That’s not to say the game is, or is trying to be, an encyclopedia of all possible sex formats. There’s a storyline about a character who is relatively inexperienced and also doubts her own attractiveness, who gradually alters what she wants to consent to as she becomes more confident, and this played out quite plausibly. I don’t just mean the BDSM aspects here, either. And the framing plot is ridiculous: the protagonist is a girl cross-dressing as her twin brother and hoping that none of his friends, enemies, and exes on the ship will notice. Nonetheless, the sex scenes detail emotional states that are relatively rarely shown in media. The story is very much a fantasy, with a cast of super-attractive, wealthy, popular just-barely-18-year-olds. And sometimes the sex conversation feeds back into dialogue about other things: It uses its sex scenes to communicate who the characters are, and shape their relationships with the protagonist to talk about honesty, fairness, emotional manipulation, self-image, power exchange, and consent. As Olivia Wood points out, sex scenes avoid being embarrassing by having something to say beyond “here is a peek at the author’s fantasies.” Ladykiller does that.
They’re probably mostly disappointed, but perhaps this entry will console them a little?īut relatively little of what I’ve encountered is as well-written as Ladykiller in a Bind, particularly when it comes to characterization.
Plenty of interactive erotica exists - and there’s plenty of demand for it, too, as witness the fact that people searching for interactive sex stories form a sizable portion of my daily blog traffic. Andrew Plotkin wrote up his take on it, and the genre of visual novels in general, as part of his IGF Narrative judging overview. Consequently, there’s already quite a lot of commentary about it, especially around its handling of queerness and kink a late-game scene with dubious consent that bothered some players and that Love ultimately wound up replacing about mechanics that do not make sex the end goal in itself. Ladykiller in a Bind is an erotic visual novel by Christine Love and co, released last year it won the IGF Narrative category.
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