Yeah, I'm feeling this. The app supposedly lets MC control his wife's attractions, but apparently not really... even if you never corrupt her at all, she still starts cheating... then you even get very specific commands like prompting her to specifically go and interact with other characters more like Mark or Gregg, you can even straight up command her to stop trying to investigate things that you're doing completely... but you can't command her to stop talking to Jenna, or to stop hiding it when she is cheating on you with other people (after you already got her to an open relationship status). The controls don't even seem to matter because MC is throwing influence with an app actually influencing peoples' minds, but Jenna sends them a few skanky/innuendo texts about loving black cock and a couple dick pics and they just go with whatever she is suggesting instead and run off to hang with her at a club or shop or whatever. New characters keep popping in at random like mom and her entire secret incest business, while characters that started the entire game off like Mark and sharing or Christina and anything related to that shaky QoS group commitment/people getting tattoos story that left us sitting through LOOOONG group chats and side conversations are just getting shelved...*sigh* Damn.. I hate to say this, as this was one of my favorite games on here, always looking forward to it, supported it whenever I could, was genuinely curious how the stories would play out.. but yea.. gonna have to take a break from it for a good long while. Its not the weirdly overlapping stories (she won't go out w/ a guy because she doesn't want to cheat on him, but she's cheating on him with two other guys, but they have an open relationship where they tell each other everything). That's fine, I can allocate my brain to run each thread separately. Its.. Ok, I have no problem with NTR. Its hot, and some of my fave games have it. 'Bad things happening' is hot too, zero issues with that. Or any kink in this game, really - its even tame vs half the stuff I enjoy. Its just that now..
First off, you get a control app, hours and hours and hours are about controlling folk around you with it.. and then suddenly at some point in the game, the MC totally loses control. The app seems to do nothing anymore (you can set the wife up to be bombarded with BWC stuff and she'll still go the other route), the ones you're still trying to get with more (eg. sis, wife's sis) just ghost you, you're constantly taunted about how this person or that person is going to be taken from you and you don't get to do anything about it (even if they're on your app). The only things you really do with the app now are 'spy on everything falling apart' and 'click this button if you want to see any more content, because if you don't there won't be'.
More at the core though, in the last few updates you just suddenly become a helpless spectator as bad things happen around you. Which would be ok if the game started that way, then you'd just be following the trainwreck with popcorn. It would be ok if at each 'bad thing' stage you were getting to make choices to help the trainwreck along. Instead you just suddenly step out of the player seat and into a spectator being mocked for not getting to do anything in the game. The NTR moves from 'hot' to just... I don't know, just 'sad' or something. Its like instead of the MC getting screwed with, its you (the player) suddenly being screwed with. Instead of you (the player) causing bad things to happen to the MC and those around him, you (the player) suddenly lose all agency and everything you've been trying to juggle falls to the floor. Instead of a player who Could choose to save someone (eg. the wife, the sis) and Muahaha 'Don't!', you just get mocking texts about how every loved one abandons you and you better just take it. Which again, would be fine if that had been the game all along, totally a valid genre. But its like a 180 from a (potential path) strong powerful character with a Control App to someone who'd rather have a spycam and tissues.
Meh. Pictures are still hot, don't regret my time with the early game, and maybe this game will bounce back eventually. If not.. well, hopefully the folk that are still enjoying it get to still enjoy it, each to their own.
I agree 100 percent. This is all probably already an obituary. We are slowly being pushed towards the edge of the abyss. Where will we have to make a choice to continue playing the game where there is no branch of fidelity and confrontation, only the branch of the eunuch or the hot wife with the feminization of the GG?*sigh* Damn.. I hate to say this, as this was one of my favorite games on here, always looking forward to it, supported it whenever I could, was genuinely curious how the stories would play out.. but yea.. gonna have to take a break from it for a good long while. Its not the weirdly overlapping stories (she won't go out w/ a guy because she doesn't want to cheat on him, but she's cheating on him with two other guys, but they have an open relationship where they tell each other everything). That's fine, I can allocate my brain to run each thread separately. Its.. Ok, I have no problem with NTR. Its hot, and some of my fave games have it. 'Bad things happening' is hot too, zero issues with that. Or any kink in this game, really - its even tame vs half the stuff I enjoy. Its just that now..
