Ocean's amnesia seems to be getting worse, given the claim Maja was never a LI:
Mind you this is from 2020, Ayua & Nojiko aren't main girls/LIs now either apparently.
Ocean changed the AVN focus of the MC from a dark path/light path (see the early walkthroughs where you can get either dark or light points) to one of healing.
This changed some of what we were told about the relationships in 2020.
For example:
Bella - Dom, sub, normal
Amber - Love, sub
Vanessa, Dom, sub
There was even a harem option (originally included many of the women) but this went away when the focus changed from an AVN including a dark path, quasi psycho MC to one of healing.
The harem is gone, along with the dark path.
We'll see what happens with the dom/sub parts mentioned for certain relationships back when there was a dark path possibility.
I can't speak to what SG would be like if it continued with two such divergent paths (dark and light) within the same story.
The number of potential story permutations (full on dark, dark, a little dark, neutral, a little light, light, paladin full on light) would make SG a very difficult story to tell well on all paths (and even to make the choice variation meaningful, from a story perspective).
It would also slow story development to a crawl as Ocean tried to cover all the variations required to tell the different facets of the Light to Dark paths well.
I can say that I very much enjoy this story of healing where the MC gets to choose who he wants to build relationships with.
I like the fact that there are story consequences that we can see (actual panic attacks) when the MC pushes himself 'too hard.'
I love the scene where Bella's appearance at the end of CH 4.5 simply stopped a panic attack dead in the water.
Once the MC heard her car, the panic just vanished -- that made the MC/Bella relationship even better and more meaningful for me!
