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there is an « almost » scene with Kaili where she and MC are interrupted before serious stuff happens. Not easy to get, it can happen only if you are on a solo path (not interested in either Jaye or Mallory)
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Ah okay, that's why I've not seen it then - and if it's only an "almost" scene, it's not in the gallery. I'll have a look out of curiosity and see if it's easy enough to find with URM.
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Well, I met a lot 8 years old boys and girls as my kids were at that age. I don't know where you're living, but in the social circle my kids were at the age of 8 years the brain of the kids were developed enough to know what feelings are and what kind of actions can hurt the feelings of others. Kids learn this around the age of 3 to 5 normally. But maybe you're living in a special place with special kids who're a little bit slower. Who knows? I'm not judging, just saying your assumption about MC not being a normal kid isn't well explained. Oh, and btw when you played this game, you could know he's an american boy.just sayin that 8 years old boy talkin like adult (which is story writer's fault) looks fake. Kids at that age have like zero emphaty due to not fully developed brain and thats why kids are cruel. Oh, i'm sorry it's probably american boy so yeah everything is different and he thinks about his gender and feelings instead of running around, fighting, riding bike and doing whatever real kids at his age do
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Not worth it even if I bypass the fact that I'd have to skip both Mallory and Jaye to get to it!
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i'm just sayin that story writer is not skilled enough to write dialogues for kids so they speak like adults. Adults dialogues in this game are very good and realistic.
- Jun 14, 2020
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I think we all get what you said. Stand by it or correct yourself, but don't take us for fools.
Absolutely in agreement.I'm going to disagree, at least in principle. This is a porn game, but I don't think it's necessarily wrong to limit the porn options available based on what would be 'realistic' for a given person. Strong characterization is one of the bedrocks that can make an AVN so compelling, and some characters really are going to struggle with an idea like sharing a lover with someone else. Riding roughshod over that sort of objection may titillate, but it also flattens the distinction between characters. IMHO, that's too high a price to pay, at least as a general rule. As much as I'm down on the developers for the way they handled the end of the game, I'll defend their right to insist that some fantasies are beyond the scope of a given game.
HOWEVER...
If you want to go that route, you have to make it abundantly clear WHY those fantasies are impossible. We're talking about something that goes against who that person is at their core; you can't just live in narrow edge cases where asking for the impossible would work if you use the right wording. You need to make a clear, compelling case for why a character couldn't go along with something, and the case needs to appeal to a broad swath of players over a very wide set of circumstances. Try to get too cute with it and it's going to feel like an unreasonably convoluted secret path, or worse, like a bait and switch.
And that's where I think the devs screwed up here. I can easily buy that Jaye is just too possessive to share 'her' MC. I cannot buy she'd suddenly reverse course on that because the MC made a point of sulking about a girl he had to give up for Jaye; if that trick worked, Jaye/Tara would be an easy thing. Nor do I buy that an MC who DID decide to cut things off with Mallory to focus on Jaye would suddenly want to start things back up with Mallory at the 11th hour. He abandoned Mal (sexually) weeks ago, so he's clearly comfortable with that idea at a basic level. What makes him think things would work smoothly if he hits Ctrl-Z now? Why risk something - something that was so precious he gave up on Mallory for it in the first place - on such a longshot? And why would Jaye take the MC's acquiescence as a sign of his love for her rather than buyer's remorse?
The answer, obviously, is that they wouldn't - if this weren't a porn game. Maybe you could make this twist work if you spent several chapter setting it up and seeing the characters struggle with the changes. Maybe. But trying to cram it into a single scene in the chapter that had lots of other loose ends to tie up? No way. It not only feels fake, it damages the integrity of the characters involved. It's the worst of both worlds: the characters are flattened into bland tropes, but we still don't get the extra titillation that should go along with that. Everyone loses.
Plus, it really grinds my gears the way the game promises us that we should "play our conscience" in the intro, then slams us with a folding chair at the end for daring to think that the proper way to start a polyamorous relationship is with a heaping helping of honesty. Evidently our 'conscience' should be a finely tuned propensity for gaslighting and deception. Fake it 'til you make it, MC!
She doesn't want to share? Then why would she agree to it in the first place?! After Jaye and the MC hook up, it says that she is considering an open relationship. Okay, cool - it gives the impression that she's either going to say yes or no. When she accepts it, the player is given the impression that this path is valid and that there will be a way provided to make it work. It's bad writing for the sake of a 'gotcha'.
Apparently the MC had his head so far stuck his ass that there was no opportunity provided to fix this 'blatant foreshadowing' once you were locked into this path, and the means to do so were only provided by the developers after they released this episode and got the massive blowback.
