Hungover00

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What do you mean it's a shame? I suppose a new player won't know this, but it becomes pretty obvious pretty quickly that there aren't enough interactions between Ian and Cherry for a bond to form. Within the world of the game, it makes perfect sense that they won't make a connection; especially when Ian would likely have hooked up with either Alison or Lena by the next time they meet, which Cherry will know about and then try and avoid ruining another relationship.
It's a shame there is only one on-ramp for Cherry. It seems like you could easily put one into the exhibition night. Or maybe the night at fortress. But I believe it's only that first night at Shine that opens any further content with her. Which doesn't match the practices of the rest of the game.
 

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So I need to avoid lena path entirely? Well I was trying to get with all of them, but I lost interest in lena as things got on with Cindy, and lena started picking things up with Jeremy
If you're a new player, it isn't a harem game, but you can juggle quite a few people at the same time. If that's for you, explore who you think you may be able to fool around with, without others finding out. After 2-3 playthroughs, start messing with the walkthrough.

But that's just my advice.
 
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It's a shame there is only one on-ramp for Cherry. It seems like you could easily put one into the exhibition night. Or maybe the night at fortress. But I believe it's only that first night at Shine that opens any further content with her. Which doesn't match the practices of the rest of the game.
There are a couple of spots where I feel like an "on ramp" could have come about or might still in the future.

Cherry at her exhibition feels like Ian could have had a chance to kindle something, maybe not go straight into sex but something to indicate that there'd be interest. Similarly at the beach trip Ian can flirt with Emma, even get naughty applying lotion, but nothing further happens even if they share a room.

For Lena it seems like Mike could have a late option. Mike has the collab thing, that almost seems like a given for Lena and him to initiate something. The bar update as a whole also seemed to be giving Lena opportunities to get some sort of rapprochement with both Jeremy and Robert, if you choose for it of course.
 

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There are a couple of spots where I feel like an "on ramp" could have come about or might still in the future.

Cherry at her exhibition feels like Ian could have had a chance to kindle something, maybe not go straight into sex but something to indicate that there'd be interest. Similarly at the beach trip Ian can flirt with Emma, even get naughty applying lotion, but nothing further happens even if they share a room.

For Lena it seems like Mike could have a late option. Mike has the collab thing, that almost seems like a given for Lena and him to initiate something. The bar update as a whole also seemed to be giving Lena opportunities to get some sort of rapprochement with both Jeremy and Robert, if you choose for it of course.
I'm also curious if there will be a late game re-onramp for Mike, if Lena caught feelings and was jealous. It's one of the more interesting sub paths, to see how twisted Lena's motivations can get.

Overall, of course I agree. Pretty much every character should have multiple on-ramps, though I get Cindy and Minerva only having one. Holly is pretty silly, though depending on your playthrough, she may have a second chance (but there should have been an earlier one, imo). Many of them do, so the absence is even more noticeable.
 

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Overall, of course I agree. Pretty much every character should have multiple on-ramps, though I get Cindy and Minerva only having one. Holly is pretty silly, though depending on your playthrough, she may have a second chance (but there should have been an earlier one, imo). Many of them do, so the absence is even more noticeable.
I imagine trinity may potentially fork back into the three monogamous relationships between Lena-Ian-Holly, if one of them cheats on the others and could potentially get kicked out of the trio lol.

Kinda hard to see Holly doing something like that on this route I guess, but you never know with Eva.
 

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I imagine trinity may potentially fork back into the three monogamous relationships between Lena-Ian-Holly, if one of them cheats on the others and could potentially get kicked out of the trio lol.

Kinda hard to see Holly doing something like that on this route I guess, but you never know with Eva.
Knowing Eva, it will happen. Holly will somehow hook up with Stan, for no rhyme or reasoning, causing Lena to murder both in their apartment, forcing Louise and Lena to go on the run, leaving Ian to his lonesome with Ivy...

... Thats not a half bad plan...
 

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I imagine trinity may potentially fork back into the three monogamous relationships between Lena-Ian-Holly, if one of them cheats on the others and could potentially get kicked out of the trio lol.

