it's pretty much standard at this point if you don't know what to do, just throw in some rape to get the ball rolling again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Yeah, I absolutely adored the first game and when this is one is good, it's great, but I have to say I truly hate all the extreme trauma. It utterly kills the mood for me and all it leaves me with is a bad taste in my mouth and it actually DECREASES my desire to keep finding out what's going to happen.
I don't get it, have people forgotten that you can have drama and excitement without resorting to the worst inhuman depictions of cruelty imaginable? What's next, explicit gore scenes? I just feel like it's such a tonal mismatch too. I seriously hope there won't be much more of that kind of stuff because it's certainly not what I "signed up for" when I started playing this title.
its pretty much what every dev does if he doesn't want to think about how the story could progress organically.