LORY

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

It's really just a masturbatory work as a whole. It was (at least figuratively) written with one hand, and probably intended to be played with one hand as well. You're supposed to be swept up in being this ordinary guy who manages to be a superhero, who has these two Hot Chicks who are wildly in love with him. You stole Superman's girlfriend and now he's depressed and you're in charge of telling him what to do? This edgy girl who flirts with you incessantly turns to the good side through the power of having the hots for you? (Ok, that's simplifying Visi's storyline and character MASSIVELY, but you get my point.) Like. Of course the game with "you cucked Superman" for one love interest and "canonically a massive voyeur" for the other has weird scenes that feel like the writer has some sort of humiliation kink. It's literally written in the plotlines!

There is narratively very little purpose for having a drawn-out cutscene of Visi's dream about Robert. We rarely see things that aren't from Robert's perspective to begin with, and Visi literally reveals this information to the player later on. It's voyeuristic and I don't see why this cutscene is mandatory even if a player has been making choices in a different direction. The fact that devoting screentime to this is necessary but again, explaining Shroud's deal apparently isn't, really highlights the priorities here?

It's essentially just supposed to be a game where you, cisgender heterosexual white man, get to be a badass superhero and date these two hot women. All of the superhero plotline stuff has such lackluster writing and minimal stakes, it's pretty much just set dressing. The decision to use the concept of "reformed villains" seems mainly like a reason to write a (poorly executed) villain redemption arc, and to have their main characters behave like edgy assholes. There's hardly anything there that explores the concept of what would drive someone to crime and why they would want to change.

Invisigal's redemption being so tied to whether or not the player chooses romantic choices towards her (oversimplification of the RMC but it does have an impact) makes so much more sense when you realize that her character is so thoroughly centered around Robert because that's how she was conceptualized.

I don't actually think the Sweet Exit counter being so low was a bug. I think the devs legitimately didn't think people would be upset by Invisigal kissing them. This is a bit of a conspiracy theory though. Even with the Sweet Exit counter being upped there's still some issues of the implementation of her route.

All the issues around characters' behavior towards Robert and them sexually harassing them makes more sense once you realize that part of it is because it's someone's fantasy. There's also the issue of female-on-male harassment and assault not being taken seriously, yes, but it's primarily "oh this is so hot". that's it!

Flambae's entire deal being an elaborate accent joke, Prism the loud cussing fatherless black rapper from Flint Michigan, the only reference to queerness being a couple of throwaway jokes (no before you start condescending about how "not everything has to be queer" i don't mind Robert only having female love interests. it's just very funny to see the fandom jack off itself over the "bisexual representation"). Very Obama era for something that started development in 2022.

The sexual harassment schtick is also very interesting because clearly you are not meant to take it seriously, it's funny slapstick the same way Flambe's shenanigans are, but then you have very earnest and serious romances so it just comes across as kinda...kitschy? This was written with cishet men who would like to be dickgrabbed by skinny karlach in mind, but then you get Visi, who keeps up that behaviour while you're in a relationship with Blazer, and obviously you're meant to find it titillating that you have both the madonna And the whore creaming themselves over you but it feels like it kind of takes away from the earnestness of the romances? (And also their characterization, visi especially, but that's for another post).

The ending was also... The final showdown being about saving your heckin pupperino is so aggressively reddit I was left kinda speechless lowkey. Chase and Phenomaman suddenly not being able to use their super speed to grab your dog from a Normal Dude was extremely stupid.

BANG BANG BANG | Flambert Edition!

This song stuck in my head real bad and it's soooo them.

Imagine, the main character is a woman named Roberta. Her job is to dispatch former villains heroes. Roberta is a normie and comes out of a coma (a scene shows that she no longer has her former strength), and people with powers are by nature stronger than a normal person. So she's already in a vulnerable position by nature, no matter what.

Now, her relationship with Invisiguy.

Her very first meeting with him, she is undressing in a room and discovers by accident that an invisible man was right next to her, probably from the beginning, checking her out, and he is now aware of her secret identity (which she wanted to keep secret for her safety). When he gets spotted, he tries to run away but fails and immediately makes inappropriate jokes (which are not supposed to be funny, it’s just to show he’s unpleasant and difficult). He leaves by insulting Roberta and her body. At no point does he apologize or seem to be embarrassed for having been a voyeur.

Then, Roberta meets her team. Everyone makes fun of her name, including Invisiguy, who also reveals (and repeats) to everyone that he saw Roberta in her underwear. When his colleague asks him if she has big breasts, he mocks her about it and then reveals that she has scars (a feature of her body that she DID NOT choose to disclose to complete strangers) and that he finds it sexy (inappropriate advances).

It's also made obvious to her that a guy who knows her secret is untrustwhorthy and ready to spill the beans at any moment.

During a mission he assigned himself, Invisiguy disobeys direct orders - thinking he knows better than someone he knows is more experienced than him - and his actions lead to the escape of the criminal and the client injured. When Roberta gets angry and laids him on the line, he refuses to admit that he screwed up, insults her about her hero abilities and accuses her of not being one (he knows that Roberta is a hero, he has seen her scars and we learn later that he is the reason why she had to retire, bc he tried to kill her and he knows that). Then he scares her (knowing that she is very tense because of her paranoia due to her work as a hero), makes fun of her feeling bad about the argument and punches her.

He will never apologize for that.

When Roberta returns to her desk, Invisiguy crushed a stolen donut on her keyboard, donut she did not ask for, and whose conversation about focused almost exclusively on sex.

On Roberta’s third day, Invisiguy is weird for no reason, staring at her from afar without saying anything, which weirded her. When Roberta goes to work on her robot, he appears behind her (how long has he been there? No idea) to ogle Roberta without hiding and immediately makes a joke about whether Roberta finger herself at work. There's someone else there and she's uncomfortable with this discussion.

Later, Invisiguy enters the girls' restroom as Roberta is (vulnerable) shirtless removing pieces of glass from her chest, to tell her about an erotic dream where they were sleeping together. He continues to flirt even when Roberta clearly signals to him that he should not be there, let alone cooing. (Let’s keep in mind that this is the same violent guy who had no problem insulting and hitting Roberta for stupid reasons) He also makes it clear to her that he stalked her during his interview with her boss. He only leaves because another girl is using the restroom and he’s angry at the interruption.

Several days later, Invisiguy breaks into - without sending a message to inform of his arrival or even knocking - Roberta’s house while she is in her underwear and doesn’t care at all about her outfit, even going so far as to joke when Roberta points out the problem.

After her babysitter/sister is in a coma to save Invisiguy and the villain who put her in a coma has recovered the powerful tool that should have helped Roberta become a hero again - so Roberta doesn’t feel well - Invisiguy forcibly kisses her while being invisible, while she thought he had left. She first tries to push him away but he pushes her hands away (it's before you even had the choice to accept it or not).