It fails to be consensual because I get no real sense of a person on the other end.

It fails to torture because the pain evoked is so robotic and sterile, so clinical and distanced. It’s not human or messy. It is not felt.

It fails to simulate because the choices are simple, stilted, the responses canned and lifeless. The rigid system and anemic prose are not up to the task.

I want to explore more meaningful violence, but this feels like a prototype, not a finished work. As is, it’s just a hyperlinked explanation of kink, well-meaning and flat.