I abandoned playing a long time ago because of much of what you point out here. Either make a harem game or a fun along the way with a single LI ending or a strictly one woman romance but trying to incorporate all these ideas into one story seems disingenuous. I understand Dev's want to reach a diverse audience but, other than the artwork this just tanked for me. The story line was mostly unrelatable, the characters were annoying and flawed in an unnatural way, and the artwork and models are the only enjoyable part of this one.CAUTION: Lots of high-level spoilers for Chapter 9 below; read at your own peril!
Well, in Mal's case it sort of makes sense if you assume that Mal really did have feelings for Amanda almost as strong as for the MC; just because Jaye is becoming a close friend that doesn't mean Mallory is sexually attracted to her.
Of course going with that explanation would open up a huge can of worms about Amanda and offers no explanation for why Mal would be on board with a Jaye throuple as long as she's clearly second fiddle, so... yeah.
Oh, while you're here...
I find it unreasonably amusing that we can now definitively state that this was NOT the reason for the long dev cycle.I don't even like Tara and I still found her absence disturbing!
It's funny, I've been banging my head against a similar but more niche issue for ages now. The only way to commit to Mallory is to have sex with her in Chapter 5; if you send her away (say... because you don't want to give $#@%$ Amanda a peep show), game over. No matter how committed the player might be to Mallory, the MC flat out refuses to address the issue at all unless he's in a post-coital cuddle. For extra irony, I can't even avoid the pre-dump sexcapade because, again, the only way to break up with Mallory is ALSO in the wake of the Chapter 5 sex scene. Unsurprisingly, Mallory wound up dumping the MC on my main run in because of the 'open' relationship we sort of backed into. The whole thing turned out to be a cautionary tale about bad communication killing relationships. That's a little too realistic for my taste.
To see this whole mess echoed in the main routes, though, is just depressing. The sexless Mallory run is an extreme edge case. The throuple is THE mainline, the whole game is practically one long tease for it. I don't object to making the throuple hard to get, but if you go that route the logic behind the requirements really should hold up in hindsight and IMHO these arguments are extremely flimsy. As many have already pointed out, why is it impossible to achieve the same end result by being loyal to Mallory when she's the one who seemed much more open to sharing at every turn? At the very least you'd think it would be Jaye who calls off the open path, but no. Just as importantly, why would an MC who already turned down Mallory for Jaye WANT to open up for a throuple at this late date? It feels like the MC needs to be disingenuous to pull his mini-harem off: admit your interest in both girls and it crashes and burns, but lie about it then gaslight Jaye into thinking it's her idea and you're golden. I don't care for that at all. Then again I was never interested in the throuple so maybe I'm just not the right person to ask.
As far as the update as a whole, it was remarkably underwhelming. The only way this "wraps up the main story" is that it closes out the framing sequence with Walt from the beginning of the game; it sure doesn't do anything to bring closure to the events the MC recounted within that frame. I guess you could say the chapter sort of sketches out how the MC's romances will end up and where the Prizer lawsuit is going, but those sketches are VERY thin. Aside from the throuple kerfuffle and the truly surreal 'Jaye is kicked out of Harvard' subplot, I think we could have sketched these same outcomes ourselves at the end of the last chapter. I mean, cheating bad, puppy good, solo paths possible, villains probably going to lose (thanks entirely to Christian!) - it's all boilerplate stuff. What details did we actually learn in this update? Nothing. Even the new idea of Mallory having to go into hiding for her own safety is quite literally over before it begins. The sex scenes were fine, but they didn't exactly break new ground and nothing else actually happened in the finale of the story. Definitely not what I would have expected.
Maybe the devs were never as invested in the story as it seemed early on, or maybe they just want to wrap this up and move on to their next game, but this was not a good place to plant the flag and call it a day. The story needs more than some ending slides to close things out properly. Involving the MC in the resolution would be a good start.
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It looks like there are 4 main routes, though the minor details can vary somewhat.
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Yes, it's exactly the dev breaking the fourth wall.
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Thanks, I think I'd prefer to wait to have the epilogue before doing a definitive run, and enjoying future playthroughs as well.You must be registered to see the links
Has been released
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The most recent update is v1.0 which completes the main story.
Please read below, while this does finish it's main story, there are 3 more updates, read below.
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Pro-tip, if you leak this game, don't use the dev links, they will just remove them and you will fuck over their Patreon's, use your own links. The game is also only a single dollar on both Patreon and SubscribeStar, food for thought.
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Happy to see this one wrap up, I still remember the early chapters released, and have been monitoring the progress, playing every couple of chapters from the start each time.
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Mal? Hell, Amanda outright requests it. Which is honestly the only reason I consider that path(Mal) worth exploring. It makes me feel like a truly degenerate person, though, considering a few weeks before she seemed pretty effectively retarded.
Sure, we have a cure, but I read Flowers for Algernon when I was younger, so it just feels wrong.
Also mildly amusing to see more of Artemis' face in CS before I saw it in her own titled game.
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Update was going well until the cabin scene ended, really ridiculous that the open relationship route makes mal pull away lmao while the one you focus on the sister doesn't.
Not sure what the dev was smoking but oh well, it's his game.
Not sure what the dev was smoking but oh well, it's his game.
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For me it was weird for more than 1 reason.Nope. I found it too. It was a little bit weird....
The first because she seemed to be obsessed with MC, then she pops up like this...#1 weird
Her character never had some real purpose in the story, then when we are just waiting for the epilogue she appears like that #2 weird.
And i dont know how the epilogue is going to be, but if we stop to think MILF and her daughter didnt had a real purpose in the story either, MC had some story with them in the past, the game took a little while with them at the beginning...then they vanish just like Fiona, just appearing in some brief text messages conversations...i thought MC would travel to meet with them at some point before the end of the game.
Depending on the size of the epilogue the endings with them
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If you uses Sancho's mod then no, you would need his save fixer, and if for some reason you played the Steam version those save are not compatible either as they are different versions.
One of the reasons there is a mod for Steam and one for Patreon.
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Looks like old saves aren't working? Can anyone share the save files to play the latest update. thanks
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If I remember right there is a selfish/evil path which eventually leads to you refusing to save your sister in a certain situation but that route leads to an early bad end.
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And you do NOT get the company.
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This game is so misleading. I played it from beginning to end and didn't get to chase one fucking sunset. Total bullshit
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What are you talking about? You can get 2 different Throuples, on separate playthroughs. Mal and Amanda, and Jaye and Mal, but the 2nd one wont actually be shown until the Epilogue comes out.