That Ian-Lena sex scene was one of the best written sex scenes in FMC games.
I couldn't stand Jack in the beginning but he grew on me and I was positively surprised by his wedding ending.
That scene is a classic. It's like she's saying to herself "Enough of this serious lovey dovey/dating/relationship/feelings bullshit, let's get back to plain old fucking".
I agree with the second point. But I don't see it with the first. Yes Ian x Lena are pushed the the hardest by the game. But the other romances aren't all geared to enhance Ian x Lena. You can play Ian x Holly or Ian x Cindy straight and not have any real interference from Lena. Unless you meant Lena's romances which I wouldn't even call that. They're all corruption/lust based and not romance, with very few exceptions.
It's both. Jeremy is an old friend, available and willing to fuck her, but also connected to Ian, so she tries to make Ian jealous through his friend. Its just a very convenient timing for her: She just broke off with her partner, so she is looking through her small social circle, and both Ian (who was taken for years by Gillian beforehand) and Jeremy are available and not named Perry.
I don't know about the Alison route (I don't like her) but as a Cherry fan I can help with that one, the scene you are looking for is called "Cherry facetimes Ian". It is from a video call between Ian and Cherry at Perry's parents' summer house and shows Cherry in a bathroom covered in a white towel. I think you just need to be on her relationship path and it should come automatically. In the scene she goes on to shower nude for Ian which is really hot NGL.
Yes, Alison needs to be on her Bimbo route to get her to send you that photo.
I’d imagine that’s why most of these “choose your own adventure” VNs tend to see longer and longer gaps between updates, and so many just get outright abandoned; as more and more characters come on, each with their own stories and branching paths, it just becomes too much of a tangled mess for one person to keep track of.
Very true. In fact, in the scene that I was referencing, when Lena meets up with Robert around the corner after her first kiss with Ian, she has the option to either go straight to her apt for sex or to walk with Robert and have an actual conversation. It seemed like she was trying to have a real relationship with him instead of just using him as her fuck toy. Even if you choose that option she still ends up using him as her fuck toy.
Some sex scenes add to the narrative, some don't. There's also a lot of times where ORS feels like a romance story that just allows the scene to continue without a fade to black, and in those moments, yeah it all aligns and it is great. But it's not an even spread across the board for all characters and all relationships.
Jeremy is sort of exception to the overall rule. If Lena gets sexual with him, she won't be interested in relationship with Ian.
She can cheat with Axel at the photo shoot (when Ivy fails to show up and also when she misses her train to Perry's beachhouse) and then when she's working at Blazers she can cheat with Marcel, Axel, and/or Jack. Then also with Seymour in Italy as well. Jeremy won't work since if she woke him up in Louise's bed, then she won't get involved seriously with Ian.
To add to this, Lena can also cheat with Mike and/or, if you really hate yourself, Robert. Also Mark, i think?
