alex2011

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Everytime i look at the banner i get worried ayane is gonna betray me.
It is entirely possible, she has shown potential as a yandere, which do betray their love interests if their love interest is caught involved with someone else.
 

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You ARE the protagonist. The player and player Sensei are one and the same. There actually IS a way out of that situation, just follow the promise. It's been a while, but by your mention of a promise tells me this is still in reference to the Chika/Rin lockout. In that case, yes, there is indeed a way to follow the promise, a way which has been the most posted statement in this game thread, don't do the trigger event, which, yes, can be avoided until it is safe to do said event.

The event does not trigger without going to the event's location, which simply means showing some restraint with the character the event is linked to.

I do believe that thing about the notifications is related to watching the thread through the watch function. I haven't used it and instead prefer to just keep the thread open at all times and manually checked daily for that reason, so I don't know for sure. All I know is I only get notifications if something was directed at me specifically.


Keep bringing their affection up in any way you can, the dorms unlock at a pretty low amount, which means a new source of affection levels. Affection is the only stat needed for non lust events, so the non lust events will trigger in time.

Remember that all events are at increments of 5 of the needed stat. Also remember that some character's events are prerequisites for other character's events. Even if you are not playing for some characters, you should be grinding them all as equally as possible so you don't put yourself in a situation where you're stuck or locked out of one of the characters you want because an event for that character is locked out or an event for another character that is needed for an event for one of your characters is locked.

Also remember that an event is not locked if it is not red, but some might still be too late if it needs a stat at a certain level on a certain day.
At the time of my original comment there was no way to follow the promise which was my original problem. Me and sensei are not one and the same. He makes promises I wouldn't make and does things I wouldn't do. Sure I have some sort of vague control of where he goes and who he visits but other than that things that he does and says doesn't always reflect what I would do and what I believe. Forcing the player to make a promise instead of just saying no, or at the very least not having an option to say "Ay yo I been waiting for several in game months and you ain't made your move. If you don't do it someone else will."
 
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alex2011

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At the time of my original comment there was no way to follow the promise which was my original problem. Me and sensei are not one and the same. He makes promises I wouldn't make and does things I wouldn't do. Sure I have some sort of vague control of where he goes and who he visits but other than that things that he does and says doesn't always reflect what I would do and what I believe. Forcing the player to make a promise instead of just saying no, or at the very least not having an option to say "Ay yo I been waiting for several in game months and you ain't made your move. If you don't do it someone else will."
There is a way around the lockout now and there has been for a while now.

Yes, the player plays as player Sensei, not in third person perspective as some outside being or narrator, so the player is in fact player Sensei. Just because you as a real person would not do what he would does not mean you as the player don't play as him, it is not you as the player who is the main character, it is him, but you still play as that character.

As for forcing the promise, it's either that or you automatically get locked out of Rin because hurting her emotionally is the catalyst for the lockout. Breaking the promise and refusing the promise have exactly the same outcome, the only difference is how she got there and when.

It's basically a choice of lockout now when she asks you not to or lockout later when she finds out you did it anyway. Also, a choice there would be useless because you as the player could already choose not to go to the trigger location of the locking event before the event that seals your fate with regard to Rin.

The only remaining option is to follow the promise and avoid the lockout.
 

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Like you said, if it weren't for the porn, most people would have never given this a shot.
For me, it's that I'll play a game just for fun gameplay (obviously; many games don't have much of a story) or a game with good story and alright gameplay... and, honestly, a game with just alright gameplay when I'm depressed or avoiding something.

VN "gameplay" is generally not in the "fun" category for me, or in many cases even "gameplay", so all it has is story. And, I understand that's the point. And I read books, which are all story. And some VNs are as well written as good books, but they're the minority, and even then they're a completely different format that tells the story differently. And I don't enjoy that format as much; probably the same reason I don't read comic books.

Except ones with porn in :LOL:
Plus, I'll be watching porn anyway. And I have never ever ever seen a porn film with anything close to even resembling a compelling story (again, it's rarely the point) so VNs are a nice fusion. Where during the porn scenes the characters also mean something to me.
It adds that extra oomph to draw me in.

I've already mentioned some of the story elements I like in this game. Mostly related to the deconstruction of the setting, but also it has actual funny humor. Like, this is one of the few VNs where I directly enjoy the story between the porn scenes, rather than as a connector between and giving context to the porn scenes.

