Yea, V should also not... You get it yet? This is not your story, or mine, it's V's story. This is no RPG, it'sa linear, story driven action adventure, with minimal player choice, and sexuality/romance is really only an insignificant factor here... it was great for marketing, though.
EDIT: Do people even see my spoiler tags? I don't...
I think your reply got mangled by the board, I see s chopped up sentence.
Erp, hahah, by quoting it I see what you meant to hide. *reads it* No, that's got nothing to do with it, what do you mean by "should not be?" You're jumping around all over the place. And if you think it has no RPG elements left in it, you haven't done the major - or even minor - NPC storylines yet, where you can not only drive the experience but vastly effect the outcomes. And lastly, if everything you say it true, that's a flaw not a defense. The point, still, remains, that there is no valid
game-design reason to still be doing it this way. Again: there is no 'real V' story. And your choices can and will affect who lives and dies, who's happy and who's miserable, who likes you and who hates you, along the way.
Edit: I too thought all RPG elements had been chopped out of the game for the first 10-20 hours. Then I actually delved deeper into the game and its characters and found a metric f!ton of content I did not expect but was pleasantly surprised to encoutner.
Edit to edit: tho FWIW i think the title of this post is a bit hysterical in tone really, the concepts in play are pretty straight(ahemlol)forward.