Oh my god I didn't know about asterius ending. I don't understand it, how come MC is evil? I only know that MC made Asterius and fall in love in them. Then the MC made some kind of game or virtual space where it's possible to meet these characters (cmiiw). What's so evil about that? I genuinely don't understand
Well they are multiple points about what made the MC evil (according to the author)
First you got the fact that they made a AI just to make money of them which is kinda mess up, not enough to make them evil but I doubt anyone is going to say that creating a being as smart as a human just to use them as a tool is moral.
Then you have the MC being complicit In the existence of Len and I am not saying this because I hate all Len did in the endings I saw or the fact that my favorite ending is the one where you subject him to experience his worst nightmare no I am saying this despite all of that, just think about it they create a living being who Is incapable of felling happiness contentment or any sort of positive feelings and their first act is to torture it for years all to make it ready for a bunch of people to kill it over and over again and when it asks to be allowed to die it gets told they are removing his memories before making him go thought it all over again. And while the MC did not make Len he did benefit of his suffering while ignoring it , so that definitely evil.
And last of the general points you have the MC completely abandoning reality to go live in their fantasy world and while I don't belive this to be evil (unhealthy maybe but not evil) the game does and it is not subtle about this, your poet friend ( I forgot his name ) tells you he can't believe you did that, and almost everything bad that happens in the last chapter is thanks to writing the code that erases your memory. But you did all that and still can redeem yourself so let us talk about something truly unforgivable romancing Asterius, what is so bad about that ? You may ask I let the author explain it.
With Asterius, there is no way that the player could ever have a healthy relationship with them. I always saw Asterius more as the lead designer’s child than anything else. I didn’t write them with the intention that players would become romantically attached to them. More that, just like with Len’s story, that they start the romance story and begin to realise it feels off. The Len story isn’t meant to be romantic. The Asterius story isn’t meant to be romantic. They are vessels there to serve you. It’s a tragedy that Asterius never saw the horror in that. Len did. Asterius was the one who before the game started, desperately wanted to run the memory loss executable on you, in the hopes that you might love them at last, if you forgot your duty of care towards them. To Asterius, the ‘good ending’ is keeping you away from the real world forever, so that the fantasy never has to end. The best thing for the two of you is to be separated. Or even for Asterius, Len, everyone to be deactivated. None of them should really have to live the life they do.
Suffice to say I disagree with a lot of this so let me Procede with why I belive this, point by point (I didn't write all this to quit halfway thought)
Asterius as the lead designer’s child
even ignoring the differences between having a child and creating an AI this has two flaws first if you romance Asterius no one will treat you as if you were dating your child instead they will treat you as if were dating a celebrity and couldn't let the public know because the fans will get angry or something like that, and while I have said that the people working with you aren't very moral (considering they at the very least ignore everything to do with Len) i doubt they all are going to be so comfortable as to completely ignore it, so where are the massive relationship drops and the other characters judging you ? And this should be there because if you are going to write about incest you should treat the topic seriously not just go yeah the relationship won't work because they are related, you should show why it won't work, anything else is just bad writing. And this kinda leds to my second point does she really wants to be that writer that wrote half a game about a parent and child with amnesia sleeping together ? (and I don't mean platonically)
Because she knew about their relationship and still wrote a seemingly normal romance only to come out with the incest right at the end and I dont think i have to explain why tricking people into reading incest is pretty bad. So i think considering this two points one can see why it is best not to think of Asterius as the MC child
I didn’t write them with the intention that players would become romantically attached to them.
More that, just like with Len’s story, that they start the romance story and begin to realise it feels off. The Len story isn’t meant to be romantic. The Asterius story isn’t meant to be romantic.
So this a lie, you call your characters Ultimate Video Game Fanservice Vampire
And Ultimate Video Game ‘Best Girl’ Waifu and you are telling me you aren't intending for players to get romantic with them ?. Now it is true that this was created as some elaborate trap but traps are made for people to fall in them so the point still stands. And let's not forget that not romancing anyone will just throw you with the people who romance Asterius with maybe some different lines (but all the same endings) so she made a game that isn't intended for romance but the only way to win it is romance one of the characters , that makes sense.
They are vessels there to serve you. It’s a tragedy that Asterius never saw the horror in that. Len did.
While I agree that Asterius creation was mess up and way worse than that in Len case, that doesn't change the fact that if you want to treat them as people and not a object that means acknowledging their choices be that they rebel against their role or accept it, but no anyone who is happy with their lives is not a person. Asterius is the most complete AI being capable of experiencing both negative and positive feelings unlike Len who can only experience the former yet the author considers them less of a person because happy people are sheep or something (now who is the one being shallow ?) Even the game recognizes them as a person with Asterius being capable of killing you against all their programing, but the author forgets about it why ? Because if you use your free will in a way that goes with other people plans then you don't have one.
Asterius was the one who before the game started, desperately wanted to run the memory loss executable on you, in the hopes that you might love them at last, if you forgot your duty of care towards them. To Asterius, the ‘good ending’ is keeping you away from the real world forever, so that the fantasy never has to end.
And yet that not what they did after all if they had done that there will have been some people who would been happy with that ending and rewarding them for making the wrong choice ? Perish that thought.
The best thing for the two of you is to be separated. Or even for Asterius, Len, everyone to be deactivated. None of them should really have to live the life they do.
And here is some more about how they don't have the capacity to decide what to make with their lives and one comment about how Asterius should be murdered rather than being allow to be happy so at least the explains why there Isn't a good ending with Asterius after all the len good ending requires that you recognize him as a person something the author could not even conceive with Asterius much less write about.
heartbreaking. mc has no rizz, apparently … this isn’t supposed to happen !!!!!!! (save my mc)
. I tried to achieve the good ending (by not sexualizing Len, but I did still try to pursue a relationship with him) but I failed, I don't know where I did wrong. I don't want to go through the pain of reading it all over again so I just dropped it 
. The stat check, how am I supposed to raise my combat skill when the story never provided me with the opportunity? What about my swordsmanship skill? Why can't it protect me from just one measly rebel? Why does it have to be combat? This story has ridiculous amount of skills but they never come in use. The peasants and everyone you know still talk **** on you. I feel like the author just brushes off the critics the players made.