And on the alexis path it is a great scene with lakeyn if you had the mc choose not to have sex with lakeyn.
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- Mar 28, 2021
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if you skip the scene then why not just not have them date?
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If anything does come of this, I fully expect it will be a (probably quite awkward) one-off. Certainly not anything ongoing as a throuple relationship.
I find most of this to be inaccurate for my playthrough. I've not completed them all yet, but I have done most of my saves now and not had to restart a single one. I just have Nikki and Erynn left, and I'm halfway through Valeria, which (like the others) has run flawlessly from my previous save.
Nyx is a she, not a he, and I don't see that she's caused herself any extra work that wouldn't normally be caused. Any game like this is going to keep growning because of the choices you can make. It's not a problem here, IMO.
The story is called Intertwined for a reason. The relationships the MC can have are all intertwined with each other. Once you get that aspect of it, of course Lakeyn is part of Alexis and Layla's family. It almost makes less sense that she wouldn't be, in game terms.
It's only opinions, but mine is definitely not the same as yours here. I don't feel the Miri or Lakeyn sections dragged the game down in the slightest. The Miri bit was maybe unexpected and maybe a bit weird, but there's nothing new with bringing in new characters and potentially new LIs, if that's going to be more than a one-off.
As for general issues, outside of a handful of typos and one or two missing renders, the only issue I have found in any of my playthroughs is the one that's already been spoken about - on a non-Alexis save, the meeting with Lakeyn at the pizzeria is cold, and MC walks off as if there is bad blood between him and Alexis, even though scenes before and after don't reflect this. It seems like a bad trigger is used, perhaps, so it shows the scene where you've broken up with Alexis, even if you never got together with her.
You get the option to view or skip that scene, so that's on you, really.
Honestly, such a viewpoint registers as almost incomprehensible to me since from my PoV the path of least resistance in such a situation with someone I deeply care about in a romantic way and a third party I care about just as deeply in a friendship way would be to try my best to make a poly relationship work, assuming ofc the other parties are onboard with this, precisely because I care a lot for both. I would find the perspective of potentially losing a partner or a friend because I cannot bring myself to share and deal with my jealousy and possessive issues much more harmful and self-destructive for all parties involved. I would be deeply disappointed by myself if I would find myself agreeing with the opposite stance. Admittedly, this comes from the perspective of a borderline aro that finds romantic and friendship relations almost indistinguishable except for the labels others with a different mindset may put on the bond and ofc the potential of sexual intimacy with someone I find attractive.
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I still need to do a Alexis save where I have , only did solo saves for now.
im not interested in Melissa at all but with all this John stuff it makes me interested in her path just for that when it does open up and start.Just you wait until your dating Melissa while having dinner with Emily/John and Iris/Erynn. That means someone from each couple has fucked someone from another.
o 100% I don't think a throuple is even on the table hell I don't think a threesome is even on the table I think it's just Nyx being a troll and teasing us with the possiblity
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Ran a route where I dated Alexis until the pizzeria and then didn't help her (I didn't pick the nuclear option here, but I didn't help her carry the groceries which is Alexis exit #100 or something). It's weird because they talk about talking later and then never do. I then went for Erynn (I picked Erynn over Layla at the Heaven club to stay friends with Layla without having to do drastic stuff to get off her romantic route) and apparently this skips ever having MC explain to Erynn about Alexis. Jumped on Val's route but thanks to being off of Alexis, it's a mess. I'm also dating Cara for charity work, haven't broken up yet. I'm currently at the Erynn/Val choice for the beach date in ep 13.
It's been an interesting ride. Being on Alexis's breakup route seems to really affect Val scenes (no head scratches, no ep 11 beach). He also doesn't call her after she helps him with Ethan. I didn't understand why until I looked at the walkthrough and it's tied to the Alexis route, which is confusing. Cara is just kinda there, not really interacting with the plot.
It's been an interesting ride. Being on Alexis's breakup route seems to really affect Val scenes (no head scratches, no ep 11 beach). He also doesn't call her after she helps him with Ethan. I didn't understand why until I looked at the walkthrough and it's tied to the Alexis route, which is confusing. Cara is just kinda there, not really interacting with the plot.
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I mean, agreed. I wasn't gonna involve Nikki in this nonsense path I'm running. She gets solo route treatment where I go scorched earth on everyone else.
