Just wanna say I find it amusing that Kirin is shaming bronies, and yet her name is an asshole pony that rains thunder. Most likely unrelated, but I just wanna say it out there.
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Try the different locations until you find someone new to raise the affection of, then keep going back until their affection is at 5.
Then a new option should show up.
(Also there's a secret hidden during that part in a different location, if you want to look for it before hitting 5)
- Apr 23, 2019
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Go to the oneperson you would ask about it. But try to get some exercise first.
- Apr 23, 2019
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You just made me think... Sensei refuses to pray when told by Maya. But in the broken world, before the first reset, he just does it.
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It is simply the second half of the month's update, so yes. Updates are split into two bimonthly releases, named part 1 and part 2, but every release is the full game up to that point.
- May 29, 2017
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It's more of a VN with an embedded puzzle than a real "game", I'd agree. And I'm personally *very* happy with that. There's no way that the developer would be able to progress like this if he was doing a bunch of branching story lines-- games where "your choices really matter!" are great to play when they are done, but it means month-to-month development is a terrible crawl since they might need to advance 3-10 tracks in parallel.
Besides, and more importantly, playing a really open game means I'm writing the story, and frankly Selebus is a much, much better writer than I am. I'd rather read his ideas than play my own.
- May 29, 2017
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Disclaimer: I'm nowhere near done with the game, just made it past the reset.
Lots of lucid discussion here on how Sensei is a shit person. I think that's pretty clear and I don't actually disagree, but there are a few things I think need to be born in mind that mitigate the degree to which he is a shit person and why we think that.
1) We're listening to his inner monologue. Think about *your* thoughts when you're flirting with a girl, and imagine how they would sound to an observer. Actions matter more than the thought process that go into them, and while he's clearly a horndog who wants a lot from vulnerable girls, he also genuinely does make efforts to help the various girls in his life. I don't think he is so much *bad* as lacking in restraint.
Which brings us to my other point....
Finally:
3) I think he is judged somewhat more harshly than other VN main characters because he appears to be deliberately tricky to identify with. Most H-games try to make it so that it's easy to identify with the protagonist; either they are way over the top alpha to the point where the game is not immersive and it's just fun to be "that guy" even if we would hate him in real life (ex: Lust & Power, the Tyrant, SuperPowered, Something Unlimited, Harem Collector) or he's very sympathetic and we genuinely like him (e.g. Now and Then, The Last Sovereign, Long Live the Princess, Harem Hotel, Innocent Witches). In this case the game is extremely immersive but the character earns just enough of our sympathy that we are pretty fucking surprised when he suddenly shows his horrible side. That puts us in the position of not just spectators (rather than roleplayers) but *betrayed* spectators, and that causes us to have stronger negative feelings than we otherwise might.
To illustrate the third point, consider most player's feelings toward a guy like the MC of the Tyrant (who actually drives his stepdad to suicide because he was a competitor to MC's incest efforts, but the guy is such a badass and the story is so absurd that we don't care.) To put it another way: By any objective standards Sensei is less of a bastard than the MC of the Tyrant, but I dislike him more because I care more about this story. I could be projecting here, but think thru the games that you play and see if this resonates at all.
Lots of lucid discussion here on how Sensei is a shit person. I think that's pretty clear and I don't actually disagree, but there are a few things I think need to be born in mind that mitigate the degree to which he is a shit person and why we think that.
1) We're listening to his inner monologue. Think about *your* thoughts when you're flirting with a girl, and imagine how they would sound to an observer. Actions matter more than the thought process that go into them, and while he's clearly a horndog who wants a lot from vulnerable girls, he also genuinely does make efforts to help the various girls in his life. I don't think he is so much *bad* as lacking in restraint.
Which brings us to my other point....
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Finally:
3) I think he is judged somewhat more harshly than other VN main characters because he appears to be deliberately tricky to identify with. Most H-games try to make it so that it's easy to identify with the protagonist; either they are way over the top alpha to the point where the game is not immersive and it's just fun to be "that guy" even if we would hate him in real life (ex: Lust & Power, the Tyrant, SuperPowered, Something Unlimited, Harem Collector) or he's very sympathetic and we genuinely like him (e.g. Now and Then, The Last Sovereign, Long Live the Princess, Harem Hotel, Innocent Witches). In this case the game is extremely immersive but the character earns just enough of our sympathy that we are pretty fucking surprised when he suddenly shows his horrible side. That puts us in the position of not just spectators (rather than roleplayers) but *betrayed* spectators, and that causes us to have stronger negative feelings than we otherwise might.