But, I also do hope my biggest pornographic proclivity makes it into the game; the proclivity is pretty vanilla these days. And weird as it seems, for the reasons above, it actually does improve my enjoyment of the story.

But, I definitely still 100% enjoy the updates that are 5% porn and 95% story :)
 
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Everytime i look at the banner i get worried ayane is gonna betray me.
Why? There is only one guy in the banner and thats you...or are you from the prude faction who dont let girls have fun with other girls?

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Dont waste too much time with making more h-scenes for the girls you already can have repeatable sex with, as you said, its a bonus and personally i enjoy the story and the way to their hearts/beds much more...but since there are already so many girls you can seduce, the few girls you cant feel a little stuck/incomplete. I dont know how others play the adult part, mostly because i dont care, but every time i play a horny asshole (=having multiple girls without letting them know about the others) i focus on getting/unlocking the scenes, not on repeating them (the exception: i have to wait for a specific ingame time/day/week/event, then i prefer to fill the spare time with the scenes i liked most instead of sleep/wait), in other words, i'm in for the hunt, not for the cooking and i always prefer story updates over sex updates ^^
 

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Why? There is only one guy in the banner and thats you...or are you from the prude faction who dont let girls have fun with other girls?

Selebus
Dont waste too much time with making more h-scenes for the girls you already can have repeatable sex with, as you said, its a bonus and personally i enjoy the story and the way to their hearts/beds much more...but since there are already so many girls you can seduce, the few girls you cant feel a little stuck/incomplete. I dont know how others play the adult part, mostly because i dont care, but every time i play a horny asshole (=having multiple girls without letting them know about the others) i focus on getting/unlocking the scenes, not on repeating them (the exception: i have to wait for a specific ingame time/day/week/event, then i prefer to fill the spare time with the scenes i liked most instead of sleep/wait), in other words, i'm in for the hunt, not for the cooking and i always prefer story updates over sex updates ^^
There are likely to be more for the ones with scenes already, not all of them have a penetrative scene yet. The rest will get their scenes as well when the story allows.
 

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I did the math and, at least from a sheer event number perspective, this game is 14% sexual content. Factoring in word count, since a lot of the story-heavy scenes greatly surpass the word count of sex scenes, I'd think I'd put it somewhere in the realm of 7%-8% sexual content when I'd want it to be closer to 5%.

The route that we're in now will stay relatively tame. This is not a fetish-based game and, being pretty vanilla myself, I don't have much interest in exploring most of the sexual options that many people have requested. There are plenty of threesomes and group activities to be had in the future (How far into the future I can't say), but don't expect anything on the extreme side for quite some time.

Some sexual content in the dark route will be significantly less tame.

I consider this game a VN/eroge first and foremost. Despite some Western influence in the gameplay structure, the actual story elements are greatly inspired by Japanese VNs with extremely long run-times and minimal sex scenes. I don't like calling it a porn game because that is not (And never will be) the focus. Sex is great bonus material and helps players connect with the characters on an awesome level, but the last thing I want is for people to only play this game looking to get off. That completely contradicts one of the most prevalent themes in the game.

I also learned in 0.13.0 Part 1 that I fucking despise writing so many sex scenes at once. Half of that update was porn and it was the least fun I have had working on the game thus far. I'm feeling a lot better with the update I'm working on now since I can focus on the characters again instead.


I'm not saying that at all. I think sex is an excellent tool for character building and can work wonders in forming more pertinent bonds between parties. And all of the VNs that inspired me to start making things of my own used their sexual elements wonderfully. Hell, my second favorite visual novel doesn't have any sexual content for at least like fifty hours.

Like you said, if it weren't for the porn, most people would have never given this a shot. But now that they have and now that the game has started to depart more and more from that, looking back on a lot of those earlier scenes makes me kick myself for incorporating them when I did, since so much of it was for the sheer purpose of audience gratification. If I were to start over, the Ami dream sequence never would have happened, Ayane would have taken much longer to bed, and Makoto's early h-scenes would have been a lot less shoehorned in.
Ami's dream aside, I think Ayane and Makoto's fit well into the story. For Ayane, in the prologue Sensei says that he is liking this World, with a cute girl throwing herself at him, while others will take some work for it. That makes the whole "this wolrd was made for you" meaningful in the long-run.
With Makoto it makes Bluejay make more sense and impactful, since Sensei's behavior with her had been consistently about wanting to get laid and being a dick.
So, don't worry too much about the brginning. It makes sense and leaves an impression in time, which is probably what most writers would aim at.

