Hello,
Thanks for the feedback and the discussion, it's really interesting.
NNN logs Day 2: one of my favorite game has updated. The wait will be long.
Don't worry, that update is small. Wait december and you could play a double version!
I really loved this game for a long time. Go back a few months and you will see my supportive posts on this thread. Lovely ladies. Plenty of things to do to ensure survival. Background music sets an almost meditative state (just not in the sex scenes). Delayed sexual gratification but lots of sexual gratification when it comes.
Then Aidra brainwashed Haley, and I found the story too distasteful. I have not played the last couple of updates because I don't want to find myself turning the rest of the girls into mindless slaves.
Just . . . no. If there is an alternate path to continue at least a semi-peaceful existence of the community, then I'll play on. If there isn't, then I'm probably out. No matter how the story might try to justify such action as necessary for survival, I don't see how I can bring myself to enjoy it.
I know there are plenty of porn games that have male MCs exert control over females from the beginning. I enjoy some of them. I don't enjoy the really misogynistic and sadistic ones, but guy in charge harem games are fine, even ones in which there is an element of mental control introduced from the start. Players know what to expect in such a game. However, it is really disturbing to switch gears from being the hero working hard for months to help young women (ok, porn stars . . . ok, fictional characterizations of people who are played by porn stars in post-apocalyptic society . . . it's not like this is real), only to then become the villain stealing their identities.
About that point:
A few people in the past also complained that too many times the MC "rejects" the girl. He's a bit naive, or still stuck with the past societal norm. I don't want him to be a pervert taking avantage of every situation, but I don't want him to be an idiot either, because it would turn the "delayed sexual gratification" like you said as a boring situation for the player. It's still a porn game.
Corruption has always been central in the game. Passive corruption, maybe unwanted corruption, but still corruption. It's a major tag of the game, as the harem tag.
What you seem to dislike here is the active corruption, and more extreme one (brainwashing, mindless slut like you said). For Haley, it's not from the MC: Aidra is doing it without telling him. After, MC is corrupting Aidra to make her taste her own medicine (and because she betrayed you.)
About other girls that you trust and know from the world "before" (Vina, Ariana, Alina, Kyler for example), you don't turn them into slaves in the story, and it's not planned. The slave level is a choice by the player. It's totally optional and not required to finish the game. It's a more "darker" path for players who like that type of content. If you don't like it, don't take that path.
Of course, some updates may seem empty if you don't activate that content. But it will be the same for pregnancy, if it's not your thing, I assume you won't have a lot to do during the pregnancy update.
I understand that it could be boring, since I'm delivering thing gradually: The last updates are focus on the last Level 9/10 (optional ones like I said), and is focus on hard corruption. So if you don't like that, you don't have a lot to play with in the past update. I'm sorry about that, I should have organized myself better on that point.
What I wanted to do, and maybe I failed:
-Girls that you're close with, and you trust --> No full corruption, only a lot of lust
-Girls that you don't trust, or who tried to betrayed you like Aidra --> You use the power of the oil/virus to be sure to control them (and turn them into slaves).
It's like wives VS slaves in a few harem games.
That's the situation you will have at the start of the Spinney 2 : You won't import your save from the Spinney 1. In the next chapter, you will not have turned into slave girls that are close to you ( Vina/Ariana... etc) and the girls turned into slave during the Main Story of the Spinney 1 will still be obedient slaves.
Without spoiling more, it will be the same in the Spinney 2. You will have girls that you won't turn into slaves, with a more romance path, and girls that you have conflicts with, and it will be harder content for them.
It was the idea I applied to be sure to satisfy all the different tastes.
If you want more information about the Spinney 2 on that specific part, or sharing with me what you would have done on that point instead of what I did, you can PM me, I will be pleased to talk about it.