There's gotta be a true ending. How else will the game have the promised visual novel ending of someone finally waking up / leaving their room and stepping out to touch grass in the real world after the journey they have been on? Surely Sensei / The Player is not gonna be stuck in their PCs forever.
Have you ever thought that perhaps every single purity route will be part of one true ending?
It's possible, though I would expect the ending to be something to the tune of moving past the purity routes. The fundamental question is "how can one harmonize 35 different routes," and alternatively, "in what situation would one be given 35 choices." Harmonization is most easily achieved by 'walking past them' and making them a matter of the past (this is the case in visual novels where routes are conceptualized as 'past loops' and the MC remembers past loops but then proceeds into the future with only a little of their baggage). It is second-most easily achieved by making them non-canon 'side paths.' This is kind of what I expect for LiL. Like a situation where it's like: "Okay, I choose to stay in fiction, and within it I shall wed my beloved [character of your choice]." Then the true ending could slice that all off by being "Okay, I do NOT choose to stay in fiction, in fact I will go outside and touch grass." That also addresses 'in what situation would one be given 35 choices' - when Sensei has the choice to stay within LiL and choose who he wants to be with. This is all very traditional for visual novels. And finally, a fun interpretation trick to do with games like LiL is to remember that the beginnings and ends were conceived at the very start of the process. If one asks "what kind of ending would Selebus have been able to predict starting from the very beginning of the game," the list of possibilities somewhat narrows down, and precludes many cases of 35 distinct routes being part of the true ending in some kind of complex plot scheme.
You know, this reminded me of the Yosuga no Sora anime, and how it dealt with the routes. Obviously it was just a way to not animate too much and cut costs, but I wonder if the purity routes will just be branches in the entire story we've seen until now.
IIRC he had said he will need about 40 events for each one on average. Some will be shorter and others longer.
This lines up with how he used to describe it in this thread but with a number attached too.
The people paying him at this point are so far up his ass it'll take 10 years before they can find a way out.
Maybe the purity routes will be just activating some flag that works across saves. And to enter each of the purity routes you'll have to replay the game again and again and make a different choice at some point for each character.
Nope. He's already said that once you finish a purity route, you get bumped back to the choice point so you can select a different one.
I get you. When I was in my web novel/serial phase, I was lucky that when I decided to read Worm, I only had an easy test the next day, I still don't understand how I went no-sleep for 70 continuous hours. In retrospective it's enjoyable even though it has many flaws, but not to the level of literally giving up sleep for it.
Well you can always have a save at the start of an update and replay it a few days before a new update, also think about all the free time you get xd
It was a good time and fuck... I think i started a month ago and im still mid ch2 xd Also i think i have played the same time as my old saves xd and this time i used URM since the start (my first playthrough was without URM until mid ch3)
I have long suspected it will be something along these lines.
