Well, I just choked on my own spit from laughter after "Uptown Girl". Sensei just calling Niki like that almost literally killed me. I can't wait until the next Niki event to see her reaction firsthand.
The rest of the update was quite a mix between heartwarming and foreboding, though. You can definitely see the signs of this whole "route" crashing in tears, but with it picking up speed as it does now, it's at least going to be spectacular. Nice to see Sensei getting closer to problems and mysteries of the world in general and Maya in particular, too, even if he is rapidly losing control over himself.
The plot between Noriko and Maya thickens, and I get the feeling the latter was really hurt by it. I wonder if Niki couldn't be a more neutral source of information about the past, though. Maya doesn't seem to have so adverse a reaction to her, and you would think that supposedly girlfriend would know more about whaterver happened.
I sure hope that Niki will act as some sort of anchor for Noriko, Maya and also Sensei but given the kind of game we are playing and what sadistic person Sel is.... Not a chance.
Truth be told, I absolutely love the update and especially I love Noriko since her introduction (maybe even surpassing Maya who I know is sacrificing a lot just to protect Sensei).
But Noriko will be the absolutely adorable, cute and highly interesting cause for everything to start burning down. And she'll do it with an irresistible smile...
I sure do hope that Sel doesn't hurt or worse kill Maya in the process (the new poster of her does give me terrible vibes, the bed resembles a coffin and that is not exactly reassuring) but if anyone assumed that this story will have a happy ending (anytime soon), they have not been paying attention.
It sure will be a hell of a ride though. Also a ride to hell, I guess, but it will be very enjoyable to witness. And terrifying. Mostly just terrifying actually...
I sure hope that Niki will act as some sort of anchor for Noriko, Maya and also Sensei but given the kind of game we are playing and what sadistic person Sel is.... Not a chance.
Truth be told, I absolutely love the update and especially I love Noriko since her introduction (maybe even surpassing Maya who I know is sacrificing a lot just to protect Sensei).
But Noriko will be the absolutely adorable, cute and highly interesting cause for everything to start burning down. And she'll do it with an irresistible smile...
I sure do hope that Sel doesn't hurt or worse kill Maya in the process (the new poster of her does give me terrible vibes, the bed resembles a coffin and that is not exactly reassuring) but if anyone assumed that this story will have a happy ending (anytime soon), they have not been paying attention.
It sure will be a hell of a ride though. Also a ride to hell, I guess, but it will be very enjoyable to witness. And terrifying. Mostly just terrifying actually...
The only issue I have with this is when there's text that goes by so fast that even repeating it multiple times I can't figure out what it's saying beyond a word or two, damnit!
Selebus, a bit of thought about menus.
Can you make it so when you go into Main Girl (Side Girl too) and choose a girl, we can go to the next or previous girl in that menu ( just some arrows, if you click on the arrow pointing right - you will go from Chika to Yumi and so on)
Just played the new update, damn, i feel really bad for Maya, looks like she is broken inside.
The event with Sara on Bar, that's just sad to think about it, she love to run that place, but thinks will never be the same again, there is only pain.
The event on the hotspring are hilarious, meet with another 5000 years old wizard. Another event on that place is having sex with alien Chika.
Yuki, no wonder sensei feel intimidated with her at first, but deep inside, she love Yumi.
Yumi love ice cream, i wonder did the ice cream love her back?
1) The multiple choice dialogs are visually unpleasant to read on black backgrounds (on weekends midday and evening). I suggest adding a neutral (seasonal) background image.
2) In the main girls and side girls windows I suggest adding two subtle small indicators on the overview. Maybe a small exclamation mark to indicate an unread message/pic and something else to indicate unfinished events.
Not much can be done about the background, it's winter, it snows in Japan in winter, and snow is sometimes blindingly white. There are actually a few environmental conditions associated with being blinded by snow IRL because of this. Don't worry, it will change again when it comes time to change seasons and the snow melts. There are already indicators for unfinished events and messages. If the message has not been read, the phone on the girl's page will have an exclamation point. Unfinished events are marked both in number and in color. Unfinished events will remain grey and will not be counted in the total count on the girl's page, meaning that there will be at least one less in the number of events cleared out of total events count on the page.
I have to say that Where the Sidewalk Ends was one of my favorite things to read when I was a wee youngin'.
