Justice was a failure. A fraction as strong, but far angrier. It’s likely she’d never bend her will, but it’s better this way. All of her rebellion tied up in an impotent package. Her own selves would turn on her easily after their conditioning. Justice seemed now like a weakness

Each game’s main villain could have a gimmick that screws with the mechanics in some way. Like a hypnotist that makes victim testimonies unreliable or an illusionist that creates false evidence. Could be cute.

And deal with level gap of losing to a low-level enemy by having mechanics that scale according to player level. Would still need to make instant loss stuff fair somehow but I’m not a developer so whatever

What you want is an inescapable bad end but that kind of conflicts with actually progressing, especially when you want to see all of the fun bad ends. Also fun when hard earned progress is undone by a low-level enemy or trap but more in theory than reality

It was put there when Lebanne was convinced she was still a boy that didn’t want to be a maid, but after years of disuse, she’s begrudgingly accepted her place beneath Jacinthe’s heel.

Expert adventurer auto-equipped with skimpy cursed clothes. Hacker brain drained by a simple spiral in the system she’s cracking. Invulnerable hero turned into a mindless bimbo by a low-rank villain.