I really don't want to repeat myself, but that "still cheating behind the scenes" it isn't like that... There is no cheating there... Is non-existant... You know? It's Vanilla route, there is 0 cheating or NTR there and Ariana wasn't and will never be unfaithful in that route
As a hot sauce lover, I reject this analogy.
Full disclosure, I haven’t picked this game up yet, so I’m not completely certain if this applies. But I think this can shines some light on why he said that.
). But that’s apparently the honest reasoning for why so many ntr-haters will not even touch optional NTR games with avoidable route. Just thought I’d share this discovery, seeing as it helped me understand how some people play and interpret games differently.
And people need to understand that netorase doesn't always have to be done the same way everytime.
Ariana isn't cheating on the Vanilla route. I mean she's flirtatious with some of the male characters ( especially during Chapter 1), but that's just the kind of personality she has, and not indicative of her cheating on Alex. During Chapter 1, a lot of that content related specifically to NTR scenes, and the NTR content was simply removed, and what remained became the Vanilla route. So it might have given the impression you're suggesting, if you don't realise that, but I doubt that was the intention of the Dev?
Yeah he may have secretly wanted that, but she doesn't know that, and is now too worried to reveal it, which is the only way she will discover that. So does that mean she's heading back into NTR territory? Will her guilty secret spawn more guilty secrets? Because if you play the NTR route, you know Ariana ends up getting incredibly aroused by doing stuff behind Alex's back.
There is an option at one point to switch to the netorare route from the sharing path but I didn't take that option.
Actually, it's the sharing path that diverges from the NTR path. It happens when Ariana is playing poker with Nelson and Joseph, and they ask her to drink with them. If she does, she gets drunk and ends up having a threesome with both of them, and that opens up her 'taboo' relationship with Joseph, and you're then locked onto the NTR path. If she doesn't drink, Nelson gives her a lift home, and she realises how close she came to came to doing something unforgivable ( have sex with Alex's 'father'), and she then resolves to come clean to Alex about having sex with Tyrone and Miles behind his back. Alex forgives her, and that's when the sharing path begins.
Is this the choice you were meaning?
Well that's often one of the issues with Vanilla routes expectations . Too often are people wanting those , expecting the characters to simply no longer be themselves and have a completely different personality . The issues those couples have do not evaporate because the cheating and sharing options are gone , or at last they should not .
Well when this game starts Ariana has been with Alex for two years, during which time she's been entirely monogamous. So it's not exactly happened overnight has it?Ariana was promiscuous in the past, you can't turn a hoe into a wifey that quickly at least not in this game apparently not like I ever played the vanilla route though
In part, the first chapter being almost the same as the other routes is because I really wanted to give context to the whole situation... I mean, it really seemed to me the best way to introduce the characters, and to understand them... Because otherwise, what joke would the situations have if we didn't know the main characters? Or at least if you wouldn't empathize with them? That's why I always say that whatever you consider about the main characters is fine... For example, if you just think that Ariana was always a slut and always will be, that's fine, that's your vision of the manner... Just as it's also totally valid the point of view of when you think that things... Are not that simple, you know? And they pay attention to the details I put to demonstrate why the characters do each thing and more importantly how they feel... I've read both points of view, and I like it because it makes me feel that I managed to create characters that are not “one dimensional”
That's the mistake that many believe... That is, by playing an NTR route and then playing the vanilla and thinking that Ariana is exactly the same girl in each route... And that's not the case
I don't really think there is a problem man... I mean, I always said that I wanted to do the vanilla route so that there would be a path where they both live happily and with love... I mean, if you play the NTR route, and then you play the vanilla and you think something NTR happens in that route... Isn't that just your problem for misunderstanding things? It's not wrong if you consider it like that, the problem is if you blame the game or the dev just for your own consideration
I will play it when the game is completed because you know I will probably need some healing.
It happens when Ari goes drinking with Tyrone and Mallory.