First off, you get a control app, hours and hours and hours are about controlling folk around you with it.. and then suddenly at some point in the game, the MC totally loses control. The app seems to do nothing anymore (you can set the wife up to be bombarded with BWC stuff and she'll still go the other route), the ones you're still trying to get with more (eg. sis, wife's sis) just ghost you, you're constantly taunted about how this person or that person is going to be taken from you and you don't get to do anything about it (even if they're on your app). The only things you really do with the app now are 'spy on everything falling apart' and 'click this button if you want to see any more content, because if you don't there won't be'.
More at the core though, in the last few updates you just suddenly become a helpless spectator as bad things happen around you. Which would be ok if the game started that way, then you'd just be following the trainwreck with popcorn. It would be ok if at each 'bad thing' stage you were getting to make choices to help the trainwreck along. Instead you just suddenly step out of the player seat and into a spectator being mocked for not getting to do anything in the game. The NTR moves from 'hot' to just... I don't know, just 'sad' or something. Its like instead of the MC getting screwed with, its you (the player) suddenly being screwed with. Instead of you (the player) causing bad things to happen to the MC and those around him, you (the player) suddenly lose all agency and everything you've been trying to juggle falls to the floor. Instead of a player who Could choose to save someone (eg. the wife, the sis) and Muahaha 'Don't!', you just get mocking texts about how every loved one abandons you and you better just take it. Which again, would be fine if that had been the game all along, totally a valid genre. But its like a 180 from a (potential path) strong powerful character with a Control App to someone who'd rather have a spycam and tissues.
Meh. Pictures are still hot, don't regret my time with the early game, and maybe this game will bounce back eventually. If not.. well, hopefully the folk that are still enjoying it get to still enjoy it, each to their own.
Well that depends. For instance I quite enjoyed the path with Paul getting turned into a girl up to where I stopped after hearing about the big restructure update. If the stats matter like with the original son feminization or the sister-in-law path then great. The thing that bogs the game down is that feeling of what point is the app serving if the stats don't mean anything.On the same side as the previous couple of replies. A lot of steps could be compartmentalize to make them more rewarding maybe, but there's a bigger issue that T-D pointed out. You just lose control really after Talim is introduced. Then it's just pressing which convo you want without much interaction. The control app just loses functionality. Hypnoing yourself does nothing, and most of the categories to push don't lead to unique paths or situations so you just spend your time either ignoring it completely or maxing out everything with no real reward for it.
The biggest thing holding this game back is the general structure. On a first playthrough it's fine, it gets the job done. But trying to tell a Grand narrative that all connects together isn't really the best idea. The loop is fun, making it a sandbox where you get a dozen or so girls to control app to do a bunch of shit is more fun than the whole storyline and company stuff.
Go to the official page on 8 march the admin will upload the game (bloody ink)Any news about Android update
Bumping this, because I had the same problemAnyone find a fix for Wife and Jenna branch just stopping at Step 25?
This is from the games Patreon page.Bumping this, because I had the same problem
Here's the link for the new option to reset branchAdded an option to reset branch progress. Added an option to unlock certain branches (Kirely, Hearth) without fulfilling their prerequisites. If you reset the branch of the wife and her job, several branches related to it will be reset as well. After resetting this branch, you can choose a job for the wife (Office or School) by clicking a new button. Unlock buttons and job choice buttons are only visible right after you reset the corresponding branches. Keep that in mind
IMPORTANT: Use the bugfix attached to this post if you want to install the bugfix and add the new feature without downloading the full game or update. Unzip it, copy the files and paste them in the 'A Wife's Phone/game' folder