Since we don't know how this world work exactly, for now at least, we can only theorize.
But, I'm genuinely against the theories about Sensei being a pillar, or, in other words, whenever he is reset everyone will be hard reset.
Mostly because it will not be interresting narratively, and, as far as I remember, Maya didn't say the world get hard reset when she fuck«reset» Sensei, but that she provoque the reset phenomenon.
And the reset phenomenon, isn't a «hard reset», it's just the end of a «loop».
Or, at least, that's how I understand it.
But, on that line, I'm getting through something else, mostly about the beginning of the chapter 3.
So, with all that, the upcoming dark route, if I have to guess, will be about Ami. And how she's gonna regain control.
Surely, Maya will talk to Sensei about what Ami is, and after that... that gonna be a red route.
Either Sel is taking one of his iconic mid-development vacations or he's hunched over a tub of ice cream mourning the loss of David Lynch. Either way Sel is Mia
she says that because it happens, you, the player, just chose not to see it. Ami also talks about it regardless.
which, yeah, I don't know how that fits into "amifingered" being false, cause that'd mean that Akira took Ami's virginity while she was pretending to be Maya right then, while on the "good uncle" path.
yet another example of green path being the one true path for things making most sense.
My god it took me forever to understand something so simple. Akira needs to take something that does not belong to him, because Sekai took something from him that didn't belong to her.
This is a pretty interesting way to perceive Sekai’s behavior, and I bet there has to be some level of truth in here with this as it helps explain why and how ghost Sekai knows what the gods want from Akira: not because this is somehow a common knowledge to those now reside in a different plane, but it's because Sekai is a former victim of the same divine power.
My thoughts on your questions can generalized into a single assumption: the highest principle of a god's homework is to "learn to feel through someone" rather than simply boiling down to "having sex with minors". As in, though both Akira's and Sekai's homework all involving "taking something that does not belong to you" sound very spot on and fitting to the core idea of the game, it is perhaps that what Sekai was tasked to do wasn't exactly the same as what Akira was tasked to do despite the fact that BOTH of them performed statutory rape. Akira's homework looked like this is might be due to her past relations with Sekai, and following the same idea, how Sekai's homework might also be designed based on a something/someone in her own life prior to meeting Akira; Sekai falling in love with Akira and scarring him for life was the result of her homework and her eventually very twisted love, but not the method to finish her homework.
(My additional question here is that this train of thought can supposedly be backtracked to Yuu, the presumed source of that bloodline and all the weird shit. What was his homework back then if any?)
And all of this might be something apart from just maintaining believers. Having believers is, according to Pareidolia and the content during reset1 and reset2 opening, presumed to be how gods remain in power and alive; how they practice that power and livelihood might be a completely different story (i.e., in a short and vile sentence: if you believe in HOPE, he will live; but he will ask you rape kids as long as he lives because the chaotic power you help bring into being will have to act on something).
Applying all these to HOPE:
- The "taking something that does not belong to you" is a specific task for Akira instead of HOPE's sole working principle, even if Sekai ended up indeed taking something that didn't belong to her.
- It has to be Akira and not some other randoms HOPE can cast some effects on to carry out his will because, at the current point of time, Akira might be presumably the only available special person after Sekai's death
- Transference might be the same as "taking something that does not belong to you" because Akira's been fucking everything since he woke up and apparently HOPE is still not happy with him; it might have to be some selected females like Sana by the end of Ch3 being handed over on a silver plate, so that the warmth can flow back to him (or however Yasu described about the proper way to transfer love back to HOPE). Or, transference and "taking something that does not belong to you" are in fact different things.
(skipping Wires because imo the core belief of the second god has not been well demonstrated yet)
A few frames prior to that dialogue was this glitchy scene, so it wasn't an oversight at least. As for the nature of this contradiction, you can either believe that somehow good uncle route got briefly course corrected to the bad uncle route, or Selly was lazy or unwilling to to make an alternative for those who didn't fuck Ami.
Sana? Wtf was that?
"You'll never be off the hook, Sensei. Not until my mom cuts the line. And even then, you'll have to swim away with it dangling off your lip, hanging there until the day you die." wtf...?
You'd have only seen that dialogue if you've been sleeping with Sara. Sana really doesn't want you around Sara for reasons she isn't willing to admit yet, maybe even to herself. (The last chat you had with her was the condoms in Sara's room)
Either way she's going to be possessive until she's convinced there's nothing going on between you two. Considering what this game is...fun times ahead!
Not sure where you're reading that, but Sel has at this point already put work into the reset puzzles, punishing people who follow a guide for the answers and skipping through his events. I could see him pulling the same trick and locking you out of progressing the game if you tried going to the next reset without seeing this happy event, which is manually triggered.
I hope you read discussions about them and protected yourself. If you've loaded them into the game I can't guarantee how safe you'll be. Maybe make a backup of your saves outside of the game folder just in case.
Not spoilering much, but from this point the happy events stop trying to make you scared but rather telling something very interesting. Hell, they never tried to scare you, but making you feel discomfort, yes. Aside for the very first one, which is trying to be scary and basically a filter: "are you going to keep playing this game or not?"
This played for me after the event where Sensei first meets up with Makoto outside of school hours on Saturday, at the park. After the scene, it cuts to Yumi from behind, observing them in secret, but there's no real payoff for it.
The payoff is at "this town has two halves". Yumi will mention Makoto and ask Akira if he's fucking her, which he will then interpret as her being jealous, which spirals into what happened.
*There are also instances of her being jealous of Futaba, but that's beside the point.
