Man this thread is poppin today, got off work and there are like 3 whole new pages of discussion. I see we have another new player too, that's fun!
In my opinion, I hope there aren't many more people related to Akira than already explicitly established (Ami, Himawari, and Nozomi). If Nodoka, Sekai, etc etc are all related to him, it gets to the point of "why?" for me, like what does it really add to the story if every character is somehow his sister-cousin-grandma?
(That said, if he's somehow Sana's dad due to time travel I'm on board (but only if it "makes sense" (in the context of LiL)))
For me I think the point is potentially a sort of meta-commentary on the tropes of dating sims/visual novels in a similar vein to Totono (You and Me and Her) or DDLC (Doki Doki Lit Club). As if the overarching narrative is attempting to answer the question of "what if the MC and all of the love interests had children in each of the routes and then they all met in a new dimension/world/etc and had their own romance...?" Or something like that. Having all characters be related to the "MC" of the original timeline aka Yuu from Nothing is Beautiful very well might be the exact thing that Selebus is trying to explore, who knows. No idea if that's what he's actually doing or what he's planned out but it sounds like something I would do if I wanted to try and add some spice to the genre.
That's the perfect answer, thank you!

readen about guide mod and I always love to start game without it and try myself first. I see it's still not updated almost two weeks after game update and I usually download games I like the very first day it gets updated. If it's required, I won't hesitate for a second.
Yep, Moonflare and others already answered pretty much everything but another reason is: if you ever lose your save we post complete saves pretty much every update, however
Guide Mod and
non-Guide Mod saves are incompatible and since we default to Guide Mod saves it might save you a step in the long run.
Counter point: wiki exists, a have a useful page where all the updates with correlatiled events are listed so you can just go in order.
Yep that's how I (and presumably a lot of us) started out playing the game, just checking the wiki constantly to figure out where to go next. Needless to say, it's a hell of a hassle that's made much simpler by the guide mod.
That's fucking gold lmao XD wish I was there for that
That's honestly one of the things that keeps me intrigued from the very beginning. I know I'm not long in this game, but my first thought after some gameplay time and after reading few comments was that there may be multiple people tensei'd into MCs body. Hope I'll be able to discover much more about it and that future events won't discourage me from playing in which I doubt will happen, because I may prefer lovely harems, but psychological theme is a thing I like outside of porn games and may like it here too, but just never seen anything good.
If it's not about whiskey I'd think you guys (
apologizes, if I mistook someones gender) try to convince me out of this game

but yeah, I'm prepared that MC isn't the guy I'm usually playing.
Edit: By the way, lately in one of previous games I was thinking, how it would like being tensei'd into someone else body. This game is a nice experiment.
I think the story does that on purpose tbf, it really throws you for a loop and makes you think that it's just a standard isekai harem story before pulling the rug from underneath you. Really interesting stuff.
Anyways, welcome to the thread and this wild ride of a game! If you decide to stick with it, feel free to share your reactions if something takes you by surprise or gets you emotional, we are fiending over here for reactions to someone experiencing it for the first time lol. Or maybe that's just me...