Gotta say, this game is good, but sometimes the way this game treats certain actions is nothing short of INFURIATING. Specifically in Arc 1. Like, rarely ever do you get to choose fucking anything. like which scenes to trigger or how they progress, Ymir in every sense just sucks (You quite literally allow Ymir to molest Christa in her sleep so long as you can get funky with her lesbian ass, like a complete piece of shit. which you can't even DECIDE, game just says fuck it. Made even worse by the fact that MC tells Mikasa that he wouldn't do anything that she wouldn't give him permission to, yet is somehow just completely okay with Ymir unconsensually touching Christa at night, like HOW?) The scene with Hange in the steam room feels like something out of an evil route since the moment she passes out MC immediately just decides her ass is up for grabs. If the game had no choice at all this wouldn't be such a huge issue, but you CAN make choices sometimes, which makes the times you CAN'T even worse. blackmailing (More like setting a pervy ultimatum, to be exact) Annie was fine since she was being a bitch already, and even then MC would have just let her go if she didn't want to do anything. Sometimes it feels like the MC has the morality of a flip-flop. sometimes he's nice, other times he's sweet, and then others he's just a straight up bad person. (Not to mention his sheer FASCINATION with unconsensually touching sleeping girls that aren't even into him yet)
The art is great, and it gets better the longer you play, the characters are usually pretty close to canon behavior with some changes to make the shit they do possible, and the H-scenes are all great without context, but are sometimes DISGUSTING when you HAVE context. I get that Arc 1 is old compared to the newer arcs, and I've heard nothing but good things about those, but sometimes things in Arc 1 just really rub me the wrong way. Personally I really like this game, but I REALLY feel like Arc 1 could use some reworking. Anyone that sees this, thanks for reading my rant, I just can't help but get mad when something THIS good can sometimes fumble THAT hard