And don't worry about the ones complaining about lack of sex scenes. We will correct them as we have been through the thread.
 
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Virulenz

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Okay, didnt associate a game about HOPE with some random fairy tale, but i think ayane is far to obsessed to betray us...she cant rat us out without losing us, same goes if she kills someone...all she could do is kill herself, but in a resetting world it would not work well in the long run ^^

alex2011
Personally i dont need any penetration, but i know most people think otherwise. Considering the habit of the protagonist to hunt anything in sight it would still be more reasonable for him to try getting started with the girls who dont get him off yet instead of deepening the releationships with the girls that make him cum already. Its not my mindset, its the protagonists, so its his logic that matters.
 

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Ami's dream aside, I think Ayane and Makoto's fit well into the story. For Ayane, in the prologue Sensei says that he is liking this World, with a cute girl throwing herself at him, while others will take some work for it. That makes the whole "this wolrd was made for you" meaningful in the long-run.
With Makoto it makes Bluejay make more sense and impactful, since Sensei's behavior with her had been consistently about wanting to get laid and being a dick.
So, don't worry too much about the brginning. It makes sense and leaves an impression in time, which is probably what most writers would aim at.

And don't worry about the ones complaining about lack of sex scenes. We will correct them as we have been through the thread.
I couldn't agree more and you can definitely count on me to help out if I catch such comments.

SnowyS
Okay, didnt associate a game about HOPE with some random fairy tale, but i think ayane is far to obsessed to betray us...she cant rat us out without losing us, same goes if she kills someone...all she could do is kill herself, but in a resetting world it would not work well in the long run ^^

alex2011
Personally i dont need any penetration, but i know most people think otherwise. Considering the habit of the protagonist to hunt anything in sight it would still be more reasonable for him to try getting started with the girls who dont get him off yet instead of deepening the releationships with the girls that make him cum already. Its not my mindset, its the protagonists, so its his logic that matters.
I say that because giving it to some and not others when everyone is supposed to have sex scenes eventually doesn't make sense. It isn't needed, but it leaves an impression that something is missing if they aren't all to a similar level by the end of their sexual progression.

He does go after anything in sight, but he isn't stupid enough to rush things, which is why the girls with no scenes have no scenes. Those girls aren't ready to go that far with him. He will get started with them when he feels they are ready, he literally just started on one of them not that long ago, Miku, who let him touch her, but isn't fully comfortable with even that yet. You can tell by the way she reacts in that scene that she isn't ready for most things he would want to do with her.
 
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I am one of the people who read the context, so i know and understand that he takes the time they need. But "being in the head" of a protagonist like this also leads to spending more time with the girls he cant get off with to shorten his ToDo list instead of spending more time with the girls he already is intimate with just to do even more with them ^^
Again, not my mindset, but his. Based on the thoughts and acts he already has done, he prefers quantity over quality.
 

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I am one of the people who read the context, so i know and understand that he takes the time they need. But "being in the head" of a protagonist like this also leads to spending more time with the girls he cant get off with to shorten his ToDo list instead of spending more time with the girls he already is intimate with just to do even more with them ^^
Again, not my mindset, but his. Based on the thoughts and acts he already has done, he prefers quantity over quality.
He'll spend more time with them, we get events of that type every update with at least one being with a girl who hasn't even started to show they are ready, but we probably won't be seeing lust events for a while with some, especially Rin and Yumi, they're likely to be the last because of circumstances that occur in game.
 
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Not wanting girls cheating on you is being a prude?
No, but the double standard is weird. When you're fucking whole school (not yet, but that seems to be the long term plan), but expect that everyone should be faithful to you... that doesn't sound entirely reasonable. I always love this with other games, MC fucking everyone is fine, but as soon as one NPC lays eyes on someone else, there are screams about the N-word. :LOL:

Also in this case, I think it was more about what will Ayane do after she learns that Sensei is cheating bastard.
 
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