tlaero wrote:I played the second part in 1.0b tonight and I felt that it lost most of the charm that made the first part in 0.3 enjoyable.
The first part had this kind of cooky insanity mixed with a character that slowly got into worse and worse things, but generally stayed in control.
The second part was much darker and disturbing. While I was willing to play along with the first part, I was very uncomfortable with most of the second part. In the first part, Jen made choices. Usually she didn't have much ACTUAL choice, but you still showed her having a choice and making it. In the second part she's repeatedly raped, a few times forcibly. Aside from the part with the male model, all semblance of her slowly being corrupted and growing to like her situation is gone. In the first part, I could suspend my disbelief and imagine her doing the things she does. In the second, I kept saying, "No way."
Where everyone in the first part were kind of "humorously insane," in this part it was all rapists and drug dealers and real world horrors.
On the better side, the part with the male model was the most similar to the good parts of the first game. You built it well over multiple small steps down the slippery slope. You showed her interest. Etc. But in the end, it too was rape. You could make that part work with a small change, though.
Even the waitress was troublesome. In the first part you would have had her do various things to tempt Jen and convince her to try things. In this part she literally forces herself on Jen multiple times.
And, aside from the reprise with the male model, it went downhill from there. There was very little in this section where Jen was in any sort of control. There was never anything that made it "okay" that she allowed this next level of perversion. "Corruption" is about slowly convincing the corrupted that she's okay with each step. You did that masterfully in the first part. In the second you just raped her repeatedly until she was deadened to it and it nothing that happened mattered to her anymore.
<shudders> I wanted to see how it ended, so I played all the way through, but it disturbed me. I kind of I wish I hadn't played it at all.
Sorry to be so negative.
Tlaero