VN Ren'Py Our Red String [Ch.13.3.4] [Eva Kiss]

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Gicoo

Gicoo

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SearingFive said:
So, how many of you like "sharing" in a romantic path?
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Romance is passion, dedication and commitment to a specific other. If you romance someone, they aren't "a" friend, they are "your" friend, as in possessive and vice versa. It's very distinctive from casual or open relationships, something that this game also heavily distinguishes through choices, code, branching paths, love heart vs lust fire icon, etc.

Of course, thats all semantic and you can also romance several other at once, but its rarely done, simply because it undermines the forementioned focus to put all your affection on a single specific individual. If you romance not one but two persons, whats stopping you from romancing three, four and more? If you romance everyone, you romane no one, since there is no distinguishment anymore, the romance become valueless..

In practice, we only have it with Ian, Lena and Holly. Currently it works, but I question if they can uphold to romance each other equally. All three are different persons, so by definition its not possible for each of them to like the two others exactly the same.
 
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Gicoo said:
Of course, thats all semantic and you can also romance several other at once, but its rarely done, simply because it undermines the forementioned focus to put all your affection on a single specific individual. If you romance not one but two persons, whats stopping you from romancing three, four and more? If you romance everyone, you romane no one, since there is no distinguishment anymore, the romance become valueless..
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Tell that to harem lovers :4Head:
 
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Gicoo

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dolfe67 said:
Tell that to harem lovers :4Head:
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I usually despise harems because the girls (or boys in reverse harems) lose their agencies if not their personalities to become meatdolls.
It only works if you justify it with the harem owner being that powerful, magnetic and charismatic. Maybe someone like Rance, but even he is (usually) content with no commitment and is more on the line of open/casual relationships, he usually doesn't care if the girls leave him (as long as he got one good fuck in).

So if its well written, sure. Most of the time it just isn't well written and a lazy power fantasy thats too blatant to appeal to the target audience insecurities.
 
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