Is picking the rugby guys to be your team basically a delayed end game? They don't come up with anything and then you have to blindly pick a suspect and pretend your investigation turned up something on them. That turns me off and ends the game for me.
Thinking back, the clown world way a lot...
So are we talking two versions of a kinetic novel, basically? That first post in the thread makes it look like there's just enough meaningless choices to avoid the kinetic novel tag.
Vague plural pronoun usage in the largely redacted documents on the white USB serve as a second, unintentional layer of obfuscation that makes it useless and annoying. So ironic that users of the internet would make up rules that make communication impossible.
Someone needs to tell the dev it's not taboo enough and that he needs to shoehorn the family relations into the dialog more. I'm interested to see what he'll do.
NTR would be okay as long as the lead-up was well written and the dev doesn't write you into a box where all the MC can do is snivel and suffer because that's the specific kink he's serving. The number of writers in this freakish little genre with the chops to write that correctly you can count...