Don't get me wrong, I really like this game. It's one of those I look forward to. But up until this update, I'd only played the Cheating Path, so I never really considered the choices in the game except from the perspective of that kind of relationship. So the problem I have with it now, is the Love Path, where the MC cheats on his girlfriend, whatever choices you make. Surely, if it's a true Love Path, you should be able to avoid cheating completely? If Ria cheats once, then she becomes a cheating bitch, whether the MC knows or not. But the MC can fuck Angel, Lizzy/Julia, Lily, Megan, Fiona and Jessica, and as long as Ria doesn't find out about it, it's somehow not classed as cheating, and we're still on the Love Path, which doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Yeah, later on in the game, you can stop the MC cheating. But by then he's already established himself as such a compulsive cheater, it's hard not think, if it was just down to him, he wouldn't think twice about doing it?
For it to be a true Love Path, the MC should be able to avoid having sex with everybody, but Ria. We're given the ability to choose for Ria, so why not the MC? This is another reason why I can't help feeling Ria is the MC, rather than Ted. Because you can make meaningful choices for her, that determine what kind of a person she becomes. But for Ted, for a large part of the game, you're just stuck with this really immature guy, who struggles to resist any kind of temptation. I mean, if they're on the Love Path, then they could still be moving towards an open relationship or swinging lifestyle, without the necessity of one or either of them having to cheat.
Now as I said before, I play the Cheating Path as well, and I think it's really good. And if you play the game purely towards that end, everything makes sense. But with the Love Path, I just don't understand the logic of having no choice whether the MC cheats, because surely then, he's just on another version of the Cheating Path?
So maybe the Dev can explain his logic behind making it impossible for Ted to avoid cheating on Ria, until late on in the game? Because perhaps I'm missing something?