Kinda hard to see Holly doing something like that on this route I guess, but you never know with Eva.
As it is, Lena can be potentially on thin ice after her thing with Seymour. It'd be kind of funny if what was originally Ian/Lena ended up as Ian/Holly, after Holly got included and then Lena turned out untrustworthy, cheating with Seymour on them both and having them bond over it. :sneaky:
 

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As it is, Lena can be potentially on thin ice after her thing with Seymour. It'd be kind of funny if what was originally Ian/Lena ended up as Ian/Holly, after Holly got included and then Lena turned out untrustworthy, cheating with Seymour on them both and having them bond over it. :sneaky:
Holly trinity requires love variables between Lena and Ian correct? Love variables that would cause Ian to break up with Cindy and Alison for example. I'm kinda curious how much of Cindy you can get with Ian, before then turning it into trinity and potentially end up with just Holly in the future if Lena cheats like in your example.

That'd be the only way to go to the birthday party instead of the bookfair and still get the Holly romance, if it were achievable :ROFLMAO:
 

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I'm kinda curious how much of Cindy you can get with Ian, before then turning it into trinity and potentially end up with just Holly in the future if Lena cheats like in your example.

That'd be the only way to go to the birthday party instead of the bookfair and still get the Holly romance, if it were achievable :ROFLMAO:
Going by my playthrough, at the very least Ian and Cindy can bang in the alley. For this matter you can probably prolong it for a couple more sex scenes until Lena/Cindy split point, although now am not sure if this doesn't pop up as trinity blocker, if Ian was doing more with Cindy than just the "one time mistake we both regretted" that he gets away with otherwise.

But yeah, you can in fact get both Cindy and Holly in some capacity this way. :whistle:
 
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Going by my playthrough, at the very least Ian and Cindy can bang in the alley. For this matter you can probably prolong it for a couple more sex scenes until Lena/Cindy split point, although now am not sure if this doesn't pop up as trinity blocker, if Ian was doing more with Cindy than just the "one time mistake we both regretted" that he gets away with otherwise.

But yeah, you can in fact get both Cindy and Holly in some capacity this way. :whistle:
I made a playthrough where Ian fucked every girl at least once and it's possible to fuck Cindy without getting in love with her while still dating (but not couple) Lena who is in love with Ian but also with Holly. You get to the beach trip and instead of breaking up with Lena because she wants a more commited relationship, chad Ian gets the trinity. So IIRC, you are on chapter 13 with chad Ian having fucked Cherry (but not any more I think), Alison in thereesome with Jeremy and after Cherry's exposition, Emma (even during the beach trip before Lena arrives), Minerva (rough dominating path), Louise in a threesome with Lena and do the sexting with her after and also flirting with Ivy and I even tried late telling Cindy that I was getting in love with her just to see what happens.

The other possibility is getting into a couple relationship with Lena and cheating the shit out of it ending up fucking slutty Holly after breaking up with Lena. But you have to make the sacrifice of making an effort to help Perry succeed with Emma. The advantage is that you can play that way without getting over Gillian and following her back in Insta so another possible future girl to add to Ian's bodycount that way.

PD: I forgot bad Jess in both playthroughs. Obtained thanks to Emma’s magic drug , of course.
 
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You get to the beach trip and instead of breaking up with Lena because she wants a more commited relationship, chad Ian gets the trinity.
Hmm, isn't that a bug with the Ch.12 resolution at the beach, though? I think there was like a couple instances where the game would just advance to wrong branch because it was next label that it wouldn't normally reach in legit manner. But can't remember if this was one of such cases.
 
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Hmm, isn't that a bug with the Ch.12 resolution at the beach, though? I think there was like a couple instances where the game would just advance to wrong branch because it was next label that it wouldn't normally reach in legit manner. But can't remember if this was one of such cases.
I would have to check the code but I can confirm it’s possible in the latest release, I didn’t do it with a possibly bugged old save.
 

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I would have to check the code but I can confirm it’s possible in the later release, I didn’t do it with a possibly bugged old save.
It just kind of seems odd all around, because if Ian in your playthrough is a fuckboi who isn't even in a couple with Lena, then there's no reason why either Holly or Lena would approach him with talk about Lena/Holly, and then the trinity just apparently developing out of thin air.
 
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