I disagree that a meet and fuck type game is "easier" to do. A well written story can put a lot of enjoyable distance between the "meet" and eventual "fuck" of a character, without having to incorporate the (often nonsensical) "foreplay build-up" scenes that the stairway to heaven trope usually does. I can argue that the "meet and blowjob" type game is even easier to do than the "meet and fuck" one. For example, I'm sure that there are a couple of dozen people on this board that have been involved in a threesome. Now, I can't tell you whether everyone's experience was the same (or even similar); but I
can tell you that no one's experience was like the "threesome" involving Claudia and Emma
. Two naked, horny, and drunk women practically drool at the sight of the MC's impressive member, only to be completely content with (and apparently satisfied by) foreplay; with the MC himself feeling lucky to have had such a awesome experience (even though it was actually pretty ridiculous
). Now, add in the fact that the whole "meet and foreplay" concept is also being applied to Sasha as well (despite the fact that story is written in a way that makes her feelings towards the MC very clear from the onset), and I'm sorry; but you have a stairway to heaven thing going. So I get that you're not
intending to follow a trope, but that doesn't mean that you're not following a trope
.
Conversely, the character whose story arch I've enjoyed the most so far is Jeni, and it's entirely due to the fact that there have been no foreplay scenes involving her. It's much more organic. I basically said to myself, "yeah, OK, this is much more realistic. I can immerse myself in this."
But, going to a bar with an extremely attractive woman; having that extremely attractive woman tell me how horny she is and how much she's attracted to me; then having that extremely attractive woman take me home to her bedroom where I grope her in the shower and get a blowjob; then I go to bed feeling like I have accomplished something...
Not nearly as immersive...lol...