This is a degree of suspension of disbelief you have to accept when you click on the download button.
I Read whole thing. Lets talk about suspension of disbelieve, say you're reading a romance novel and the 2 main characters get in a huge fight but a fairy comes along and fixes everything, would that make sense? Yes, the author NEVER said there AREN'T any fairies but does that mean a fairy magically fixing everything makes sense in the context of the story?
You even agreed at how miniscule the chances are of all of this happening are very rare the "Right place right time" kinda thing. But to conclude suspension of disbelief is i think is like a barrier, some people have very broad barrier where some have more enclosed ones, like me to me the fairy coming in and fixing everything is unacceptable.
To me 4 woman who have known a guy, for less than a week is OK with not only sleeping with him, seeing him romantically but also being a-ok with him doing the same with their fried is beyond by barrier, Chrys for example has crippling abandonment issue how can she be ok with MC being with others if there is a very good possibility that he might leave her? Yes we get to see the sweet and nice things mc does for Chrys (Even wanting to get a tattoo) but that is way later, where Chrys has her issues from an early age.
I can see her being OK with Harper since BFF n all. But she's not super close with Valentina (says she mostly keeps to herself) and Riley is the "Real" version of the Persona she has in the beginning, so Chrys should be intimidated/jealous of it. But we don't see any, Just having a throwaway line saying "We talk" does not fix it when it goes so much against her personality. We should have scene with her confronting and coming to terms with Riley and herself.
Then there is Riley, until when things start to pick up Riley is a married woman, and until that point mc is seen as goody two shoes, so to me it does not make sense that MC does not even have an inner monologue say how this is wrong, am I saying that mc should wait until they are fully divorced? NO. But he should have some restraint (Or the Player given the option) until Riley moves to the hotel.
Lastly Harper, the only character who has justification and a good reason to jump MC which i agreed on my previous comments. Her agreeing with sharing MC can also be seen as her viewing MC as this incorruptible good guy with how he came to rescue her.
Valentina Is by far my favorite character LI, baring Artemis (when she was a car) and the cat (that got ruined). I can see her making the conclusion that logically MC does not need to be exclusive to her. So yeah I agree with your Valentina point. Her mini arch of her perfect idol being shattered (Powell) losing hope then her confidence was very good writing and had 100% more depth than 90% of the AVN.
Moving on to the Felicity problem a bit. You do realize that MC decides to keep her in the academy because letting her go or reporting her to the police would be a death sentence. If the villains don't silence her, which they are clearly capable of after everything that happened to Lovestruck, then her condition from the borrowed power would be her slow and painful end. It's ok if you don't like her, or this decision, most of the cast agrees with you, but you can't deny that this is what this MC would have done.
Now Felicity, the issue with Cat, she's the reason 80% of the plan was successful and is pretty much the reason the whole city is in danger, In other superhero media we have scene what happens when a Beacon character disappears, its straight up chaos. The amount of destruction and lives could be lost is huge and she should be help more accountable but MC treats her like she's his long lost lover, no matter how nice MC is, there is zero reason for him to warm up to her in the snap of a finger. Ur telling me the dev can waste 400 words on big ol nothing burgers but can't make the transition from reluctant ally to friends in an even or two? I liked how with Lovestruck when she is arrested for the first time we have the option to semi-humiliate her, and astonishingly its a choice! Where not even 10% of the scrutiny is given to her when he played a much bigger role. Do I hate her as a LI? No, do i dislike with how like all the 4 main LI she is right into MC's good book so quickly, Yes.
You might say MC is grateful that in her cat form she saved him from Rougetemis, but he just got his whole world turned upside down there is even some inner monologue where he express that he is almost nauseous with the whole incident but he is fine and talking to her like a friend just like that, for all he knows this might be another ploy, that betrayal should challenge his every believe but no. It can be argued that when the first 4 LI was brought in the Dev was new but at the point of Cat no he aint.
The "purple events" could've been replaced with more time exploring how the girls are ok with sharing, nothing major, just tit bits, this would have proven what you said that yes the Women have lives outside of the MC or what he is involved in. The same with Felecity, like how she is initially treated as a prisoner, but as MC brings her food and essentials he warms up to her again. Why so show depth in one part but not in others.
There all the thoughts about the girls is there, I think. Now to the story as a whole.
The MC does not have a set personality he does not change much, yes he gets confident in the heroing department but morally he is never shaken does not change. The 2 big reveal IMO (Old man and Cat) should have significant affect on him, his ability to trust or the fact that
. The Dev just uses him to just get to the next even, not by flowing but "Cus I made it that way". I genuinely don't know why this does not have a "Kinetic novel" Tag. Give me a single choice that matters in the story. The story does not flow naturally, it bounces one point to the next.
I don't know what's so hard to understand the shit(sand)box criticism, one event you have this huge breakthrough in finding Powell but in the next you're with Riley choosing swimsuits, do you know how much it messes with the flow of the story? The whole sandbox aspect always affects the story's momentum but in not a good way.
I have also re-read rhcp725's post several times, but i simply can't find the moment when he said that women spread their legs to anyone who is nice and saves them. That looks awfully lot like a strawman, but please point me in the right direction. You were also the one who brought up real life stuff when he has been clearly talking about things in fiction as he explicitly wrote at the end of his post, so the Tate points are rightfully yours.
As for how I acted the Tate comment was ment for Evil13 not rhcp725's I don't know how I messed that up. His comment about how saving someone should "moisten a few panties" irked me. To
rhcp725 I'm sorry, to Evil13 not so much.
If i asked you what shit were you smoking when you said this game was 2 stars, then am i just praising the game or am i also insulting you or your judgement? This might just be the way you usually communicate, but it is confrontational.
The snide at the beginning yeah that was a little outta pocket even to Evil13 (Still wont say sorry though saving someone does not mean they have the right to coitus) as for the one that the end yeah thats just how I talk. Mental gymnastics is not same as calling someone mentally deficient, i don't know how that's an insult but maybe you miss understood.
But I have already deleted the game, as I genuinely believe the story is bad, MC is bland in the moral department (MC should not be so black and white), suspension of disbelief can only do so much. There IS a good story in there but it needs some rearrangement, a lot of fat shedding, slowing down the pace of the romance and quickening the non adult narrative of the story, rescuing Powell. Adding the "Kinetic Novel" tag is also paramount or better just get rid of the shit(sand)box aspect, this story can very much function as an AKVN. And with that Im out, without a directed snarky comment, see I had more character development than MC's moral. Toodles