Also keep in mind, that the clit-ring, that was the cause of losing the love to Kurt, was removed in the same event that it was put on, so Arika's love would not lower the same way in future events as in that (EV24) event.
In fact, according to the Demo, her feelings haven't dropped one bit since the clit-ring incident, so even when "toyed" by the lord, her feelings remains strong towards Kurt.
It's will just be basically be a normal story of how a strong willed pure girl succumbs to pure pleasure (Clit-Curse and minor plant aphrodisac aside), like most of Takeda's stories.
The numbers can change in the final version of course, but it shows that Arika still has strong feelings for Kurt (For now).
Yeh, that was my point about the ring curse, It didn't last enough to make significant damage.
In fact, her love for Kurt is so strong that it didn't get reduced even after her first sex scenes with Bonner.
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.
There's a guy who always translate the events a couple of hours after release, he does it better than the current MTL, sadly those links are already dead atp
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.
I'm ready to translate EV41 if it would get freaking released already...
Did you happen to do a translation of Arika EV24 and EV33? If you could reupload them that’d be good.
