Ren'Py Completed Lust Theory [v1.0.2] [Inceton Games]

[dkatryl]

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.

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.

 

[ZenoMod]

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.

 

[James-of-alabama]

S3 was planned,i was a patron back then.dev said lust theory would have 3 seasons since the start of season 2.

 

[ZenoMod]

S3 was planned,i was a patron back then.dev said lust theory would have 3 seasons since the start of season 2.

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!

 

[Danilo marques]

Is NTR avoidable?

 

[devonY7]

Is NTR avoidable?

yes . the only NTR is bonus scenes in season 2

 

[Gusten129999]

How do i unlock the second scene in hidden events?

 

[shadowfang22]

well good news the relese date is some time around christmas so late next month hopfuly

 

[HughMungusMan]

1. In my opinion - but it's just my guess, I'm not an insider - Season 2 should have been the final season in Inceton's original intentions, but the pledger on Patreon were disappointed by its crappy ending and voted massively to have a Season 3 to fix it.

By then, the new writer taking on Season 3 was stuck in a situation a lot like what the fictional writer Paul Sheldon faces in

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: he had to come up with some quick narrative fixes that weren’t exactly built into the story from the start. In other words, don’t expect the twist from “it was all a simulation” to “no, the AI actually lied and it all happened in the real world” to feel perfectly smooth or logically airtight—it’s a bit clunky, and that’s understandable.

But here’s the thing: when you’re forced to “fix” a finale that the audience hated, you’re basically cornered into taking these kinds of liberties. It’s not new—Collodi did it with Pinocchio, which was originally supposed to end with the protagonist hanged, but angry readers wouldn’t have it, so he brought him back to life by revealing that the dead girl was actually a fairy. Dallas did something similar when they lost viewers after Bobby Ewing’s death—they simply stated that the entire previous season was “all a dream” and brought him back. Sometimes storytelling demands a bit of improvisation when reality (or fandom) intervenes.

Let's say that the plot twist from simulation to reality is as smooth as it could be, considering it wasn’t planned in advance.

2. Well... basically what I wrote in the "Heavier spoiler" here, plus the MC growing more mature and trying to fix things with all the girls who turned out to be disappointed/damaged by his reckless behavior after the time moved forward by one day.

3. I won't spoil that much. Also, since you don’t use spoiler tags when replying to mine, I don’t want other readers accidentally seeing something that could ruin their experience.

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.

 

[HughMungusMan]

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.

 

[ZenoMod]

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.

 

[CaballeroOne]

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)...

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.

 

[Br3nt]

How do i unlock the second scene in hidden events?

There is a guide in the first post.

 

[bibe72]

Yes, but this guide is not accurate. The latest version does need a bonus code.

 

[micmitja]

Yes, but this guide is not accurate. The latest version does need a bonus code.

not gona be updating guides just for bonus codes, you can look for that one yourself in persistent
persistent.bonus_content_code
or keep an eye on when it get posted
guides are for collectibles and hidden events and i wont be updating till there are any new, which hasnt been since then.

 

[DragonS1ayer]

When will the new halloween comic be uploaded?

 

[dkatryl]

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.

---

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.

Sorry, to clarify, whether or not S3 was planned, and yeah, second half of S2 went off the rails, all i meant was that with the endlessly rebooting, there were no consequences.

Now there are, and the MC is aware that there will continue to be, so his efforts are now put to mitigating and undoing his fuck ups from S1/S2, and develop more meaningful relationships with the various LI.

And if this is the (moronic) hero's journey, there needs to be challenges to overcome. Those challenges were defined in the previous seasons, and that is all i meant by S2 was needed.

 

[grey_shadow]

Having now played through S2 (on GOG, which tells me it took 36 hours, and that I've somehow avoided all achievements - I suspect that's a bug in the achievement tracking), if I didn't know there was a new writer for S3, I would stop there.

 

[MrMax]

Anyone got the Halloween comic?

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[Darkan89]

New update with Ellie is out