The payoff is at "this town has two halves". Yumi will mention Makoto and ask Akira if he's fucking her, which he will then interpret as her being jealous, which spirals into what happened.
WHOA! SPOILERS, BRO! I've only played through the game twice so far!
But yeah, I mean, I guess I'm just taking it from the perspective of someone pretending they are an idiot (which I'm not) that might have missed a shit ton of stuff (which I of course didn't) and could find interesting on a subsequent subsequent playthrough.
Considering I didn't even take the game seriously until "this town has two halves" on my initial run, and my second playthrough was far to inebriated to be remembered, I think its safe to say that this playthrough is quite different for me, and reading your (and all the lore folk's) explanations has made it a much more enriching experience. I just hope to give some points of interest to other (totally not idiot) people like myself that might find it interesting.
As much as I love Yumi, I am glad that Selebus decided to go for a calmer approach with the story.
Your tinfoil theory isn't that tinfoily, but you got it the other way around.
Based on what we can see in the game, Yumi was the special girl in the past based on her subconscious memories, but now it's Ayane, it's her who replaced Yumi.
You'd have only seen that dialogue if you've been sleeping with Sara. Sana really doesn't want you around Sara for reasons she isn't willing to admit yet, maybe even to herself. (The last chat you had with her was the condoms in Sara's room)
Not sure where you're reading that, but Sel has at this point already put work into the reset puzzles, punishing people who follow a guide for the answers and skipping through his events. I could see him pulling the same trick and locking you out of progressing the game if you tried going to the next reset without seeing this happy event, which is manually triggered.
I hope you read discussions about them and protected yourself. If you've loaded them into the game I can't guarantee how safe you'll be. Maybe make a backup of your saves outside of the game folder just in case.
That's the thing. I have to go out of my way to read god knows how much text before I know exactly how protected I have to be. The disable drm thing doesn't properly explain much, I don't know if it's been updated, I don't know what files to put in etc. Now what I do know however is that if it ONLY apply to the game folder the care packages are in at the moment, I should be 100% safe, both because it should already be saving in user data somewhere but also because the care packages are on a separate folder standalone from the one that doesn't have the care packages installed. Also I have a copy of the save folder in my pc's trash can that's half a day of gameplay old. I'm debating going the extra mile by putting it on a usb stick. But honestly I wouldn't have to do anything if the information surrounding the care packages here was properly updated for dummies. I dunno, I'm just kinda pissed having walked in several circles with far too many unknowns. I never did put the disable drm thing on the folder hosting the care packages btw. That folder also has urm installed.
Oh I don't know about most hilarious. I would say Karin fainting after tsuneyo asking what sex is was the best so far. Followed by Rin being told to not look down, does it anyway and sees his boner. Good times. This one was actually pretty tame in comparison, but humor doesn't affect everyone equally.
No, there's different cheater marks and different punishments. There's a generic cheater flag for using any of the stat modifying cheats and it punishes you at the start of chapter 3 or something by wiping all of your affection scores, setting a punished flag and preventing you from using the stat modifying cheats.
If you went to the reset that has the upside down bedroom and answered all the questions without seeing the happy event that had some of the answers in it, you would have reached the point where the two angels are talking to you, and then happy ami comes to insult you and close your game, hopefully you had a older save to fix it.
I'm assuming the next reset has a similar check and it would urge you to see the happy event that you just saw. Because I don't want to back and quote it, I believe youdidit appeared in previous happy events but didn't have a speaking role yet
That's the thing. I have to go out of my way to read god knows how much text before I know exactly how protected I have to be. The disable drm thing doesn't properly explain much, I don't know if it's been updated, I don't know what files to put in etc. Now what I do know however is that if it ONLY apply to the game folder the care packages are in at the moment, I should be 100% safe, both because it should already be saving in user data somewhere but also because the care packages are on a separate folder standalone from the one that doesn't have the care packages installed. Also I have a copy of the save folder in my pc's trash can that's half a day of gameplay old. I'm debating going the extra mile by putting it on a usb stick. But honestly I wouldn't have to do anything if the information surrounding the care packages here was properly updated for dummies. I dunno, I'm just kinda pissed having walked in several circles with far too many unknowns. I never did put the disable drm thing on the folder hosting the care packages btw. That folder also has urm installed.
It hasn't been updated nor had other people explain it properly cause few people were smart enough to figure out what happened. The drm is hidden within a image file of the dorms, and gui.rpy has a call to the file presumably to check it. The patched gui.rpy just deletes the call. I'm not sure if gui.rpy is updated often, I warn people using it to repatch every update but it gui.rpy updated in any meaningful way surely something would break from a file that's several years out of date.
I don't know if it's a specific moment that calls the drm, some other people have mentioned it'd happen when the game queries to load care packages but I feel you would have already been bitten by that.
I wouldn't call your saves safe just cause you had a separate install. renpy makes a backup of saves based on project name in appdata, and propogates later save changes to the other location. If the drm got you on your care package install, and then you load your main game without purging the corrupt saves in theory they'd overwrite the good copy of your saves.
separate USB disk is hella overkill, there's only so much fuck selebus and whoever he outsourced the DRM to have to find your saves. I'd say a backup of your saves folder outside of your LIL folder is secure enough. (though I just read the scripts for the care packages to avoid the issue entirely, though I guess I don't get to listen to memories.mp3 with the stray cat commentary like that)
Hell you said you have a save 'backup' that's only half a day old. You could probably just load that save at worst case and just leave unseen text skip off, then skip what text you have seen until something new comes up. Would only take a couple minutes like that.
