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At this point I will be bitching about the preview even if it is one with Maya and NSFW...
at this point for ch11 there were 2 nsfw in first 10, and 2 in next 10(+2 fake ones)
For ch10 - 3 in first 10, 1 afterwards.
But DPc promised a bunch of steam/gog previews before the end of the year, didnt he?
 
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Roger-a-Dale

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All Signs point to having to choose one of them. Even Mel talks about her throuple and how her friend is still with the guy and she left it. The MC Dad even points out that it is a bad idea. Even Derek is confused by it. It just isn't a relationship that is meant to work out for all three.
I don't think this is actually the case. It's more like the route to keeping the throuple balanced is meant to be hard to pull off and the game is both establishing a basis for bad ends and warning the players that they need to pay attention. There are pitfalls just like doing Cathy shuts down Bella's path and doing Jade blocks Sage's romance variant, but if you avoid the traps you'll get a good end.
 

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I don't think this is actually the case. It's more like the route to keeping the throuple balanced is meant to be hard to pull off and the game is both establishing a basis for bad ends and warning the players that they need to pay attention. There are pitfalls just like doing Cathy shuts down Bella's path and doing Jade blocks Sage's romance variant, but if you avoid the traps you'll get a good end.
I honestly don't think this is the case. Considering the last game you had to choose which one to leave in a burning building. All the various clues point to having to do this at some point it might not be as dire as the last game, but there really isn't a happy ending for throuples realistically and various character express this at multiple points. I see no proof of the contrary anywhere in the game.
 

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Maybe i'm just heartless .. because Josy has my heart but i think it going to be very easy to kick Maya out
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Yeah, if we have to pick one then poor Maya is going to be sleeping alone.
Josy is just way too cute to kick out.

And let's be cold blooded pragmatists for a moment - Maya appears to have the same disease her Mom does.
Maya is scared of this and points out that her hands are craggy and look rough, like her Mom's.
So do you want to pick Maya and then end up being her caretaker when she's 40 like her Dad is for her Mom?

Life's a cruel bitch sometimes.

(But I am still confident there will be a happy throuple route and that is what I would do rather than any solo with either of them.)
 
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I honestly don't think this is the case. Considering the last game you had to choose which one to leave in a burning building. All the various clues point to having to do this at some point it might not be as dire as the last game, but there really isn't a happy ending for throuples realistically and various character express this at multiple points. I see no proof of the contrary anywhere in the game.
I agree with this, especially when you take DPC's history toward poly relationships.
I think all these players who think there is some magic combo they can pull off to preserve the throuple will be very sad, but it's doomed. Full stop. No MC choices will keep them all together.
Some choices will definitely make the inevitable split less painful though. :devilish:
 

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Yeah, if we have to pick one then poor Maya is going to be sleeping alone.
Josy is just way too cute to kick out.

And let's be cold blooded pragmatists for a moment - Maya appears to have the same disease her Mom does.
Maya is scared of this and points out that her hands are craggy and look rough, like her Mom's.
So do you want to pick Maya and then up being her caretaker when she's 40 like her Dad is for her Mom?

Life's a cruel bitch sometimes.

(But I am still confident there will be a happy throuple route and that is what I would do rather than any solo with either of them.)
While i tend to think they break no matter what there could be a path for both a happy throuple and solo's
 

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I honestly don't think this is the case. Considering the last game you had to choose which one to leave in a burning building. All the various clues point to having to do this at some point it might not be as dire as the last game, but there really isn't a happy ending for throuples realistically and various character express this at multiple points. I see no proof of the contrary anywhere in the game.
Well you don't have absolute proof for there being any good ends whatsoever. You'll only have that when the game actually ends. It could just as easily be that the throuple good end is the only good end for that path and hints at solo paths for Josy and Maya are just there to lead the player astray. The story core for them could be that if MC breaks one's heart the other will feel too guilty to be with him. You have to make both happy or neither will be.
 
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I don't think it will be a choice.
Just like in Ep 11 the player gets a solo date with either Maya or Josy depending on which they have done more solo things with, I suspect the game will use that action to drive a wedge between the two that had the date and the 3rd that is left out.

I am confident the player will still be able to salvage the throuple but it will take some time to rebuild the relationship between all 3.
And in that process the player will instead be able to just pick a solo with Maya or Josy route if they want. (Though it would take a real heartless b*stard to kick either Maya or Josy out of the relationship and just keep the other.)

