Alicia and brandia in the last three months , checking in <| sep |> No because in awakened we have sleet steps which has lateralbackward movement and is tricky for other classes . You have to switch to blade for the faster front chase . It feels like maehwa is more defensive in awakened <| sep |> Through him , we are saved ! <| sep |> I have been corrected . Apologies my friend . <| sep |> You can have that intimacy without actually showing the actual intercourse , though . Similarly , dating sims shouldn ' t be representative of visual novels as a whole . Just by the name , I think the two give very different meanings . One suggests you ' re going in to simulate dating , the other is just novel , but with visuals and sound and so on not necessarily tied to romance at all . With that in mind , is it the player getting close to the love interest , or the main character ? Is it the player getting intimate with the love interest , or the main character ? Is there even a main character in these situations , or are they simply being used as a vehicle for the player ? There ' s more than one type of visual novel , and I think the way sex is approached in the medium shouldn ' t apply to them all universally based on just one . Looking at how you ' re describing them , with the whole the player approach , I would almost say if a game is written with the mindset of winning players over and present them with a reward for playing the game , that ' s arguably a fundamentally different type of experience than presenting a romance story between characters for players to read and interact with .