It wasn't that Loki wasn't a Chad that bothered me, I think. It made sense given that he was literally named Loki and all that implies. No. What bothered me was, I think, the fact that after he corrupted the goddesses, he became uninterested in them, or complained that they were too lewd, or other stuff like that. I think there were a few moments like that just really took me out of the story.
Might be remembering wrong though.
Also. I disagree. There are more reasons than just that to go Chaos. The Sorcerous Angel Milia scene was amazing too. And so were some others.
Good luck with that extra run. I disagree with your stance on Hollow's story and corruption mechanics, but this isn't the place to discuss that. XD
I checked with the Unlock Guide, and by the looks of things, you're right. Milia, for example, only gets 4 affection from pure mingle, and you need 5 for her ending (6 for the Ether Gunner thing), which means you need enough training to trigger her first affection gain event from that side of the fence. That's just Training 20, but it's still there. Not to mention that her ending
clearly implies that she's done the Mother thing enough to basically get addicted to it, given the whole Mother Empress thing. Hell, in the original ending, the whole "retires to join Theo at the remade Numerology Institute" didn't exist, so basically, she remained the "Mother Empress" for the rest of her life.
I'm not entirely sure, but I think Kukul can only reach enough affection if you train Elmin... and of course, Elmin's Mingle is 100% useless... which honestly disappointed me tbh. Like. I get it. The target audience is here for the bitches and the tentacles, but that doesn't mean you have to do the poor elf-boy dirty like that...
I wouldn't be surprised if all the girls have this to some extent or another.
Oh, and all of the girls require to give birth a few times (varies) for even their mingle scenes to move forward. Granted, that's pretty much inevitable if you play optimally, but still.
And yeah, Hollow basically gave you negative Affection for Training options, and you had to reach milestones for either Affection or Negative Affection to trigger further events. There were a couple of girls that needed a bit of one or the other, but if my memory isn't failing me, that was mostly for the backer units, aka the extra stuff, so it had nothing to do with the actual story.
Frontier, I think, had Affection Points and Training Points, or something, and you had to focus on one or the other, for the most part.
Gaia, however. Well, the Mother thing was, ultimately, pure desperation. On the one hand, it's still evil to force women into it. On the other hand, it wasn't like they had much of a choice if they were to survive, and in some cases, you can easily argue that the girls were being stupid for refusing in the first place.
Especially Carmilla. I was honestly disappointed that there wasn't even a single girl that was genuinely in full agreement from the start. Even Rein and Lala have to basically be trained into it... and Rein's a friggin' succubus.
So yeah, the end result is that Chaos Route ends up being a mess.
Sure, they try to play off the whole flip as Theo caring more about the Philosopher Stone than Titie all along... but the problem is that the writing up until that point shows things as him genuinely caring about Titie to the point where there's nothing ambiguous about it. So it doesn't really work. It just feels like "And all of a sudden. Theo goes nuts!"
The REALLY funny thing about all this is that, if you check things around, Philo for example didn't exist in the original version of the game. Which means that the story was extremely janky the first time around, even on the Law route. And on the Chaos Route, you didn't have the Sorcerous Angel Milia thing, which means that the Chaos Route was pure jank. At least with this bit added,
you can make it sort of make sense, with the idea that while Theo cared for Titie, he was still willing to use her for his goals, and in the end still goes above and beyond to save her. Which he does, even if he had to literally invade another world for her and turn ANOTHER Milia into a complete slut and NTR his other self.
I do agree that not all heroines get enough attention... though to an extent, this actually appears to be worse than it actually is because of the backer stuff.
Man, Shigure and Lucretia were really unpopular with the backers. Though I'm still surprised that Milia was the most popular with them, considering how things went in Hollow...
I will never not laugh at the fact that one of the best potential tanks in the game is a pregnant loli. Dammit backers, you're a fucked up bunch... but I suppose that's to be expected given some of the stuff they came up for Gaia too. XD Love it.