Use the cheap room (for free). Has an unreplayable scene for the first and second times you do it. Then it's just black screen with dialogue for the subsequent times.
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Well, in my eyes, that's what will happen to Sana. Here the main problem is that the main character was made very stupid (it seems that he does not know what sex is because he has strange comments on such scenes). Anon does nothing to advance the relationship. The game even has a dialogue in which Sana asks the question "If I wear a sexy swimsuit, will he pay attention to me?"
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"Sana can be seen getting chatted up by a guard at the top right of town - no progression yet."
This is not true, the conversation continues at the very bottom. In the park where children sit on a bench. Then the scene behind the trees begins.
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There's nothing to interact with for me though. I talk to the Innkeeper, and after that... nothing. No prompt, no scene.
That's a new one too, actually - the scene behind the trees is from act 1, the conversation you're seeing isn't from then, and it doesn't progress into the scene behind the trees, through my testing. The scene with the guard on the top right by the gate doesn't follow into that scene either. Neither progresses into the scene with the guard in the bottom right of the market area.
So that is either busted, or 3 separate scene hooks.
It could be a piece that is intended to hook into the park scene (but the dialogue doesn't support that), and the top right conversation could be a piece that is intended to hook into the bottom right of market scene (there is no dialogue or cg for that scene yet, but one doesn't follow the other ATM).
The normal structure so far for roaming scenes, is either straight into the action or that you can see Sana with someone one shift before she does something with them. Like with the gardener in town 2, or the carpenter in town 3, she will be talking to them and then the scene will trigger next shift.
This was never going to be a super deep game story wise. There is a lewdness mechanic, but even from the first demo she was pretty airheaded and easy to get.
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This right here highlights a bit of a problem I have with the game.
Here she is having a conversation with a guard that leads to a scene behind the tree, but that initial conversation is so easy to miss since her portrait is just the standard portrait that shows up when nothing special is going on.
She is more or less being seduced but the player won't know it unless he manages to find her. The player might not even realise that there is any point in looking for her when her portrait looks like that since most of the time she's nowhere to be found or is doing something completely innocent while that "default" portrait is up.
This could probably be fixed with one or two variations on this portrait, making it clear that she is having some sort of interaction somewhere. Her facial expression could be made to be kind of dubious to make the player wonder if there's something going on or not. That would also allow the same portrait to be reused for several interactions, some of them completely innocent.
The point of those alternative "standard" portraits would not be to be super telling or to be tailor made for each possible interaction, but rather to inform the player that there might be something worthwhile going on. Make them applicable to many situations where its not warranted to make something completely unique. Yes it would be nice if every interaction, like the one in the screenshot, could have its own art but its probably not a realistic expectation.
Its too often the case that you look for Sana everywhere only to not find her when this portrait shows up, to warrant also using it for something as important as the lead up to sexy time. It leads to frustration when players realise that they risk missing something if they don't look for her every. single. time.
The downside of doing this is that some of the excitement of discovery could be lost. Ie if its always 100% clear that something is happening you never get to wonder "is something happenening or is it not?". But this could partly be solved with, as mentioned, a couple of dubious portraits.
For example imagine Sana making a sexy hungry face. You look around not knowing if you will find her staring at a hunk of a man or a newly baked pie in a food stand. You keep that feeling of "I wonder if something is going on right now" while removing as much as possible of the frustration of having to comb the entire map with a fine tooth comb to make sure you are not missing out on glorious fox girl content, before you can safely make time advance by entering and exiting a building.
Making time advance by exiting a building is also a bit of a flawed system, though its often discussed so I won't say much about it. I get that its meant to do but since often looking for Sana will involve looking inside buildings, a lot of save scumming has to take place when you enter a building, don't find Sana only to exit and see that the portrait changed. Which also kind of spoils you on what is about to happen.
edit: apparently the conversation with the guard does not lead to anything else right now, but I'm quite sure that this happens elsewhere in the game still.
oh and most importantly, more important than hungry Sana faces, just make a variation of the standard portrait that makes it clear that she is talking to someone which is tbh how she looks in the current portrait. So maybe make a variation where its clear that she is not talking to someone instead.
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I frequently see the criticism of ntr games that the main character is always so naive and dumb, never realising that the girl is doing the dirty behind his back even when its super obvious.
Usually I'm not bothered by this at all, on the contrary I probably enjoy that dynamic in most cases. In this game I certainly do.
I don't really know why, maybe just because it allows us to see more sexy stuff through his pov without it ruining the dynamic where he does not know what's going on. I'm personally not looking for realism here, I just want to see Sana have sex behind Anons back and so far Anons ignorance has not gone too far for me personally.
And I'm happy it is not very deep, most of us are probably. We all love Sanas personality I'm sure and personally I think that its easy for developers to miss the mark when they are going for something more realistic and deep rather than not trying and succeeding. Somehow the ntr in this game and others like it still manages to feel impactful, maybe especially so because of the contrast between the light hearted character and the grimness of the situation, a girl cheating on her boyfriend.
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actually there are a lot of scenes to exploit but I don't know if the devs plan to make them or just like that
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Why do I compulsively check this thread every day as if expecting a new update to drop any second..
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because you love this gameWhy do I compulsively check this thread every day as if expecting a new update to drop any second..
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This is cuck instinct, like compulsively checking your phone tons of times expecting your girlfriend to message you about her date
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The scene behind the trees is not new, it was in the previous version. In addition, it is stupid to discuss this, because it is not known for which conversations the stage will be, and which ones are just filling the world.
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My complaint is that he is TOO stupid. It is clear that he will be normal and experienced, then he broke up with her or prevented these situations.