We can agree to disagree on many things then. On that point, maybe you put a lot of stock on believability. I put a lot of stock on my comfort. If there is something that causes me discomfort in a physical sense, I avoid it. NTR does that for me. Maybe not to you, or you don't understand it, but it's true.I think ntr is very important if you want to have a realistic gameworld and a good story. I think as a writer you will 100% run into problems if you decide against it I mean lets look at it completly objective and logical if you decide against it there are a lot of thinks that you cant do lets imagin a college frat party for example what will you do ? all people are women or how will you handel it? if you want to make you gamewolrd more believable and have older cheracters that are married(or boyfriends in generell) you cant do that because maybe someone has a milf fetish and is jealouse what will you do if you have more open minded/slutier women(there can be so much deep story progression if you fall in love with a women like that ) they only act with MC this way and constantly break their own cheracter? You have so much potential with male cheracters friends that will betrey you or friend that will become enemys or enemys/rival which you bond with an become friends you can have game of thones like intrigues and so on... their are so many possiblities and the game world is so much more alive after playing our red string again last week I think the game world feels much more alive than other VN.
I am not talking about ntr as the main story focuse with ridicules plots/ or as a way to punish the player and where the story is evolved around that I talk more about to use ntr as a story opportunity for more realistic cheracters,jealouse,intrigues friendsship and much more use it to make the world feel more alive sadly there are not many (almost zero ) that use it this way and I think thats a wasted opportunity for people that hate it because they get a more believable world where its not the story focuse and people that like it will have a deeper bonding/feelings with the cheracters which leads into better/more meaningful ntr scenes.
One point about friends "betraying you", who said it's not a possbility in ANY VN? The only restriction I think "harem/vanilla fans" would ever restrict is that that same Male friend doesn't try to steal your girls. That's it. He could extort the MC for all his worth. He could plant a bomb in the MC that detonates whenever he is near his love interests to drive them away. He could drown his puppy in front of him. He could disfigure his face, etc. The Best friend could kill any of the characters as long as he doesn't touch the LI's and that's it. The only restriction.
Anyway, I'll just talk about the game cause we've gone a bit off topic. I really like the potential of this game and I would like things to go my way, but if they don't, that's cool. I won't be berating the Dev for his decisions, but I will express constructive feedback. I think anyone could have told the Oceanlab that he was going a little too over his head on his first attempt at this story. Especially the prison scene that went on not only too long, but also was almost completely inconsequential. Finally, in my opinion, giving Miru so many opportunities to cheat did the opposite of making a believable character when rejecting her for sex once would cause her into the arms of another man and when you choose to NOT take EN TEE ARGH paths, it still asks you EVERY time if you want to cheat instead of phasing out the option. That's why I think the new Miru makes more sense.
Regardless, have a nice day