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Dunno about "Ethan deserves zero respect". Depending on route, I guess.
In vanilla route(yes, there are people playing routes like that) he's actually a decent partner - hell, both Nat and Ethan are. They both have these temptations - Darrel and Jenna, and both fight them off out of respect for their partner. Hell, in Vance scene Ethan was written out as ready to brawl with the dude towering over him.
In bed, it's shown aswell that Ethan may not be the best bang, but he uses his experience and knowledge to get Nat to orgasm. And their sex in bed gets better as time progresses(maybe it's just me seeing that).
Played the cheating route with Darrel just for a reminder today and it was alright.
Dude is her preferred hubby simply because he has most content out of all the guys, sharing this position with Ethan.
Darrel may be more realistic than your typical NTR Blackman, but still comes off as a douche at the end.
If you ask me, the story could be split for, like, 5 LIs for Nat and 3 LIs for Ethan with branching for subroutes.
Like, Vanilla could get Nat dominant/ submissive/ balanced subroutes( or don't bother with making subroutes in here at all, just make forks from time to time, giving player options to jump on another route)
Darrel has obvious cuck willingly/unwillingly/cheat subroutes and that should be enough imo. That path has too many branches if you ask me.
Matt could have Nat being more dominant and trying to take away that smug jockiness around him orjust being that for the D.
Carl's path could be split on Romance and Ethan being a cuck aswell.
Peter - same with dominant/giving in to the old man since Ethan getting cucked here won't work at all IMO.
And the last one. Vance could follow your typical dark NTR trope with blackmailing or something with him either eventually stealing Nat or her getting rid of him in the end.
As for Ethan, Jenna is obvious swinging/cheating and Riya as an option for him post break-up with Nat/cheating on Nat.
These are just the options you could have not deeply thinking about them. IMO, Matt could've been scrapped right away as LI since he represents basically the same qualities as Darrel, just ehm...white and younger.
The best way would've been to give each characters 3 LIs + Stay Faithful route. Way less forks and options in which you could get confused.
We could write down options as long as you can, but as long as the game getsmost of it's focus on one specific LI, it may just end up losing all it's shine and end up another "could've been".
And most of arguments from me, for example, is not because "Oh, NTR, show me kittens", but because the game started out as this ice cream shop with different flavours on the menu - classic, choco, hazelnut, bubble gum etc, but you end up with shop accountant telling you: sorry, mate, we had a lot of these at first, but now we have only chocolate, chocolate with brownies and chocolate hazelnut. The rest of flavours may arrive next week at best. And by the time next week comes, you may end up not wanting ice cream anymore. Because next week is September.
P.S. As for your future game, just an advice from me - try making husband a douche, and not a spineless dude at first, at least(Zorlun did a great job with that in his game). That would justify the wife getting to cheat on him waaaaay more than "Oh, I saw this guy and his abs and that's it". What some of the games have wrong - pretty often the reason to cheat for people is neglect and loss of emotional connection. Dudes, who girls cheat with, aren't Clark Kents of the world - they may just end up listening and being curious about the girl more than their partners and vice versa. And a lot of these cuck/cheating fantasies lack that. Hope to see 0.00001 on "Latest Updates" soon. Good luck with your game.
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Not really making him a douche as much as an inattentive partner(if they choose cuck route for him, we find out that is what he was needing but he was too scared to explore on his own). He cares more about his job and ass kissing his boss than his family. Their sex life is non-existent, she is a 40 year old sexy wife(and mother, please don't go there, we won't go crazy fast but nowhere as slow as AWAM) who also just happens to have a BFF that is a domme at night. So her BFF is telling her all about her active sex life and here she is being ignored. We are in the process of doing the renders for Chapter 1, script is done/coded. Chapter 2 script is written but not coded yet. Will be something like a bi-monthly update schedule(my coding/render partner has other projects going as well, I am just the writer). If it gets enough support, might add someone else to speed up the process.
As for the Ethan respect, maybe I should try his vanilla route to see the scenes that make him deserve some respect. There was just something about the first release, when I tried that route that put me off it.
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Let's just say...If you make a husband loveable - it may end up being meh for me personally. But when the dude had it coming - it feels more...deserved, dunno. For cheating route, at least.
I'm not NTR hater, but not a fan of the genre aswell, but when games has plotlines like "A Promise Best Left Unkept" it just gives you the feeling of desperation and helplesness. And instead of getting horny you end up willing to punch someone lol.
That's why I liked this game. It had variety and characters do change on different routes and I can easily avoid route that would make me upset. On one route Ethan is spineless cuck, on another - he's cold asshole and on third one he's good partner who truly cares about his wife, but doesn't lose his manliness.
Making a game myself and just got 100 out of 1000+ renders deep.