It's only hard if you think that treating both girls equally means you love them both equally. But according to the developers, Jaye needs to love the MC 15-20% more than Mallory does for poly to be a thing. Even if you make it so Mallory is +90 and Jaye is +90...it's not good enough. No, you literally have to choose Jaye at every opportunity when there is an option to choose either her or Mallory - even for arbitrary things like who you look at when they are tanning topless.
It's 'hard' because its counterintuitive. Not because it makes sense.
I've got no problem with character driving things forward, because that is what makes the best stories. I don't mind that she's only into sharing in a specific situation where she is assured that she is the queen bee and that it has to be her idea. But if you're going to go by this idea that she will react to things in a realistic way, you need to provide opportunities for the player to react to her reaction.
This game is like an Olympic gymnast or diver that does an incredibly complex routine only to completely fuck up the landing/entry. It's still good, but it leaves a sour taste in the mouth because it could have been transcendent.
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what you think is irrelevant. Problem is most VNs have poor writing because there are many people who can use DAZ and create visuals and very few people who can actually write meaningful story, "speaking" for many different characters of different ages in such way that just by reading text you can distinguish them from each other. I just started playing this game and instantly noticed how kids talk like adults when they go to school and talk about Star War movie like pair of film critics. Bullshit. Whatever, i'll just fast forward through prologue, may be after that it will get better
I don't think that CS or pretty much any AVN is going to be for you. You just started and you're already complaining that two 8 years olds aren't talking exactly how you think they should. Honestly it's almost like you've gone into this looking to hate on it for whatever reason. There's nit picking (which I can be guilty of myself at times) and then there's this.
I may have a few minor issues with CS (mostly me wanting to have my cake and eat it too) but even so this is for me without a doubt, one of the best AVN's around.
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Then why do you answer?
And for the rest of your "opinion" it's going off topic. A little bit off topic is okay for the most Mods, but we shouldn't stretch it. And with "we" I mean you, because I'm out of this discussion now. Just a hint for the future: don't try too hard.
Sorry, that's a you problem. The (admittedly odd) way to achieve a 3 way ending has been discussed extensively.omg im so sad that we cant get a 3 way ending
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I've played about hundred AVNs at this point, there are several ones with good writing, usually when dev that wrote text has some writing education/background. But most of AVN are bad at this department and most dialogues sounds same plain, primitive and boring, looking same for different chars and just askin to be skipped. I don't even talking about stories, this require even more skill from writer.
I'm not tellin that CS is bad AVN. I'm just telling that I noticed immediately from the start, kids don't talk like that, its complete bullshit. I saw this in many AVNs when MC being 18 years old began to give life advices to people of age of 40+, talking in such manner and phrases like he already had 30 years of life experience behind his back. Same bullshit. Bad story/writing. Unrealistic. And it's clearly noticable.
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What's ongoing project (3DCRG) going on from Category -A1-Developers(StoneFoxStudio)?
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Their new title is called Firebreak
From the devs:
- We plan to keep the story in the same universe with some crossover characters from Chasing Sunsets
- We're looking at a different approach to episodic releases which will hopefully makes each update more self-contained
- It will feature a male MC
- While the game will be story-driven, there will be more potential LIs, including some who were not LIs in Chasing Sunsets
We also recognize that while slow burns have their place, (we will certainly include them in Firebreak), these are called Adult Visual Novels for a reason. We thought a lot about a story vehicle to deliver more of that kind of content convincingly earlier in the game without cheapening or overcomplicating the relationships with ladies you may like, but find less interesting.
We're super excited to be approaching the end of one story, but even more excited to share that the tale of the friends we made along the way won't necessarily end with the last sunset!
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Well, it has Tara front and center, so I'm in.
While there might be a handful of other attractive ladies too, Tara will be the reason to try this out.
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By the looks of that preview image, I'm putting them all on the menu. Some with a higher priority, of course, but they all look good.
This game is greately executed, inteligent writing and perfect dialogs full of subtle innuendo between the characters, the art is great too very sharp with great definition, Congratulations DEV, you created something special with this game.
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I always get a bucket of horseshit thrown my way when i state most stories in VN's suck and i'm only here for the porn.
I don't read most of it and most of the time i skip to the hot scenes.
Saves me from the written bullshit.
edit: yes ik know dudes , Pornhub for me
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This is why an in-game gallery is such a good addition. It allows easy access to the content you want in that particular moment - I always check for a gallery or gallery mod when I am checking out a new game, as I can get an idea of the graphics, animations, and lewd-scene quality to help me make an early decision on how far to test the game.