>>64755
The idea was probably not to cuckold the player, but to make the player feel some accomplishment at defeating a rival. It's the old-as-time "fight for her love" trope interpreted in video game form--and therefore probably done badly, since video games are the second home of the random number determining outcomes. Of course, the real problem is that real man and woman relationships rely on internal sensations and feelings of both parties, which are unique, inelucidable, and unable to be experienced by a second party. That makes them look, to some, like random chance--or, really, makes random chance look like a good model for them, since if there are purely nonstochastic factors to human relationships they're too complicated to rationally express in simple video games. That's really the hallmark problem of the dating sim genre--nobody really thinks that affection is a matter of getting some number higher than some value, but it's as good as the average developer is probably ever going to do. That, and reality doesn't have the problem that video games do of being shy about burning bridges and forcing people to start all over (if it's even possible.)