I have such a love hate relationship with this game, even though it has great story and cgi's its updated once a year, but then I have moved to a new computer and lost all my data and there is no reliable way to continue where I left off, and trying to find saves that work in this thread is an absolute pain.
Short of not having any other characters in the game at all the random simping is very much unavoidable. I mean, in the Being a DIK thread people have been thirsting for months after a girl who appears in two scenes as one of background actors, without any lines or anything, but she happens to look hot enough.
Again Victoria, a little more tricky since she is so intertwined into protagonists story. Still, I consider a side character. Has a much better hitting mother offspring storyline than Rose will ever have. Victoria takes hella steam away from Rose who is a main chracter.
Andrea is just a highly condensed more extreme version of Minas character. Bubbly girl who likes sex. Again, taking oomph away from a main character.
I forget her name, but the pregnant Carnation is an example of a good side character. Enhances the story, doesn’t take away from Main characters, and provides some needed side kinks. Have yet to see her introduced into the waifu wars like Sofia and Victoria. Misguided writing imo anyways.
We seem to be off to a good start, though other than an interesting surge in animations right out of the gate we're still too early in the cycle to draw meaningful conclusions. I'm more intrigued by the flight plan for the update. Obviously good news for Veronica enjoyers is always welcome, but I'm guessing it's the mysterious visit that's be responsible for the animations. I'm not as enthusiastic about that, but it might still give us some insights into a relatively significant character so it's still likely to be worthwhile.
I mean that’s kinda why I used the pregnant carnation as an example. Also Dalia is another good example of a great side girl. If that’s comes across as me wanting to get rid of side girls and enjoying their sex appeal… Not what I was going for.
My point is Victorias and Edwin’s mother and son story is overshadowing Roses and her daughters quite a bit on the emotional level so far. I think Victoria’s has been hitting harder emotionally so far and Roses is kinda like, ok?, in comparison. Not saying it’s bad, just over shadowed.
Hmm, I think that if Hana is winning, that's not really because anyone is stealing steam from the other girls, but because three of them are participants in porn contest, two of them are married and Mina is Ian's girlfriend, which can make some people abstain. Hana in contrast is unattached and the only dick she ever takes is Edwin's, which for some people can be important.
This is no doubt a big part of it, but Hana is also by far the LI with the most development. She gets significant screen time in nearly every episode, is able to coexist seamlessly with both sides of the MC's life, and her personal arc is tightly tied to the MC's own journey through the Club. She was the first to make a formal claim on the MC (if we play her path, of course), and she even has Victoria's enthusiastic approval!
Hana is awesome no question, but she's also had the inside track this whole time. It's no surprise she has a commanding lead.
That one comment about Victoria taking away from Rose shows that guy has 0 understanding of the story, Rose character shines harder thanks to Victoria.
My stupid little mountainhill mound to die on is that Rose stole Lucy's spot so she deserves lifelong servitude as the lowest of the housegirls after her crushing defeat, preferably with her stupid child.
Well... if you think the setting/cast of PA is run-of-the-mill... I would say you can't find a non-repetitive plot/character from the market, so I can't argue with that.
Some could make a point that statement wasn't really wrong when it comes to Edwin, too. He does [want to] take it out on other women thanks to questionable actions of this mom.
Ok, ill toss out the waifu war angle bit I have been doing. Rose is there to fullfill all the incest elements without actually having incest. Its a psudeo incest porn scenario. If you catch your mom banging on video, you will be traumatized. 99.9% of the world, is not going to rewatch their mom getting banged to get over the trauma. They sure as heck aint going to mommy role play with the single mom they know that looks similar to their mom. My mom needs help financially so she doesnt have to resort to porn that I watched. Geez I should go work at the suspicious bar thats a whorehouse said no one ever but Edwins stupid ass.
The mommy character is Victoria projected onto Rose.
The dumb jock athletic character is Veronica that has no non athletic back up plan.
Mina is the ditzy young blonde who is really not.
Hana is the daddy issue goth girl who is reaalllyyy coool but reaallyy haattes her daaadd.
Sophia is the hot nerdy evil scientist.
Kathleen is the dominatrix who is actually evil.
Dalia is the head bitch who looks out for everyone.
Felecia is the gold digger that actually has a heart of gold.
Edwin is the best bro with a crappy mom that makes him take it out on other women.
Chuck is the awesome rich grandpa who is really an asshole.
Play into the above sterotypes for a bad play through and encourage to break out of stereotypes for a good playthrough for non antagonists. Mix and match for gray.
Dont bang single moms that remind you of your mom, friends girl friends, married women, bang multiple woman while trying to romance someone, or bang the bosses daughter etc. Fast money is not the way to go if its a crime. Flip all that for drama.
The entire game (that is great porn btw) is a sterotype with a BDSM humiliation twist. Even the mob element is straight up sterotype. Just replace cocaine with horny medicine and the crooked feds with crooked pharma.
You seem to have a superficial grasp of the tropes with no appreciation for the execution or subtleties of this specific narrative. Congrats on your neurodiversity diagnosis. Does it feel good to shit on things people like? Trolling is a bad habit.