I suspect the wedge will happen in Ep 12 and the rebuilding and choice between throuple or solo maya or solo josy will be in Season 4.
I have a very different and slightly more optimistic outlook and 2 possible ways I can see this going.

First of all, this is the "Josy and Maya branch" and I don't think that it would be a branch for and with both if you can't end up with both. This game is not the same one as AL and I don't believe it can be used as a precedent because the throuple in that game never even got started because the moment you made it official you wanted that, which in this game would be the equivalent of the choice in Ep 4, tragedy struck soon after and it ended before it even began. With this one, we entered into it fully and have been doing our best to navigate its complexities whilst also getting intimate time with both at the same time, something AL did also not have.

With that being said, I think that what we will first and foremost see is that Josy & Maya will follow through on what they said talked about in Ep 11, opening up more and spending more time together as they look to rekindle things between them which they both said they wanted. We'll also see them and the MC doing things together as part of this as well since they also acknowledged they shouldn't leave him out of this process.

After this, we'll get a scene where the girls want to have a serious talk about how things have been going, maybe at the NYE party, and the first way I could see it go is that it will come down to choices made throughout the game that will feed into a scoring system like what Zoey got in Ep 11. If you score below the threshold then the MC will be the one who exits the relationship because it will be such that they feel as though his heart isn't in it with both of them and he will realise they're right, and if you're above the threshold then he will all say they love each other and the throuple is set.

Another way I could see it going is that a scoring system adds up things with each girl individually, not just the lewds but other choices as well, and if it's more heavily weighted towards one girl than the other then it either results in the other acknowledging that they think it best if they step aside and let the MC and the girl with the higher score be together, or it results in both girls feeling the same as the previous scenario, that his heart wasn't in it for both and since this was the whole point of what they entered into they feel they have to let him go.

A possible 3rd way it goes is that this simply gets dragged out until S4 because Ep 12 is the rebuilding episode and will be all about them recommitting to this after all the drama that's just happened kind of threw them off track and they weren't as focused on it as they should have been. So it won't be until the last season and maybe even near the end of the game before we see how it goes.
 
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All Signs point to having to choose one of them. Even Mel talks about her throuple and how her friend is still with the guy and she left it. The MC Dad even points out that it is a bad idea. Even Derek is confused by it. It just isn't a relationship that is meant to work out for all three.
But Becky approves so...
 
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Well you don't have absolute proof for there being any good ends whatsoever. You'll only have that when the game actually ends. It could just as easily be that the throuple good end is the only good end for that path and hints at solo paths for Josy and Maya are just there to lead the player astray. The story core for them could be that if MC breaks one's heart the other will feel too guilty to be with him. You have to make both happy or neither will be.
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I honestly don't think this is the case. Considering the last game you had to choose which one to leave in a burning building. All the various clues point to having to do this at some point it might not be as dire as the last game, but there really isn't a happy ending for throuples realistically and various character express this at multiple points. I see no proof of the contrary anywhere in the game.
I agree with this, especially when you take DPC's history toward poly relationships.
I think all these players who think there is some magic combo they can pull off to preserve the throuple will be very sad, but it's doomed. Full stop. No MC choices will keep them all together.
Some choices will definitely make the inevitable split less painful though. :devilish:
DPC's "history" was one game and one game only. One instance of something happening is hardly enough to say it's a pattern in his storytelling. You wouldn't look at a movie like Jaws and say that all Steve Spielberg films were going to be like that. Good storytellers don't keep going back to the well and doing the same things over and over again. They might reuse some elements, but they'll craft a different story with them that has different outcomes, and in this case that different outcome can be a throuple that actually can work out.

As far as I'm concerned, DPC didn't make this a branch to be with 2 girls only for it not to work out. Imagine if any other MG branch didn't work out no matter what you did. Yes, there's only one girl you're with on that branch, but it's still a main branch and so it's expected you will get an ending with the girl. By the same token, the Josy and Maya branch is one where you're in a relationship with both of them. If you make choices that favour one over the other too heavily then I think you should expect something to happen whereby the throuple doesn't work out because of that, but if you've not done that and made other choices throughout that could be positive and beneficial for the relationship then I do believe it will result in an ending with both because that's what the branch is ostensibly for.

Just as the Sage, Bella, and Jill branches are for those girls respectively, the Josy and Maya branch is ultimately for both as that's what you're supposed to be getting into it for. So if the other MG branches get their endings then so too should there be an ending with Josy and Maya together. Otherwise DPC needn't have even bothered having this branch if he's just not going to fulfill what it's meant to be.
 
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