Still, it's a quality game, i just wish the dev made it a point of interest to overlap the story, the gameplay and the sex content much better. Its not like he hasn't had 3 previous games to figure it out.
It's a conscious decision.
The gameplay and sex content were more overlapped in his first game SEQUEL blight. You could find places to have sex while adventuring. They were marked with hearts and events would start there. A lot of scenes didn't happen at home.
In SEQUEL Awake he took a step away from that.
He made it an effort to make it so the game section and adult section wouldn't touch if you didn't want it to.
Surprisingly this has
benefits as well as
drawbacks.
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In SEQUEL Blight you were forced to have scenes with Fake Rabi(The homosexual option) if you wanted a house, as he's the one who told you about a place for sale. Having your own place leads to the aurum maid and unlocks scenes for the other heroines. Basically progression to other scenes and 1 other quest were tied behind sexual content.
If you don't like gay content you'd just miss out on this or struggle to find the missing quests on your list.
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In SEQUEL Awake and onwards this is no longer an issue. Sexual content is only locked behind story progression, and it's up to you whether you want to see it at most times which means you don't have to subject yourself to body types you don't like, like if you're super against loli, it doesn't really matter if you avoid the loli characters like Nosh. I'm pretty sure the only scene that happens over the course of the game is Yanie's first cowgirl scene (also my favorite scene)
The drawback is of course two fold.
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The game is much less erotic.
It's very noticeable in SEQUEL Awake how less erotic the game is. The main heroine is called the monster heroine because of her sex drive, but it doesn't feel that way playing the game as she never actively approaches you for sex. Since all of the control for when sex happens is in the player's hand the title comes off kinda meaningless, and adult content doesn't happen while adventuring which is what you'll mostly be doing so you won't really feel any eroticism while playing the main game.
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Your adult experience can no longer matter in the plot.
In SEQUEL blight, some allies got surprised that you got in a sexual relationship with others, and that might have spurred them on to approach you(Thelma).
If it's all a choice though, then none of the sexy times can be referenced by other characters or future events.
You can't walk into a building and someone mention, "I can still smell the time we were here together" or something of that nature.
Me personally, I think he took the complaints that people had to do Fake Rabi's scene to get quests a little too far, by splitting up the main game with the sexual content. The drawbacks are big and have a large impact on the erotic nature of the game as well as characterization for the heroines.