This is a helpful reply, thanks! I think I'll just stick to two different playthroughs and use a gallery unlocker if I feel like itThere's basically 4 main routes: friend/neutral, romance, corruption/findom, and dark/force. Each of those routes also have variation within, so like you can be nicer in your corruption route, or meaner; you can be wholesome in your romance route, or tend more towards selfishness like pushing them into anal or something; and so on.
There's also other choices not related to the interaction routes; for example, some days you have choices of what you want to do for the day, and you can't choose everything, so you'll miss out on small little scenes or bits of information here and there. It's nothing major, you're not going to miss out on an entire LI or ruin a route or anything dumb like that. But if you're a hardcore completionist or something, you'll miss out a little bit in one playthrough. But, within each erotic scene, there's usually a ton of choices and you can pick all of them, so no issue there at least.
I think a lot of players seem to have a touch of the OCD, which is a shame and something I can relate to. But honestly, if you're going to break away from that habit for any game, I really think you should do it for FiN. Just choose whatever feels right and you'll probably enjoy what you see. If you ever feel like playing the game again at another time, have fun picking something else and seeing what happens! Try to keep in mind that individuation and replayability is the goal here, not stressing you out with tons of separate savesGood luck man!
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Hmmm.....I think we just met the next girl who's smile we will have to save...
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The people who complain after they download a clearly-marked compressed version sound like they are people who are downloading it specifically so they CAN complain.
Like the ones who download stories clearly marked as in the "Incest/Taboo" category on Literotica and then bitch because it's about a kid and his stepmother making a cuckold of his father...
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I thought maybe the main game got something too oh well since i lost my pc i do not even remember which version was last, and
also i am old yeah i know that is my problem.
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More curious than really ranting,and not specific to "Friends in Need", but why do devs do those weird X-mas, Halloween or whatever events and holidays ? Or rather i kinda get it, i just wonder why are they so often a separate download and standalone ? Just include them in the main game in that update. It's not as if the people that dislike them, will suddenly feel different, if made into a separate thing imho
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He took a month off and thats when he wrote this one, in his free time. I as well don't like specials/holiday events, since I much prefer the themes be used in the main game timeline when is appropriate, but also beacuse 99% of the times its done by devs that are stuck and don't know where to take the plot in the main game and are just stalling, clearly not the case for this game.
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ffs I was excited for a split second until I seen "[Mini-Sode: Blue Valentine]" Why do devs waste time with these garbage seasonal throwaway updates?
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wasn't an update.... just something that was made for fun during his break.
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I'm somewhat wondering over why devs, don't just try to include them as a regular update, especially if or when the goal is to stall for time... or even when it isn't. Maybe i missed some player-base rioting over the mere idea and it became common across games to not do that . Again just curious and find it odd.
Seems counterproductive to me... i do know people lazy enough to not bother download an extra separate mini-game. Same people would actually just check it, if included in the main game as an update. Even for extra/bonus/non canon events and scenes
This game is perfect from a branching perspective. It has so many unique dialogue options you'll never get to see all of them unless you do like 20 plays.
But the great thing is that you can just wing it and play as you wish. And the game adjusts really well rather than boxing you in.
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I think he said he might include part of what he did for chapter 11 when I asked him when he said he did make some progress on the next update during his break.
Just like the other "minisodes" made earlier, this one will be included in the main game. So you can consider it a regular update, just delivered separately at the moment.