Once again I checked "Latest Update" and saw this game for the first time.
Like always I checked first the Pictures which I liked, now whats left was checking the Tags...NTR...sigh...welp,
to the bin it goes! But then I saw the game has 13 votes with a 2,5/5 voting and 28 Sites full of comments ? Probably
a NTR/NO NTR thread once again right ?
After just checking the first site I was not supprised and thats why I like you guys on this forum. After some hours of
consuming Kvass and some Georgian Sorjuc and reading all the comments its the same shitshow of XYVisualNovels game called "A New Beginning" [v0.4a]
Basically once again the Tags were wrong since the Uploader forgot to add the NTR Tag, despite forcing you to watch a unskibable and also a unavoidable sex scene of your GF cheating on you by doing a GB/DB by two other dudes. Also it seems because the Author dont see eye to eye what NTR is (thats a good start lol) but had the Harem Tag despite the game not hinting or showing its going this way. It also seems there is no real Romance ingame since most of the time all you do is voyeurism, aka you as the MC or as the Player (MC not knowing) watch the LI banging others dudes.
It seems with this repeated mistakes people start this whole conversations and its not beneficial for the Devs nor the Fans.
(I bet if this was not the case, Dev had more Fans and more Financial Support, which is kinda a shame...first impression maters)
Well, during the patches it seems Dev made some "changes"?, where at least you can "skip" but not "avoid" the NTR scenes.
These probably will be replaced with a "NO NTR" Path in the next 0.4 update.
This sounds nice because it seems its really a NO NTR path where you can avoid it and not only Skip it
(Im looking at you XYVisualNovels *uptight judging eyes*) and Im fully in support of it.
However:
I somehow got this gut feeling that once again the NTR path is the "normal" path, aka the original planned one where you get the whole full experience and the NO NTR path is like censored/dumb down version of the "normal" path.
I can only judge what I see or play, not what is promised.
My Opinion is:
Author said that the Game will be Harem with Romance (Here I dont even know what the Dev think Harem means. Harem in a "MC bangs different Girls in the story" or "MC will end up with all of them in the end" type of harem?), but first he need to introduce us to this world and the LI(?). Sadly instead of the NTR scene with her GF being a Point where the MC starts to "Chad up", the story goes into a "NTR-follow-up" type of Story Arc where MC kinda watch others bang instead to "Chad up". Thats probably another mistake the Dev made.
Personaly I dont mind that the LI are whores or even have Relationship established. (I like Netori, aka MC steals the Grils from others)
However, the Game NEEDS to make it clear that me as the player, during the game the MC gonna fuck the people over who wronged him, in which the case the game thinks it needs to go by corrupting them or romancing them or etc.
BUT also, the LI needs a redemption arc. How you wanna convert different LI from girls who jumps from Dick to Dick into a Love Interest is the different Topic tho.
Sadly, once again, we dont see it here and once people finish with the episode and cant follow up where this is going, they going to judge what they saw and thats the reason the whole NTR talk is still ongoing.
He also made clear in his last comment that "certain events have to happen to the MC".
He said that the NTR scene (which he dont see as a NTR) is the catalyst in the game and thats where the big changes happen, but now it will replaced with "soften" up version of being cucked or even complette avoided ?
Like I said, im full in support of it, but how is he gonna wanna change the MC from that point on?
Its like 2 whole completty stories now.
I dont mind NTR when its only so MC can man up from that, but when its just a fetish thing Im not the audience.
He also said in the update and comments that the Game will have NTR elemets. Probably the Netorare(being cucked) and not Netori(You the MC steals the Chicks).
I dont want to expand the debate about why the Dev made the Poll about about NTR at all but what I wan to say is:
LionGames, its your game. So therefore its up to you what you want to do with it.
If you like NTR, do it.
If you want Harem, do it.
If you for some reason, want to mix them together, do it.
Its nice of you to listen to others and I get that its mostly a hobby of yours, and I dont mind that you want to earn some money with it.
(I would even support you if it has what I want)
Its also nice that you stay cool and professional here when we talk in this communtiy.
(I know how fast we get angry as russians and I also know how fast people get here triggered, im one of them)
But you also need to be aware of what comes ahead of you when you are not clear upfront or what you do with your decisions.
Try to experiment with this one since it seems most of the people left and probably wont come back, but perhaps with the 0.4 it can be a turn over for this game. (Welp, thats how I found this game anyway.)
Also Try to make the best out of it and learn from it and hey, if you decide to make a new one, you can use your experience from previous works to improve.
In my chase, I gonna wait when 0.4 arrives and then I gonna play it and decide if I gonna support it or if it goes into the bin.
No mater the outcome, stay strong Dev and dont take some mean comments to your heart.
Na sdorowje!