Have you considered Seymour/Ian or Seymour/Axel?
How do you mean - with Lena in a threesome? or in a gay sense? lol
I mean, I wouldn't really be opposed to either scenario, to be honest...
I have considered Seymour/Lena/Axel and I think there is a chance that could happen if it continues along this line of Seymour's photo-shoots assisted by Axel, and a sub Lena who likes both of them.
I hadn't really thought of Seymour/Lena/Ian, but that could actually be pretty interesting, and possibly not that unthinkable further along if Seymour pulls Lena in (and she becomes his mistress, or even his girlfriend), and Ian works closely with Seymour (possible becomes his protege and someone he could come to really trust near the end), and they all work on Seymour's questionable schemes together. lol
Except for anal... which to me is sadly a deal breaker for that route...
Just to clarify - are you saying you do or don't like anal for Alison?
Because if you do like it (which is what I assume), I'm thinking that anal may be something that Alison eventually come around to, although it could be a while.
I know Alison said she doesn't like anal and won't do it, but we know that Alison starts out kinda conservative, both in the way she dresses and the way she handles sex, but we also see that she is both eager to please Ian (barking like a dog during sex, which I don't think any of us were expecting) and willing to bend to Ian's will in her attempt to keep him close (first being angry when he came inside her despite her telling him not to, then accepting it, and eventually admitting it was really hot - possibly loving to do it in future). We also see how much she insists on being the focus of Ian's attention, either by cutting in on his conversations with other people, or by changing up the way she dresses when Ian comments that he finds Cherry's outfit sexy (and it's sexier then what she's wearing). A lot of what she does is an attempt to have Ian completely to herself and only looking at her - she's nuts about him. So it doesn't seem impossible that her strict stance on 'no anal' might slip down the track, especially if she finds out that Ian has done it with other girls, and/or that he really likes it.
Personally I really don't like the idea of Alison feeling compelled to do it just because she knows Ian likes it, while secretly not being convinced herself. It's emotional manipulation if Ian recognizes these patterns of hers and deliberately plays on her insecurities and her feelings for him to get what he wants in future, but I guess it might work for a chad Ian who is only with Alison for the sex, has thoroughly hooked her, and doesn't really care about what she wants because he believes she'll love it anyway. Man, he sounds like an asshole in that scenario. lol.
If Ian and Alison are in romantic relationship though, or Ian at least cares about her in some way, I think it makes sense for it to happen more naturally and for Alison to be totally on board with it. Like Alison goes from having her misgivings to being a bit curious, and feeling secure and trusting enough in her relationship with Ian at that point to try it. Maybe Ian has helped her to explore some other exotic aspects of sex/bdsm by that point so anal seems relatively tame or normal in comparison, and something she'd be more willing to try as a result.
But you know, if none of that happens and Alison sticks by her refusal to do it, you gotta at least admire that she knows what she wants, and won't bend on every little thing.
I still think that there is a sweet spot with this kind of VN regarding quality and content delivery and GGGB was in a perfect place regarding that.
Yeah but GGGB wasn't anything close to the quality or complexity of ORS, which are factors which make this game one of the best adult games on this site. I liked GGGB well enough, but if ORS went back to that standard I would be a lot less thrilled about the game in general. I don't think there is any sweet spot in terms of sacrificing one for the other here, without harming the end product in some way.
IMO the best setup would probably be if Eva hired one or two more people to take care of the more menial tasks she currently does. IDK who currently helps Eva and with what (I only know she does a lot of work herself) so take this with a grain of salt, but giving over jobs like tracing and coloring the graphics, and the coding to other people, freeing up Eve to focus on the planning and writing, then 'quality checking'/approving the drawings so everything meets her standards and works well together... could possibly help.
But that's something she'd need to be convinced was the right way - it's not easy to give over control of your baby as someone who is a perfectionist and used to taking care of so much yourself. Plus I'm not sure what it would mean for her financially - whether it would be viable to hire more people or not.
