As long as the stuff with the pills is mostly up to player choice im fine with it. Not really a fan if it's forced especially on the faithful save I got.
Just for the sound of it - no real criticism. I like how you stand for the free will of the player to forcefully submit the MC to the will of the player
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Yeah, joking aside, it is clear that the MC is no real human and all this is just fantasy where as the player is a human being. But I have to add that I even like VNs that bend my will a little - making me do uneasy decisions that I do not like in principel but choose anyways for the arousal they bring - if done well.
The "pill" seems like a way to give some folk some lewd actions faster than the plot would normally ask for. Like a cheat code for turning Kate into a turbo-slut faster. Good for those into that, but I will stick to the 'canon' plot of the slow corruption, without any external influence to circumvent the natural order of things...
In bad novels, the pills are exactly what you are saying. Just a cheap story twist. But in well done novels, I would go with Filipis:
There is corruption based on internal struggle (love vs lust) and then there’s corruption based on external struggle (blackmail, drugs, and stuff like that).
IMHO the internal struggle is more compelling than the external. But I can like both, it just needs to be well done.
For example (with the pill), you give the player a choice whether or not Kate takes the pill before a big romantic date with her SO (forgot his name). Her hope is that it will lead to an unforgettable night for the two of them, but you could structure the evening in such a way that her plans get derailed bu circumstances beyond her control - and now you have a horny-out-of-her-mind Kate facing a slew of unexpected situations with men other than the SO.
As I would put it: In a well done VN, pills could be a way for the MC to be pure, get (externally corrupted), get pure again and have the believability of her slow burn coruption not (completely) destroyed. In fact, the pills-actions could become a catalyst for the corruption... having "free" sex is against her character, but it feels sooo addictive.
See also my point with "joking aside... bending the will of the player a bit by offering him an bad decision with an appealing outcome (for the player)." A bad example: He really like the MC-girl as she is pure and lovely, but if she is to stay pure, the player will get no lewd action.
Otherwise, you are just creating a VN with a couple in love. Under what fetish does that fall? Real-life depression?
Thanks for the good laugh. You worded it perfectly (even though I don't fully agree - even lucky couples without Sharing can have interesting struggles).
Could it be because netorase is essentially sharing? I can see why it can be hard to create a defining line to stop netorase from turning into netorare, since the difference between the two is paper-thin. And netorare seems like a natural evolution of netorase, no?
Nah, I don't agree on the Sharing definition. Sharing doesn't have to consist only of threesomes of which the main couple is a part of.
So maybe we could even agree on "active sharing" where the boyfriend actively puts his girlfriend on the second male's dick and "passive sharing" where the girlfriend has sex on her own with her friend just present or even farer away (but still loving to hear her story). In this, Netorase seems a bit more on the passive-sharing-side whereas usually, sharing is more on the active-sharing-side.
But yeah, as you stated it, f95 seems to use them synonymiously.
