...How? An unconscious person can't consent. Not unless it's a, "Go ahead and go to town on me while I'm passed out, even though I don't get to experience any of it, I get off on knowing that my body was used like a limp fuckdoll while I was unconscious" thing, which is... weird. Just feels like a way to avoid getting reported to patreon for noncon content.
And I wouldn't say anything about that... *if* it was something the player initiated. But even if you specifically choose the other thing, he ends up overriding your choice and going for the boob grope anyway. Furthermore, this is a work of fiction where literally everything being included is the deliberate choice of the creator. In this context the apology honestly just makes it worse, because it's insincere.
We do have some plans for the sleep stuff, but you'll have to wait to see how we do it. Hopefully, we can make it work, and if we can't, I have no problem removing the sleep content altogether. One thing for sure is that it will not be added to the game if it feels non-consensual to us.
I mean the sincerity of the author, not the character: If they really did regret the inclusion of the content, it wouldn't be there at all, or at least it'd be avoidable. There'd be no need to make excuses with "yes there's this one non-consensual interaction but it doesn't count because the MC felt bad and was really, really sorry." (Note also that there's no such excuses or apologies with when he spies on Myrtle or Serena.)
I don't want anyone to misunderstand what I'm saying here: I don't care about it being in the game. I don't want it removed. (Though, if an update made it avoidable, I wouldn't complain.) I just want the creator to be honest about what their game is and what's in it.
If that was the intent, it would have been better to do it like this:
*player picks the "grab her boob" option*
MC: What!? I'm not gonna grab a sleeping woman's boob! What am I, the main character of a porn game?
The script has made these kind of fourth wall jokes before (Serena's "Your actions are being controlled by a being beyond this world" line, for example.)
The MC's grabbing of Lana's boob together with his apology and response is from 0.1. If we didn't like it, thought it didn't make sense, or regretted it, as you put it, we would have removed it before the initial release; it was a simple scene and easy to redo. And none of the game choices are there to judge you, the player, for better or for worse, and this one's no exception.
The idea was simple and, at least to me, logical. We wanted to show a bit of character growth: it was the MC's first day in the Old Capital (after the teleportation of the previous night) and the first day of living on his own, being independent, and not having his moms around to tell him what to do or what not to do (that scene was still in the introduction), and we wanted him to make a sexual mistake, get caught, have to apologize for it, and learn that that's not the right way, hence setting up his approach when it comes to touching female characters for the rest of the game. I know the same thing could have been done differently, something that's as true about this as it is about every other aspect of the game, but that's the way we did it, and to us it still makes sense.
