"Anne's the one who chooses to cheat," right but MC aka Tony can also choose to cheat with regard to Fernanda, Nicole, January, Amanda, Naomi,...!
These are options the game player makes for the couple.
I'm not sure you're seeing my point. In previous versions of the game, the husband was offered an explicit choice to let Martin fuck Anne. He didn't know that the "cheating" mode was actually triggered earlier, on the beach, but in the shower scene Tony could slightly encourage it by letting them watch each other and masturbate, or overtly encourage it by letting Martin enter the shower and fuck her. The next morning (maybe it's a few days later, I don't remember), Anne laughs in his face if he tries to stop an encore, and Tony can even watch as if it's just another day in his fetish (which it obviously isn't). But none of that ever made a bit of sense, because of what Martin did with Emma. There's
no way Tony should ever be able to say, "yes, go ahead, fuck my dad" unless he actually wants to lose her to him. It was an example of taking the concept of a cuckold fetish
way too far.
Which is why I've been insisting, for years, that the decision to cheat has to come from Anne. As with the majority of the women Tony can have sex with and hide from his wife, except that Tony doesn't give a shit. Cheating has to be different from hotwifing, cuckolding, swinging, an open marriage, or whatever path one thinks they're on; it has to be secretive, and (ideally, though it rarely is in Tony's case) accompanied by guilt. This is why the current revision of the Martin scene was so much better. Anne chooses to cheat. Tony not only doesn't encourage it, he doesn't even know about it, and the other two involved parties clearly don't intend to tell him.
"why does Anne chose to cheat?" - wow, you asking why Anne pop goes the weasel for dicks
Choosing to cheat on him — especially with his own father, especially while knowing about Emma — is very, very different than fucking other guys for sport, or because her husband has a fetish, or even just because it's fun. It has to be a fundamental change in their relationship, not just another dick she's jumping on.
Tony's cheating is inconsequential (to him) because he obviously doesn't care how it might affect his marriage. He confesses a few things and hides the rest. In TACOS, Anne's pushed the limits now and again (which is good, because it demonstrates that she's rebelling against this all being about Tony's fetish right from the start), but cheating — and again, specifically cheating with Tony's father — is a huge step, and should have major consequences somewhere down the road. Not now, though. It has to play out for a while.
Seriously, maybe she got some evidence of how Tony cheated on her
Which is another thing I've been asking for, for years, to give her a justification for cheating on him. I don't really care which of the many reasons Anne might decide to cheat the dev chooses, but I'd really like to see him choose
one and let us (the players) in on it, because otherwise she's just super-easy or lacks any sense of judgement, and that's massively uninteresting. There are a zillion boring corruption/sluttification games on the various RPGM engines for people whose needs are limited to "see hot girl get fucked by lots of guys."
Could the full justification wait until later, when the truth comes out? Sure. But some hints would be nice. And I don't mean hints for Tony, I mean hints to the player. If Tony cheats, maybe lower their relationship points by 1 every single time he does, without explanation. Or let them have several conversations wherein she's suspicious of Tony's recounting of his whereabouts. Or a conversation between Anne and Nicole during which she vents her frustration over Tony's constant pressure to fuck other guys for his entertainment. As it stands, her decision to cheat comes out of nowhere. It's finally
her decision, and that's excellent, but if it doesn't extend beyond
he has a really big dick it's awfully empty and meaningless.
The husband's sense of wanting to control his wife is the issue here. He has to embrace not being in control, trusting his wife to come back to him after having the time of her life. The husband set up the night of passion so he's still in control. But the guy in the bedroom controls her while he's inside her.
This is one of the tensions previous versions of the game never really explored, save for a single line of dialogue here and there (e.g. Anne saying that she wished Tony had let her bang Dre without joining in), and it's a great source of overall relationship tension that could hover over the game, but then it actually needs to be in the text. Which, in this reboot, it
was during their first mini-vacation, when Tony expressed surprise and even a bit of resentment that Anne fucked guys she said she wasn't going to fuck. But since then it's been more or less dropped. If it's the reason she decides to cheat with Martin, she needs to say so...to Martin, to Nicole, to another lover, but
not to Tony until it's time for the big confrontation.