The issue here is that you're forgetting that stereotypes have to build onto the negative and positive aspects of it in order to feel fully fleshed out. Really bad stereotypes come off as one note and one trick and people will bounce off them if they're handled poorly.
That's a flat character arc. They stay the same no matter what happens in the story.
The characters here are very dynamic in what they do and have highs and lows along with struggles as they interact. So when you write a story, keeping them moving along with the main characters feels more that they have their own struggles going on out of the camera.
X and Y don't like each other. That's because Z was harmed. Fill in the blanks.
August and Chuck don't like each other. That's because Dalia was harmed. Now there's a story.
Hana and Kathleen don't like each other. That's because Harper was harmed. There's another one.
Then you go down the rabbit hole and find out *why* those characters got beef. That makes the story stronger and builds on the writing that came before.
I can't get the connection between Vicky and Chuck out of my head. Grace talks about an agreement with awkward chatter between the two.
She doesn't know what it's about and she doesn't care. Since we now know from Chuck that he likes to play games with people in order to break them or achieve his goal with them, it's something I can't get out of my head. He obviously started doing it with Vicky a long time ago.
I noticed during the second run that Vicky reacts unusually to Ian's father.
It seems to me that her reaction is more of a personal one than just some knowledge about him.
There is a lot of information about Vicky that has been mentioned but left open, which will probably be connected later on (and we are supposed to think about it and start speculating in the meantime).
Did she have a bad experience with him, and if so, where and when?
We know that she started making porn in 2009. We generally assume that Edwin was about 12 years old at the time.
We know nothing about the six years between the death of his father and the start of making porn. We also have no time reference for Edwin's statement that she had several jobs at the same time. All we know is that in addition to her porn work, she worked in a bar at night.
Suppose she had started working for Ian's father's company after her husband's death (or 2-3 years later), she didn't know who he was yet. He demands that she wear the outfit and possibly more (for various reasons, secretaries sometimes have sex with their boss)?
(This also fits with the "handsy boss" when we asked about her work at the beginning.)
Here Chuck meets her outside of school. At Grace's, she says she met him a few times, at school and at... (work?)
The moment she finds out about Ian's father, she quits and needs a new source of income.
This would give Chuck knowledge of two of her secrets.
In my opinion, this ties up a few loose threads.
From here, one can speculate further whether Chuck first met her at school or whether he recognized her at school.
Did he "enlighten" her about it?
Does Grace really know everything or just one of the two?
Even a connection to August could be explained in this way.
I'm curious to see if there is interest and, if so, how you take my theory apart or agree with it.
Also, "a surprise house call from a certain beloved character" after mention in the earlier update that "Sophia fans, rest assured you're being seen" was pretty big hint on its own, even if there were no visuals to go with.
Suppose she had started working for Ian's father's company after her husband's death (or 2-3 years later), she didn't know who he was yet. He demands that she wear the outfit and possibly more (for various reasons, secretaries sometimes have sex with their boss)?
I think you're overlooking what's possibly a keyword in that quote:
"used to have occasion to play sexy legal assistant."
Victoria's husband was a lawyer, iirc. A far simpler explanation to this angle (especially in the context of a reply to "you bring that from home?") is that he and Victoria used to have a bit of kinky roleplay in the bedroom, where she was pretending to be his "sexy legal assistant".
Victoria's husband was a lawyer, iirc. A far simpler explanation to this angle (especially in the context of a reply to "you bring that from home?") is that he and Victoria used to have a bit of kinky roleplay in the bedroom, where she was pretending to be his "sexy legal assistant".
Hi! I agree with ename144 here that it is most probably Sophia´s arm we see.
Only three of the major girls in the game use black nailpolish, Hana, Kath and Sophia. Hana´s arms are tattooed and she usually also wears various armbands, which are absent here. Kath is not tattooed, but also wears a gold armband or nothing at all usually.
Sophia is not tattooed and usually wears a watch and it is most probably a watch armband we see in the teaser pic. In addition the shown nails are quite short for a woman, both Hana and Kath have longer fingernails than these. Finally the bit of the top sleeve we can see is grey or black. The only girl beside Hana with a faible for grey and black is Sophia.
That's a part of the story. No question. What you're specifically getting into is to try to dismiss the characters and not see the parallels of primary, secondary, and tertiary characters. That's what I'm getting into. Sometimes, with examples I pulled earlier, you try an idea on a less focused on character to see how the audience gages it. Veronica likes mousey women. We were told this. In the gym, she was perving on Mina and the girl didn't really notice. Even then, in a recent update, who did you play wingman for if you didn't want to bang her? Veronica.
And now, you have a choice if you have Veronica hit on Mina. That's just one example.
Well, If you're together for quite a while with a healthy sex life, almost all your clothes have been involved in pleasing your partner in some way or another. Based on how basic the outfit is I doubt that these were especially bought for sexy times but just adapted from regular wear rotation when she and her husband were having fun. Most clothes used for sexy roleplay are just that, regular clothes.
