I played through Kounosuke's route and I really liked what you did to expand on his character - makes for much more engaging story. What I did not like is the fact that you play with the characters's orientation a bit too much. Morenatsu is OG gay furry VN and most of the characters are established as iron-clad gay with very few exceptions - and our round tanuki isn't one of them. Your version changed Kounosuke from a lewd gay teen powerbottom who buys a dildo to prepare himself for Hiroyuki into a bi-curious, shy virginette and I can't say I like that very much, personally.
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I appreciate the feedback, and I'm glad you liked the way we expanded the character!
However, if you're referring to the easter egg where you can find a sex toy in Kounosuke's room, it's something we added back during Revisited and was never present in the original. People often mistake additions we made to Revisited as being present in the OG Morenatsu, but I'm pretty certain if you're referring to that scene, it was added by us. The reason it's not in the game anymore is simply that most of the route got rewritten and it didn't really fit in with the new one.
As for his orientation, If i recall correctly (and SPOILERS for the original ahead, of course), Kounosuke in the original game wants to be the "seme" (top) and reluctantly becomes the bottom. I could be wrong as it's been a while since I played, but he only accepts his "bottom" orientation on the day Hiro departs, leaving him a note promising to be the bottom next time.
Hopefully the clarification helps a little bit to understand how Kounosuke is portrayed in Homecoming!
-Devilizer
Hey, thanks for your quick reply!
As for the sex toy scene I was talking about the original Morenatsu route, where he admits to having a dildo and using it - I wasn't referring to the easter egg (which, I'll admit, I've never found :D ). The scene in question in turn confirms that he's at least having some bottom action.
The reason he wants to top Hiro is that in gay porn WHICH HE CONSUMES it's always the beastman who's topping a human, so he kinda went with that. He plays reluctance towards bottoming which is then quite humorously shown to be a pretense when he admits: "so that's how a real one feels like". Given all that I think his orientation and preferences are quite well crystallized and that's why I felt the need to write what irked me in your portrayal of him.
No hard feelings of course (I hope). I'm not a hater, I enjoy your work and even support you on Patreon ^.^
Also waiting patiently for the next SL update, hope we'll see much more of Carlos (and I mean literally see more of him, why are the hottest guys so often the most chaste?).
No hard feelings here! Just saw some other people wondering where that scene went, so I figured it might had been the same. We get a lot of people asking why we removed scenes from OG when they were in fact from Revisited, so I wanted to make sure.
As for the orientation, I think it's a different take on the same idea. We definitely play a lot more around it than the original did, but I like to think it makes the cast richer than everyone being extremely gay, and especially for Hiroyuki. You're free to disagree, of course!
And here's hoping we don't disappoint with Carlos, but I think part of his appeal is that he doesn't let people in that easy, hehe.
-Devilizer