Trope rant

chainedpanda

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Jun 26, 2017
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I just wanted to take my time and complain about a specific trope, not genre, of porn games: The slutty friend.

Does this sound familiar?

There is a shy/wierd woman, usally a teen or lonely housewife/ single mother. She clearly has sexual feelings for the MC, but is scared of the idea. She and the MC grow close and a bond begins to form. You start forming a relationship as she opens up to the MC, maybe even things start getting a bit physical.
BOOM! Incomes the slutty friend. She basically takes control of the whole relationship, pushes the shy girl along. Making her leave her comfort zone. Maybe she manipulates one or both of you, maybe she straight up forces things to happen.

You can likely think of several games where this exists can't you? I feel like it is a wasted oportunity and just an example of how shit porn writing is. I remember playing Fatherly Love, and although i'm generally not into father-daughter relationships, I thought it was really cute and I was enjoying it. Along comes slutty aunt and sister. Who straight up blindfolds the MC and has him fuck his daughter. Pushing their relationship several levels. At that moment the game had lost all appeal to me. It became just another harem incest game.

Look, I understand these are porn games. They are not noble prize winning stories, nor do I expect them to be. Yet, I'm pretty confident several of the devs who work on some games with this very same trope generally care about their games, characters and story. Despite this, why do they insist on throwing out decent storylines and any possibility of allowing the characters to do things themselves, grow and form decent relationships? I can think of a few games with loads of sex scenes in which they didn't add the slutty character to destroy everything, and those games are generally good! Whats worse, most of the time the shy character is a main character, while the slutty one being a side character.

Mao from Ecchi Sensei is consistently among the fan favorite characters in the devs little popularity poll. She is compared to many slutty girls who had sex early on. Yet because her story was allowed to grow without anyone on the outside forcing the issue, she became a really great charac ter I am always happy to see get screen time because of it.

While I do prefer teens over MILFS most of the time (unless you throw in mother-son relationships), and I am one of the people who complains about NTR, plus I happen to enjoy harem games and the virginty tag. I do not believe every girl in the game have to be pure virgins. Nor do they have to be shy, or young, or inexperienced or whatever. I am totally cool with slutty, or sexually open girls in games. I just don't understand why devs insist on adding the slutty trope alongside the innocent trope? Especially if the innocent girl is a main character, while the slutty one just gets thrown in to force the story to progress faster. It really bugs me.
 

morphnet

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I can't speak for any dev's but i think it's because it's an easy way to lay the ground work for more and faster opportunities. If you had for example a shy girl main character and a tomboy-ish type side character it wouldn't make sense when they had the conversation at home about "how great sex is" and that shy girl should try it, same goes for almost all other types. The girl with the experience "slutty" would know more about sex and her advice would hold more weight story wise, now being porns games and set in fantasy it's more likely i think that it allows sex to enter the story sooner and gives the devs options like adding 3somes and side routes with the "slutty" character or even the choice not to take the side route with the "slutty" character which would allow the player to feel like they were "faithful" to the main love interest.

It also allows for alot more sexy scenes where the "slutty" friend can go shopping with shy girl and convince her to buy slutty clothing, do more adventurous things like nudity on beaches or on group dates etc. A normal girl or other than slutty might be ok with topless but bj's under the table in a restaurant =D thats the job of the slutty friend to talk the shy girl into it and maybe even give a demonstration ;)

They don't fit all stories but they do fit alot of them and give more options to devs, at least that's how it seems to me.
 
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desmosome

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Yea, it's a useful trope that acts as a catalyst. I agree it's overused and pretty stale at this point, but what isn't. Honestly, there is almost nothing new you can expect from the general slice of life/romance/incest/harem/dating sim stuff because there is actually no real plot to these games. It basically all boils down to characters and almost any character type you can think of is a trope at this point. It just boils down to execution.