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There's a lot about this that I liked, seriously one of the best sex based games ever I cannot express how much I love this game...but there are a few aspects that I feel should be looked at either changed as standard or just have as a check box in the menu.

1. NO FORCED LOSING Like partly why I liked this was the power fantasy but having a character with 1000 strength constantly losing takes me out of the action and is honestly really annoying.

2. The corruption of Tavi part of me liked it but there was something about it that triggered me and I mean literal PTSD trigger I am still working with a therapist on this so I can't tell you quite what it was that did it and I know a trigger is meant to be overcome not catered too ad infinitum but just a warning I think would of helped I guess.

3. More trans rep in both wording but also maybe have transition a viable option in the medical section?

4. Have more egalitarian dynamics I know this is a BDSM game but not every encounter and relationship needs to be dom/sub also having that be the resolution to some characters mental health issues is offensive at best but more importantly is a dangerous precedent to even mention.

5. Let me kill people! Why is it only ever unconscious? Yeah some characters are plot relevant but Morrowind resolved that issue years back let me murder a bitch for fuck sake! Having blood as a fluid to be covered in to get intimidation bonuses or something would be cool.

6. Give Eliza a more appropriate ending for someone who has committed as many crimes as she has.

7. Make ALL restraints removable you can make the collar really difficult to remove but literally impossible is just boring and takes me out of the game.

8. More base stat options starting at 0 strength for a serial killer character is a bit weird.

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4. Have more egalitarian dynamics I know this is a BDSM game but not every encounter and relationship needs to be dom/sub also having that be the resolution to some characters mental health issues is offensive at best but more importantly is a dangerous precedent to even mention.

This would be one of my major points of feedback as well. I certainly enjoy the game, but have found myself frustrated by the lack of egalitarian choices, as well as how certain choices that might *seem* innocent immediately put the player into a hardcore dom/sub dynamic.

The most obvious/grating (to me) example is Tavi. I've read the "director's commentary" on the Tavi-intro scene, and yes, Tavi has issues in a lot of ways, but the reason I dislike her interaction *isn't* that you have to be her sub--it's the way that choice is presented.

She first asks to be friends. Great! Then she talks about "loyalty"--which is a little weird, but hey, maybe she's been burned in the past. But once you agree to be a loyal friend, suddenly she's under the impression that you're automatically her subby bitch, demands that you serve her and call her mistress, and gets violent if you don't. What?!

After that, there's no option to go back and talk about things like adults. There's no possibility of mutual respect. The only way to get more Tavi content is to "Apologize" (for what?!) and accede to her whims. That's what grates on me--it's less about being her sub _per se_ and more about the facts that (1) this comes out of nowhere, (2) there's no chance to talk about the relationship in a reasonable manner, and (3) the game itself--by having the only reconciliatory option be "Apologize"--seems to indicate that it's the player, rather than Tavi, who has unreasonable views of what "friendship" and "loyalty" mean.

Similarly, you can interact with Rahi and/or Jacky as a supportive friend would, and suddenly end up with them as your slave, and you as their master wondering what just happened.

I will say I like the Alex storyline, precisely because it's *not* this. You (eventually) get to have plenty of BDSM, but it's clear (sometimes even *overly* clear) that it's consensual and respectful.

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