I don't even want to bang all of the cis girls in this game. It's rare where I have a real interest in 100% of the cis love interests in one of these games. There are some that attract my attention, and some that don't. I generally don't want to fuck a character in one of these games just so I can see a sex scene. In pretty much any game that I play, it's nice to have the option not to have sex with any given character if you're just not interested in them sexually. Now, separate from that, if that character is going through some shit, I can show compassion for them without having passion for them. I can want them to be happy as a character without wanting them as my lover, especially at that point in their life.
Same, though generally usually means when a character has been through some extremely traumatic event or string of events. Traumatized people and people on the edge of suicide, Nea is one of the latter, don't appeal to me. I don't want to bang someone, virtually or in reality, that could just end up dead the next day by their own hand. Rin from Lessons in Love is the same way with me right now, she's even my number one character without contest and I absolutely do not want to go for sex with her until she is treated for her condition. Rin happens to be a cis woman.
Yeah I couldn't care less about anything that deals with Alicia, I just wanted to get through her to get to Seki's scenes. More than half of this game to me is like that; too many characters I don't care about.
This is one of the few games where I am in that same boat, Seki happens to be one of my favorites.
So, I went picture hunting on Luxee's Twitter account earlier today looking for screenies or renders I never knew about, and I found several winners I downloaded (mostly from the PL world) but there was a few for A69.
The one I'm posting I immediately set as my desktop wallpaper. Now tell me? Isn't this the cutest goddamn face you ever saw in a VN?
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I know it's a slightly different render when it comes to her facial expression and picture orientation than the image Seki sends you, but next to Ada, she's the cutest damn girl I've ever seen in a VN. Just look at that adorable face. Holy shit! I can't wait to actually meet her in the game and see how Yui and Seki interact with the MC.
YES! She is actually my favorite in all of A69, even with what little time she has had in game.
I have a feeling Lux is going to blitzkrieg us with Nea until her route is done. Every update she'll most likely be in, and we'll probably get a decent mix of the other girls as well. Tess hasn't got any airtime at all basically and really neither has Jamie.
Expect Nea overload until Luxee is comfortable putting her on the backburner. Obviously, for players that did a death from above with her, there's nothing to really do, except possibly what the others at school will say, or the MC's family, whatever.
I know who I want to see, and I know who I couldn't give a fuck about, but I'm not expecting 0.07 until late Summer at least. Lux did say on DISCORD that this (PL update) had 665 renders, which was third largest PL update just behind v0.4 and V0.8, so it's going to be pretty meaty.
I hope Seki and Yui get some of the update, some Evie and Millie would be nice, too.
Except that both threads will be soapboxing (whatever that means) when more content with the massage girl gets added to PL.
It essentially means going on about something passionately, so for this thread that would be the whole Nea love or death choice.
Still working on Parental Love, nothing yet for this game.
Isn’t there an option to just ignore Nea right from the start too?
There is, she dies by suicide if you don't love her, that's what started the whole argument.
Right, I thought so. I remembered pointing it out before that it might be a good idea to reword the choice in a future update to make it clear that there really isn't a friendship only option.
I mean, there is the alternative of also making a friendship option, which is actually doable with only the renders he would be making for the love option and just excluding the sexual events from firing in the code.
Yeah that is something that the dev should really fix in the future. I thought that there would be a friendship only path with Nea. The suicide thing really caught me by surprise.
It certainly took me by surprise too. The route that suddenly disappeared is the one I intended to follow.
Exactly
I'm going to say one thing about this and that's it.
Ignoring her still puts her in the story, you just don't see the scenes. Whatever scenes she would have still technically happens; so whatever happens with the MC, or in the future hangs out with him and Evie let's say, still happens.
To me, I'd rather not have her in the game at all, so her route doesn't become a focal-point or the reason why you can't do other girls' scenes before Nea's.
So, if I have to suffer through a couch BJ to get her to do a death from above and get her outta the game for good, then that's what I'm going to do.
I don't care what anyone thinks and I know I am in the very small minority in this game about her, but it's the same thing as the masseuse in PL. No fucking thank you. Go away. Have a nice landing. WON'T see you next fall
This right here is a huge issue to me from a development point of view. Intertwining a web of requirements is fine, but they should never be focused on the sole purpose of driving one single character, especially one as contentious as Nea. This is an extremely bad move and is more likely to push people away entirely than it is to draw people to the game.
