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Jack1938

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This update just added more confusion.
Well it was already cleared up by another user. It's good ol' get together with another guy to make your crush jealous and/or move on from him since mc got himself a girlfriend.
Annoying thing is that "another guy" in question is someone your best friend hates the most. And THAT seems like bitchy thing to do for me. The whole "i can fix him" vibe is not really helping.
 

abirvg

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Ok, I'm confused.
There are a bunch of guys and girls on the main banner - I assume these are primary characters.
But there's no swinging/netorare tag.

I'm all for something unique, but... What is this game about?
//I didn't play it. Just trying to decide whether to play it or not.
 

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But there's no swinging/netorare tag.
The tags are missing because there's technically no real content for it yet. But they're planned and the game largely revolves around it. In the OP:

Planned: Netorare, Netorase (Both avoidable by sticking to alpha path)
 
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Ok, I'm confused.
There are a bunch of guys and girls on the main banner - I assume these are primary characters.
But there's no swinging/netorare tag.

I'm all for something unique, but... What is this game about?
//I didn't play it. Just trying to decide whether to play it or not.
The name Crossed Lines is meant to be ironic, because this game doesn't cross any lines.
 

Griev

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I mean, it doesn't really bother me specifically -- MC has a girlfriend and Emily is single, she can date whoever she wants. If anything it's MC getting a little obsessed and borderline stalkerish, following her and Tyson around etc, despite being in a relationship, that feels pretty cringe.
This is how I feel as well. Emily isn't his gf, so being upset that she's with someone else IS cringe and weirdo behavior. It makes me like the MC a lot less.
 

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This is how I feel as well. Emily isn't his gf, so being upset that she's with someone else IS cringe and weirdo behavior. It makes me like the MC a lot less.
Well, I didn't play the game yet, but such behavior is very common in ntr/nts stories - and, surprisingly, there's a reason for it.
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This was an odd update for me. The dialogue was strange and somewhat annoying to read at times. I'm still not sure what to make of Emily. Is she into Tyson or the MC? Both? Does she just like playing games? I have to agree with the poster above that following Emily and Tyson around for so long was pretty cringe. Finally there is Jasmine. I'm not certain if she is really the MC's girlfriend at this point. He seems to spend more time in the coffee shop than he does with her. I'd be more inclined to believe she was just a friend like Emily.
 

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This is how I feel as well. Emily isn't his gf, so being upset that she's with someone else IS cringe and weirdo behavior. It makes me like the MC a lot less.
To each one this one taste,so people have right to be upset or not.Who said u can only be just with one person? :unsure:
 

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To each one this one taste,so people have right to be upset or not.Who said u can only be just with one person? :unsure:
Oh, for sure you can be upset all you want about anything in the game, and so can I, right?

MC can be with whoever he wants, but at this point in the story he's with 1 girl and they haven't spoken about adding another into that relationship yet unless I've missed or didn't get the dialogue due to the choices I've made thus far. So there's no reason to stalk another girl for days. Just my opinion, your more than welcome to yours, and to also disagree.
 

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The characters on the screen should CARE for what is happening - and their emotions needs to be as strong as possible (because of how 'mirroring' in reader's brain work).
If the character 'doesn't care' - then the reader 'won't care' either.
I think you're making a mistake here by presuming that "doesn't stalk = doesn't care" and that this pathetic behavior is the only way to show that the MC is emotional about the subject.

We have direct insight into MC's thoughts, so the game can simply show to the reader that these thoughts exist, that MC is potentially worried about Emily and Tyson getting close. That it bothers him --and also, that's a good opportunity for some introspection why it bothers him-- etc and so on.

But ffs, it doesn't mean MC has to act on these thoughts like a cringy creep, especially without taking any input from the player. The things which people point out regarding his own situation, his thought process should acknowledge these too. That way you have even more, conflicting emotions going on in his head, which you say yourself is what should be happening to keep the reader invested. Then leave it to the player to decide if they want to stalk his friend or if they'd rather not. If it's your decision and not just railroaded MC's action that'd alleviate the frustration the sequence currently creates for some players.
 
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This is how I feel as well. Emily isn't his gf, so being upset that she's with someone else IS cringe and weirdo behavior. It makes me like the MC a lot less.
except one of his best friends is potentially dating his bully/an asshole. If it was anyone else he'd probably not care. Basically he's trying to keep a complete douchebag out of his friend group.
 
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ffive

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Basically he's trying to keep a complete douchebag out of his friend group.
By following them around, while also completely ignoring his supposed another friend who is currently getting really close with the same douchebag (Alex)? Weirdest approach to keeping a douchebag out of your friend group ever.
 
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By following them around, while also completely ignoring his supposed another friend who is currently getting really close with the same douchebag (Alex)? Weirdest approach to keeping a douchebag out of your friend group ever.
Douchebag is less likely to hurt Alex than Emily.
 

ffive

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Douchebag is less likely to hurt Alex than Emily.
But that's quite a different thing from trying to completely keep a douchebag from your group of friends which was supposedly MC's goal just a moment ago, without any caveats. Besides, if anything it seems like the opposite: the douchebag isn't picking on Emily with a group of his friends, the way he appears to harass Alex. Yet neither MC nor James seem to give any fuck about it, other than complaining between themselves how they don't like the douchebag is getting their supposed close friend under his thumb.

In any case, i think the fact we're having this discussion at all highlights what i've mentioned earlier -- the game does a poor job when it comes to establishing what the hell MC is thinking, and why he's acting the way he does.
 
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But that's quite a different thing from trying to completely keep a douchebag from your group of friends which was supposedly MC's goal just a moment ago, without any caveats. Besides, if anything it seems like the opposite: the douchebag isn't picking on Emily with a group of his friends, the way he appears to harass Alex. Yet neither MC nor James seem to give any fuck about it, other than complaining between themselves how they don't like the douchebag is getting their supposed close friend under his thumb.

In any case, i think the fact we're having this discussion at all highlights what i've mentioned earlier -- the game does a poor job when it comes to establishing what the hell MC is thinking, and why he's acting the way he does.
so he has hidden feeling for her...it doesn't make him wrong for trying to keep that asshole away from her. She could be the ugliest girl in the world and i'd still try to keep that kind of guy away from my friends.
 

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so he has hidden feeling for her...it doesn't make him wrong for trying to keep that asshole away from her.
I repeat, what is stalking them like a pathetic creep supposed to achieve in this regard? Ironically, all we learn during this event is that these two actually seem to have chemistry, and the supposed asshole is behaving like a very normal human being, very capable of having a normal date. The MC would be basically "i have to break them apart because he's been an asshole to ME" at this point and that's one hell of a self-centered take.
 

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I repeat, what is stalking them like a pathetic creep supposed to achieve in this regard? Ironically, all we learn during this event is that these two actually seem to have chemistry, and the supposed asshole is behaving like a very normal human being, very capable of having a normal date. The MC would be basically "i have to break them apart because he's been an asshole to ME" at this point and that's one hell of a self-centered take.
I don’t think u have same définition of staking.There is big difference between staking and keeping a eyes on Someone in order to protect them.

In save Tyson separate Emily from the rest during the party.She was drunk and Tyson was read to take advantage of the situation!Good mc can follow them and prevent it from happening.

If u want to find a creepy,it is Tyson not mc.
If protecting a friend is creeping than we have a problem.U are making big deal of a scene.
 

ffive

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I don’t think u have same définition of staking.There is big difference between staking and keeping a eyes on Someone in order to protect them.
Except we don't know why MC is following them around because he never acknowledges this in the game. This is all pure conjecture.
 
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