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But I love them all. How should I choose?
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Heh, I ain't going anywhere Lament, you'll still get my money. I'm just venting because I have seen decisions like this go bad so many, many times.
I hate it when you can't see all the content on one playthrough, and have to go back to old saves and guess what the hell you need to do to unlock stuff. When there is no gallery and you can't even tell if you are missing content, that sucks twice as hard. This game will never appeal to the "but I want to make lots of choices that change everything" crowd, it's too late for that, so by adding branching now we get the worst of both worlds.
And focusing on specific girl-- in a harem game??!? I'm all for more content with the girls but let me see it all. I mean, there will always be a few hardcore self-insert guys that want to pledge devotion to one girl and just focus on that, but given this is an established product it's probably safe to assume the large majority of us want to see all the girls (with a few exceptions where people find specific characters offputting due to their physical appearance, age, etc). You'd be more true to the harem ethos if you add more multi-girl combinations (N-somes) rather than more singleton paths.
I hate it when you can't see all the content on one playthrough, and have to go back to old saves and guess what the hell you need to do to unlock stuff. When there is no gallery and you can't even tell if you are missing content, that sucks twice as hard. This game will never appeal to the "but I want to make lots of choices that change everything" crowd, it's too late for that, so by adding branching now we get the worst of both worlds.
And focusing on specific girl-- in a harem game??!? I'm all for more content with the girls but let me see it all. I mean, there will always be a few hardcore self-insert guys that want to pledge devotion to one girl and just focus on that, but given this is an established product it's probably safe to assume the large majority of us want to see all the girls (with a few exceptions where people find specific characters offputting due to their physical appearance, age, etc). You'd be more true to the harem ethos if you add more multi-girl combinations (N-somes) rather than more singleton paths.
Firstly, This will never be about the money for me.
Sure, it pays my bills, but that was a big surprise, and I'm never going to count on that and take it for granted.
Thanks, for saying so though.
Secondly, I don't plan on doing it too much in the way of making people miss wanted content.
There will be no paths.
There will be alternate scenes from time to time.
Let me explain further.
Example choice:
1. Go to the store with Alex.
2. Stay home and play video games.
1. Go to the store with Alex: slim chance there will be any fucking, or tit sucking.
There will however be a chance to have random conversation with her, in order to get to know her better.
2. Staying home to play video game: perhaps one of the girls brings you a sandwich or stops by to talk about random shit, or perhaps you even just play video games and think.
In a lot of cases, the choice will also just be there to skip that characters content because you aren't interested.
I am the only one writing and rendering for this game/story, and I don't want to have to write/render for a bunch of paths, and have to keep track of them.
Thirdly( Idk if that's a word), I have always wanted small choices in this game.
Before now, I didn't have the capability of writing the story with choices.
I thought the best place to introduce it , would be at the start of a new arc.
And just a heads-up ahead of time, Arc 3 will have multiple endings. I have wanted that from the beginning.
I hope that gives a better view of what I plan to do.
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Having or not having branching plot lines is the matter of personal preference. I do not like much branching beacause I don't normally have time to play them all, so I always play with walkthrough to get the best path. I still do not mind braching if the story is good. For me this game is completely fine in this department.
But I know that a lot of people like to have a lot of branching. This is one of the things that totally up to the Devs. After all, branching slows down the development of games.
Having choises (whether to pursue a particular LI or a certain kink), on the other hand, is always welcome. Because tastes differ.
But I know that a lot of people like to have a lot of branching. This is one of the things that totally up to the Devs. After all, branching slows down the development of games.
Having choises (whether to pursue a particular LI or a certain kink), on the other hand, is always welcome. Because tastes differ.
Arc 1 finale (0.096 beta) release schedule:
Gold+ 03/20/2024
Silver+ 04/03/2024
Public 04/17/2024
As for when it shows up here, i couldn't tell you. I don't upload it personally here.
I post this on my Fanbox and Subscribestar. both of which have a free join option for news and release schedule.
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Godspeed dev! I can't wait for that finale... It doesn't bother me to wait till the public release.
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if I can buy it just use CNY，i bought many games before,but I doubt if the dev has received a portion of it,because maybe the sellers just get them from F95，since I found out about this website, I have saved a lot of moneyYou could become your own hero by joining the dev.
OK, just finished the 095Beta
Not normally a fan of non-interactive VNs without choices and repercussions, but this one is EXCEPTIONALLY well written. I am glad to have read above, where future updates will involve choices. Models are excellent, story is original and well told, the plotline is gripping.
Well done Dev. Well done indeed.
Not normally a fan of non-interactive VNs without choices and repercussions, but this one is EXCEPTIONALLY well written. I am glad to have read above, where future updates will involve choices. Models are excellent, story is original and well told, the plotline is gripping.
Well done Dev. Well done indeed.
