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Great game, minor bit of feedback

A topic by topherbrennan created Jan 19, 2024 Views: 259 Replies: 2
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On the whole, I love this game. But I do find the effects of the "Jealousy and Pride" book on Theresa's dialogue rather odd. I've played porn games with "alpha bitch" characters who are very mean to the MC... but giving Theresa that kind of dialog gives me tonal whiplash. Even her gentlest teasing feels inconsistent with her otherwise being a nervous wreck early in her training. And some of it comes off as quite mean rather than being just teasing, including dialogue that can appear before she's gotten her first stat point (without which, she can't even be slightly rude in greeting the main character!) I'm thinking e.g. of calling the MC "embarrassing" right at the very beginning of her kissing training.

Not complaining about the "Jealousy and Pride" content in general—for example Harbormaster Liu's stuff is great and feels totally in-character for her. But I think Theresa's content both needs to ramp up more slowly, and be controllable separately from the rest of the "Jealousy and Pride" content, so you can avoid having Theresa insult the MC while calling you "Goddess" or whatever. 

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Thank you so much for the feedback! I'm definitely walking a fine line with the jealousy dialogue, especially early on, as you point out. I do want people who activate that option as soon as it's available to see immediate results, but it sounds like I may have gone too hard too fast. I'll make a note to take a second look at the early stuff. I'm glad to hear that it works well later on.

On stuff like a mismatch between jealousy dialogue and forms of address, I think I want to leave that in the hands of the player. If someone wants to be a dom that doesn't actually get respect, I'm fine enabling that, even if it's a bit awkward from time to time.

Glad my feedback was helpful! On the mismatch thing, what I'd like is to be able to have Theresa keep to a more respectful tone while the jealousy stuff is on in general (especially for *other* characters). No reason why Theresa being a straightforward submissive should preclude Liu calling MC "the third best fuck I've had today" or whatever. Heck, no reason why Theresa shouldn't be able to tell MC about the other people she's fucked on MC's orders without also calling MC inadequate.

(Again, even the inadequacy stuff isn't bad in general—it pairs quite well with having Theresa call you "slave" IMHO.)