Returning after almost a year without posting here, apart from the fanart works I've been doing.
Alice ending is a "Venus de Milo" ending.
Why?
Well, Venus is one of the most famous, if not THE most famous, statues of antiquity. It retracts basically the goddess Aphrodite, with her breasts exposed, and it represents, among other modern meanings, the perfection of the love and the ideal partner.
But Venus has a problem. Maybe the first thing that people realize when they are looking at her.
She doesn't have arms.
And that, depending on the people's views, can reduce or increase the value over the piece. People can look at the statue and look that it's beauty comes from the time, how incredible the statue is and it's resilience. But there will always be the speculation over how the statue could have been if the things were different.
Alice is what it's expected from Alice - she's the ideal partner, the main motivation of this whole game and eventually the biggest story to be told. But, Leah, Melody, Karina, Hailey, and so on are also part of this story, and when the life kicks in, you feel yourself lost in a story where you learned to like the life with them around, and when they aren't you keep looking for substitutes for them in each bar, in each one-night stand, in each each one-sided relationship inside your marriage. So, it kinda makes an once perfect balance of relationship into a caricate way to remake a status quo once lost, but without the same feelings towards it, since it's not the same people around it.
So, moving on, the marriage, the success, the challenges of a married life, the compromise over the years, everything is there. The biggest issue it seems that MC and Alice are a childless couple, but it's not actually a big problem, unless you are
HoboCop86. I also won't enter into the discussion over the sharing/poli question because I really don't care about it and people love to have heated arguments over it. But Freeloading Family, as important as it is for me, was a sensorial experience, like tasting a sweet vine. Delicious, strong if you don't have enough care of it, and with a residual taste that can be good for some, and bad for others.
And for people which thinks that "it's just a game for you to fap, stop bullshitting about it", there are lots of games with this intention, but if you stayed until here, it's because you genuinely care about the characters and the story about this game.
Overall, my rate for the endings so far is:
Alice = 8.5/10
Melody = 9/10 (I rate slightly above because the ending was perfect for her, but it's technically a tie with Alice's one)
Karina = 7/10
Leah = 5.5/10
Now it's time to see the other endings. I'm not actually interested on the Break-Up ending because obvious reasons, but I'm interested to see where the Harem Ending is going, because we have a luck that neither
FFCreations and
V.A. Laurie are Alexandros of Antioch and they aren't dead twenty centuries ago lol.
Thanks for all your work so far guys!
