geenius3ab
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I have played it and I know very well what I was looking/asking for. Yes, alter ego isn't without empathy, but he is most certainly dominating and pushes the MC through different hoops for his own motives.Not sure if you've played all the way through, but the way it seems to work is this; the MC was very insecure, very indecisive, too afraid/cautious to ever act on his desires or be proactive about making changes in his life. He mostly just kept his head down and kept on keeping on, burying his emotions/desires/fantasies way down deep inside. The alter ego is basically everything he's ever buried coming out to play all at once. So his darkest desires on crack. But as time goes on, the idea seems to be that everything returns to the mean. The alter ego mellows out and is capable of showing empathy and care, and the original personality gains confidence and a willingness to fight for what he wants (starting by admitting that he DOES, in fact, want things).
Which is sort of the problem with what you want for the character. Without the alter ego he wouldn't go through that development, and thus it wouldn't really make sense for him all of a sudden to have the balls to just.....handle things. If he could do that so easily, the alter ago wouldn't even exist. And if the alter ego is taken away too soon, before he undergoes that development, the logical conclusion of that arc is his personality won't change, and he'll just end up watching helplessly while everything he COULD have had is taken away.
Personally, I think it'll probably end up the way you want by the end of the story, with the MC and the alter ego fully integrating, and him being a loving partner to his harem of beauties........albeit one with a dominant side if he chooses to indulge it. But that'll probably be end-game stuff.
The way you put it is that there are no story points where the MC could get himself together and woo ladies with hard work and willpower. There could be thousands of different plot points that would change the MC without needing a sadistic alter ego, which would be a far more positive change for the story/characters.
I have played through this game so many times that the alter ego has stopped being interesting, his character interactions are boring and one-sided. Is it wrong to think that maybe a more pure approach to wooing these beautiful ladies might be interesting? Especially as sadistically dominating women seems to be a "get women who aren't into you wet" card in this game, which just isn't interesting. Not a fan of Dom or NTR, which is why I was hoping for the third path as well. The reason I like this game is purely the art and ok game design.