To illustrate the third point, consider most player's feelings toward a guy like the MC of the Tyrant (who actually drives his stepdad to suicide because he was a competitor to MC's incest efforts, but the guy is such a badass and the story is so absurd that we don't care.) To put it another way: By any objective standards Sensei is less of a bastard than the MC of the Tyrant, but I dislike him more because I care more about this story. I could be projecting here, but think thru the games that you play and see if this resonates at all.
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Sure, he puts on a nicer face but he still goes out of his way to manipulate every situation to his favor regardless of the consequences to anyone, at times even himself. All the while thinking to himself how much he hates helping people and still somehow claiming to make the best of his situation. I just don't like the guy, ALMOST to the point were I'm tempted to skip over all of his inner monologue because it's the same old story with him. I don't as to not miss anything vital to the actual story but to me him as a character has very little relevance to the events when its all said and done. He is just along for the ride with whatever is going on between HOPE and User2.
Just found out that the Chika scene reacts to different names. I put in different names like "Selebus", "Chika" and so on but I feel like there's something more easter egg-y things that I can put?
- May 29, 2017
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I didn't think to try Selebus, but I got some humorous responses with "Sensei", "Dad", "Chimami", "Rin", and "Yumi". I'm fighting the urge to unpack the RPA files and find out stuff like that, this game is too effing good to risk spoilers.
Also fun: Decoding the various ascii strings that crop up is entertaining.
If you have a linux box or a Mac (or a Windows machine with a perl interpreter), dump this script in a file, make it executable ("chmod +x <the file name>", or whatever the GUI equivalent is), and run the command from the terminal. Then just type the ascii strings (or paste them in after running a screencap thru a good online OCR).
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while (<>)
{
map { print chr(oct("0x$_")) } split(/ /,$_);
print "\n"
}He is very much a shit person to a very large degree, what you are experiencing is actually a slow change brought on by his situation during the game, replacing this one teacher and having to be a mentor to all these girls. He IS becoming a better person through their presence, but he is still VERY much a shit person and he hasn't made all that much progress, but still a noticeable amount.
As for his actions or lack thereof, it seems more like biding his time to avoid shooting himself in the foot. Like with Rin, he could very easily push her into full on suicide with the wrong move, so he's waiting until she is more vulnerable to his advances than she is to her own mental state.
As for the outside influence theory, I do suspect you're right, maybe that's WHY he's a shit person, maybe the asshole we know isn't the real him.
As for your third point, I agree, Selebus deliberately made player Sensei difficult to identify with. He isn't us, he is himself as the girls are themselves. They are each an individual being within the game that, if they were truly sentient and capable of learning and adapting in real time, could pass as their own lifeforms given how well they are written. They have practically everything a real human has except the ability to think for themselves, to feel, to move, to any of the things we can do that fictional characters cannot. That's what makes them so incredible, because they seem VERY real.
Hence why he's the scum of the town.
Yes, different lust names have different reactions for all of the characters who have a lust event. There's a list somewhere in the thread.
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And I honestly wouldn't put it past him to do that after he has his way with her.
Nah, his goal is to have them all to himself and not just one time, pushing her to suicide would be shooting himself in the foot no matter when he does it. He WILL make a move on Rin, guaranteed, but only when he doesn't risk losing a chance for seconds or thirds for people he's already with or the first or future repeats with her or someone else.
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I was saying that mostly because of the hate I have for him
. That said, he seems like the type of person to see just how far he can go with the whole reset scenario.
- Apr 23, 2019
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Your hatred is making you really biased right now. So far, we have seens him purposefully getting away from the reset issue. He is so much fucking further away from "see how far he can go with the reset" than even a normal person. A normal person would go out of their way to check how the damn thing works, to a degree.I was saying that mostly because of the hate I have for him
Sensei basically escapes it.
