Keizo

Hello everyone,

Time to stop a bit to talk about Keizo. And not just him but the overall train of thoughts that made me create a character like this.

You're probably used to it, but in my games, most male characters are extremely benevolent. The few ones that are dicks tend to be deprived of scenes if not deprived of something else. But it's a very common trope in hentai that everything that gravitates towards the sphere of homeless guys have three main stereotypes (at least for me.)

- The nice guys. They're happy to see girls willing to share their bodies and will gratefully accept whatever they're given. That's more or less Matsubo and his boys in SoVO.

- The unconcerned guys. That's a scarcer stereotype. Basically the kind that feel like they're the ones doing a favour to the girl and not the other way around. Usually, you can see them doing other things while having their ways, or using girls really in a more egoistic way. They're often coupled with overly horny girls to compensate. I do like that stereotype but it's pretty hard to fit in a game ESPECIALLY when you control the girl herself. It's more fitting in a doujin. If you read some of Tetsutarou's novels, his hobos tend to be like that.

- The mean guys. There are different ways to be mean, of course, but it's usually the type of bastard that would be the most egoistic, not caring about the girl at all, and who usually keeps being a dick even after the girl's his. While I'm not very versed in the NTR genre, I suppose it's a fitting stereotype for it.

With Keizo, I tried to go the mean way. For two reasons. First of all, because having all the guys being good guys can end up feeling a bit too unidimensional (I mean, the game isn't lacking male characters: Seiichi, Hitoshi, Bunichi, Kentaro, Riki, Tetsu, Matsubo, Yoichi, Anzo, Koji, Mr Kuroiwa... And they're all very nice. Hell, even Yuuya, the panty seller in the hideout is nice.) Having random NPCs being mean doesn't have the same weight either. Those guys in the hideout can be the biggest dicks, it doesn't feel the same than a character you follow. So I needed Keizo to be a dick.

The second reason is more hentai-wise. And I'm walking on eggs here so I'll try to remain as vague as possible :x You all probably lived these moments where suddenly, you discover a fetish that you enjoy and suddenly, it becomes an obsession and you're browsing everything about it. It still happens to me despite my age (and the amount of stuff I see regularly), and of course, when it happens, it has to end up in my games. You saw the shift for some of these elements (at the pleasure of some of you and the displeasure of others ^^'), but that's to be expected: I've always said that's how I make my games. I first do something that I would find interesting as a player (that's why I almost never do polls to ask people what they want in my games: working on the ideas of others just doesn't work for me. It can help stimulating my imagination, I can even borrow some of these ideas, but more often than not, it will never go further than me reading them.)

Anyway, my games having always been about consensuality, there are some things that I've long believed walled behind that notion. And I guess I was maybe a bit close-minded because I've seen a few videos that proved me wrong. It's why I needed Keizo. You need someone burly and rough around the edge to implement the kind of stuff you see with Keizo (you haven't seen it all, trust me :x)

So the way things are evolving right now with Yuki is thought through a scope of two notions that are not supposed to be tied. And yet they are. Some of you will probably dislike some of the future scenes, some will like them, but I've always said (at least after SoV3 got cancelled) that SoVR was supposed to be the "peak" work in the SoV series. So I'm really putting everything I want, at the risk of displeasing some of you. Thankfully, the fetish selector should help a lot in that regard :p

Anyway, the good old Keizo isn't going to calm down, even if I'm lessening his dick side (can't help it -_-) with his background and for now, almost everything concerning his main quest is done. There are only two steps left. After that, there will be "post-quest" content (read "scenes) you'll be able to unlock by meeting the proper requirements. And it's that stuff that could be absent from the update because I don't know if everything will be ready drawing-wise.

I leave you for now, maybe I'll make a last post before the release (maybe to talk about the current financial situation which isn't getting better, that's for sure :x)

Anyway, I'll see you later for now o/