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But even more than the nerds, I wouldn't be surprised if we get good old Deus Ex Machina in here with someone who wasn't even shown in the game till now.
This is what I'm slightly concerned about. Like the Sage family picture/relationship. Were there any in-game hints that could have been used to figure this out in advance? If so, I didn't catch them.
 

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It has been a long year 2023 of waiting and hoping, which is now coming to an end. We have argued, made up, laughed and cried together. But the most important thing is that "Being a DIK" united us and made us DIKs. Somehow I think it's so that we are all married to DPC and go through good and bad times together. It will be like that again in 2024, but we know that there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that light is called EP11.

I wish all DIKs a healthy, happy and carefree New Year and let's all look forward to the light at the end of the tunnel together.
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I played another AVN a few years ago in which the MC was permitted a gay option—he was picking up girls at a club, one of the other characters informed him he was actually hitting on a ladyboy, and you got to choose whether he took the ladyboy home anyway. Just for fun, I did. All his straight friends at the club were stunned: “What do you mean it doesn’t matter?” Laughed my ass off at the entire scenario.

I play these games for the fun, not the porn. If you’re only choosing pathways through a game solely based on whether it makes your cock hard, you’re doing it wrong. Probably doing life wrong too.
dude I'm here for the fights, this is one of the few AVN that really lets you fight and has a minigame exclusively for that. :KEK:
 
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Happy New Year, friends. View attachment 3221247
And may the most beautiful, magnificent, incomparable Divine Quinn bless us all.:love:
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Honestly, she needs a white knight and contrition/redemption arc. Her treatment of Maya and others is pretty shit. But she's also been raised like shit. So I don't mind having a playthrough where she's doing community service, wearing a leg band and apologizing, like in some 12 step program. And also all the shitters who helped drag her down, they all get tossed in jail and do 12 years hard labor.

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dude I'm here for the fights, this is one of the few AVN that really lets you fight and has a minigame exclusively for that. :KEK:
The mini games aren't really my cup of tea, but it's good there's an option for those who do like them.

I *do* like the whole warrior/musician thing going on with the MC. The more he can kick ass and make the ladies drop their panties with his guitar - the better.
 

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I like Maya but I don't like being complicit in a lesbian duo, tell me currently in the game is there any way to start a relationship with Maya without Josie? I'm at the stage of choosing a way in the scene at the table with john-boy, his girlfriend, tommy and his girlfriend. Jill is acting like an immature child, there's clearly something wrong with Sage, Bella has her own skeletons in her closet and cow boobs that are repulsive, the only girl I liked turned out to be a lesbian, what the hell?
I can understand this perspective. I'm not really a fan of the lesbian story arc either. Plus, I have a hard time seeing them as a couple and I think they're only together because they're both extremely lonely. But this is a soap opera, so yeah, it is what it is.

If you travel down Jill's path, to me it seems she was designed to be a sort of semi-plausible "teaching the virgin about love" route. She's got some darkness in her life, you're there to also bring her some light and some real-world perspective. She's rich and insulated - you're poor and know what it's like to live in a house that can't keep you warm during the winter.

Bella - I share you concerns with her body design (like Jill's) - it's a bit too unrealistic. It should be more grounded in reality, like Maya or Josy. However, the dev does a *really* good job with her emotional reactions on her beautiful face as you get closer to her and you can help bring her out of a really dark place, a sort of depression.

I really like Sage. But at the same time she's the hardest character to understand, from my perspective. We're not really shown why the hell she's so attached to Chad. She has a really, really hard time detaching from him and it's inexplicable. However, that also means she's really loyal, in her own strange way. So she'd be great to have as a partner if you've shown her she can rely on you. She's pissy, but she also doesn't go down that whole stupid tsundere route. She's also been stuck with parents who seem to have been able to supply her with material support, but not much else. Her dad is a self-absorbed narcissist - maybe even a tad bit on the sociopath side. He doesn't seem to be able to attach to others or feel much in the way of empathy. It's all about him, and that's not the kind of person you want to be around. So Sage triggers the appropriate number of white knight feels for me, personally.

Anyway, I'm not trying to change your mind about any of the characters, your comments I can pretty much relate to and of course I have my own perspective on the story and characters.
 
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i'm still upset that i didn't get to fight tommy again in chapter 10. but that's not going to change the fact that now i can annoy him by telling him i fucked his sister. :KEK:
Getting Tommy that pissed does pretty much make it all worth it and almost puts this story choice at the top. Though seeing the look on Rusty's face when you step out with Jill is also kinda nice to see. I like Rusty, but he's also a rich spoiled kid and he needs to grow up.

But the competition is tough, there's things I like about pretty much all the girls.
 

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the minigames have been hit or miss for me. i liked the mansion repair..party planning..new version of brawler and that is about it. the rest of the minigames are not that great.
 
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the minigames have been hit or miss for me. i liked the mansion repair..party planning..new version of brawler and that is about it. the rest of the minigames are not that great.
I like the mansion repair, brawler and beer pong are pretty fun, and actually the fish mini game I kind of like it
 
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I like the idea of the mini-games being turned on or off. Though "off" doesn't seem to apply as... coherently as it should as there are still a few that slip through.

I'm also not a fan of the point and click. However, the dev does avoid repeat scenes and grind (I guess with mini-games turned off) and that is a huge plus. I'm not a big fan of grind, it has to be done a certain way to be fun (like gameplay to raise stats in an RPG) and most devs don't get it right. It's why I got tired of World of Warcraft - the same dungeons over and over again, the same raids. That's not fun, for my tastes.
 
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Wonder if there is foreshadowing. Get Bianca and also get her friend?
Bianca's friend seems to like how you look at the yoga class. But there's a lot of girls who like how MC looks so there's no telling where it'll all go.
 
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Wonder if there is foreshadowing. Get Bianca and also get her friend?
There's little point introducing Bianca and her friend if MC can't corrupt Jill into his harem cuck queen. Temptation points may make sense on other LI paths, but for a player to even get on Jill's path they pretty much already have to commit to being a white knight so temptations are meaningless. Jill simps would never do anything that might hurt Jillybean's precious feelings.

But for those who tread a DIKer path, reward for pursuing Jill might come from claiming all her friends and banding together their resources to take over MC's grandfather's business. I'm sure all smashing all those rich debutantes and sticking it to their stuck up parents will be quite fun.
 
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