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[reidanota]

Avoidable NTS. No NTR. Its netorare tag should probably be removed.

If you don't opt out of the NTS choice near the start of the game (that would otherwise set you on barely developed vanilla/harem path) MC and his main LI have a NTS fetish/want to experiment to begin with. The first scene where someone screws around is a cuckquean scene for her where she gets off to you fooling around with her roommate. After that they have a full swap foursome at home. What some consider "ntr" is that after that full swap orgy, when everyone's sleeping, your girlfriend can go over to the sleeping dude and bang him again. MC is ok with it/likes it. And over the course of the game she goes off and bangs other guys while recording it for the MC who gets off to it. Same as he also gets to bang other women, including in front of her/with her/for her.

I might be wrong but you're likely describing the old version of the game (which I never played). Game has a long history since 2018 but Typist rebooted the story in 2025 and it currently goes more or less like this:
- You and Claire have a conversation about "opening up" your relationship.
- There's an optional cuckquean first scene with Claire's sister which (not sure) can be a threesome or with Claire just watching.
- There's scene with Claire at the gym with an option where you can decide if Claire is attracted to her gym coach or not.
- Later, there's a first sharing scene where you and Claire go out into the neighbourhood for her to kiss the first stranger male that comes around - who happens to be the coach. Claire asks the coach to not reveal that they're acquainted and hides it from the MC.
- There's a sex scene between Claire and the MC, where the MC is "losing it" until Claire teases him about fucking other men.
- There's the possibility of the MC having sex with another girl (masseuse? Don't quite remember) and if he does, there's no option to tell Claire about it - either cheating path material, or a step into an actual free-pass type of relationship. In any case, they don't talk about it.
- There might be a foursome with Claire, her sister and the coach, don't remember, that could fit the foursome description that you mentioned.
- There's the swinging scene that I described multiple times in this thread, which is initiated by the male neighbour manipulating the MC into it. I think you can refuse it? But then the game ends, currently there's nothing else after that. But if you don't refuse it, the MC is clearly uncomfortable with it, has serious doubts, feels like he's being led by the neighbour. If he tells Claire about it, the author wrote it in such a way that it's very clear that from that moment onward, you don't have any chance to stop what's been set in motion. It's the moment that Claire tells the MC that she loves the idea because the neighbour strikes her as a very dominant man, and she wants to experience something with him that she can't with the MC. The rest is humiliation upon humiliation, really, a perfect crescendo and the current episode ends with them going to bed in silence, both unable to communicate what they're feeling. There's no way one can read that the MC enjoyed it.

Realistic? Maybe. People say many would-be swingers bite more than they can chew. I'm personally not interested in exploring those kinds of emotions as entertainment, but what I mean is that NTS is too broad a genre, and "consent to fuck others" doesn't strike me as the strongest defining aspect to help people choose games by. The original question was "is this game NTR or NTS" and I wanted to share information that's actually useful about the game, not berate anyone who enjoys a more broad, or just different scope of themes than I. Lots of people here enjoy the kind of game BILH currently is, more power to them (but the game seems pretty dead, anyway. Or not, Typist is known for very long hiatuses between updates).

 

[Ratadan]

Respectfully disagree. Or, at least, the NTS is of a very "classic japanese" style, with the added BNWO trope if you share Claire; the MC is a hopeless sub. He's completely humiliated by the alpha-male neighbour in what was supposed to be a swinging scene, fails to get the neighbour's wife off, she is all condescending and Claire (his wife) at one point makes it perfectly clear that she's interested in the neighbour because he's dominant in a way the MC could never be (and that this is important to her). The MC is clearly described as being uncomfortable with it, and the whole "swinging" deal, but there's nothing he/you can do to stop it. Even in their first experiment, Claire's supposed to kiss a stranger for the MC but, instead, she meets her gym coach and they both pretend they never met (with the MC being none the wiser, and Claire never admits the truth - there's definitely a cheating element to it). Sex between Claire and the MC is lukewarm at best and Claire is clearly dominant. Never mind consent, this game is a NTR fantasist's dream, think along the lines of small cock, premature ejaculator, can't get women off, jacks off to her being fucked by guys who can actually fuck her kind of cuck (not literally, but definitely in tone). Includes a poor NTS path as a afterthought, which doesn't work unless you
- enjoy the MC being humiliated;
- forget about the MC completely and jack off to renders of the wife being railed by other guys (Claire is a hot model).
There may be a cuckquean after-afterthought if you fuck her sister but I don't know if that's possible without also sharing Claire. There's so little sexual chemistry between the MC and Claire that I don't think a vanilla path would ever work, unless something drastically changes in a future update.

So, regarding the question

take the above as a warning. NTR and NTS are bad tags. There may be a path where no cheating happens (yet) but if you enjoy it, then you would likely enjoy NTR as well. Do your own judgement, but let me make one more thing clear: it may be true that the "sharing" is triggered by a conversation where they're both interested in "spicing things up", but once that's agreed upon, you and the MC are taking the back seat, and Claire is not fucking other guys to please her husband, she's doing it because she wants something that the MC can't give her. Huge turnoff.

