For the lounge, the choice to take her hand or not does (somewhat) dictate if Edwin is cold or warm to her during their conversation. Although, you might be talking about the hag handy/punishment game scene in the blue room... there I'd argue his disposition is being affected by Sophia's perfume. You can see Edwin's lack of filter in earlier scenes with the aphrodisiac too; he becomes pretty frank when under its affect.
In hindsight, I do think being able to modulate Edwin's tone during the concluding Abel scene would have been appropriate. GIL himself thought it stuck out like a sore thumb when he first read it, as did one of our proofreaders. I maintain that Edwin has sufficient reason to be irritated over the situation, and it's not like he's playing toward an endgame (yet), but he is typically characterized as being mindful around the club's patrons. Him getting a handle on the situation wouldn't be out of character. On the flip side, I also think there's something to be said for him having rare moments of honesty. Everyone reacts emotionally on occasion and he's still a dorky 22-year old kid after all.
Edwin is a pretty well-defined character as far as porn game MCs go, so it's sometimes tricky to discern where it's appropriate to railroad his responses and where to allow the reader to choose how to processes situations and act on them. I appreciate when people point out these incongruities. Multiple gut feelings is useful information when what I'm working off of is a single gut feeling, although obviously I take them with a grain of salt.
I'm not sure yet, but I may just go back and iterate on that scene some to give the player some choice in characterizing Edwin's outward responses. As vague as Abel is in that scene, it's a pretty foundational scene for Edwin going forward, so it bears some consideration.
While the Sophia/Kath/Abel scenes have some nuances, as I mentioned in an earlier post and which is very good, I agree that being able to modulate Edwin´s response in the at home scene would be better. Say, one option to still be nice, one option to be nice, but mentioning that simply breaking into others home is not really proper behaviour and he finds this not funny and an option where the conversations runs as it is now.
I also would propose an option to decide how to behave towards Sophia in special. When they sit in the bar and blue room, we have two dorky geeks (even if one is someone you should think before messing with her), who can click to a certain extend, as we can see. There are decisions which certainly make Sophia more or less inclined to the MC. So I think there should be the option to be nice or nicer to Sophia, depending on the MC´s sympathy and how much he likes or despises her.
Thanks for saying as much. I hoped they would kinda bookend and contrast with each other. I've been really shocked some people have found it dull. It's some of GIL's best work IMO and I'm really happy with the sensuality and the build up.
Well, I kinda expected some of it. GIL and I remarked that Hana was setting an unsustainable bar, but that was about the breadth of future scenes, not necessarily the content.
Since I am normally playing with the MC and Mina being just good friends, my "Mina" playthrough is not my focus. I liked the sex scenes in there, but I can see why there are some players who found it not very exciting. Many of the Mina fans, not all, but many get off on the netori and corruption angle. Mina is very nice and she has some hidden "pervert" in her, which they want to bring out.
Hana on the other hand, is something of a reversed "mirror image" to Mina. Hana has very few problems with "pervert" stuff as long as it is consensual and while she can be really nice, she has few restraints to tell others her opinion. For most Hana fans, the corruption angle is irrelevant, since with her only those playing for sadistic stuff would say she needs to be corrupted. For the standard players, Hana is very uninhibited, if she wants to be so.
If Edwin for example wanted her to repeat another topless concert gig, Hana would do it without blinking if she likes the MC. Good luck with getting normal Mina to do something similar.
I theorise that for most Hana fans, the girlfriend path is more appealing, while for most Mina fans, the girlfriend + corruption path appeals more.
