Martin is the bad guy of the story and he does his job well. I hate him with a passion but we are suppose to, that is his role and Mircom has done a great job with writing him in to the TAC story and that will come across in to the TACOS story. It has too, you can't let the Martin energy go to waste, Mircom has to take advantage of it. So we will see more of him no doubt.
This highlights the problem I have had with TAC (and now TACOS) all along. Without Martin, Anne becomes the antagonist. Martin is our bad guy if we choose the cheating path. But what happens when Anne is faithful? What drives the story? Nothing. It becomes a boring fuckfest for Anne with no motivation or limitations on who she screws. A character that we are supposed to cheer for and love becomes the most hated.
The premise is that we are supposed to enjoy Anne sleeping around because she does it for the MC. She has sex he watches or relays the story to him afterward. The couple's growth depends on this happening. The story depends on this happening. One of the issues with the way the story is told is we see Anne's point of view when she has her encounters. This is easier and flows better for readers because we can make choices on the fly during sexual encounters. Otherwise, we would have to make choices during a flashback of how it played out ("What do I do?" versus "What did she do?"). Mircom could change the way we view these scenes by only showing them when Anne tells the MC about what happened. He does this a couple of times and gives the player the option to skip those events in TAC with various results. Sometimes, Anne gets pissed that you chose not to listen to what happened. Other times, we just move to the next scene.
There comes a point in TAC when the MC confronts Anne about her cheating with Martin. Anne comes clean and the MC promptly says he doesn't want to know what happens. Voila! Anne is faithful again and the story moves on with no impact, removing all the thematic tension and leaving us with a still cheating Anne. The story loses its drive and we lose our hardons. I have little doubt this is not Mircom's intention. He didn't build up Anna only to have readers hate her. No, Martin is the antagonist; it is his job to be hated.
So, what is Mircom to do if he gives the reader the option to skip cheating with Martin, thereby removing the energy that moves the story forward? Unless Mircom has a secret weapon hidden in his storytelling arsenal, he has to take a risk: take away readers' ability to choose or allow the story to become a lifeless point-and-click porno.