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Well Im loving the Black girl, I hope there are more scenes with her in the game.
She is def hot af. Hope we get a chance to be her "daddy" lol.
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Am I the only one who realizes that we don't know what Nikki's story is and we are just making a bunch of suppositions? We don't know where she has been, what she was doing, if any of it was voluntary, or even if her boyfriend was involved. She could have been a victim of human trafficking and he could be in a shallow grave somewhere. Or maybe she just got a new look and she turned up tearfully because her grandmother died. Or maybe she has been in the witness protection program. Or kidnapped by aliens. Or fell victim to a makeover reality show. Perhaps reserving judgment until the next update may be warranted in this case.
Dude.Not talking about her showing up again. Talking about literally first scene with her. She shows up nicely dressed, admits BF sent her and noticed MC liked her photo. Pimped. Ho.
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We can wonder what happened to her based on what we know so far about the characters.
She's been probably mixed in another of her bf stunts to get money, porn most probably.
It doesn't matter much. She's now at your door to do what you think is better.
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Raziel_8
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I just hope she get's a new hairstyle, which isn't half shaved...and a different color.
That being said, i would rather have the blonde with stripper tits, for which her bf dumped her.
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That one is my loving homage/parody to Bad Bobby, so your assumptions are correct.I hope the "I Love Lacy" roommate will be a "roommate"
You'll definitely get a chance to romance Brittani, with her path beginning in Chapter 3.
Gabby's a big focus in Chapter 3, so you're in luck!
She was kidnapped by intergalactic Pedobears, to be used as a prop in a children's dress up game. It just so happens that her new look is the most popular amongst preteen girls in this side of the Milky Way.
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Banish
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Finally got to play this one quite like it, my only trouble with it is that i assume Nicki is the Main Girl? Have to be honest i don't like her and i am quite not interested in her story, i hope we'll have the option to refuse to help her next update.
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Thanks for playing! There's not really a main girl - I plan to, when the story eventually wraps up, have endgame content for every girl. Nicki does play prominently as the story goes on (as do all the girls, really), though you're not required to romance her.
I will say this - with Chapter Three nearly done being written (still chasing down some coding bugs and polishing dialogue) I decided to go back through Chapter One and make notes on what to change, in the likely event I remaster it. And actually, I kind of see why people might have gripes with Nicki. Some of this was due to having a limited number of renders to work with. Some of it was me getting used to the format of writing for VN. Some of it's because the story was originally going to be a one-and-done, but I saw a way to continue it.
So, a revamped Chapter One will likely do a lot to make Nicki more sympathetic.
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I already sympathize with Nikki. If I didn't like women who had shitty taste in men how would I justify them dating me?
The Nicki problem:
- MC has had a crush on her for years but she dates someone else (basic hentai NTR setup)
- She comes to the MC after her shithead boyfriend fucks up and asks for money
- She gets the money and ghosts the MC for 3 months
- She comes back looking like a cheap whore
there is nothing redeemable about her.
- MC has had a crush on her for years but she dates someone else (basic hentai NTR setup)
- She comes to the MC after her shithead boyfriend fucks up and asks for money
- She gets the money and ghosts the MC for 3 months
- She comes back looking like a cheap whore
there is nothing redeemable about her.
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I have no problem with her being in a relationship when we're introduced to her, everything else is just a nut punch.
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I would add that she really give you the nasty feeling of being used, eventually coming back to you when she's in dire need.
That's why i hope next update we'll get the option when we see her to say "Nope." and just slam the door. That's what i would do in real life.
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Honestly, I'm primarily focusing on timeline/early relationship issues. I want to put a little more emphasis on the idea that she and the MC always had a work friendship and nothing more, because he was her boss, and that put them both in this weird friendship limbo where they couldn't really hang out outside of work. And there's a two month gap between the MC leaving his job and Nicki contacting him, which was meant to be more about the MC being evasive, since he's hiding his wealth, than Nicki failing to reach out.
I think addressing those in the text, as well as a few other things, would do something to address why Nicki and the MC never really tried to date, among other things.
Points three and four will be elaborated on in Chapter 3, so I'm not getting into those.
Regarding your first point - part of the MC's journey is the fact that he as no self-confidence at the beginning of the game. He feels old, stuck in a miserable low-paying job, and he has to watch the girl he has a crush on get treated like garbage by her boyfriend. I get that it's not a fun way to start the game necessarily, but it's meant to draw a contrast with where he is post-Nicki, in Chapter Two. He's suddenly beloved by his community, pretty girls want to talk to him, and he's basically free to act with impunity in his daily life, for good or ill. I don't think you can necessarily appreciate where he is, without seeing where he came from.
Regarding your second point - fair enough! Honestly, the more popular choice would have been to have the MC sense that her behavior is a little off all night, and she finally breaks down and tells him that Brent's fucked up their lives, not knowing the MC has the potential to help. That'd make the good route a little more straightforward, and the evil route a little more evil.
But, I also think that level of complication/moral complication in their relationship is compelling. If Nicki was a perfect good girl, it'd make choosing to help an easy decision, and the evil route would be purely malicious, rather than a wounded guy lashing out. As it is now, the MC kind of has to let go of his own insecurities and resentment when he chooses to help her, or give into them.
I might try to split the difference a little on that plot point, when it comes time to redo Chapter One, if I can figure out how to do it effectively.
Anywhodles, that's all for now. I did decide to redo Nicki's tats a little bit. The flowery ones were a little lower-res and clashed with the henna style, so I just dropped them and replaced them with more henna tats. I also dropped the under-boob tattoo, since it kind of messed with what the tattoos mean, thematically. I'll redo the few images at the end of Chapter Two for the next release.
