So first off, I do really enjoy this game and all the different options of women you have. But, my only problem is with Nika. Now let me clarify, my problem with her whole deal is that she keeps making the decision about going back or not be based on her relationship, sexual or otherwise, with her brother. She keeps saying things like if I don't go back I lose him, but if I go back he will know how I feel about him and I will be the girl too scared to tell him true feelings again. I realize this is a porn game, but with this whole Nika business, it feels like the developer is trying to make her deeper than just a porn game character. So, in this regard, her whole thing about leaving behind the life she has built in the past, while it may seem valid, is actually pretty selfish. The reason I say this is because she is not thinking about the effect of her being missing will have on not just her brother, but the rest of her family as well as everyone else in her life that cared about her in her normal timeline. In her normal timeline, as time goes on they will more than likely presume her dead without knowing what happened to her. They will undoubtedly have a funeral and bury an empty casket, and John and Julianna will go through the rest of their lives wondering what happened to her, and still holding out hope that she will walk through the door one day without it ever happening. This is something that neither her nor the MC ever really bring up or discuss (the MC mentions something to Bacon, but it really needed to be brought to light while he was talking to Nika), but I guess that is the flaws in their characters. However, it doesn't make it any less frustrating. I think if she had it relayed to her in this manner, then she would realize that her life in the past needs to be left behind and forgotten and she needs to return to her normal timeline to live out her life there. Also, I just don't buy all her reasons for staying in the past. She obviously has several mental issues by being thrust out of her timeline away from everything and everyone she knows and loves, why the hell wouldn't she want to leave all this shittiness behind to be back with her friends and family, and also not be as broken of a person in the long run? That to me does not make sense. I normally don't get all crazy like this with a porn game, but Nika's whole story just struck a nerve with me. Regardless of this, I am very intrigued by the story with Bacon and OMJ and the doppelganger and all that stuff. Also, the models and sex scenes are extremely hot. So yeah, overall I really enjoy the game, just the Nika stuff and her whole reasoning why she wants to stay is very short-sighted and selfish.
With the current life I have, I would not give it up. However, I am in the timeline I am supposed to be in. I am with my family, my mother, father and brother. My cousins, aunts, grandparents, etc. All of my friends, and the people who care about me are here. If I were somehow thrust back into the past, and after so long have the opportunity to go back to this life, I would not hesitate to do so. Because I don't see any life living without my friends and family one worth living. Also, honestly, her past life sounds miserable. She is obviously severely affected by being ripped away from everything she knows and loves. Yes, she is able to see her family, but she can't tell them who she really is. I wouldn't be surprised if she didn't take the job at the college just to be close to her parents. But once again, she is older than them, so she has to treat them like the kids they are in this timeline. I mean talk about a constant mindfuck. And her conversation about her seeing her Grandmother, and not being able to go over and hug her and tell her that she loves her. I mean that sounds like torture, which is why I don't buy her reasons for staying. Because who would willingly want to live like that? I know I wouldn't. Like I said, this part of the story struck a chord with me, and honestly maybe because we are talking about it like this shows the level of quality writing this game has. But, I just absolutely see no way with me agreeing with her decision to stay in the past. She says she has everything she wants, but I call bullshit. She is just deluding herself, because of her brother being there, and now that he is gone again, she has to struggle with him leaving and not knowing if it will be another twenty years before she sees him? Nope, that sounds truly and utterly miserable.
I have to be honest with you I wasn’t going to reply to you, but in all honesty, I couldn’t help my self as my amateurish writing has evoked such emotion, from you, that I thought I just had to.
I understand your thinking on the matter and as I don’t know your age, I can tell you that I’m older than Nika in the past.
But from what you have said you love the current life that you lead along with your family and friends, so I assume you’re not a teenager, but was your life so perfect when you were an angsty teenager?
When Nika was torn away from her family and thrown into the past she was an angsty teenager, there was never a single conversation between her and Juli in C1 were they didn’t argue, even with John she had to beg to use the car.
They told her where and when to be and at what time. Who are they to do that? I’m an adult, they might be older but I know better, they’re old and have no idea what the modern world is like and anyway I can take care of myself. I don’t need them to tell me what to do.
(Sound familiar because as a teenager even though it’s a long time ago, I remember thinking that myself. It wasn’t until I matured a bit more that I realised they were right and I was wrong, and I know I’m not alone in that thinking.)
But back to Nika. She was cast into the past with that same teenager's mindset and was taken in by a woman who rather than challenged her like her elders encouraged her to succeed, I'm not saying they wouldn’t have but it didn’t come with all the rules and caveats that being a parent does.
She has turned up in the past, all the rules that she has lived by are gone. Rather than something she can get by mobile phone, no Uber no food nothing all gone.
In this time a tattoo was accepted on a man, yes, on a woman no way so she has had to adapt to that, she has had to face her many shortfalls in this time and she, not John and Juli have overcome them.
In her eyes, she is strong enough to stand on her own, again reinforcing her teen attitude.
This woman let her be free unlike her parents she could do what she wanted when she wanted and even treated her as an equal by going into business with her, but that teenage mindset was still there and with each time Del treated her with the respect she thinks she deserves that mindset was reinforced.
So 20 + years later the same mindset has been allowed to fester, to grow and take root. In the background, she still has a teenager's mindset.
Nika has never had kids so it has never been challenged. She has never had to think shit is that what I was like when I was a teenager?
(Unlike some of us who have and had to sympathise with their Mum’s and Dad’s because the music might be different but the song is always the same.)
All of a sudden a knight in shining armour walks through the door and says let me take you away from all this.
Now look at it from her point of view
Go back to a life of subservience with John and Juli, one in which she could never have a relationship with the MC, because they would interfere and incest is kind of illegal, they would never let her do what she wants to do.
Stay in the past with the man she loves and nobody including the authorities telling her what to do, she can now live the life she wants.
She hasn’t lost any of her family as they are still there and maybe she can’t hug her Grandmother and it is torture every day at least she is still there and alive.
But she is free and can do what she wants. It might yes be a selfish attitude but that is what a teenager is, It is all about me, no one else.
I hope this explains the thinking behind her attitude and honestly thank you for reading the dialogues and taking the time to comment on them.
Larry5168
