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I'm curious. What then do you consider a threat? If in a story there is a situation where if the hero doesn't prevail, there will be dire consequences, do you not consider that a real threat when he does? I mean, then in any form of story there wouldn't be a threat. You could even flip your premise. If the hero doesn't prevail, the dire consequences aren't a threat but an actuality. Which means the threat is also an illusion. After all, the definition of a threat is "intention". Once that intention is acted out, it's no longer a threat.
I consider a threat something that results in an outcome that is unwanted. This is a bit confusing in NTR because if you want NTR to happen then the "threat" is your key to getting to what you want. For the sake of argument we will keep it simple; a threat would be the girls getting dicked down by someone other than you. Well in this case its an illusion because the girls are never in any danger, NTR events are either turned off or they happen in a "what if" scenario. Ultimately, the hero will always triumph, good will always prevail over evil, there is no permanence in these "bad things". It's more like a bad dream that you will eventually wake up from.
I was waiting for someone to say something like this. Ladies and gentlemen I present to you A Struggle With Sin. Not only are there 2 unique paths in 1 game but those paths happen to be Harem and NTR. The reason this game doesnt have 2 paths is simple; the dev didnt want to make 2 paths but they did want to get as much support and audience as possible so they did the next best thing, they created the game they intended but to appease another group of potential customers they shoehorned in "NTR" and for that extra sprinkle on top as to not alienate his core demographic they made sure that NTR was "non-canonical".
Already wrong. NTR is a genre of porn in of it self which consists of multiple aspects; Netorare/Netorase/Netori, these aspects all vary greatly and can be definitively added to a game on top of each other or separately. You already lack a proper understanding of the concept so anything you have to say after that I ignored because your take on it is ill-informed and you are the last person who should be speaking as to what "wouldnt be interesting to NTR fans".
Be as it may be, but is it the main focus on the game or is the story line seperate from that? Because the story line in Power Vacuum is all about protecting the girls. If one falls, all fall. I haven't played A Struggle With Sin, but I assume the NTR in the game are one off's and are not connected to the other girls. Meaning if you "lose" one girl, that doesn't mean you're locked out of another girl.
No, the reason why it doesn't have 2 paths is because the whole point of the game is to avoid NTR. It's not "shoehorned in" because it was always the premise from the game since the very start. And since the story is driven by avoiding NTR, all the plotlines of the girls are connected. You advance with one because you reached a certain point with another. So, remove one of the girls, the story can't continue anymore. That's why there aren't two paths, because you can't intersect them.
Since that game isnt a kinetic novel like this one its much more open, meaning the paths all diverge and intersect one another multiple times and there isnt 1 way to play or 2 know that I think about it, you are free to mix and match BUT im getting off topic, ASWS isnt Power Vacuum and vice-versa, my comment was to let you know a game CAN have multiple paths if the dev so chooses, this dev chose not to. A corruption narrative isnt that complex and can be woven into any genre.
Building on my previous statement, this game is a kinetic novel and its pretty typical; MC fucks harem, third party wants to fuck harem, MC stops third party. Thats not exactly ground breaking story-telling and like I said before a corruption narrative can just as easily have been written in to create 2 paths where 1 side wins and where 1 side loses over the course of narrative but that didnt happen. I have stated MY opinion on why this is how it is but at the end of the day its just my opinion.
Is this a troll comment? Can we remove comments this wilfully ignorant?
It's iffy. He didn't make a post on the 11th, so I assume he's focusing more on getting the update done, than making small updates.
Hey there, I am following the patreon, and yes, the updates are getting astronomically bigger leading up to each new chapter, in fact I dont think i've ever seen an update as big as what ch12 is shaping up to be ever out of any dev in this community.
He is skipping updates by choice. He has said that after he is done with the render portion and moves onto the writing, he has to space out teasers otherwise he'll have to release teasers that spoil TOO much. We all know he has the renders, he just doesn't want to release more revealing renders. He has said before that NTR event teasers are the usually the last teasers and they are. He then throws together a teaser salad of a few images from different teasers sometimes.
He has been in the "writing phase" since September and there is no fucking chance it takes 4 months to write the "story" each update is legit 80% jokes 20% story so stop riding his dick so hard, the Yes men in this thread and discord is probably a big reason why he has been stretching these updates out for years now.
Yeah right? I don't know if these ass lickers get paid by the developer or something. There is no point in such a long update interval unless something bad happens. It's as simple as that. Don't be a fanboy and know how to speak the truth when the time comes.
It would be more accurate to say that a "threat" is the potential of an unwanted outcome. If that unwanted outcome ever occurs then it is no longer a threat, it is reality. What you're talking about reminds me of the concept of "plot armor". Unfortunately (for you?) that's simply the nature of most stories where a hero is fated (by the writer) to triumph in the end.
It definitely can take 4 months to be in the writing phase.
I get paid when chapters release. For every comment I leave, the dev gives me 5 bucks. Also, I don't lick ass. I caress it with my tongue, and I don't neglect the balls.
You know it’s ok to say the updates are starting to get a bit long in the tooth and not be a hater right?
All that's fair.
Yeah, I could have responded to the first guy by just saying "the updates take longer because the game got bigger". But some of those comments seem so low effort that it's annoying.