Of course, but this cannot stop myself from being deeply disappointed with the characters, the story, and the Dev if this turns out to be the case. Unfortunately I am not even in the same neighborhood of having the technical and more importantly the creative skills to accomplish what you describe. Admittedly, however, I know enough to be able to keep manipulating the variables to make the story turn out the way I would prefer, as far as the script would allow and I deem the effort worthwhile. This being done with no second thought whatsoever except practical feasibility concerns because I deem my own playing fun and satisfaction orders of magnitude more important than anyone's integrity of artistic vision.
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Ahhh yeah. I went back through a few of the saves and you are right. I normally poke around in the variables and somehow missed seeing that one set differently. The ones where I didn't 'intervene' with John were set to True, and the ones where I did intervene they were set to True. I have two different saves sets for each character, where they: 1) intervene; and 2) don't intervene, just to see how the story diverges.
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Foxy being factual.
That's an issue because Nyx is pretty much set in stone on how things are going to go.
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Nobody in this VN is emotionally mature enough to be in a poly relationship for any thing past a short term fling. It would take some drastic growth on multiple characters and you'd conceivably end up with a different story.
Alexis-Dates the MC behind Erynn's back, (even though Erynn doesn't really have a claim on him) is extremely flighty, and I just can't see her being okay with sharing (Erynn included). At best, you get a threesome but that really doesn't mean anything on a poly front.
Erynn-Can't even come to terms with her own feelings about MC, let alone be okay with someone else harboring similar feelings (The Erynn-Alexis rift)
Layla-She gets too jealous. Follow any of her routes where you also interact with others (Val/Tori/Alexis) and watch her looks. She's antsy about it and Elena has to calm her down.
Elena-About the only person I'd accept being mature enough to deal with the headache poly relationships can be. Still, you need more than one character and Layla is the only one she really involves herself with in the story.
Iris-LOL no. She might even love the MC more than Erynn but she puts up that façade of being the cool ex.
No one else is even worth discussing from a poly front.
Alexis-Dates the MC behind Erynn's back, (even though Erynn doesn't really have a claim on him) is extremely flighty, and I just can't see her being okay with sharing (Erynn included). At best, you get a threesome but that really doesn't mean anything on a poly front.
Erynn-Can't even come to terms with her own feelings about MC, let alone be okay with someone else harboring similar feelings (The Erynn-Alexis rift)
Layla-She gets too jealous. Follow any of her routes where you also interact with others (Val/Tori/Alexis) and watch her looks. She's antsy about it and Elena has to calm her down.
Elena-About the only person I'd accept being mature enough to deal with the headache poly relationships can be. Still, you need more than one character and Layla is the only one she really involves herself with in the story.
Iris-LOL no. She might even love the MC more than Erynn but she puts up that façade of being the cool ex.
No one else is even worth discussing from a poly front.
It's going to be really weird if it does open up because since the game launched we have only had a handful of encounters with Melissa and the only a few moments with sexual tension between the two. There's almost zero romance progression there and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere so unless this game is going to go on for another 2+ years i don't see how Nyx could make that route work.
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There's another issue, at least in the ASP, where the convesration with Erryn when she's in the bathtub is messed up, it shows two instances of the same convo.
The ASP always gets coding issuees though u_u
also, well it seems that everyone is moving to Madison Springs, so if you're on multiple paths, it looks like it's all gonna blow up spectacularly in your face I think I'll keep a manwhore run or two just for that... specially with the more clingy/jealous girls like Alexis & Nikki.
I think I'll keep a manwhore run or two just for that... specially with the more clingy/jealous girls like Alexis & Nikki.Shit even if you we're on the single route the girls who saw Nikki we're already jealous of her.also, well it seems that everyone is moving to Madison Springs, so if you're on multiple paths, it looks like it's all gonna blow up spectacularly in your face
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I agree. Layla/Elena is about the only potential throuple. In the Jacuzzi ep you have the option to tease and play with both and Layla doesn't look stressed BUT she had also been drinking throughout the day. I don't really think she would be happy sharing MC even with Elena however, at least how she is now. Anyone else and she panics. The scene before the track meet where Erynn kisses your cheek to say bye immediately cuts to her looking grumpy and she knows Erynn.
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the maturity part is spot on, they are highschool kids, or barely out of it, what fucking poly relationship. In fact even regular ones usually don't last that long at that age in most cases. Not the game for that sort of content, and would be shitty writing in most scenarios. The one where something like that might happen imo based on the latest release imo would be Layla/Elena. But that's a big if too.