Finished all of 0.18 and I quite liked it. It seems that all stories are starting to converge more and more.
I enjoyed all the events, but specially the date with Kate. I know she is a side girl, but still, it was a cute event. I hope the side girls are all there in the ending, I like all of them, even Vanessa, who I saw some people here be mad about because she was too "preachy" lmao. Apparently being anti-slavery is annoying to some.
I hate cliffhangers, but that is a personal taste of mine, so the events for the twins and Lin weren't bad, I just wished they didn't end where they did. Other than that, solid events that pushed the plot forward.
Good to see Jia again, I hope we actually get to help her this time, even though she has finally gone full insane from the torture.
The reveal that
the fairies are the ones controlling the human religion was nice. It makes me wonder what is their endgame, other than elven extermination, and why do they want to exterminate the elves, since the forest fairies, the ones that are opressed by the Alosi, don't seem to have contact with the ones posing as cherubs, so it doesn't seem to be a fairy liberation thing, specially considering that the genocide won't even affect the Alosi.
It also makes me wonder about Cornwall, how deep he is in on it, considering I remember someone (I think Maria?) saying that he probably wouldn't want a genocide, otherwise he would go out of a job, yet he seems to be playing right into it. He also has a half-elf daughter and cousin, but he still left them out of the rights he gave to elves, so who really knows what is going on through that head of his? But he does have corndog as his email address, and uses it to send pictures of his half-elf daughter, so maybe he is just some stupid idiot being used and manipulated.
I liked how Kali's event showed that her father was
just a delusional nepobaby, so thanks for that, Runey.
On another subject, I was playing with Lain's mod on. I know it is not the recommended, but honestly, the game is too big and I started from scratch. The only problem I seemed to have with it, was that a button appeared at the corner of the screen that sent me to downtown exploration mode if I clicked on it, which I assume is a bug from the mod, but as long as I don't click on it, it was ok. My save showed no signs of corruption.
But anyways. I was looking at the girls stats using the mod, and the relationship stat only goes up to 50. Is that planned, or will Runey expand on it? Because if it is planned, it means there are only 3 more events until Lin's story finishes, but at the end of the final event I played, the dev notes said that the game isn't even close to ending. Which by the way, as much as I love this game, I think it has been going on for a long time now, and it would be nice to finally see a conclusion. I don't know how many people agree or disagree with this position, and this is not an attack against Runey, or the game, because in my personal opinion, the quality of the story hasn't gone down at all, but eventually things have to reach a conclusion.