"If the MC feels too nice". Jeebus. "Oh man, I do feel bad about having my actions result in the sexual slavery and eventual deaths of thinking feeling beings." Corruption arc indeed. What's regular nice supposed be? Even limited by AI, you've managed to create characters and connections that have great potential; but the very basis of the story is the ruining of these. Is that the kink? Just trying to prepare myself.
Haha yeah, I get two very different types of bad reviews: players who want the MC to be a total villain, and players who want everyone to be safe and happy. I try to warn both groups!
From chapter 2 the game provides two main paths: a romantic corruption route (turning them into your slutty girlfriends) or a much darker, objectifying route. The game won't force you to be evil, though you can't stop every bad thing from happening in the story either.
My core promise to players, though: once a character is an established love interest, nothing bad happens to them without it being your direct choice.
Sorry if It came across as a "bad review". I was simply surprised. I did read the warnings and had an idea of what this might be going in, but was unprepared for what I got.
On the face of it, it's an erotic story with AI visuals. Dime a dozen. But what really threw me was how compelling it was. The overarching threat and how the MC interprets as well as deals with it is a fantastic setup. Many of the romantic partners are introduced as token sex characters, then whoop?! Suddenly there's tension revolving around their worldviews, the uncertainty of their futures, and the MCs effects on them as more then just a horny mage? what? There is a real story here, and good stories have conflict and struggle.
But having visuals, let alone detailed descriptions, of the truly awful things that happen in a story like this is something that's relatively modern. Really forces the reader to think what it is they're consuming as entertainment. Add to that the ability to choose (somewhat) the path the story takes and suddenly what was a mindless sexcapade is now something of a mirror. Was not ready.