When the first Marina came out, I don't think they were planning sequels. And I did not even know there was something called netorase. And I remember when it was announced, I don't think I was that excited because I was not a big fan of swinging or wife swaps. I was more fan of, well still am, something like aisai nikki or tsuma kanraku or Mariko game, the games which focused on wife purely cheating on husband. So when Marina was announced first, I wasn't really sure whether I was going to like it or not based on the setting. The husband encourages wife to find lover and the wife reports how the sex was.
When I played Marina 1, I thought there wee a few things well done.
1. Marina lying - She allowed creampie from the first meeting and she lied about it. Also, when she was having sex at the motel, lied to Kenji that she was not. But fortunately Kenji was at the outside of the door to find out that she was lying without her knowing.
2. Marina's partial fall - She was admitting that sex with Hiroto was better than Kenji at one point. I believe it was only a spur of the moment thing but she did say it out loud which is considered as her fallen. that includes her calling Hiroto by name and letting him call her by first name. And ultimately, allowing kissing at the hot spring trip. While on the way to the trip, Marina tells Kenji that she will call Hirota "Anata" which means that she will adress him as her husband.
These wee a few things that I liked about the game but the game felt incomplete because;
1. Marina did not fall completely - I think this mainly had to do with the boyfriend, Hiroto. I liked how Hiroto was forcing Marina to say stuff and he was definitely pursuing her affection but he had his own problem. And even though Marina was enjoying having sex with him, it was definite that she was not gonna leave her family because the sex was so amazing.
2. Pregnancy - I would have liked it better if Marina was at least saying something like she wants his baby or have an accidental pregnancy. But there was no indication of any pregnancy.
I think Atelier Sakura/Onboro knew that Hiroto was a very weak netori guy. I mean come on, he was suffering from premature ejaculation. So when they announced Marina 2with an AV guy, I was pretty sure that it will go more hard core and make Marina fall a lot harder than the first game. But I was wrong, it did try to address the strength of the first game but did not go far enough. It almost felt like a side story to the first game and nothing changed, no boundaries were pushed.
So I am really hoping to see Marina fall and comeplete the storyline. I know alot of people are not agreeing with me but I want to ask all of you that how satisfied were you with Marina 2? Wouldn't it have been better if she fell a lot harder because sex was so good? Fall enough that she didn't care whether she got knocked up by AV dude and actually gets pregnant? But the marriage stays intact because Kenji enjoys the whole situation of Marina ahving sex with other man? And AV guy was not a nice guy and would not marry Marina just because they had sex and got her pregnant? I think that would have been better story for Marina 2 and will still have room for Marina 3.