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The Problem With Court Of Darkness (game).
A) Jasper.
Look, I'm not gonna lie - the makers of this game fucked up. And by fucked up, I mean really fucked up in all the wrong ways.
Call me harsh, but what in the fuck were they thinking? They made a romantic route about a character that a) Drugs, molests, and forces a woman into getting drunk, and then b) Created a 'romantic' scene where said character seduces us by fantasising about how he touched us whilst we were unconscious and wants to do it again.
This is NOT okay - and I can't believe this was allowed by the Play Store. This is revolting.
And that's not all - Voltage released an event in the Japanese game where we choose between Jasper and Lance. Now let me summarise for you: Jasper manipulates MC into getting drunk, and keeps guilt-tripping her into drinking more and more, even after she can't walk and can barely speak. Lance then comes along and gets MC away from him and helps her sober up a little, and warns MC about Jasper being a shit person - before Jasper comes back and tries to once again guilt-trip MC into ditching Lance and going with him, whilst discreetly insulting Lance because he was there first, getting all frisky with MC despite her being nearly passed-out drunk.
Then we choose a character to follow.
I literally have no words for how fucking disgusting this is.
Finally a few minor (in comparison) scenes - when Jasper is meant to be teaching MC how to be a maid and so he teaches her all the wrong things because he finds it funny, putting her at risk (she was in hiding) and embarrassing her.
How he physically forced MC into Guy's room whilst she was having lunch, locking her in and letting Guy harass her and force her into a contract against her will.
How he has (multiple times) done nothing whilst Guy literally holds her hostage against her will.
B) Guy.
Nearly as bad as Jasper to be honest.
Shall we talk about how he uses magic to force her into telling him things against her will? Or how she has to agree to be his servant and do whatever he wanted just for him to stop? How about how he refused to allow her to befriend his brother, dragged her to his room, molested her against her will, and then proceeded to break their promise and use magic to force her to stay still?
How about the time he forced her to be his by refusing to let her leave and threatening her? Or when he used magic to force her to come home with him and tried to severely injure Toa when he came to rescue her?
Or the smaller moments, like when he removed MC's clothes and forced her to bathe with him? Or how he forced her to be his partner to the ball and forced her to take lessons days after day? Guy is a sexist, cruel, horrible person, and the fact that he's meant to be the lead consort is disgusting.
C) Fenn.
A lot better than the others (surprisingly), but I'll never forget the one scene that made me hate him - when he used his magic to render MC unable to move and proceeded to go farther than kissing with her in public. Disgusting.
Also, the fact that him being a chronic liar to the point where he actively misleads and gets MC into troubling or embarrassing situations can't just be accepted because "I had a sad childhood so that gives me permission to be a dick".
D) Guy and Fenn have no qualms about kissing MC against her will. I don't like Toa either, as if Guy hadn't immobilised him, he would've done the same, when she was scared, a stranger (he made a move).
I'll be honest, a like a lot of the characters - but this game fucks up so badly with some of the MAIN consorts. If the creators seriously think that is REMOTELY okay, then I fear what their views on love is, because it's sickening.
On top of that is their horrible plot in general - nearly every route is EXACTLY the same:
All the girls are jealous of MC and try to sabotage her (most common idea when you're bad at storytelling ever), or MC spends half the route jumping to conclusions and presuming her partner/crush doesn't like her or their relationship is failing before of a fortune telling session, and rather than do the normal thing and communicate (like you should with a paramour), she does bad or silly things in secret to try and fix it and ends up troubling her partner before whoah! Turns out the power of love fixes all! That, or it's Guy refusing to communicate.
So all in all? Redo Guy and Jasper's routes, and personalities in general.
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