Yesss, couldn't agree more! Corporate Culture has been discussed extensively here, and has several fans among us.
Thanks for the recommendation! I see a few personal red flags amongst the tags (rape, mind control), but others here might like it
Ahh those are red flags for me as well, but the game gives you complete control over what scenes you wanna see, IIRC you can skip most if not all sex scenes in the game
Some months ago he asked in his patreon about what we thought about the game's pacing, as he had been focusing on adding shorter events with the girls to advance the plot:That's a shame. The reason Callisto's sandbox didn't annoy me was the ship overview screen. You could see who is where, see which rooms have new content, and skip time, all without leaving that screen. It made navigation very fast. Superheroes is the complete opposite of that
Well, the way I see it, the pacing problem is not due to having longer and slow-burn scenes instead of shorter and more dynamic ones, but to everything that happens between scene and scene. The damned sandbox. So I took the chance to point him at several parts of the game where the story was actually demanding an immediate follow-up on certain events, a quicker response from MC and/or Missus Powell, or maybe an auto-trigger for next scene, because waiting for the Sunday's class (or having to spend a whole week with another girl you may have neglected for too long) just to trigger the next step is illogical from a narrative point of view, thus breaking the immersion and seriously damaging the game's pace. I guess I didn't express myself too well since he only insisted that he was aware of how tedious it was to wait for Sunday classes so he wanted to plague the sandbox with little things to do instead of just clicking the advance button. Which won't help with the problem, but will only aggravate it: even repeatable sex scenes feel out of place at some points of the story, so what being able to use the laptop is going to add, besides some minor worldbuilding aspects? Just more nonsensical roaming and rage for not being able to keep advancing the story.
Right, there are so many points where the sandbox nature of the game ruins immersion like that. The one that was most disorienting for me was Harper's nighttime sex scene in the kitchen immediately after her mother was kidnapped. I get it, the sex scene is a repeatable one disconnected from the story, but having it available immediately after receiving such devastating news hurts the story. Same with all the other sex scenes after that event. Oh, well. Like you say, at least the writing is good.
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Your self-reflection is great, and I agree that this is an interesting discussion.
Thanks for the update. Haven't played the latest update, so good to know the direction it takes.I wanted to bring up AMFA one last time
Note to myself "don't write about games before you finished reading them"
So i made it to the end of AMFA and to my surprise the game completely fell apart. It was even worse than that it went from fun, little, innocent game to like a women humiliation simulator....
As it turns out this is a harem game afterall (if you approach multiple girls), but the way the developer introduces it was just..i don't even know what to say about this..
At the end of C.6 there was this Halloween party and i was on a "sologirl" route (Harlow) up until then which ends up with you having sex with her...awesome right?. But i was a little sus about the game at that point and i wanted to see how this Halloween party plays out when you approach many girls at once...
And yeah, it was dumb, really dumb..it turned every dialog into somekind of comedy..
I'm not gonna go into details because i ultimately hope people are capable of acknowledging what they are reading.
Well, at the end of the day it turns out that Vanessa, the woman i critized for being "cold" and all that a couple of pages ago in this thread here is the unsung hero of this game (at least until she hopes onto the MC's dick) because she's right about the MC, even more than she realizes..( assuming you go the all/multiple girls route)
And yes, her being apprehensive towards the MC is not because she knows and has a good judgment of character, no...It's because she fullfiles the role of the "hard to get" girl, but i don't care...
Go go go Vanessa you're awesome (unti the writer gets you
Quick example about the "harem" route
Girl : I don't know, you really like me?
MC : Of course i do, i like you very much if you know what i mean
Girl : What about all the other girls? they all seem to like you...i don't want to intrude something
MC : Oh, dont' worry about it, i'll make it work
Girl : How so?
Mc : I'll talk to them, i'll figure it out
Girl: Oh, that's so awesome, a girl like me...I mean, i don't really know you, but hey, i'll do anything for you because you're so awesome
Girl leaves and goes home and the MC talks to the next girl (Harlow who's of course a shy girl and doesn't have much experience when it comes to sex) who confesses that she'd like to fuck him tonight and she'll be waiting for him downstairs..
Next scene the MC goes to yet another girl (Riley) and flirts with her, holding her hand and telling her that he'd like to go on a date with her tomorrow and maybe more. The girl says : Oh of course , you're the greatest guy in town, cu tmr... (Girl leaves)
(inner monolog) "This girl is great, i really like her., let's see what happens..hehehe....
Right afterwards he goes downstairs to fuck Harlow..They're not actually fucking, just petting, but that doesn't matter..
Alright, so to give a final opinion on this game i'd say it's pretty solid on a solo run if you can overlook a couplef things regarding the MC (he's like a street fighter meets model in the making meets soon to be a psychologist...), but astonishingly naive and bad on the "Harem" route..like what the fuck
I've been replaying the Elsaverse omnibus the last couple of days. The first four games there focus on a different couple each time. I think that fact contributes to how great those games are. Imagine that instead there was only one MC who need to choose between Elsa, Jessica, Miranda and Chloe as is usually done in AVN:s. Or that MC gets a harem of the girls. From my point of view either of those would make the games worse.
So far, I'm of two minds about it.
I tend to fall between 1 and 2... with a bias towards 1.
I don't remember that couple jumping onto the MC in the prologue? If anything, while Rachel doesn't mind a bit of adultery, it takes considerable time for Alice to warm up to the MC.
That's fair, and I've dropped games for less. I recommended this game here because the relationships, while porny, are still better than most.
This has been recommended here a few times, but I just can't get past some of the genres mentioned in the description
Specifically, "corruption, sleep sex, blackmail, humiliation, sexual harassment, slave" are big turn-offs.
