I don't understand galleries. Played many VN's and never, not once, looked at a gallery or installed a gallery unlocker. Just don't understand the purpose - if it's porn you're after, the internet is filled with it; if you want to peek at bad outcomes, what's stopping you from playing those through choices? If I don't want to take a certain route, I wouldn't want to look at what comes out of it either. Looking at scenes without engaging with the story seems to defeat the purpose of playing an interactive game, there's plenty of comics for that even here at F95. Having said that, though I don't understand the point, don't see anything wrong with having galleries for those who enjoy them, but you raise an important concern when it causes part audience to go off rails.This comment is one of the reasons why I was reluctant to add a gallery to the game, let alone a gallery unlocker.
That's the dumbest thing I've read all day...I don't understand galleries.
1. Easy way to review a scene without having to keep saves for every individual event. Is that not obvious?I don't understand galleries. Played many VN's and never, not once, looked at a gallery or installed a gallery unlocker. Just don't understand the purpose - if it's porn you're after, the internet is filled with it; if you want to peek at bad outcomes, what's stopping you from playing those through choices? If I don't want to take a certain route, I wouldn't want to look at what comes out of it either. Looking at scenes without engaging with the story seems to defeat the purpose of playing an interactive game, there's plenty of comics for that even here at F95. Having said that, though I don't understand the point, don't see anything wrong with having galleries for those who enjoy them, but you raise an important concern when it causes part audience to go off rails.
Good job here, good luck with Inanna.
OnlyUsedForNever has given a good explanation already. point 1. is probably the de facto main reason for galleries.I don't understand galleries. Played many VN's and never, not once, looked at a gallery or installed a gallery unlocker. Just don't understand the purpose - if it's porn you're after, the internet is filled with it; if you want to peek at bad outcomes, what's stopping you from playing those through choices? If I don't want to take a certain route, I wouldn't want to look at what comes out of it either. Looking at scenes without engaging with the story seems to defeat the purpose of playing an interactive game, there's plenty of comics for that even here at F95. Having said that, though I don't understand the point, don't see anything wrong with having galleries for those who enjoy them, but you raise an important concern when it causes part audience to go off rails.
Good job here, good luck with Inanna.
That is a quite good explanation of one of the gallery uses and how you select what you like in AVNs. I'm honest I never play NTR/NTS/Sharing/Swinging in AVNs (maybe shows a bit of my possessive fantasy trait hehe IRL I'm not exactly like that but still a bit possessive) but people like you that openly speak what you like is refreshing, some or at least the ones that make more noise that are NTR enjoyers usually just enjoy to troll some game threads that clearly weren't planned to have those tags. My total respect for you. I have a slight "exception" that I don't consider NTR and some extreme "non-ntr" players consider it bad. And that is lesbian scenes, that makes my motor run and is extremely hot imo hehe I don't mind LIs/Side girls to have fun with each other and they don't need my "consent"OnlyUsedForNever has given a good explanation already. point 1. is probably the de facto main reason for galleries.
however i would like to expand on point 3. :
if you have read my review of this game you might have seen that i listed scenes the game has, based on composition. for me an important part are for example moresomes. the most obvious ones are ffm (2 female 1 male), mmf (2 male 1 female), gangbangs, and reverse gangbangs. because for me if those scenes are part of the game, they tell me a lot about how the story handles jealousy.
this game is a harem game and you may have noticed that usually harem games are about 1 guy and 1 guy only, while there are a myriad of girls who play bigger or smaller roles in said harem. to quite a few people these haremgirls cannot be touched, interact or even looked at by other males, as they clearly pose a threat to the harem. sometimes even the haremgirls aren't allowed to sexually interact with each other.
or what i recently noticed, exhibitionistic girls who do dances or stream themselves, to give them a "slutty" vibe while still being virgins or at least extremely inexperienced, have to stop their activities once they join the harem.
this extreme jealousy is something that immediately makes a game boring for me.
the other way around can also be the case. you have a sharing/cuck game where the male protagonist almost never or actually never gets to have sex with their own partner/spouse, while she gets guy after guy with barely any consistency.
this too makes games incredibly boring for me, as i rather would have gone for a female protagonist and wouldn't care for the partner/spouse at all instead!
so while viewing a gallery of a game i haven't played, i can see if a harem game has sharing to extend i like (even exhibitionism in front of male onlookers suffices most of the time), or if a sharing game has a male protagonist who gets his fair share of girls as well! because i want both. i want guys who can have fun with multiple girls and girls who can have fun with multiple guys. extra bonus points if it isn't cheating in any way. therefore a game like AlwaysFan with both a main male character and a main female character, who both share in sex scenes with an additional partner both either male or female, or both male and female together (partner swap) are the games i am looking for.
but try to find that out by looking at the game's summary and tags! ntr is too broadly used, swinging might just be one-way and harem doesn't say anything about how jealous the protagonist is.
that's why sometimes i give the gallery a look to decide if the game is something for me.
Did you let her got to the tower? That's where you can lose her. So I would say it's obvious and you were careless.Hadn't played this in a while. Just realized I lost Iris path, but I'm good with everyone else.
Could anyone give me the gist of how not to lose the iris path? Or is it obvious and I was just careless? I don't remember much.
More accurately I was probably drunk and not paying attention.Did you let her got to the tower? That's where you can lose her. So I would say it's obvious and you were careless.
Letting a girl go to the rape tower isn't a smart move, that should be clear.