But my setting is a bit different. Classic MaleProtag game with High School setting, but trying to make it plot-driven. "Smallville"(TV series from early 00's) was a huge inspiration for me with that. IMO, a lot of MaleProtag games lack a proper antagonist and sense of overcoming something, imo. If it's just your typical kiss-handjob-cunni-boobjob-blowjob-sex-anal ladder it's just meh, imo.
But when there's the story behind it and not your regular "My Landlady saw my dick and I saw her showering and there we go" it's completely different. Like, add a dude who your Landlady started to date. Give him bad traits(in there just for a pussy etc) and there you have a proper antagonist, as an example. But nah. Generic stuff.
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Only way the husband will be "lovable" at all is if you choose the cuck route, then you might have some positive feelings but he is getting what he needs as she gets what she needs, so win-win. If they choose either of the other two routes, he just comes off as an apathetic beta and she ends up leaving him(divorce route, right away, cheat route, in the end).
As long as you don't have non-con in your game, I look forward to seeing it. That is my one hill to die on, I loathe non-con in both real life and in games I play to escape from real life at times.
Going to go back and try the vanilla route for Ethan, based on your rec. I think maybe something in the first release of the game might have put me off of his character even in that route. Maybe he got better in following releases.
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in one route Ethan is an Ok dude with a kink, but in the others he's purely beta-cuck or a complete doucebag.
As far as I'm concerned, one of cuckold routes with Darrell(not my kind of fruit at all and I don't play it, so can't tell you which exactly)
Also, don't want to sound harsh, but the answer to your question is written 1 or 2 pages earlier. Don't be lazy, bro.
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please tell us what route your updating Its really to hard to remember what I was wanking about 4 weeks ago
Not sure if this was posted already or not. If it was, I apologize.
There is an error in dialogue where you are on path where Ethan kicks out Nat. Nat goes to a sex party and in dialogue Ethan is mentioned like he was sitting in the room, even though he is not present.
There is an error in dialogue where you are on path where Ethan kicks out Nat. Nat goes to a sex party and in dialogue Ethan is mentioned like he was sitting in the room, even though he is not present.
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There are some inconsistencies to some of the different routes that cross over each other, being that they are mostly copied and pasted in the RenPy coding, to save time.
If you could screenshot the page with the stats displayed and then point it out to him, King B will likely fix it and would appreciate it too.
The error is with this dialogue:
And few following lines after that one also mention Ethan in context.
The error is in file
Code:
"During this shift in positions, everyone on the bed had been too occupied with their sex to notice Ethan and Sam on the sofa."The error is in file
49a.s49a_sex.rpy.I also found an exception crash, here is the error. It's on path where you avoid Nat NTR, but Ethan cheats with Jenna.
Code:
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.
While running game code:
File "game/scenes/46.s46_ethnat_talk.rpy", line 1716, in script
if jen_upset40 == True:
File "game/scenes/46.s46_ethnat_talk.rpy", line 1716, in <module>
if jen_upset40 == True:
NameError: name 'jen_upset40' is not defined
-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------
Full traceback:
File "game/scenes/46.s46_ethnat_talk.rpy", line 1716, in script
if jen_upset40 == True:
File "C:\Users\redacted\MEGA downloads\A_Couples_Duet-0.8.7-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 2115, in execute
if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):
File "C:\Users\redacted\MEGA downloads\A_Couples_Duet-0.8.7-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1092, in py_eval
return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals)
File "C:\Users\redacted\MEGA downloads\A_Couples_Duet-0.8.7-pc\renpy\python.py", line 1085, in py_eval_bytecode
return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
File "game/scenes/46.s46_ethnat_talk.rpy", line 1716, in <module>
if jen_upset40 == True:
NameError: name 'jen_upset40' is not defined
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Ren'Py 8.0.3.22090809
A Couples Duet of Love & Lust 0.8.7
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This is the Italian translation of
A Couple's Duet of Love & Lust [v0.8.7] [King B]
Added a sort of Mod that says what the choices entail
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This translation is "unofficial" and "made by a fan"
extract the .rar file and move "game" to the game where the .exe file resides overwrite if required
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A Couple's Duet of Love & Lust [v0.8.7] [King B]
Added a sort of Mod that says what the choices entail
**********************************************************************************
This translation is "unofficial" and "made by a fan"
extract the .rar file and move "game" to the game where the .exe file resides overwrite if required
Download
Yes you have to select Ethan to not want to watch or encourage, and then it takes you into the Nat cheating route.
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Yes, cheat with Jenna and when it comes time refuse Nat "fair play"
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Yes... look at the walkthru's I do not remember how to play it from the begining.
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The Peter path fits the bill on this one.