View attachment 1172688 Friendly Passerby: "Hey buddy, looks like you took a nasty trip there, you okay? Lemme help you out real quick, and you'll be right as rain. So uh, what happened there?"
Person that isn't Sensei: "I just wanted to see what it was like to crater into the ground, so I found somewhere I could hit terminal velocity."
FP: "Well buddy, watch out, because you might land on someone, and then there'd be two bodies needing theri bones pushed back in."
PtiS: "I'll be sure to give people a heads-up before I hit the ground."
So, I'm fairly confused on the backread. Is the event that's locked out of Maya's route from being a good uncle a good or a bad event? I want to make the best choices for Maya
Several times playing this game I have desperately, *desperately*, wanted to take control of Sensei, and make him say or do something I did not have the option for (or had no options to do anything at all at the time, which is even more common). This recent update had so many of them. I hope very much that somewhere at the end of the game, in the eons it will take us to get to the "true end" that somehow, somehow, all the girls end up with good happy lives, because they all damn well deserve it as far as I can tell.
I'm not sure about happy, but the true end would have the possibility of giving them better lives than any other ending would. It's how Denpa games work, always negative except rarely in the true end and sometimes even then even if there is improvement in that end.
Well, I just choked on my own spit from laughter after "Uptown Girl". Sensei just calling Niki like that almost literally killed me. I can't wait until the next Niki event to see her reaction firsthand.
The rest of the update was quite a mix between heartwarming and foreboding, though. You can definitely see the signs of this whole "route" crashing in tears, but with it picking up speed as it does now, it's at least going to be spectacular. Nice to see Sensei getting closer to problems and mysteries of the world in general and Maya in particular, too, even if he is rapidly losing control over himself.
The plot between Noriko and Maya thickens, and I get the feeling the latter was really hurt by it. I wonder if Niki couldn't be a more neutral source of information about the past, though. Maya doesn't seem to have so adverse a reaction to her, and you would think that supposedly girlfriend would know more about whaterver happened.
I could see the pain in her eyes and I think Noriko might be the reason the resets are even happening. I think that scene where Maya is all happy and jerking old Sensei off is very real and that old Sensei was punished by Noriko with a bungee jump without the cord off the roof of the building at the beginning. That's where my current theory of how this all started stands, Maya had a relationship, miss psycho got jealous, old Sensei denied her when she tried to get some, so she made sure Maya couldn't have some either.
I sure hope that Niki will act as some sort of anchor for Noriko, Maya and also Sensei but given the kind of game we are playing and what sadistic person Sel is.... Not a chance.
Truth be told, I absolutely love the update and especially I love Noriko since her introduction (maybe even surpassing Maya who I know is sacrificing a lot just to protect Sensei).
But Noriko will be the absolutely adorable, cute and highly interesting cause for everything to start burning down. And she'll do it with an irresistible smile...
I sure do hope that Sel doesn't hurt or worse kill Maya in the process (the new poster of her does give me terrible vibes, the bed resembles a coffin and that is not exactly reassuring) but if anyone assumed that this story will have a happy ending (anytime soon), they have not been paying attention.
It sure will be a hell of a ride though. Also a ride to hell, I guess, but it will be very enjoyable to witness. And terrifying. Mostly just terrifying actually...
She clearly isn't being an anchor now since Noriko is still going at least partial psycho at times, need I remind you of the invite over event where she's supposed to get away while Ami distracts Maya, but instead tries to get some of player Sensei? That was most definitely one of her psychotic episodes albeit a minor one.
What janitors? This is a Japanese school. Not only are 99% of all men conscripted into the space war, but it is common practice in Japan to have the students handle janitorial duties as a way to teach responsibility.
The only issue I have with this is when there's text that goes by so fast that even repeating it multiple times I can't figure out what it's saying beyond a word or two, damnit!
Selebus, a bit of thought about menus.
Can you make it so when you go into Main Girl (Side Girl too) and choose a girl, we can go to the next or previous girl in that menu ( just some arrows, if you click on the arrow pointing right - you will go from Chika to Yumi and so on)
Now that would be useful, instead of us having to go all the way back out or go back to the girl list for the character set we are looking at. I often go through specifically the characters I found have events that update and they are often separated by at least two other girls on the list. I often forget where they are on the list as I am still getting used to the UI of this tracker, so it not only takes me several minutes to find the next girl that has events, but it also requires I back out of the girl's page to go to the next.