I hate to say it but I kind of hope N_Taii views Lily and Haylen's side stories as largely finished.
FUCK. NO.
Anything less than 2 more Updates for each of the sidegirls (maybe even 3 for Lily) would just ruin their entire stories in my eyes. I keep going back and forth when it comes to the conclusion of HC3 because on one hand i really wanna see both HC4, and that smaller game that N_Taii told us about that he wanted to make after this game is done, but on the other hand i really don't want HC3 to end prematurely.
I get that a slow and gradual build-up for corruption is necessary and is borderline the most important thing in these type of games, but there also needs to be an adequate payoff to that build-up. The first and biggest payoff in the corruption is when the girls lose their virginities or, like in Haylen's case, simply have sex for the first time, but that's not just a payoff, it's a turning point as well, the moment they start having sex is when the first build-up with the groping, secret handjobs and teasing ends, and the second one that is much more fast paced than the previous one begins, and even though seeing the girls slowly fall for the bad guys is enjoyable in itself, you cannot tell me that a large, and i mean LARGE, number of people aren't here because they want to see the girls when they're completely gone and they're full blown sex addicts (not talking about the public sluts stuff, just 1on1 with their partners and choosing sex over Leto whenever they can).
It was present in both HC1 and HC2, at least for a short amount of time before the endings started rolling in, but that's because the corruption was infinitely much faster than what it is in HC3 and because there was less focus on the side characters, Sloana or whatever her name was, the blonde woman who was fucking her future father-in-law, started her corruption with a blowjob and was already having sex with the guy and was calling him 'daddy' by the time we got to her 3rd quest, meanwhile we have Lily over here, who's got like 5 or 6 quests already and she still hates Nezar, AND she's got 1 sex scene altogether (Inside the mirror world obviously doesn't count). If you're gonna stretch out the build-up this much then you NEED to tailor later part of the corruption accordingly, 5 quests of touching and sucking and spanking just to get 2 quests worth of sex scenes sounds fucking criminal, even for Haylen who's much further and has a decent amount of sex scenes already, i just cannot see how her remaining story and corruption could be wrapped up in ONE quest without it feeling lackluster.
This is a pretty fucked up...something, can't even find the words to describe it, but i feel like this is what i want, or rather expect, from Lily and Haylen's storylines, and i guess you could argue that after the "Second to last SideQuest" the girls are ready for the endings, but to that my answer is...pound sand and eat dirt, i want an Update where Haylen is obsessed with Jazon and all she can think about how she can get rid of Leto so that she can have sex (plus freeroams of similar nature), that is the payoff that i've been looking forward to since August 2022.
