I'm trying to not think about it too much, but I still can't get over how fucking stupid the idea of "inserting multiple tadpoles in your brain to gain power" really is, even from an "evil" and utilitarian perspective.
I'm honestly baffled that this is what the authors decided to settle for. Even the EA version of having the tadpole growing in power with subsequent uses was a lot easier to sell as a legitimate tentation for the player.
Yeah, it is much harder to sell, I agree. Not impossible, because you can make a case about 'needing that precious wicked power up to
kill my brother Itachi defeat powerful enemies standing in my way'. I hope they make the highest difficulty hard enough for me to consider it in that sense.