I've been reading you all and I think it's time to introduce that fortune teller character I had in mind on next build. Time to ask her for unlocking missed scenes in exchange of those sex points.
Good to know. Originally, I thought that the "Sex Points" will be the scoring system that determine the "win" condition for the MC, i.e. either his/her novel crushing it or flops. But if it is really intended as the currency for exploring all the story variants also nice.
Another issue I would like to ask opinion. About the stories, that you know those can be failed and have to be replayed. I'm thinking about getting rid of this fail chance and making those more simple. I've been reading things that I thought were right, and I'm not seeing the point at all on forcing you to repeat a character's story... Yeah, that can be quite annoying. Should I change that game part to something easier?
If you have a different mechanism to avoid failed story, then it is really good. For me, it is
not a big concern because I made save before important decision ( the red warning ) and some other saves during the story. If I failed, then I just reload or sometimes I just rollback ( I re-enabled rollback ).
One issue with the current replay of failed story is that it starts from the very beginning for that NPC, so it is a bit annoying for stories that have 2 parts like with
Mercedes or
Penelope. Also, most stories give "Sex Points" after successful completion but some stories give 1 "Sex Point" during the story itself for some lewd stuff, if the story failed I am not sure if the awarded "Sex Point" will be removed or not. Someone might "farm" that for "Sex Points" for no reason ( if they somehow don't know how to cheat efficiently ).
Currently, the game doesn't have a full Replay Gallery, the closest we have is asking the NPC to tell their story again, but then we basically have to play the story again, getting the right answer for the same experience or change it to get the variation. The "Extras" just give hints about how many variations and slideshows of what they are. It would be great if there is dedicated mode that remember players choices so that the story can replay uninterrupted, at least the sex scenes portion if not the whole story, or something equivalent.
The biggest "challenge" for me is to figure out the "routes" or "pathing" for the characters and unlock their story. Currently, I am not able to access
Tarja story because of the previous decisions I made, so I am starting a different playthrough just to unlock her story. For
Mercedes, I also create different playthrough specifically just to unlock all her stories. For
Claude, I only unlock 1/7 sex scenes so I think I might need to ask her to re-tell her story to unlocks the variations. These saves I don't intend to use later, I just keep them for the moment as they might come in handy, but now I have to somehow manage the different "playthrough" saves. Eventually, I might figure out how many different playthrough I really need.
That being said, I don't mind the branching storylines and I am not a completionist so it is not a deal breaker if I can't see all the contents, as long as I get 1 or 2 of the good/best endings, that's fine with me. I still try, do my best to get all the contents but okay if I missed some.
Lastly, I don't know what questions and answers that made my MC to be male but I am glad because for female MC there aren't that much of choices for LIs. Female MC basically has to be lesbian. The potential LIs are primarily females,
Marina,
Sofia,
Amanda,
Mercedes ( if she is not dating
Jason I think ),
Jane,
Tess &
Rina. I have no clue how to pick male LI for a female MC anyway, but best guess candidate is
Jason?