The information from earlier posts is going to be outdated as this game has been updated and rewritten more than once due to a ton of rather cruel backlash. I'm serious... this game has drawn HEAVY criticism! The dev wants to make a unique experience that folks will enjoy. When he finds that a large group did not enjoy something, he makes changes. So, this title has been through the ringer a few dozen times and had some changes, both minor and major, during it's journey from where I started in v0.1 through the current v0.78. It's been a long, long journey thus far and I have enjoyed most of it, even the weird and occasionally objectionable parts because the dev is trying to do something unique that hasn't been done before... at least not successfully IMHO.
This is a rare and unique AVN. The story lines are all over the spectrum, sometimes interweaving with each other and other times wandering a country mile out into left field... It's always been weird, kinky and different, mixing sci fi, horror, action and thriller genre stories with kinky sex and outright perversion. Not everything will be to your liking. I can guarantee that. There are parts of this game I just won't touch, for example... I will NOT role play as a vampire. I find the entire concept disgusting. I prefer the part of vampire slayer as I am much like professor Abraham Van Helsing from the original Dracula by Bram Stoker. I LOVE vampire stories but always see myself from the vampire slayer POV. I have a similar opinion of lycanthropy. I'm not a fan of ghost stories but there is a rather large one in this game so I play the ghost story... Overall, I give Area 69 high regards as it has brought me a ton of entertainment value through nearly three years I have been following this rare, weird and rather kinky title.
In the end, I recommend that you try it as that is the only way to know for sure if you will enjoy it. You choose MC's path for the most part. I'd be lying if I said you can skip everything you find objectionable... like seeing that hideous school principal without her shirt on! Yuck!!! Most of the really objectionable parts are totally avoidable like the rape and there is no ntr now... not even a hint like there was before AFAIK, further gameplay should prove that statement true. The rewrite and rework was substantial and so far, for the better. One thing I would recommend that I do with all Ren'Py titles is to set the controls to skip unread text in the settings menu. This allows you to fast forward through any parts you really don't want to see. For me on PC, I use the ctrl (control) key to zip past anything I'd rather not sit through. This works better than the skip function in the mini HUD menu because it only skips while you depress the ctrl key. The HUD menu is an on/off toggle and once pressed continues to skip until you click "skip" again to stop it. That makes missing the end of the objectionable parts difficult and you can only roll back a set number of screens. So, I press ctrl in short bursts because it really moves quickly and I don't want to skip all, just the gross stuff like the principals naked boobs! Yuck! Fat, gross ass bitch! Anyway... I use that set up in all Ren'Py titles because it works wonders on boring parts in other titles as well as quickly bypassing the more objectionable parts here... But, overall, I don't have to skip much in Area 69. When I DL these updates I know that the weird, wild, kinky adventure will continue and that is why I keep coming back... It will be three years this September that I have followed and enjoyed this game. I hope you give it a fair go. I also hope this helps you, my friend. Apologies for the long winded reply. I tend to ramble on over things I enjoy...
Adventure ever on, Phat
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