VN Ren'Py Isabella - Chasing Shadows [Ch. 4.3] [badtimetales]

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not sure if im gonna be able to write an unbiased review when it comes out on steam haha. As Isabella makes me turn into Joshy just maybe not as horny as he gets when he thinks of Alex and Isa
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More Joshys... Damn, it's getting dangerous here.

I wonder if we'll get to take them on a date or something?
One "I'm a writer too" told me "You can speed up the relationship building, just add a night with booze".
Uhm. Yeah. No.

That's a good thing, at least. Hope that doesn't Jinx it. :)
I don't want to jinx anything, but the hardware problems and my own mistakes/silliness with the demo is enough for the next...
Years?

The demo should be out for two days already, but yeah, I'm an idiot. Again.
 

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One "I'm a writer too" told me "You can speed up the relationship building, just add a night with booze".
Uhm. Yeah. No.
All that will accomplish after is things becoming very awkward at the very least. At the worst, loss of friendship. So, you can tell the "I'm a writer too": Not every thing needs to be placed in the porn logic arena.
 
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One "I'm a writer too" told me "You can speed up the relationship building, just add a night with booze".
Uhm. Yeah. No.
All that will accomplish after is things becoming very awkward at the very least. At the worst, loss of friendship. So, you can tell the "I'm a write too": Not every thing needs to be placed in the porn logic arena.
As I said somewhere else recently: Best AVNs here on F95 (for me) have been the ones that prioritize story over lewd.
 

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All that will accomplish after is things becoming very awkward at the very least. At the worst, loss of friendship. So, you can tell the "I'm a writer too": Not every thing needs to be placed in the porn logic arena.
I didn't mean right now I'm talking about when the throuple is together and the date doesn't have to end in sex.
 
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Dessolos

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It's going to be so awesome when the romance with both girls starts to really take off.
I wonder if we'll get to take them on a date or something?
While the throuple path isn't my first pick I do love the idea of the dates on that path being a double date. Like I can see it now Alex finds out you took Isabella out and gets jealous and mad at the MC , then from then on they set a new rule dates have to be with both or talked about with both haha.

Also I thought of something that sounded good in my head and probably terrible on paper / my own fanfic . Not sure if was ever stated how rich the MC is but I recall he was pretty damn rich. I thought it would be awesome as an ending or something once he settles down with both Isa and Alex or solves most problems towards the end of the game. That maybe the MC invest in and starts his own model agency and makes both Isa and Alex models in it. Then he can say he is dating or married to 2 models. Plus looks like it wouldn't make to much sense for Isa to be one for much longer anyways.
 
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While the throuple path isn't my first pick I do love the idea of the dates on that path being a double date. Like I can see it now Alex finds out you took Isabella out and gets jealous and mad at the MC , then from then on they set a new rule dates have to be with both or talked about with both haha.

Also I thought of something that sounded good in my head and probably terrible on paper / my own fanfic . Not sure if was ever stated how rich the MC is but I recall he was pretty damn rich. I thought it would be awesome as an ending or something once he settles down with both Isa and Alex or solves most problems towards the end of the game. That maybe the MC invest in and starts his own model agency and makes both Isa and Alex models in it. Then he can say he is dating or married to 2 models. Plus looks like it wouldn't make to much sense for Isa to be one for much longer anyways.
More of your bad choices. :LOL:
 
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Grumpy Old Aussie

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Bro you should be thankful I'm not the writer lol
Every update would be about handholding and romantic overtures from the mc to the girls.
On a serious note, you have a point. I don't mind just romance. 2 of my fav VNs on F95 don't have sex scenes in them. Foreplay scenes yes, sex scenes no. Story will always be a priority for me. I'm not saying Isabella's are bad at all, I'm just making the point I prefer a good story with a VN. I'm don't mind porn, it has its place, It's just my personal preference, unless it has an engaging story I get bored with a VN really quickly. It has to be more than just porn scenes strung together.
 

