To be fair this is the common issue in every harem game, in order to give fair representation to each LI others have to get sidelined. I would much rather have half or less of the LIs and see more of each of them than have a million LIs that you pump and dump.
I'd rather get rid of the harem entirely - or at least make it more like Between Two Worlds where there are a few Lis but one main li and being with anyone else is completely optional.
Yeah, I enjoy good poly/harem games, but they definitely can get "watered down" when the number of LIs gets too high. In my experience, I find a sweet spot of between 2-6 works best for me in most cases.
Asides from the number of potential LIs, aren't all of them optional in Nephilim too? If you aren't on the harem path for BTW, you'll still be missing scenes just like in Nephilim. Just feels less impactful because there's less proportionately.
In BTW - there is a certified main li, you sleep next to her every night and you can be with the others (who are friends of hers more than yours) with her permission - even encouragement - but they are definitely side girls, and you still sleep next to the main Li every night. I haven't actually done the "harem" route in BTW so I wouldn't know but I like that the main Li is the main Li and your constant companion/partner/bed mate and the others basically have "additional content" tattooed on their foreheads. In BTW individual relationships are optional but you leave the main li behind almost all the time at this point - it's like she gets demoted to side girl status as soon as the others start arriving en masse. Sadly, one of the selling points of the upcoming chapter was "new love interests!" .. *sigh*.
At the risk of getting off-topic, part of this is probably due to the story setup. The party is never "split" for a long journey in BTW unlike in Nephilim, so there really isn't a scenario where MC and Hannah would be separated for a long period. As for the harem route, the other LIs definitely start out casually, but it's rapidly becoming more serious polyamory as the relationships with the other LIs grows (which makes sense, given Hannah has a two-year head start).
That's true, about the acknowledgement I mean but it would be hard in Nephilim since every relationship is optional and at this point there are 1.7 million Lis and counting ... so which ones would they acknowledge? I just want MC and Eliza - together all the time (or as much as humanly possible). Everyone else in this is an extra or a villain to me.
That does remind me of one other thing: I don't think there's any way in BTW not to be with Hannah, unlike with Eliza. So from a development standpoint, it's easy to code Hannah to almost always be involved even on the harem route since there's no potential branching there. If in Nephilim Eliza was not an optional LI but a forced LI, I imagine she'd have a lot more screen time even in the full-harem route.
I mean, sort of but she probably should have been a "forced" Li in that case because I think I've talked to one person who doesn't have Eliza as their main Li - even if not their only one. It would have made most people happier and made development much easier.
Honestly, I'd have been fine with this too. I have seen a few people here say they don't like Eliza, but it definitely seems like a very small subset of players and the game probably would have overall benefitted. Ah well.
I would have been happy with this too. I can't imagine the person who doesn't like Eliza. I'm sure they exist but I can't imagine what their (very wrong) reasoning would be. I'm sure there's someone out there who doesn't like Hannah in B2W but we don't associate with people like that.
I'm pretty sure it's Alice that's coming along on this one, otherwise why ask the question in 0.4.9.
id be surprised if she does cause the MC did say he doesn't want to bring her along for any major quest just some small easy ones to start. On the other hand it kind of does make sense because she does need some character deveolopment to play catch up imoI'm pretty sure it's Alice that's coming along on this one, otherwise why ask the question in 0.4.9.
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I just hope if it is Alice, then someone else comes too (Eliza & Luna would be good). That long journey with one person I really don't like is going to suck for my playthroughs.
Yeah Luna would be my 2nd pick tbh I just think Alice makes sense from a character deveolopment point of view
Agreed, I'm usually a sucker for the childhood friend LI butI just don't like Alice and I'm not sure why. She's very attractive but I'm just not feeling it. Maybe it's just that she isn't Eliza lol.
I used to like her alot at the start but lately her scenes start to feel a bit on the annoying side. Not enough character deveolopment more focused on the lewds then she calls her self childhood friend alot lol. She feels like a character that has potential that falls short for me. But im still gonna play he rpath in hope she gets better
I'm usually a sucker for the childhood friend too (though less so lately it seems). I think Alice is just a bit too desperate and clingy and too focused on a promise made to her by a 10 year old who was subsequently traumatized for years. I mean ... if, at 10, I made a promise to a girl and then came home and found my parents raped and murdered ... I don't think I'd even remember that promise 10 years later. But it has become the core of Alice's personality and her raison d'etre. MC was lying in bed trying to cuddle his wounded girlfriend and Alice though *that* would be the time to try to seduce him. Alice is yuck.
That's more or less how I feel about vampire Eliza; she's a lot less interesting yet gets way too much screen time.
