I hope Isabella won't be dark route exclusive lol. I wanna be perfect partner to Brittani while secretly cucking her with her mother. Pretty sure Isabella will love it, shit talking Brittani while riding her boyfriend LOL.
I like the way you think man, you should comment here more
I'll put my apology first: sorry for shooting down your ideas based mostly on what we've seen from the game so far and keeping in mind dev time/desire
Have there been any variables regarding how they view Guy? If there is already then no worries but if there isn't a variable in the scene that already happened wouldn't Neon need to go back and add it? Or would that interaction just not count towards the future points for her? Even with just stuff we've seen in story it sounds like it would be extra work as far as variables go?
I'm not going to touch on "epilogue stuff" because I don't think it's worth even considering "what side girls will become unlocked depending on which main girl (and subpath on her route) you ended with"
besides a single scene only in the epilogue (or final chapter) would seem like a "waste" like you don't get corruption/romance you just fuck her that one time and then game ends, but doing it before that leads back to the "this is a stupid amount of work for someone who is already doing a huge amount of extra work in The variables/flow department".
I still don't think the parents (or ashe) have a valid reason to stay around Guy long enough for him to be trusted/asked to do something like pay for hospital bills? (Or something that he could "hold over" them)..... like why? Ashe (on dark path) isn't singing your praises and unless she 100% shuts down and basically let's you "own her" I don't see why she wouldn't try to warn her parents (who she likes) away from Guy. We know Neon has cut characters from paths because of work load so how logical is it for him to add a side character with both dark and pure boi path that is dependent on a main girl either allowing her mom to be blackmailed or allowing her boyfriend to seduce her mom away?
Like you said these are just potential ideas but I think the issues still arise either way (namely a large amount of work both writing/coding for a side character that not everybody even sees, of the people that do see her not everybody wants her, and of the people that do want her not everybody would want her over Ashe
Despite my wall seeming more antagonistic thank you for replying it's much better than "me need new girl to coom" that I'm assuming is the reason the others want her
Edit: Even the ashe roleplay stuff is bro x sis, she clearly doesn't want Guy to be her stepdad!
No problem, I really like to guesstimate and make wishes here, and everyone has a different opinion, so doesn't bother me at all
All characters have variables in the code for how much they like MC, but no I don't think any Bonnie/Cole points are implemented yet. Was just the first date, though, nothing really happened one way or the other to impress them or offend them I don't recall. But there's other opportunities in the future. I was mostly just trying to drive home that Neon could implement it as a factor for an Ashe relationship anyways without even considering a Bonnie ero scene, after all she does still live with her parents and they are very important to her, so we're likely going to be seeing them a fair bit regardless. And then if he decides he wants a Bonnie scene after all, well, he can just lean on how Bonnie already feels about the MC so far, and go from there. I think that would take care of most of the setup, and then the scene itself can be however big or small he thinks is worth his time. I mean, imagine it taking place during a family get-together that's going to take up a whole update anyways; adding a Bonnie scene there then is efficient on all fronts, story, location, dev resources and so on. The aftermath of the scene might be some work, depending? But, again, can be efficient and just happen as alt reactions during scenes where MC will be interacting with Bonnie anyways, just as he does with all other decisions that impact characters.
This applies to any of the other routes, if MC is going to be interacting with Bonnie & Cole anyways through his relationship with Ashe, you just use those moments, however infrequent, to build up points & reactions, to introduce things like Cole needing money for back issues, Guy consistently offering to help and Cole refusing, until at some point the way Ashe feels about MC and all the other things he's done to impress Cole builds, and Ashe & Bonnie eventually team up with Guy to convince him, I mean, you know, blah blah. I can see it.
TL;DR, I don't think a Bonnie scene would be as big of a workload as people might worry about, but of course I've never made a VN. It's definitely not nothing, and it adds up, but I don't see it busting the game's dev cycle or anything like that. Especially if he has a much more clever idea in mind on how to make it happen, or if he's planning the ero scene to be relatively small. It doesn't need to be a huge undertaking. Compare that to, say, reducing Alex to secondary; well, she's a whole separate LI character that would've had all 3 routes, many many scenes, etc., and not an already existing LI's parent that's going to be around her anyways and only has ~one scene planned. It makes sense Alex would be a far, far bigger work load than a Bonnie scene, imo.
