Hammer120

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Yeah totally agree it's a shitty story and what is even worse is if you play the walkthrough mod it shows you get actually punished if you stand up for yourself to these characters that fuck up your life. Seriously the game punishes you for playing like any normal person would have done. Lance and the other collection of assholes can fuck off. Also why let the cheating wife get killed like this it's shitty writing and people who have forgiven her whoring get double betrayed by it.
this team is trying. but not very well to actively create 4 vn's simultaneously and not doing much in each for each update
if they would concentrate one at a time they might actually accomplish something and do a better job.
 

SafeForSure

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this team is trying. but not very well to actively create 4 vn's simultaneously and not doing much in each for each update
if they would concentrate one at a time they might actually accomplish something and do a better job.
Yeah totally agree. But it's still weird you loose points with characters if you act like a human being towards people who get the mother of your child killed. I understand they are spread to thin but these things don't make sense you have to take all the bullshit Lucas and his people put you through for no reason or you loose relationship points with several characters and all Lucas and his people do is lie and hide things for no reason and sacrifices people important to you for no reason.
 

Quetzzz

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Yeah totally agree. But it's still weird you loose points with characters if you act like a human being towards people who get the mother of your child killed. I understand they are spread to thin but these things don't make sense you have to take all the bullshit Lucas and his people put you through for no reason or you loose relationship points with several characters and all Lucas and his people do is lie and hide things for no reason and sacrifices people important to you for no reason.
There are so many things that don't make sense in the structure of this story. Try a playthrough where you reject one or both of the children, and they'll keep hounding the MC about sex and making remarks about having been intimate when nothing happened.
In my first playthrough I didn't trust that the MC's emotions were genuine and not just a result of the niece's powers. The choices allow for this nuance and playstyle... But then they aren't really respected. The game's narrative seems to have a single canon path in mind and doesn't care for choices that go against it.
 

groudor

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As supporter of this game, I can't say that I totally disagree with some of the critiques pointed out in the discussions. Myself lowered the support from a initial high level to a simple tier 1 in their patreon because their development times have become too long with four games at once to truly enjoy the stories and the characters.

But I don't find any of the girls ugly, in fact many of them are breathtaking for me. And the stories are written to be convoluted with sapio-level of fun using lots of quotes and sophisticated humor (of course this may not be pleasant for others, I understand it). Creatives are still building rules for their complex worlds and are drawing the lines at what they want to do with the characters they want to include, so I don't criticize them even when they make some unfortunate choices (like the ex-wife or the multiverse).

But the pace I think it need to change, for the better. Focus the efforts into releasing every one month and half one principal game for patreon (Powers That Be & No Place Like Home) alternately, giving us the satisfaction to play at least four updates in a year. Then dismiss or pause one game on subscriberstar to focus only over one to deliver two-three updates every year (I suggest to pause ALT CTRL DEL, I find more engaging The Button but the two main games for me remains those on patreon).

If the pace of the games will become more frequent I will gladly choose again a higher level of support in patreon because I find them engaging from the start.
But I'm a little worried about it because it seems they are starting to miss also the releases dates, the next tier of PTB should have been dropped at least a day ago and still nothing. I send them a couple of messages but no response, hope they are ok. Maybe they will see this post with more ease here instead on patreon or discord.
Welp, I tried to be useful to the conversation at least... ;)
 

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Powers That Be - Chapter 25 "Training" Full Chapter (Patreon Tier 1)





For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them


Our fascinating family's trip to the Roman Gladiator School leads them into coming face to face with some unexpected challenges. They'll find out more about their instructors, as well as themselves. A whole lot more.


We're proud to release our biggest PTB update yet:

  • Official BOG Walkthrough Mode has been implemented
  • 200+ new Animations added throughout the game
  • Fully Voiced dialogues for Tilly, Valerie, Elsa, Gloria in Chapter 25
  • New Intro Video
  • Please check the Patreon release post for more info
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