I think the demo numbers are still very obviously incomplete and can’t be entirely trusted (Rietta’s sex count never increases lol), but just the fact that she lost many of her memories and love of Kurt from the Clit Ring Curse is already pretty huge. It means that a lot of what she says afterwards is just her trying to convince herself she still loves him, and not knowing WHY she does. Forgetting the significance of the ribbon being an easy example of that.
It means that even though she is strong willed, it was a lot easier for the villain to take Kurt’s place in her heart, so to speak. It’s why he specifically puts a conception spell on her that lets her get pregnant when she loves someone, and then lets her have sex with Kurt only after she’s lost her memories of love for him, and has so many new memories of her and the lord. The way Takeda wrote her story is very much a more traditional corruption than what he did with the other two girls, but it was still done through a pretty significant level of mental alteration happening, just like with the other two girls. In fact, I’d say it’s about the same amount as Terena until EV32, where she’s already actively cheating on Kurt, but of course starts becoming fully corrupted when she keeps letting the parasites corrupt her more.
But yeah I’m not saying it’s bad or anything, I just wanted to point out the idea that Arika is entirely herself and just betraying Kurt because she’s very horny…is not entirely correct lol. And calling her a bitch over it and saying you’d only save the other girls is silly. If it wasn’t for the Ring Curse she wouldn’t have betrayed him at all, because she would’ve kept her memories and love of him. It’s why this upcoming scene with her will undoubtedly be super hot don’t get me wrong, and I think the idea for it is more interesting (and absolutely represents Takeda’s key fetishes) than the most recent scenes for the other girls, but I don’t really see it as any big betrayal lol. She’s been gone since the first major sex scene with the lord.
In that respect, I think I’ll just be more curious to see how the mental changes are reflected in her stats in the final game.
That’s a shame, is there any way you could reupload them? So many of the Arika scenes only have MTL right now (like the ring curse scene) and they’re pretty badly translated there.
Did you happen to do a translation of Arika EV24 and EV33? If you could reupload them that’d be good.