Thank you for the quick response.
I need to add a thing:
In the first stage of Lolas corruption i choosed the green serum. Didnt knew that the pink serum leads to a complete other direction.
I like those decisions where your choices lead to complete different paths. the only backside is the amount of extra work for the creators...
My sugestion: You should add a "warning" at the heavenly impact choices, so that ppl know that just one of the two options are possible. For example:
While we might not be in phase with each other, you and me are on the same wavelength.
About the choices, we are not yet set on displaying clear warning or not. At one point the player should be aware of that his choices could lead to consequences, and if you warn them about which choice has consequences or not, then it's biasing the choice.
Someone that is always careful about their choices in game is different from someone that don't, being a hothead is a way to play, if you cool them with warning it's influencing the player.
While it's not necessarily a bad thing is not neutral either, influencing the player is a storytelling mean and should be weighted as such. As much as gameplay should.
I strongly adhere to the side that support the hypothesis that gameplay is a if not the primary way of conveying meaning into a game. That of course mean that I need to make every bit of gameplay in a meaningful way, so it's not without drawback. But from my point of view if the game is currently enjoyable it's far from finished yet. And that also reflects on the gameplay.
Grinding is a way to influence the player into some behavior. If the MC can make a lot of cash all by himself would the player make the girls work at the stripclub ? Would they make them work as prostitues ? Would they sell them in some slave auction ?
I need to be clear there, what I'm saying above are just example of escalation, I'm not talking about any plan in the game.
If gaining money is a breeze then player that are not partial about those choices (not the people with fetishes/preferences that go with or against those example are I mean), wouldn't act the same.
On the other hand it needs to be enjoyable to play.
And there lies the difficult part, balancing the two.
Of course I'm quite hypocritical here, as I said earlier I always cheat on those games. So I'm kinda making the rules for people that I doesn't want to apply to myself.
But hey, just know that I'm not making them without thinking them through.
