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As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy that they remade the first episode, maybe then Nicky's face at the beginning will stop giving me nightmares. 
Yes, in love paths there will be throuples and poly relationships(unsure compatible girls as of now). On corruption there will be full harem, but that will be like fwb, and blackmailing, giving money to sleep with you.Can I be with more then one girl at a time or not?
Yeah, I always cite the chapter where Britt has her photoshoot, as the one where everything suddenly clicked.I've played several times from the beginning and the truth is that the first chapters are noticeably worse than the rest. Chapter 1 in particular. But the real leap in quality is seen in the fourth chapter which, for whatever reason, the developer found his key. So yes, a rework is necessary. But it still pisses me off, frankly.
I just came to this thread by chance (Thanks for the awesome game, by the way) and I don't even know what you all are talking about, but a good way to "future-proof" it is defining variables for all choices, regardless if you intend to use it or not.Now, my task for the next few months is to get Chapter 1 fully remade, touch up some stuff for Chapters 2 and 3, pull all the variables out and place them so that the game doesn’t throw those “[X] not defined” errors in the future, and then go through every menu option and see if I need to add any variables. I also have to upgrade my PC with new parts.
Just go to KoGa's website for your Android port.here i was all excited after reading the changelog then i see the android version as not updated View attachment 4260033
I get where you guys are coming from too, at least the ones who put it politely and are already fans. I'm mostly bitching into the abyss to the randos chiming in with the complaint, usually with an attitude and usually with no idea about the dev's plans or process, when the dev and others have stated several times that it's staying the way it is. I guess I'm just making pointless wishes here, but I wish more people would keep negative stank opinions to themselves and focus more on positivity and encouraging the dev. If they have a criticism, at least put it politely. But that's the internet, that isn't ever going to changeI understand what you're saying, and I agree that FiN is much higher quality than the average game on this site. For me it's the best one I've played, but that's easily debatable (especially since I've played far from all of them).
Now, in my opinion the problem is just that. If you want to write a good choral story, you have to weave a lot of plots together. That's complex, and it's very easy to get loose ends that unravel the whole thing. To avoid that, you have to be very careful. And that burns, and it takes time and planning. This is being developed by one person, not a team. And obviously development is becoming more and more complex. I'm not saying that will happen, but my fear is that the developer will end up burned out. This is a hobby, not a job, and it's easy to quit if you get to the point where the knots are too complex. Quit, or just ignore the loose ends or look for shortcuts.
If NeonGhosts manages to pull this off and see the story through to the end, great. Thumbs up. But we have to be aware that a great story doesn't need to be choral. Bergman's Persona is an excellent story told with just 4 or 5 characters. And we also have to be aware that the development of this game is going to be more complex, and exponentially so. What costs you 5 today, will cost you 25 tomorrow. And the day after, 625. The developer has already announced that it will make shorter chapters, which is a good idea. But I'll bet you anything that those shorter chapters will take the same time as this one sooner rather than later.
This isn't being a doomsayer, it's just saying my honest opinion. Which isn't very important now. The number of characters is already there, and it can hardly be reduced without it being a botched job. So the only thing left is to continue enjoying this great story while it lasts. Hopefully until the end.
I think the dev said that the 'harem' in those routes is more like 'harem-lite'; basically, the dark route is pretty self-explanatory, it's just brute force and fear tactics to get the LIs to do what you want; and the corruption route is (usually) you just paying the LIs to get what you want. Keep in mind that none of that necessarily implies having sex with bunches of them at the same time in like an orgy or something, just that you can continue having relations with them without losing access to others like you would with a romantic relationship or what have you.This game was surprisingly really good. I initially went for as dark of a route as possible but quickly regretted it because ngl, it felt too brutal and none of the girls actually deserved it. Instead I went for a more middle of the road type of playthrough.
One thing though, I have no clue if my playthrough would be good for a possible harem ending because the dev has said the romance route won't get that, corruption/dark apparently will?
I might have picked too many nice options with certain girls for that to be possible, I don't know if I've locked myself out of a possible harem ending because of it.
Damn, that's such a good character model! Probably my favorite actually haha, how unfortunate for me. When this game's finished, I bet super fans *cough* would love to hear about what the original ideas were and how they changed.It'll be a bit. I plan for Isabella and Tessa to be a little more in-focus in Season 2, as Evil Guy continues to grow more unhinged, or Good Guy becomes more steadfast in his opposition to the malign forces around him. But here, have some old Tessa renders.
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That is super weird. That variable's been in the script since Chapter 3, including the control variable. There was an early version of Chapter 3 that was published without the full Viola scene, which means that control variable wouldn't have been in there. Might be a lingering effect of an old, old save? I'll add a default version of the variable to today's Beta release, since it won't hurt anything. Until then, you can either add the variable yourself to the script with "$ vihumiliation = 0" added to the list at the beginning of Chapter 10, or start back at the end of Chapter 2 (when Nicki returns) and Ctrl+Skip your way to the present.
But, the vihumiliation error should have triggered during Viola's car ride home with Ashe, too. So, if you didn't get that error while playing the Ashe date chapter, you probably have some save files that have all the necessary variables.
They basically affect MC's mentality, and the options he has available to him. An MC with a higher dark rating is generally more cynical, misogynistic, and cruel. Even if you're on a character's good path, an MC with a high dark score may frame certain situations more negatively than one who's generally more of an optimist.
Did you read what the person who makes the gallery mod said?anychance for an updated gallery mod soonish?
No point in doing the work multiple times, after all the version here is an alpha, the beta is now out, then the final/public.Edit for new version v.0.70A - I am very likely not updating the mod until the final 0.70 version is released.
No rape/blackmail scenes and whenever the time comes no incest (incest isn't in the game yet but is planned for it in the future).whats vanila version ?
thanks for the information..No rape/blackmail scenes and whenever the time comes no incest (incest isn't in the game yet but is planned for it in the future).
The "main version" is the same; to disable rape/blackmail scenes you just delete the patch, or change the patch from true to false and hit save.
Honestly as the dev said, the vanilla version should be removed from the OP, as you can just remove the patch to have the vanilla version.
Sounds like the beta rectified most everything that was wrong.Gonna be a rough few days for the public release![]()
IMPORTANT: When starting Chapter 10, please make sure you start from the end of Chapter 9, where MC arrives home to find Brent trying to kick in his door. If you previously created a save file with a Demo Version, it will not work with this new version.
Nine times out of ten, if you're getting an error saying that "[X] is not defined," it's because your save file was created with an incomplete/demo version of a previous chapter. Try going back one or two chapters, and then skipping forward to the current content.
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Changelog:
- Bug-fixes, typos, etc. corrected from Alpha.
- Updated portraits for certain characters.
- Added a small Ashe scene when MC is in the bath. To access it, you need to be on Ashe's girlfriend path, where you had a good date with her, and she slept over/had breakfast with you.
- 1709 images, plus 12 small animations