I agree with you, but I can't deny that I find it more exciting when Sophia is at an event.
Also, right now it looks like this fork in the story is an end to the Sophia/Dylan route, so no threesome.
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Also, right now it looks like this fork in the story is an end to the Sophia/Dylan route, so no threesome.
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To be fair, AFAIK it's all part of the same playthrough and consequential, so the two Dylan events for v.185 and v.190 could be considered one event. In which case the Sophia/Dylan path still got the biggest event at about 830 renders
I see it differently. First of all, I don't think the update will be released in 2023. Furthermore, I think this event is very important for the part of the story that gets on without Blackmail. For me, Aiden just seems too weak as a gangster here to deserve so much content. I wish the stories around liam would get more weight here, because there is more depth there than just more and more tasks that Sophia has to do. The villain in Liams story line is at least a little more believable.
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to this update. Considering that the previews have often shown very little off the actual events so far, it really has a lot of potential. I also think it's an important step in the development between Dylan and Ellie, which fits well into the story right now. As I said, I hope that L&P will give them more space and not less. Aiden is dispensable from my point of view.
NOthing that couldn't be changed with little effort. I, at least, would love to play a path like that. In general, I would like to see more entanglements between Sophia, Dylan, Ellie and Liam.
The events with Sophia and Dylan DID NOT happen in this update. IT is an alternative event. So basically a side Story
700 renders in next update and for what? This update without Sophia will just be skipped. I don't understand why waste time on an uninteresting update. Then the name of the VN should be changed to "The Son and Brother".
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Shopia is A wife and a mother. Ellie is the daughter. It is not fair, to be fair the game has to be A mother and her daughter/son. The story must develop around her, especially the update. Not other characters.
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We'll have to wait and see. So far, however, a decision like "Dylan goes out with his mother" or "Dylan goes to the party" are two paths that are mutually exclusive in the future.
Many developers believe that this increases the replay value of their game, which I personally think is total nonsense.
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Sophia was in that beach scene.
There was Sophia when Dylan dated Emma, and there was Sophia when Dylan dated Marie.
Sophia was there when Ellie was at the club, and Sophia was there when Ellie kissed Julie.
People aren't saying, "Get out, Dylan", they're saying, "I miss Sophia."
Showing Pepper's story as well as Tony's story in the Iron Man movie will make the Iron Man movie richer.
But the problem here is that you're saying that "for Tony's sake, for the sake of the Iron Man movie" we need Pepper's solo movie without Tony.
People aren't interested in Pepper's solo movie.
(Of course, if Pepper appeared in a porn movie, people's reaction would be enthusiastic)
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I wouldn't say that people aren't interested in a Pepper Potts movie, they certainly are. Only that it's disappointing for those that aren't Pepper fans when she takes up half the movie, with sections of her own without Tony, when we're there because it's advertised as an Iron Man movie.
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And that damn "potential"
Is it also “potential” for Sofia's parents to visit?
Is it also “potential” for Sam to build a house on a tree?
Is it also “potential” for Logan to cheat?
Some people also said the salon scene had "potential."
Some people also said the club scene had "potential."
It's just a story.
A device for storytelling.
Facts are thin on the ground when it comes to communication from the Dev. There is, however, the insurmountable fact of the game's title, "A Wife & Mother," referring to one person, "A" in this case being singular, i.e. referencing the former MC & the only MC who can be both a wife & mother. As the game now contains large portions of incest & teens with little else, while also taking the direction of Dylan's POV, it is overdue for a change of title but won't get one, because the AWAM brand is too well known. Calling what has become a different game from the one I started playing in 2018 by it's original title has to be good for marketing purposes but otherwise perpetuates a misnomer.
Even those scenes featuring Sophia & her voluminous "milk jugs," (to which half her brain seems to have been transplanted part-way through an event), are only present so that she can act as a dumbed-down, adult prop, for teen virgins to manipulate & bounce on. Those of us who thought we were in receipt of a story about an elegant, educated woman with beauty AND brains, (a refreshing change in 3D porn), were destined to be disappointed, in more ways than one.
Aiden is gone, yet still we hear complaints. He was not only provided with a Mafia 'get out' for those fans who hated him (& he was meant to be hated, ...that's what villains are for) but is not due back for another 5-7 years at the current pace. He probably won't be back at all. He & many other characters are clearly not what is delaying the game. That is solely down to the Dev's preferred development rate. Nathalie (aged 19, dangerously close to not being a teen), is officially set to return in 2035. Alyssa, ('pon my word, an adult), has been confirmed as a returnee but who knows when, or even if, at this rate?
If there existed some demonstrable imperative to finish AWAM in less than the 30+ years it's due to take, I could (objectively), understand the logic of featuring only incest & immediate family members. It seems to be happening anyway & I don't (subjectively), like it, because I've had no game for c2 years. That there's no real determination to finish before mid-century is indicated by the inclusion of a side story, which appears to have required many renders & is preferred to an existing storyline, I presume, to give Dylan more screen time & please youthful fans. Side jobs may finally be terminated, (I'll believe it when I see it) but IMO that's because of the shota & a projected Steam release, rather than an attempt to speed up.
There's nothing intrinsically wrong with following 'the further adventures of Dylan,' (for fans who like that kind of thing) but such an endeavour would have been less unwelcome if the originally stated aim of event-based monthly releases had actually come to fruition. What now passes for AWAM is a series of almost stand-alone events, each of which must have "lewd" content, to avoid an outcry, a coherent story having gone the way of 'realism' & 'class.'
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Is that really the case? The first event, with the long conversation and a bit of action, was overarching both paths, wasn't it?
In addition, I think that something like that can be changed in the dialogs with a reasonable amount of effort. At least I haven't given up on the idea of more action with Dylan, Ellie and Sophia.
To be honest, just seeing the previews shown so far make for an important update. After all, it is a big step forward for Dylan and Ellie. It sould be a core story element and not just an arbitrarily interchangeable path, like the one around Aiden, for example.
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Have you ever read xxxorro's awesome post collating all the information we know? Obviously since I haven't downloaded the game in a while I can't quote exactly, but I'm fairly sure that there's a conversation Dylan has with Sophia about either heading out to the restaurant, or heading to Christine's party. So no possibility of doing both.
That heading to the restaurant is called "Evening alternative 1" and the bonus storyline is "Evening alternative 2" makes it pretty clear cut to me.
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None of the devices set up in the story can be replaced.
Because it is literally a device that “drives/necessary” the story.
“Potential” is not what drives the story.
It has to explode.
The only impact of Dylan/Ellie's story in this update will be to explain the situation to Sophia.
This is not an explosion.
It's just the flow.
Even if you're hoping there will be a threesome in the future and think this update will be the starting point, this isn't potential, it's just flow.
Who says this is potential?
If this is potential, what is not potential?
As I said, if this is potential, then the parents' visit is potential, Logan's cheating is potential, and Dylan going into the dorm is potential.
It's just part of the story.
The point I'm trying to make is that Dylan made some progress with Sophia that night, even without the alternative restaurant event. The bathroom event is there in both paths. So it's definitely possible to progress also with Sophia without this event, just via a path with Ellie (which could still include the threesome I am hoping for).
In general, Interwoven paths are more exciting. That's one of the reasons I still hope Dylan was watching Sophia and Sam. More voyeur scenes would be perfekt. Sophia has watched Ellie some Times, maybe she will viel an event between Dylan und Ellie, so a 2nd path for a threesome would be possible.