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

[badtimetales]

Play whichever route you like

Damn, I've no idea how people are able to play harem games. Well, different audience maybe?

Val is there, she was a mistake, I have to live with that.

(and I'm happy to do so)

(Alex and Isa approve this message)

 

[badtimetales]

As a dev, everything you do is wrong for some people.
Like the "forced relationship", the slow burn, not being a harem game or the silly pets/zoo.

I'm telling my story.
Sorry if most people don't like it.

And sorry for the real fans for getting you into trouble which lady you go after.
Being a team with x0 members, with x00k funds, I could plan that way better. Hell, thinking about Vals role before chapter 2 would have been a good idea. She was never planned like this.
Val grew on me, story and relationship wise.

I will never break the story and add her to a harem, because that wouldn't fit with Alex and Isa.
So for the Alex haters (ok, the not Alex path players, sorry), she's there until Isa will be available as a LI.
Doesn't make it easier, as the players will have to make a decision.
That's life

I understand you, and adding here as a single LI wasn't the easiest decision.
Back when I'd played AVNs I always sticked to the route/girls I'd choosen, no matter how "interesting" another route might be.

She's there, she has her path, and even without playing that part, she'll be adding to the story.

 

[Joshy92]

As a dev, everything you do is wrong for some people.
Like the "forced relationship", the slow burn, not being a harem game or the silly pets/zoo.

I'm telling my story.
Sorry if most people don't like it.

And sorry for the real fans for getting you into trouble which lady you go after.
Being a team with x0 members, with x00k funds, I could plan that way better. Hell, thinking about Vals role before chapter 2 would have been a good idea. She was never planned like this.
Val grew on me, story and relationship wise.

I will never break the story and add her to a harem, because that wouldn't fit with Alex and Isa.
So for the Alex haters (ok, the not Alex path players, sorry), she's there until Isa will be available as a LI.
Doesn't make it easier, as the players will have to make a decision.
That's life

I understand you, and adding here as a single LI wasn't the easiest decision.
Back when I'd played AVNs I always sticked to the route/girls I'd choosen, no matter how "interesting" another route might be.

She's there, she has her path, and even without playing that part, she'll be adding to the story.

I'm the same. I play the LI route I like the most and usually that's it.

 

[Jarulf]

As a dev, everything you do is wrong for some people.
Like the "forced relationship", the slow burn, not being a harem game or the silly pets/zoo.

All of those things are part of you telling your story, not pandering to the popular opinion. Of course you could have handled things in a different way, and there were a few things you did change after player feedback (such as the first sex scene with Val). I'd say you are not doing things wrong, just your way. That may not always be the financially smart option, but then it would probably be a very different story. Not the one the majority of your supporters enjoy.

Hell, thinking about Vals role before chapter 2 would have been a good idea. She was never planned like this.
Val grew on me, story and relationship wise.

That happens, as anyone who has ever written a story will probably know. It's something you can't predict. Character's demand more attention, new ideas pop up in your brain, an original idea doesn't really work, focus shifts on the plot - the trick is not getting too sidetracked by all the possible changes you could make. Write some of them down for possible future use, and use what makes sense now.
I suspect that is sometimes very difficult when you are a new dev, unsure and still learning everything about making a game, especially if you have fans, paying or otherwise, who clamour for various things. Once in a blue moon, they might actually want something that makes sense.
And you absolutely have my respect for resisting that, and sticking to your vision and adding and changing only the things that make sense to you, or that you have to make to accommodate Patreon or Steam.

I will never break the story and add her to a harem, because that wouldn't fit with Alex and Isa.

She's there, she has her path, and even without playing that part, she'll be adding to the story.

And if you had added Val to the harem, I would honestly have been disappointed. Not because I don't like her, but because it would have made absolutely no sense for this story.
I play harem stories too, they can be fun if they are well-made, but they are not realistic stories and definitely require a certain level of suspension of disbelief. A throuple, sure. An MC sleeping around, sure. More than two girls happily in a permanent relationship, and we get into silly magic dick territory which is a very different kind of beast to Isa.

So, while financially you might have wanted to have made a few different choices, I, as a player is happy with the ones you made. And if you make a new game once Isa, Alex and the MC are living happily ever after, you have the experience and skills you've acquired making Isa. And I'll spam that download button as soon as I hear of it.

 

[Grumpy Old Aussie]

As a dev, everything you do is wrong for some people.
Like the "forced relationship", the slow burn, not being a harem game or the silly pets/zoo.

I'm telling my story.
Sorry if most people don't like it.

And sorry for the real fans for getting you into trouble which lady you go after.
Being a team with x0 members, with x00k funds, I could plan that way better. Hell, thinking about Vals role before chapter 2 would have been a good idea. She was never planned like this.
Val grew on me, story and relationship wise.

I will never break the story and add her to a harem, because that wouldn't fit with Alex and Isa.
So for the Alex haters (ok, the not Alex path players, sorry), she's there until Isa will be available as a LI.
Doesn't make it easier, as the players will have to make a decision.
That's life

I understand you, and adding here as a single LI wasn't the easiest decision.
Back when I'd played AVNs I always sticked to the route/girls I'd choosen, no matter how "interesting" another route might be.

She's there, she has her path, and even without playing that part, she'll be adding to the story.

It doesn't matter what you do or how you do it, someone will whine and complain and bitch about it. Do your thing. If 99% of people are saying the same thing then it might be time to listen, but otherwise to hell with them.