like as a way to excuse the poor writing?
