About this game
So I was on the forum last night, right, and someone asked about Friends in Need and I realized I never actually wrote up my thoughts. It's one of those games where the setup is basically a power fantasy but with extra steps. You're this guy who fucked up financially years ago, then somehow that same fuckup makes you rich later. It's like finding out the scratch off ticket you threw away was a winner but someone mailed it back to you. Whatever, the point is now you have money and your best friend, who you've wanted to bang forever, needs help.
The moral choice system is what everyone talks about but honestly it's just a fancy way of saying you can be a complete bastard or not. I went full corruption route first because why else play these games. The blackmail scenes hit different when you actually know the character a bit first, there's this moment with some photos that made me actually pause and think "am I really doing this" before clicking continue. Then I did anyway. The spanking scenes are weirdly detailed, like someone on the dev team has very specific interests and I respect that. The footjob content feels tacked on though, like they remembered it was a tag they needed to hit.
What I wish someone told me before starting: the "good" path is boring as hell but the "evil" path sometimes goes places that even I was like okay that's a lot. There's this one cheating scene with the friend while her boyfriend is literally in the other room that felt more real than it should. The anal content is locked behind some specific choices that aren't obvious, I had to check the forum to figure out what I missed. The therapist in me wants to analyze why the male protagonist gets off on the control aspect more than the actual sex, but the degenerate in me just wants more creampie scenes. The romance route is surprisingly sweet if you ignore everything else you can do.