Master of Puppets

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The main exception being Mason, who asks MC how old he wants him to be. It'll still be removed in a potential Steam version down the line, because they're prickly about such things. But, I feel fine with Mason being canonically 20, but willing to say he's younger to please dark-path MC.
You could fix that at 18+ for the Steam version, I guess?
 

RC-1138 Boss

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Honestly, the complaints were usually more mechanics-oriented. Like, "Why can I set her age to 99? That's dumb."

And the answer is that I never wanted to set a specific age range, because that would imply that I was okay with someone potentially setting it at the lower end of said range. But like I said, I think it just makes more sense for the story to remove it and make the affected characters 18.

The main exception being Mason, who asks MC how old he wants him to be. It'll still be removed in a potential Steam version down the line, because they're prickly about such things. But, I feel fine with Mason being canonically 20, but willing to say he's younger to please dark-path MC.
It is always good to cover your bases. You never know when some asshole with a grudge can try to denounce the game to Patreon or later Steam and them you have to rush to make the game up to their demands.

Mason being 20 and Viola being 19 is good for me too. :)
 

PHIL101-YYouPPHard

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Honestly, the complaints were usually more mechanics-oriented. Like, "Why can I set her age to 99? That's dumb."

And the answer is that I never wanted to set a specific age range, because that would imply that I was okay with someone potentially setting it at the lower end of said range. But like I said, I think it just makes more sense for the story to remove it and make the affected characters 18.

The main exception being Mason, who asks MC how old he wants him to be. It'll still be removed in a potential Steam version down the line, because they're prickly about such things. But, I feel fine with Mason being canonically 20, but willing to say he's younger to please dark-path MC.
Oh, I see... well, damn, that makes it seem even more silly to me. So not the moralist crusade, which is understandable to me, but the autist one, interesting; I didn't expect that lol. The answer for those people is clearly to set the age to a reasonable number, problem solved. But no worries, decision's made, I'll learn to live with it :cool:

I misunderstood, I thought you were saying he was removing the whole patch.
Okie dokie, no worries (y)
 

Canto Forte

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Here is one idea: Mason has to have a life worth getting out of,
or a life that booted him to the streets. He and MC share the lack of University studies.
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That being said, MC could buy Mason a load of cos play dress up gear
and have him be Mileena, or Matsumoto, or Hinata - fave anime babes
seeing as MC enjoys his fair share of cartoons.

They could play safe play pretend games of prof-student or bully-sissy with any and all variations,
seeing as IRL anybody can go to University at any time in their life.
 

7empest5teele

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Lmfao another game hopped on the pain train starting many of its sentences with "I MEAN".

Every character sounds fcking retarded when STARTING sentences like that, it's fine when added into an already bound paragraph, yet its nails on a chalkboard to individuals that have this as a pet peeve.

Starting sentences with "I mean". "Yeah, no" "Because" is just irritating to read, when it appears too often, I tend to skip through the nightmare dialog, just relying on the renders...which is not why I download and play this, the story tends to capture my attention when it's not written as if someone desperately wants to be a teen again.
 
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Lmfao another game hopped on the pain train starting many of its sentences with "I MEAN".

Every character sounds fcking retarded when STARTING sentences like that, it's fine when added into an already bound paragraph, yet its nails on a chalkboard to individuals that have this as a pet peeve.

Starting sentences with "I mean". "Yeah, no" "Because" is just irritating to read, when it appears too often, I tend to skip through the nightmare dialog, just relying on the renders...which is not why I download and play this, the story tends to capture my attention when it's not written as if someone desperately wants to be a teen again.
 

Joshy92

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I have to disagree with the person who doesn't like the writing.
I think it's one of the best written visual novels around.
And I don't say that lightly.

The first thing I look for when trying a game is good writing.
And this has that in spades.

It makes me care about all the characters.
And want to help them.
Too me that is damn good writing.
 

NeonGhosts

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Mar 20, 2019
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I was a little curious to see how often "I mean" reoccurs in the script for the current content. The phrase appears 162 times, and the script currently includes 273,283 words. Some of those occurrences are in incidences like a character saying, "I meant --" From a cursory look, the phrase is primarily used by Ashe, whose speech pattern intentionally uses a lot of filler words, something which is actually lampshaded pretty heavily in the next update.

That said, I'll cop to the fact that I have certain tics that make their way into the writing. As I've mentioned before, producing this thing on a pretty tight schedule means I usually only get to write one draft, and then it's off to the races. I don't have time to fine-tune the dialogue and narration, so a lot of it's just written stream-of-consciousness style.

We have to wait till January... I think. :(
She'll have a pretty important appearance in the update following this next one, where MC goes with her and Madison to bail out Madison's husband/Gabby's dad. That'll be out in August/September.

Also, Gabby was just in the last update! D:
 
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