VN Ren'Py Halfway House [Ep.11 - Bonus 7-8] [Az]

[Maverick1965]

Loving this game so far.

Some might say it's a bit formulaic: Hot MILF, feisty tattooed older girl and innocent younger girl, but why fix something if it ain't broken?

Samantha is a real treat, a genuine MILF who looks like she's actually over 35 rather than younger than one of the other female characters within the group. Ashley is well hot too, quite edgy but somewhere in there appears to be a scared little girl and Emily is just adorable. Bit of a surprise being a major jock, but cute as a button.

Lots of choices and natural progressions too which I'm loving.

 

[E.l.l.0]

I'm sure this will get re-hashed about a million more times, but yes....Em route is the "happy ending waifu" route. No....selecting to "not peek" or "peek" at some random point towards the end of the game is going to all of a sudden cause panties to drop with all female LI characters. There's a pile of games that already fill that need.

Sam is self admitted casual relationship character....older than MC....but you'll be able to have plenty of flirty, no obligation fun.

Ash is a wildcard that our inexperienced MC won't break....she will probably have the MC by the balls and good luck taming her....the dom/sub/switch outlet.

Outside of side characters...that leaves Em....and a "keyboard warrior alpha" harem makes ZERO sense among the 3 main characters... I wouldn't be surprised to see some goofing around between Em and Ash perhaps....but that's about it.

Only Emily is a love interest, no Ashley.

What's this tip about being on Ashley route, then!?

 

[Avaron1974]

What's this tip about being on Ashley route, then!?
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Read the devs patron.

The dev hiumself even said Emily is the only one with a proper route.

Ashley has a sex scenes but it won't go anywhere, dev has been upfront from the start. That only mentions scenes.

This is Emily or Em to her friends. This girl is the most important character in the game. She's your potential love interest.

That's from the devs patron.

Dev said he didn't want to do multiple LI's for his first game but may change that for later games.

Man so much emotion over this... Okay I'll make my self 100% clear. You can romance all the girls during the duration of your stay. You can do the dirty with them, go out on dates with the and what ever else I come up with. But in the end you will or won't only end up with one = Emily

There's a plot reason for that and I'm not changing my main story arc even if a lot of people end up hating the game because they don't like Emily or want a harem ending.

You will or wont (depending on Emily's LP) end up with Emily in the postscript in the final episode. There's still the entire game to spend time with the girl or girls you do like if you hate Emily.

There you go, from the dev himself.

But in the end you will or won't only end up with one = Emily

Highlighted the important part for you.

 

[E.l.l.0]

Read the devs patron.

The dev hiumself even said Emily is the only one with a proper route.

Ashley has a sex scenes but it won't go anywhere, dev has been upfront from the start. That only mentions scenes.




That's from the devs patron.

Dev said he didn't want to do multiple LI's for his first game but may change that for later games.



There you go, from the dev himself.

But in the end you will or won't only end up with one = Emily

Highlighted the important part for you.

Thank you for taking the time and effort to reply to me; and to point me to the dev's patreon page, which I should have done already; but I was asking what is that tip about being on Ashley's route. I was not trying to contradict you.

 

[Mormont]

but I was asking what is that tip about being on Ashley's route

No harm in asking about that. I think all we will get out of being on the Ashley route is different scenes than we would have with just Emily.

 

[troll822]

Just started playing. I would say it's good and funny but I think I saw the most unrealistic exchange:
19 years-old that have not seen a girl in 4 years finds naked girl in bathroom and she grabs his dick. The 19-years old politely asks her to wait outside so he can wash his face for a dinner.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

 

[E.l.l.0]

No harm in asking about that. I think all we will get out of being on the Ashley route is different scenes than we would have with just Emily.

Thank you for the reply! That tip is confusing to me; I find it weird to get a pop up tip that says the choice we make there has influence if we are on Ashley's route. I don't know in which route I am, and I don't understand why the choices there don't matter if we are on another route.

 

[KsChN68]

Just started playing. I would say it's good and funny but I think I saw the most unrealistic exchange:
19 years-old that have not seen a girl in 4 years finds naked girl in bathroom and she grabs his dick. The 19-years old politely asks her to wait outside so he can wash his face for a dinner.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Wasn't so bad for me.