Respectfully agree to some extent, but I don't swing to the extremes that you seem to have done. I didn't feel the MC was particularly humiliated although I agree that Claire seems to be heading off on her own path. There's a stridency, a certainty to your argument and I don't believe it's quite as stark as you paint things. I get the impression that the MC is moving toward changing horses to a better matched Zoey but who knows. You seem to argue against yourself starting with 'NTS is of a very "classic japanese" style' and later saying that NTR and NTS are bad tags. I suppose that my main argument against your review is the certainty in which it is written. Hoochimama strikes a more appropriate level from my viewpoint.

 

[dexterousgecko]

The last scene very much makes the MC more of a sub, MCs girl and other guy going to an entirely separate room to fuck, Claire blushing over the dominant male, the dominant male smirking, the wife of the other guy lite mocking the MC, etc. It's definitely going towards heavier cheating/MC playing a lesser role.

 

[Joshy92]

Because I Love Her is one of the few sharing games I actually enjoy. Minus the last update for the sharing path, of course.

 

[reidanota]

Respectfully agree to some extent, but I don't swing to the extremes that you seem to have done. I didn't feel the MC was particularly humiliated although I agree that Claire seems to be heading off on her own path. There's a stridency, a certainty to your argument and I don't believe it's quite as stark as you paint things. I get the impression that the MC is moving toward changing horses to a better matched Zoey but who knows. You seem to argue against yourself starting with 'NTS is of a very "classic japanese" style' and later saying that NTR and NTS are bad tags. I suppose that my main argument against your review is the certainty in which it is written. Hoochimama strikes a more appropriate level from my viewpoint.

Didn't want to sound like I own the truth at all. I just think NTS is imprecise, as a descriptor. By "classic japanese" I meant only that japanese netorase usually involves main characters who willingly relinquish control, or just have no control and enjoy it. My perception may be wrong, I don't claim to be an expert in japanese eroge. Clearly, I chose a bad phrase, didn't get my point across. In any case, "NTS" can include humiliation, some masochism and main characters that take the back seat and enjoy their wife doing their thing, also not arguing against that, but that's exactly why it seems like too broad a category. I want to avoid going even further into detail on BILH, so I'll try to use the end of the current episode as an example: the "swinging" scene shocked them both, their communication is (temporarily?) cut off, each of them is processing their emotions internally. If they could voice their feelings, Claire and the MC would be at opposite extremes, she'd be talking about how ecstatic the neighbour left her, but doesn't (one can infer that it's because she knows it would hurt the MC). The MC is overrun by the whole situation, which he had no control of. In the end, he was patronized by both his wife and the neighbour's wife, telling him that her husband is just so dominant, he (the MC) shouldn't take it to heart, "it's just how the world is" (my summary). At this point, it's established that the MC is not a dominant character, and this will not be a stag/vixen kind of game. This is why I'm not sure I can subscribe to the certainty critique that you made. I fully accept that I had a very strong emotional reaction to the way the story is written, but still insist that the writing is there. Open to interpretation, ofc.

Having said all that, I accept that I didn't make a neutral critique, that's probably obvious, but also didn't try to hide it. You make a very interesting point that Zoey could be a better match for the MC. I have to admit, through my own conditioned reactions, I can't enjoy a story telling me that "my" character married a woman that's on a different league, whom he must let go of "because he loves her", and be content with the second choice. It would take a lot of good writing from Typist to make the MC and Zoey fall in love in a way that didn't come off as coping with failure to keep Claire. Again, lots of interesting anthropology there, but I seek pleasure in entertainment, including indulging my ego, not a reckoning with my own monsters in a "controlled environment". Sorry for the self-justification you and nobody else probably cares about

Because I Love Her is one of the few sharing games I actually enjoy. Minus the last update for the sharing path, of course.

And I'm really glad for you! There are plenty of sharing games that follow a more active wife, passive MC narrative. Nothing against that. This one, by my mistake, I had the wrong expectations about, and was disappointed. It became sort of the counterexample of the kind of sharing games that I look for, but I'm happy for everyone who enjoy it. Hope Typist does bring them a good game, to completion. It just doesn't seem like a game that a player who prefers agency and a non-submissive MC can enjoy (parity would be enough for me, but there isn't even that).

 

[SinisterPortal]

On the NTS path how Claire's sister loses her virginity is clearly rushed and even nonsensical a bit. Until that moment her sister was the most interesting character and their triangle romance (the MC + Claire + Claire's sister, with Claire being cuckquean) could have been a great story, but for the NTS the dev needed to turn Claire's sister into a slut so she quickly loses virginity without much thought to it. You don't have that on the vanilla path, so it can still be a great story, but the dev said people wanted NTR so he abandons the vanilla/cuckquean path.

 

[sorjs53]

I got bored of BILH due to the fact that the updates are super inconsistent, BNWO trope, cheating off the bat, and the sharing is poorly implemented. I don’t like BNWO games in general because it’s high key racial stereotyping, always involves the gf/wife being in love with the black bull but having to stay with her white SO, and all these guys look the same or similar because devs don’t wanna make new models and just copy/paste and brush up if they wanna brush up

 

[blkcrow20]

Just tried the new update for Angst. Yeah, there's a good chance this will be going on my 'Do Not Play' list shortly. When the wife comes back from a date with another guy and says stuff like this. It sounds so beta cuck.

 

[hoochimama]

the dev said people wanted NTR so he

...gave them NTS instead