@Vendetta – I was thinking both of the bathhouse visit where the protagonist can choose to “get what you paid for” from a coerced and terrified young prostitute, and of one possible end to the Carina romance (explicit version).
As I write this now, I recall that those two scenes were with the same person… and my assumption that the other bathhouse attendants would be similarly rapeable may well be wrong. In either case, “a lot of people” is inaccurate – apologies, I don’t want to misrepresent you.
That being said: one’s too many for me. I recognize that you’re letting people have the choice to play a violent, amoral protagonist, but there are some lines you’ve chosen not to cross – could rape not be one of them? Maybe it seems weird that I don’t react the same way to being given the chance to randomly murder a passerby in the first five minutes of the game. But sexual violence is different.
There’s something uniquely shitty about the fact that so many guys get off on it. Even where guys don’t act out those rape fantasies, it’s the ultimate in reducing women to objects, with all the ugliness that follows from that attitude. And rape in a ChoiceScript story, where the second-person protagonist is the rapist, is I think almost impossible to do with any degree of sensitivity. It’s basically catnip for the rape fantasist.