I find this much more unrealistic (and is happening in many games):
18/19 year old boy comes home to his mother and two (or three) sisters, he saw them not for years, mom was divorced from his (mostly bad) dad, who recently died, suddenly he spyes on them, kiss them, grab them and finaly bangs them (alone or all together). And that even on his first days home.
But the funny thing is, I liked most of this games, too...

 

[Meushi]

That tip is confusing to me; I find it weird to get a pop up tip that says the choice we make there has influence if we are on Ashley's route. I don't know in which route I am, and I don't understand why the choices there don't matter if we are on another route.

You're on the Ashley route if you've been fooling around with her (end of day reports have high Ashley Corruption). Her scenes are avoidable (if you're crazy...), in which case you're not on the Ashley route.

The tip says the next choice is important, because if you pick the wrong one you miss out on a scene with Ashley. The choices within that scene are also important in determining if Ashley or Emily get points.

 

[Mwanted]

Played the last episode, I've just one question:

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[troll822]

Wasn't so bad for me.

I find this much more unrealistic (and is happening in many games):
18/19 year old boy comes home to his mother and two (or three) sisters, he saw them not for years, mom was divorced from his (mostly bad) dad, who recently died, suddenly he spyes on them, kiss them, grab them and finaly bangs them (alone or all together). And that even on his first days home.
But the funny thing is, I liked most of this games, too...

Hey, in porn games, I expect such things...

 

[TiffanyMonroe]

Thats why she is the best choice. No bloody virgin and batshit crazy.

 

[Cernunnos.]

I'll give this a shot but I'm leery of the femdom tag. Just not my cuppa tea.

 

[Mormont]

I'll give this a shot but I'm leery of the femdom tag. Just not my cuppa tea.

I haven't really encountered any femdom in my playthrough there is a lot of optional stuff in this game so just be aware of that.

 

[KoGa3]

I'll give this a shot but I'm leery of the femdom tag. Just not my cuppa tea.

Ashley was a little bossy in the naughty scenes with her, but I wouldn't really call it a femdom yet. But you can avoid that by going the Emily route.

 

[Raminita]

Played the last episode, I've just one question:

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You can max friendship and corruption of Luis and Samantha. What you can't do is max Ashley's and Emily's corruption in one playthrough.
You have to choose what girl to pursue. From what I played (both routes) I like Ashely's route, there is a lot more content than with Emily.

 

[Avaron1974]

You have to choose what girl to pursue. From what I played (both routes) I like Ashely's route, there is a lot more content than with Emily.

Here is the problem with how the dev is doing this game, he's giving the illusion of choice.

Not everyone is going to read back all these pages or check the devs patreon so they still think Ashley is a viable route.

Just a hint hun, she isn't.

Emily is the only one with an actual ending, Ashley is just a fuck buddy that won't go anywhere.

I think the dev needs to make that clearer in the game or people are going to get pissed. He told us early on so we know what's happening but, like I said, that was near the start of the thread and on his patreon.

 

[Ara-sH]

Whats is the best choice, see Hollis or not? for samantha route

 

[Uriel ☁]

Whats is the best choice, see Hollis or not? for samantha route

The dev recommended to visit him a while back:

Visit the guy and get monroe to kick him in the face.

 

[azrd79]

About the route thing.

Ashley:
If you had the BJ scene in ep2 you're on Ashley's route. That scene is the trigger for her. Your sexy relationship with her starts there. If you avoid that scene consider yourself not on her route.

Samantha:
If you keep flirting with her from the start you're on her route. Things will happen naturally. Dont do any flirting or staring or anything sexy and you wont be on her route and your relationship with her will be relatively normal.

Emily:
You can't really avoid her.

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Illusion of choice:

Yeah I have a lot of that. Dev focus is on the critical path. Most of the effort assumes you flirt with everything female for example so most content is there. Replacement scenes for girls you avoid is either short or simply skips to the next scene where it makes sense. Game is more on the kinetic side of the VN spectrum.