Really liked it as a thriller/horror CYOA story but it wasn't anywhere near as painful or impressive as Moving Down (less suffering for my heart I guess).
With MD I had tears running down my face through most of it and couldn't look away, playing it start to finish unable to let go. Felt terrible pity for MD's protag and the tragedy of it, it genuinely left me upset for days after I finished it. With VC on the other hand there were no waterworks and I had no issue pausing it to play it over the course of days and I'm not left shaken after finishing it.
At first I still tried to imagine VC's MC as an entirely tragic figure which the game clearly invites you to with his pitiable origin story. Tried to imagine his extreme femdom kinks as the result of horrible trauma, a psychological self defense mechanism he had developed to survive whatever constant abuse he was subjected to on top of the innate submissiveness/conflict-avoidance of someone raised without a healthy family. So I still managed to make myself feel genuinely bad for him with the first femdom events - when he's robbed and imprisoned, when he's pegged by the pornstar - viewing them as tragic, a perpetuation of whatever this innocent person suffered in the orphanage. But as the game went on it became harder and harder to keep thinking of his apparent bliss at most of these events as tragic. Not that it couldn't all be interpreted as tragic, just that it became too tiring to keep thinking of it that way against what the game presented.
In MD the non-consensual aspect of everything is clear, and the MC also isn't just in pain because of what's happening to him but also because of what's happening to his wife whom he loves unconditionally, more than his own life. The person he loves is disappearing in front of his eyes, ceasing to be, metaphorically dying as she transforms into someone else, same as their love is dying and he's unable to do anything to prevent it, he's despairing at his inability to save her and himself in the process. That's the other tragedy of MD.
Whereas in VC the person the MC believes he loves doesn't really change much. If at first he believes she's vanilla, he falls even deeper in love with her when she accepts his not-so-secret fetishes and dominates him, and after that he seems to feel no more betrayed by her going deeper into the dom/sadistic hole than he is aroused by it.
His early shame of his fetish and need to hide it from Alex, his hopes that she might "cure" him of those kinks, his despair at his failure to perform thinking he might never be able to have normal or romantically idealized relations ring true with the thoughts and fears most fetishists would have at some point. All good stuff, as was the surprise of Veronica letting him go free and saying there was never any movie. But it soon stops mattering.
Went the good escape ending first (previously spoiled the endings). Then marriage. Then I went back to what would've been the first ending/path I would've picked if playing truly blind and got the Veronica ending and also checked out the Carla one.
The endings felt a bit abrupt, really preferred the 2 stages to the escape in MD.
As far as the porn aspect of it goes, no surprise same as MD it's obviously meant almost exclusively for the harder femdom fans who are turned on by pegging, humiliation, cock and ball torture, boot licking, stomping, face sitting breath play, caning, whipping, flogging, piss drinking, branding, hair shaving/forced baldness, dogfood eating, pet play, sissy play, castration, lesbian NTR/cuckolded by a woman and optional shit eating, forced gay/bi etc .... and lots and lots of pussy eating. I will never understand how in so much of femdom porn the act of eating a beautiful woman's pussy, getting to kiss and lick her body is somehow seen as submissive or a bad thing comparable to the rest of those acts (short of her being unhygienic).
As a softer tease&denial femdom fan the only thing that got me half aroused were the first two scenes where Nina/your teacher finally showed some skin and engaged in some sex play - after teasing you for a long time with all her sexy dresses at school and organizing the sex events at her office while not taking part in them/remaining out of reach for you.
I like NTR and there's true unavoidable NTR in this game but it's of the lesbian variety. It's hard to get the same NTR kick out of it that you get out of BoyGirl NTR when you perceive two women playing with each other's pussies as barely any dirtier nor more threatening than a pillow fight. If the LI was being raped or hurt by the other woman instead then I'd feel compelled to protect her and would despair at my eventual inability to prevent it/might get a NTR kick that way.
