I know that no one cares about my opinions on anything.
This is one of those rare cases where a game pissed me off so much that I felt the need to let the devs know that I profoundly did not enjoy their game.
I know it is a game, and these things usually don't even begin to bother me. I pass along without commentary and focus on the games that I like and the stories and characters that I like and supporting the devs for those.
In this case though, I think the devs don't understand the problems they are creating in their game design and the cognitive dissonance of their narrative.
I know that there's a lot of people who have a lot of different opinions and preferences when it comes to mind control stories and stories of domination, and my perspective is just one and likely on the fringe of a fringe interest. So knock yourself out with a bolder of salt.
Problems of this game is that Main Character could drop dead, and I'd celebrate it. Mind control is introduced and the player is allowed to play around with it; good you're putting the basic mechanics into immediately playable conditions. You're held at gun point by a servant of a occult society of mind controllers and marched to a representative of that group and some kind of fraternity brother of your father. K. I can see why you chose to go this route, but the thing is that I'd rather take a bullet than get in or stay in the car at that point. The moment I know that Brigitte has a gun and will threaten me with it? I'm going to make her shoot me before I comply with her.
The secret society? I don't want anything to do with it. The moment that limo shows up on that extraordinary day? Yeah, I get that there's a secret society and the manifest powers of mind control are not something exclusive to me. I ain't stepping anywhere near that society or interacting with any of the members of that society. No questions. Not the least bit curious about that because as a player I understand the whole social order that implies, and I know immediately that rule number 1 is you walk away. Non-interference. Non-intervention.
My interest in Brigitte is less than zero. She's a danger and liability, and I want nothing to do with her. It isn't anything to do with her personality or her appearance; it has everything to do with the power dynamics implied. And again, she'd have to shoot me to even have a chance at any kind of compliance with her or those she represents. Don't need or want lessons, and the story for me personally becomes completely avoiding interacting with or learning about the mind control power.
There is no safety in that world. I understand immediately that ignorance won't exactly protect me or the main character. The likely outcomes are all bad. All result in being hunted down or used in lethal games by people far more power and far more established than the MC. There is no scenario in that world in which the MC as presented ever ends up as anything other than a smudge.
Congrats on creating a world and scenario that is like the ultimate in anti-sexy and anti-romantic premises.
Let's talk about this conceit. Work it out exhaustively.
Twerp MC is going to out gun, out charm, out power a secret cabal of mind controllers that pass their power along their male line? The implied numbers here even if not every male offspring gets the power is on the orders of millions of people. And it is pretty quickly established that their power and wealth outside of their mind control powers and mastery makes them billionaires if not in fact the people ruling the entire world. Twerp inherited nothing of significance. Protected by no one other than maybe some members of that very same society.
Twerp MC doesn't have power in this. This isn't even a power fantasy.
So what is this then? Not a romance. Not a power fantasy. Some kind of petty vengeance fantasy over women that fucking hate your guts?
Suppose that sure the progress of the game is that you steadily learn how to use your powers, and maybe your powers grow faster and to a higher potential than anything seen before by the secret society. You're the Chosen One, 'arry. You start taking the women and the assets from those who have power over you until you're finally the ONE on top of the whole shit heap?
Going to go out on a limb here and say that the premise of the story as presented so far would mean that ending and eventuality would just come off as bad writing.
Let's talk about the nature of the mind control itself. What are we doing here? Order and they obey? What's their experience of it? Are we callous enough that we don't care or that it doesn't matter to us? Are we supposed to play some kind of psychopath that is fine with the women fighting the control but being unable to do anything about it? If this is just straight up puppetry then what exactly is being eroticized here?
I mean. Sure. I get that there are people that enjoy the mindless-drone fantasy of mind control. I know even that there are people who enjoy the notion that their whole personality and conscious experience of the world would be intact locked into some kind of horrifying psychological nightmare. This does not seem to be even that.
No reason that mind control has to be exclusive of romance and eroticism. No reason the only options have to be total non-con and outright rape in so many words and behind so many conceits. No reason it can't be dub con or the struggle to for consensual relationships when you have the real objective power to override or distort or bend or break that consent. No reason that the player character can't develop as a person. Any world in which the player character goes senselessly cruel with their power is a world in which the player character gets squashed like a bug by either the non-super-powered society or the super-powered secret society or both.
Bottom line. The mind control is boring. The game play mechanics are TL; DR mainly because the meta-non-con going on with the player and the player character makes the whole scenario feel powerless and totally distracts from any enjoyment of the otherwise hottish women. The narrative has heaping helpings of
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Game Devs ask at the end "If you liked this game" Emphatically didn't. If I'm not your target audience, I understand completely, but you still have a stupid game that is badly written, and I hope the MC, Brigitte, and the whole secret society spontaneously combusts.