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It's usually way sexier when there is a connection between those involved, when the background, story and personalities give the sex meaning. A bit of blue-balling isn't necessarily a bad thing :)
A recent AVN I played one character's path is all about teasing and blueballing but it was done in a way that made the character fun and enjoyable to me. So yeah not all blue-balling is bad , tho blueballing never bothered me in these games anyways. But I do perfer when the story , romance takes their time anyways I don't like sex in these games to be rushed for the sake of adding a scene I like it to make sense at least the first few times.

Which is part of the reason Isabella is my favorite in this game. While I do like Alex especially after her character development gets going the pre established friends with benefits kind of automatically made me like her less initially, because the first few lewd scene with her doesn't feel special or has an significant meaning to me. Since we learn about her character later that and my preference at least until there is some good character development is for sex scenes to take awhile to get to.
 
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But I do perfer when the story , romance takes their time anyways I don't like sex in these games to be rushed for the sake of adding a scene I like it to make sense at least the first few times.
Absolutely agree. As I think I have said earlier, I don't mind the occasional game that's more about the sex, as long as it's done well and fun to play. Just some light entertainment can be good too. The games that stay with me are the ones like this one, with story and believable characters and relationships. I suppose it's the same with blueballs, if it is a feature of the game, if it's well done and fun, I don't mind.
I guess what I'm saying is that any type of game can be fun, for what it attempts to be and if that is something you like, if it's well done, but those with a lasting impression will have a good mix of story, interesting characters and so on. And that was a terrible sentence.

Which is part of the reason Isabella is my favorite in this game. While I do like Alex especially after her character development gets going...
Will I am more attracted to Alex, physically, I really do like Isa too. I remember the first time playing, that first sex scene with Alex, I thought a lot of players would object to the forced relationship. And they did. :)And I could see their point, even if it didn't bother me personally. I mostly thought 'The Dev is trying to tell a story here, let's see where it goes'. And, obviously, liking Alex from the start didn't hurt... There was another scene with, whatshername, the Journalist, that was forced and then quickly made optional. I didn't like that (i.e. it being forced), because in my mind I was with Alex then (even if it wasn't official yet) and it didn't really fit if I want to play as a good BF.
This very quickly became a game about a throuple (and the thriller story-line of course) for me, and the journey to that is really the aspect I am enjoying the most. And to make that feel realistic IMO, you really need to set it up and build it slowly. Which is what BTT is doing and pretty much all of us seem to be happy about. We are a subset of the wider AVN fanbase, if you like, and this is a game made for us.
I don't necsessarily mean the throuple path, but also the friendship paths.
 
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Dessolos

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Will I am more attracted to Alex, physically, I really do like Isa too. I remember the first time playing, that first sex scene with Alex, I thought a lot of players would object to the forced relationship. And they did. :)And I could see their point, even if it didn't bother me personally. I mostly thought 'The Dev is trying to tell a story here, let's see where it goes'. And, obviously, liking Alex from the start didn't hurt... There was another scene with, whatshername, the Journalist, that was forced and then quickly made optional. I didn't like that (i.e. it being forced), because in my mind I was with Alex then (even if it wasn't official yet) and it didn't really fit if I want to play as a good BF.
This very quickly became a game about a throuple (and the thriller story-line of course) for me, and the journey to that is really the aspect I am enjoying the most. And to make that feel realistic IMO, you really need to set it up and build it slowly. Which is what BTT is doing and pretty much all of us seem to be happy about. We are a subset of the wider AVN fanbase, if you like, and this is a game made for us.
I don't necsessarily meant the throuple path, but also the friendship paths.
Yeah I agree even though I didn't like the alex scene my first time initially. I grew to like it because of the character and story development that happened later. Even before then it made alot of sense from a story perspective to really sell the point and show they have a FWB relationship. The only reason I even disliked it was because of my personal preferences of liking to work for it some haha. But from a story perspective BTT is doing a great job even the brief dream / hallucination lewd scenes which most people dislike generally in games made sense and had a reason for it. To me it seems anything that is forced for the most part has a narrative reason behind it , at least when I discovered the game.
 

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I still can't stop thinking about that scene where Alex accidently saw Isa masturbating.
It made her really horny. Of course, she wasn't the only one.

Anyway, that is the erotic scene so far imo.
 
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