Well Nodokathon didn't even happen in my playthrough. Maybe if you try to go all green, which is essentially enabling some of the worst possible scenes, your events end up with the worst possible outcome. This was quite a wholesome update for me, I enjoyed it a lot and nothing bad happened at all outside of the usual, which was honestly quite surprising. Nodoka herself was quite well behaved this time around and Sana didn't do anything bad in my game.
You joke, yet Akira's obsession to inanimate objects really grows more and more verisimilar every day.
so if I'm currently need both affection and lust points to get events. Then which one should I focus on then?
Shit, maybe Io is the girl for him after all
There are not multiple paths in this game - there is one path, which you are either on or off.
Socks, desks, buckets, watermelons, doors, cabinets. Sensei is the embodiment if there's a hole there's a way.
Ayane's had a decent amount of a sort of... 'underlying' appearance recently tbh, like she comes up in places you wouldn't expect.
I don't think it's shit, I think it could've been way better
My suspension of disbelief is itself suspended a bit because we KNOW that the gods can influence the actions and thoughts of the characters.
Yeah I don't know about WE. I think the writing has been 100% consistent the entire way through. The problem from my end of things is that this appears to be written by someone with depression and psychosis who doesn't actually realize they have these issues. Alternatively they realize they have these issues but are actively antagonizing people who have these issues and don't realize it. If neither of these are actually the case then I don't know what Sel could possibly be other than an absolute psychopath who is broken beyond repair.
Sel has made how "with it" or not characters are clear in the past, with either visual distortions or alterations in syntactical tendencies, and when it wasn't clear the obfuscation tended to be intentful. Recently, especially in this update, the only indications we have that characters aren't quite there is what they say or do, not how. It's easier to get whiplash from the subversion of short term reasonable expectations the way Sel did it this update. Putting a different way, how long / consistently to do you feel like your suspension of your suspension of disbelief ought to be? How long does the reader have to suspend their suspension of disbelief before the essence or meaning of LiL changes completely? Just because everything in this update makes sense with the rules Sel gives us doesn't mean it's as impactful. Past turmoil was both heavy hitting and well placed, the weight of the narrative blow hits hard, but this update contains heavy content without the expert placement that events like Stomachache has, and I would argue it's due to the lack of visceral on screen reaction from participants and bystanders, not the plot beat itself. A heavy punch that grazes this update is, not a knockout punch like past climactic events. Looking forward to next update, I trust Sel to make it work, but for the longest update in the game's history it reads as incomplete, uncommon for Sel imo. Think Moonflare's post put this idea better, but this update definitely gave me reason to pause instead of continue more than any other, though I've only been reading live since .35 so maybe early updates also had this air of ending in media res.
That's the beauty of it, there could be better or worse options, but we don't know. Also, why this update exists considering he's very particular about his "magnum opus" is a mystery. Either he's losing it (subject deliberately left vague) or he thinks this fits in his grand vision.
