What on earth are you talking about? That'll never happen since they are pretty obviously a landlady and her tenant.
That being said, still some road left to travel in the game. Who knows what might still happen to Landlady and Unrelated Female Roommate 1? *Mysterious noises of mystery sound mysteriously.*
I came back after a long time and really slowed down and read through the new writing. I was really blown away at the depth of the relationship building. I think you've done a fantastic job. The premise is too complex and there's too much baggage to satisfy everyone's theories about the mechanics of the story. But the mechanics of a time loop are so much less important than how the story handles the relationship development. So I think you've emphasized the right things here. There's some real writing talent on display in season 3.
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LOL the scene after they get Jeff when they're sitting on the couch and Liz comes in yelling at them all worried. I thought that was going to get spicy or at least hoped so!
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Heh I find that S3 is more interesting than S2 (at least imho) because it was so confusing and everything went nuts for the wrong reasons.
At least with S3, we can see the consequences and weigh in which girl or group of girls the MC wanna salvage. Some will be easier with time (like Eliz and Jessica), others you don't have nothing to worry about (Sophia, Amy because you can plan to help them later on and they don't have a beef against you) and some are problematic (the besties duo and the crazy blonde).
Anyways like I said previously : a good storytelling should not be able to solve all those issues unless some random "manga/anime" happens with the power of friendship and other BS.
So for the moment quite content with the storytelling.
At least with S3, we can see the consequences and weigh in which girl or group of girls the MC wanna salvage. Some will be easier with time (like Eliz and Jessica), others you don't have nothing to worry about (Sophia, Amy because you can plan to help them later on and they don't have a beef against you) and some are problematic (the besties duo and the crazy blonde).
Anyways like I said previously : a good storytelling should not be able to solve all those issues unless some random "manga/anime" happens with the power of friendship and other BS.
So for the moment quite content with the storytelling.
I love a wholesome love story between a landlady, tenant, and roommates!
I was reflecting on my earlier post on this, and yeah, S1 was chaotic fun, it was like playing a game on god mode. Sure, it can be fun for the lulz, but with no lasting consequences, eventually you will run out of one upping whatever over-the-top scenario of the week the devs come up with.
S3 now has the weight of those consequences to navigate, and has the sense that there are actual stakes involved.
S2, well, while it sorta went off the rails, i guess it was needed to set the stage for S3.
I might be wrong - I'm not an insider nor a patron - but frankly speaking I don't think that S3 was originally planned.
S2 infamous finale looks more like the result of a lack of ideas of the previous writer. He didn't know how to justify the time loops nor how to conclude the story, so he just said oh well... nothing was real THE END.
Then he swiped his badge and left the office
Then patrons hated that finale, so the new writer was called to fix it.
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Even if my speculation were wrong, and S3 was instead planned since the beginning, one thing is certain: the second half of S2 was not at all needed to the new writer to do his good job of telling a more sensible story. They could have just called him to write the second part of S2 (when it was clear that the previous writer was out of ideas about how to wrap up the story) and he would have spared us all the "out of the rails" of S2.
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Well... that makes things even worse. If S3 was planned since the beginning of S2, then the finale of S2 makes even less sense, IMHO.
Why cornering themselves into that cul-de-sac if they wanted to continue the story?
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Anyway, at least we are having a more meaningful story in S3. Let's enjoy the present!
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For accuracy's sake, it should be pointed out that that plot thread from Season 2 was retconned/fixed by the same writer, not the current one. When the new writer joined the project, the intro and a little bit more after that had already been made. It's probable the back tracking and backlash kinda killed the old writer's interest in the project but that's just speculation on my part, they still designed the premise from this game.
Well... that makes things even worse. If S3 was planned since the beginning of S2, then the finale of S2 makes even less sense, IMHO.
Why cornering themselves into that cul-de-sac if they wanted to continue the story?
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Anyway, at least we are having a more meaningful story in S3. Let's enjoy the present!
While an S3 was planned (from what I read just now, I didn't know lol), it should be noted that the story has changed and morphed multiple times since then.
In the original game, there's a scene where MC faints and a bunch people are talking to each other about what's going on and that they should "reconnect" or whatever, supposedly a bunch of researchers who are viewing this through his eyes (it's also why in S2 when MC "dies", you randomly switch to Megan's POV. Because you're actually viewing this through these people's perspective or whatever.)
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By the end of S2, the cat was out of the bag, it was made slightly better with the inclusion of Carol but people hated it so, I guess they must've shifted gears at least to some extent, though I don't know how much or if it was always planned to be a lie.
S2 literally ends on a developer note telling you the whole simulation thing is not true and that you should play the third game to know the truth, but I wasn't there long enough to know if this was added post-launch to avoid backlash or what.
That would be an interesting thing to discover, if any other reader knows... Now I'm curious about it.
Thanks for this and the other pieces of information, anyway.
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Jessica "easier"? I don't know....
This brunette hottie seems possessive, controlling, and extremely jealous.
Territorial.
“You're my man, and no one else's” attitude.
Interesting, very, very interesting. I love reading deep erotic and romantic dramas like the "Jessica The Onee-Chan and her Otouto" story.
Kudos to the writer [Embercat] for giving us such an interesting and enigmatic narrative.
