I'm sorry good sir, but it still is only you
I hate family, I don't want them to be redeemed and I'll still go for every negative relationship point possible.
But this is a porn game on porn site and family are main LIs. That's why I'm hoping for number 1. It's the only scenario that doesn't make me drop the game and that makes sense as progression.
There must be an attempt at redemption. There must be heart-to-heart, tear-shedding talk with family. They must acknowledge the quite literal hell MC went through. Otherwise there can be no saving relationships at all and most people will hate the guts out of a story and characters for eternity.
As much as it pains me, for this game to turn to proper porn game, MC must make up with his family. But if it's through method mentioned in #2, then the story and game are not worth saving.
Or dev can go for (too) complex branching, one path MC makes up with his family, they live happily ever after, another path MC uses his copy powers to force whole family into submission. This would require whole dev studio and metric ton of work for everyone involved, so unrealistic for a game of this scale.
In any case, I'm just hoping game survives chapter 4.
That's literally what I JUST said lol. The whole point of redemption is so you don't hate the family. As you and I have stated, the only way I can see it is if they sit down crying tears of regret. Playing the full villain path really only makes sense for the narrative if it's well deserved, otherwise you just come off as a douche bag for no reason. Of course that's not the case for this game as the devil points are well warranted, but if they redeem themselves and you still decide to gather all the big bad guy points it would probably make for a significantly less interesting MC and would deminish any chance of good writing ever being present.
What I like about the MC right now is his mental trauma. It makes for making bad and good choices sensible to a degree, and allows future room for growth OUT of bad devil points or even into it. But if going fire and brimstone murder everyone that makes the game terrible, as you miss out on potentially entire character developments just because you were petty in the beginning. Again, not for this game in particular but I definitely have seen it in another game I ADORE to death.
Superhuman is a game where you play as a shapeshifter who can make either good or bad choices on pretty much anything. The issue with games on this site is most of them have a focus on one of 2 things, relationship development or sex. If you pick ALL the bad options in that game you can quite literally kill off entire characters making both of the aforementioned points obsolete, which makes the entire story much less fruitful. It's like post nut clarity; fun at first and then bam, you got through it so fast and now the magic is gone and your questioning why the fuck you just wasted an entire character arc just to play villain.
Way I see it the best way to go about it is if you can either full blown ignore them or my personal favorite, corrupt them. Not involving them by murdering them will just take away from the plot. Especially if they are redeemed, if they aren't; fuck em, but let them watch you raise Hell around you. End game is where you can half hazardly throw away any sensibility such as killing them.
None of this would be an issue of course if those 3 clearly weren't the main cast, but they are, so the fantasy that we can kill them the first chance we get is just that, a fantasy. What I WOULD be okay with (if the fam is redeemed) is killing the other Heavenly hosts. I think a game needs to be played (in order to come off well) with a good balance of good and evil points:
Be nice to those that are nice to you (all your good boy points) which is so far is pretty much only;
1. Inessa (best girl, enough said)
2. Luna (she can be annoying but means well)
3. Azazel (history with getting kicked out, probably a good character)
4. Angela (honest, relates to our trauma, open)
5. Arianna (interested in us but shy, still willing to go out of her comfort to scratch that itch)
6. Sofia (typical cougar, they've never been bad)
7. Emily (outgoing introduction, definitely not hiding any bullshit despite just meeting)
And contribute bad boy points to everyone who fucks you over:
1. God (...)
2. Bethor (lapdog willing to throw us at daddy's whim)
3. Azel (no hard feelings right?)
4. Aniel (lapdog mailman was an ass upon first meeting and suddenly concerned the next? Fuck off)
5. Nyks (immediately comes off as condescending, let Inessa die)
6. Ghost (I don't like people going behind our back, let alone possessing us)
7. Buck & his goons (typical bullies, no mercy)
8. Lukas & Tom (willing to see us rage out just to entice their own curiosity, weren't honest)
9. Elisa Ross (immediately an ass without even knowing the real us)
10. Camelia (useless)
The rest are pretty neutral, as they are just oblivious to everything but it's not like they are or ever tried to actively kill/backstab you, do what you like and it would make sense:
1. Raphael (tried to be honest, despite the plot hole writing and the forced college, she's alright)
2. Emma (again, plotholes and bad parenting, but she does care to some degree, which is less than I can say for 99% of the angels)
3. Arkas (behind our back and personally, fucking ANNOYING, he's like every anime protagonist's hypeman best friend, and looks like it too)
4. Ellenna (obvious vixen, don't trust her personally)
