I don't get what you mean by unnecessary? As a artist and writer I wouldn't call someone else's work unnecessary myself I can't call someone else's work unnecessary. When it comes to H2, and I explained this to the dev the revenge route fails because he kinda took the essence of revenge out of it and gave us half bakes conclusions. The M
MC fights the uncle but he's not the one who kills him in the end. The cousin gets a ending where he doesn't even get confronted by the Mc so he never see how, why, or who is fucking him over, ans thw rest of the village yoy ne er get to see the Mc Confront then all and have to come to the realizationthat he is the monster that their betrayal created. That moment they have to realize or understand that they fucked up. That is the best part of revenge routes or ending for me but in H2 it was glossed over. It's glossed over in a lot of ntr games that do have revenge endings honestly.
Almost everyone I played it's just the Mc instakills everyone and then becomes the demon king or instakills everyone and then let the main girl kill them because blah blah sadness instead of giving the time for the mental dread to sit in that the kind character they've all been hurting is now a heartless monster or uncaring asshole.
I didn't want my comment to sound like I was disrespecting Inatari about the game's history. Only as I said I didn't know how to explain my point of view, actually I still don't know how to do it. But I think the simplest way is the following.
In this game the corruption of the girls points to what will be very hard and somewhat strong, obviously they will lie to the MC's face and maybe betray him in a very strong way and maybe even at some point they will turn their back on him. So a happy ending for me is something difficult to write considering all that the MC is going to suffer when he discovers the truth about the girls and how they have lied and betrayed him in his face, so a happy ending route where the girls simply say "I'm sorry, we were wrong but now we are with you" I see it something I do not know.... empty and a bit of a lie to be honest, they made the MC suffer so much and then they come and with a simple apology they fix everything, I see it as a bit of a lie to be honest.
That's why I hope the good ending is very well explained and doesn't fall into the cliché I said before (I've played several NTRs that literally do that for a good ending). That's one of the reasons why I liked HC2's good ending so much, there N_taii did a good job to redeem everything the girls did, besides the corruption of the girls in that game, although it was a bit strong, I think the corruption of this one could surpass it by far.
I also share your point of view with the revenge ending of HC2, it wasn't bad, but it lacked a little more impact and as you say it took away the essence of revenge that I was expecting to see, maybe it was held back a little by Patreon's regulations, I don't know. But I would have liked to see Noah kill his uncle and do a psychological torture to his cousin or something like that.
Again and again, I like the goods endings in NTRs, but they have to be very well written.