IMO choices are overrated. They may result in "extra" content by having multiple paths, but I'm curious how many players really play more than 1 or 2 paths in games with several? Personally I find the repetition exceedingly boring and would much rather play a new game or just watch some extra animations using a gallery unlocker. I get that some people enjoy that sort of thing, but there are lots of games like that out there, and complaining that a good VN doesn't have choices is missing the forest for the trees.
My concern as a fan of this game is that often in games where devs try and appease the vocal minority asking for choices, the progress of the original/main/important storyline tends to inevitably stall. Hope that doesn't happen here, but I worry because the story progression has already been slower than in most games. Normally that is not at all a bad thing (and can often be a good thing that means better writing), but when a slow-progressing VN suddenly tries to add branching...
Flying a plane requires a minimum airspeed to prevent engine stalling; flying at slower speeds close to the minimum is perfectly fine...until you try and do a bunch of unnecessary tricks and reduce your airspeed below the minimum and stall the engine..Personally I think it's a good idea to implement some choices in a VN, such as allowing players to skip certain sex scenes if they contain fetishes they're not fond of (bestiality, for instance.) But generally speaking, we both (Mal and Liz) agree that choices are overrated. Usually they don't really amount to anything, and only rarely do they dramatically affect the story.IMO choices are overrated. They may result in "extra" content by having multiple paths, but I'm curious how many players really play more than 1 or 2 paths in games with several? Personally I find the repetition exceedingly boring and would much rather play a new game or just watch some extra animations using a gallery unlocker. I get that some people enjoy that sort of thing, but there are lots of games like that out there, and complaining that a good VN doesn't have choices is missing the forest for the trees.
My concern as a fan of this game is that often in games where devs try and appease the vocal minority asking for choices, the progress of the original/main/important storyline tends to inevitably stall. Hope that doesn't happen here, but I worry because the story progression has already been slower than in most games. Normally that is not at all a bad thing (and can often be a good thing that means better writing), but when a slow-progressing VN suddenly tries to add branching...
And speaking for myself personally, I can't remember a single (porn) game in which I've gone back and "played it completely differently" just to see the rest of the contents. As you pointed out, I (again, speaking only for myself) generally tend to just use a gallery unlocker or such if there's something juicy hidden behind a branch in the story.
-Mal
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I've tried once or twice to play a VN differently, but it's like opening Skyrim and telling yourself you won't play a stealthy archer, lol.
And Ravenous already catered to the avoidance crew with the Content Filter options. I guess the choices in Arc 2 will amount solely to a single-character avoidance feature that would be a pain to implement at a settings level like the age-based ones. Cutting out a character entirely would lead to all kinds of weird story problems. But just giving folks a way to avoid them being naked in front of them is ok I guess.
I'm just going to be super curious about what happens in the divergent course. Coz Imma wanna bed every single one of these pretty ladies.
I dont know if people arent getting what I'm saying. Perhaps I haven't explained it well enough, and thats my fault.
This story will remain linear.
The choices will be for skipping things and for single scene alternates from time to time.
I have always wanted choices that offer small doses of different content.
You wont miss sexual activity with a character, due to any choice that you make, unless you choose to avoid certain characters scenes.
Some will be "skip the scene but it still happens" and some will be "choose to say yes or no"
I'm not going to make you choose between 2 characters when u are interested in them both.
As for alternate scenes/content:
I know that there are people out there hat think that pointless choices are...well...pointless...
However, to me, they are added flavor to the story.
If you don't replay games to see alternate scenes, that's fine. I understand. I don't either.
The choices that will be implemented will have no consequences, nor rewards.
Just different scenery along the way from time to time.
If there are any other questions or concerns about this, I would be happy to answer them.
This story will remain linear.
The choices will be for skipping things and for single scene alternates from time to time.
I have always wanted choices that offer small doses of different content.
You wont miss sexual activity with a character, due to any choice that you make, unless you choose to avoid certain characters scenes.
Some will be "skip the scene but it still happens" and some will be "choose to say yes or no"
I'm not going to make you choose between 2 characters when u are interested in them both.
As for alternate scenes/content:
I know that there are people out there hat think that pointless choices are...well...pointless...
However, to me, they are added flavor to the story.
If you don't replay games to see alternate scenes, that's fine. I understand. I don't either.
The choices that will be implemented will have no consequences, nor rewards.
Just different scenery along the way from time to time.
If there are any other questions or concerns about this, I would be happy to answer them.
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You were clear enough - some people just lack the ability to comprehend unless spoonfed like a child.
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yes you will. lol
I have played a few with a different selection. Not generally for just a different LI, but for taking the MC down a different moral path. Play him as the good guy once, play as a basically good guy with the sexual morals of an alley tom, play him as an evil prck with no qualms about hurting folks physically/emotionally provided it advances his own selfish interests. Granted, that takes a lot from a dev to develop those differing paths, and I dont so much mind if a choice locks out other LIs. Every door we open, does tend to close others.
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