Love this game.
I'm juggling a lot of runs right now based on what pairs and characters I'm interested in and agonizing over what save files to make and meanwhile making multiple copies! (btw while typing this post i just noticed the alpha new update. good timing.)
Ian/Lena/Holly:
my OTP. I get dopamine hits from seeing the three of them in the cafe. but to actually get this scenario... Does Ian need to be merely 'dating' Lena, or madly in love with her? What choices involving Holly opening up in various ways affect this? Do Ian and Lena need to be bigdick successful artists? Is poly even an end-game option??? It seems like it would be, as Holly is the character both Ian and Lena are interested in, like a knot tying the red string... but you never know...
Ian/Holly, Lena/Holly:
also good. sweeter than i ever thought i'd find from a game I downloaded for porn. Think I prefer Ian/Holly more because Lena/Holly give 'gal pal' vibes sometimes but at the same time I liked a lot of their scenes in a romantic light too. I'm currently remaking a file with no Ian/Lena so I can do a guilt-free Ian/Holly and copy that for a guilt-free Lena/Holly.
Ian/Lena:
Eh.... probably like them as friends more. So far they're both sweet and mostly reasonable adults to each other and can easily be romantic with each other with the only complication being my chaotic hand of god forcing them away from each other by making them horny. No really, once these two went on a date early in my games, i just can't break them up lol. I put off sex repeatedly but then they did it automatically. I can only go far back and make Ian not ask her out to the music store.
Lena/Axel+Seymour:
Obviously very suspicious, but their scenes are surprisingly sexy despite them being a capitalist and a manipulative psycho-chad, but there's a slowly growing taboo being broken that will lead to good drama. Also it'll make me able to have runs where Lena makes money without StalkFap (literally called 'Stalk'fap there's no way I'm touching that on my first runs,) or god forbid, the restaurant with Robert. How this would effect my OTP remains to be seen. My hope is like, a path to go back to a normal life and a path to being a model-sugarbaby-submissive.
Ian/Cindy:
Alluring. If Lena and Seymour is my ideal 'corruptive' path for her, than Ian and Cindy is my ideal 'corruptive' path for him. Cindy just has that 'spark' that makes scenes between them very appealing like playing pool or seeing her photoshoot. Her being high-maintenance doesn't really annoy me. For the most part she just doesn't want to be stuck in a rut with her friends that are really Wade's friends. Heh, playing the bad guy is oddly funny whilst my Ian is a sensitive art man.
Ian/Allison:
Yeah... I played the game my blind at first having Ian pick up chicks and then I couldn't shake off Allison. She slowly became one of my least favorite characters in the game. Despite her 'thing' as an uptight office lady looking to go wild I just find her so.... boring. Much more than Ian/Lena. The true dangers of casual sex.
Ian/Minerva:
it's so wack and I can't look away
Lena/Louise:
I WOULD bc I genuinely like Louise more than some other players. she reminds me of someone with borderline personality disorder... but it just seemed too awkward and sudden after the Jeremy situation. And I learned when my main characters have sex with their friend you're not gonna shake them off for a while. I'll at least see what her scenes are like.
Sadly a lot of Lena ""love"" interests I'm not into and would never pick. No married baker man, no Stan, no casual Ivy hookup, no white bread Robert, no goddamn Jeremy(kinda uncomfortable with the bbc trope. I can't hate him for being a cheater while my characters are doing cheating paths lol.) Nor would I ever go for Emma as Ian. I want Perry to get his shot and grow up a little.
Guess my runs will be at minimum:
Attempted Ian/Lena/Holly
Attempted Ian/Lena/Holly + Lena w/ Team Seymour (this also happens to be my blind playthrough)
Ian/Cindy and Lena/Holly
Ian/Cindy and Lena/Seymour
Ian/Holly and Lena/Louise
sorry for the wall of text lol