Oh boy, quite a bit to catch up on since last evening, and this is my first proper coffee break to do so.
I tried to click on through to the Nicky path, but after the recent plot it was kind of a mood killer. Nicky was suddenly going to get the father she always wanted, then it was pulled away and bam... I can't really bring myself to select "Go back to trying to bang her". After all the incest games, you'd think I'd have no problem with that, but this story is written well enough that you just feel like a creep after all that.
Plus Amber gets a sister, which is even more reason not to.
The choice came down to Victoria or Eve, and I honestly had to pick both paths because I couldn't choose. Both of them are perfect for him for different reasons.
That said: I'm honestly disappointed that there is a forced choice. Not surprised in the least. But disappointed none the less.
This game's sequence basically was a harem game in reverse. Everyone down to One.
But seriously Rogue, Knobb? One group sex scene with all 3 was really that much to ask for?
Haha you actually nailed it yourself in the first line - Once you understand the characters, (if you are the kind of person who can understand characters and have a degree of empathy that is), a harem just doesn't make sense. Sure, it would be fun for the player, but it isn't something that Jensen would feel okay with. That's always been a core part of his story - from his devotion to Jade and how that shaped his entire life from his teenage, to the fact that you can see his loyalty in all of his relationships.
Could we have written a different Vicky and a different Eve who'd have been okay with a Harem? Of course we could. But think how different they'd have to be. If either of those women were not so absolutely set on just one perfect relationship with one man, neither would be single for a start. Hell, Vicky's entire life is built on her single-love determination to look after her daughter. None of Vicky's background and story fits at all with anything but a committed man of her own. She'd rather happily stay single.
Sure, that's deeper thinking about psychology and personality types than most games make you deal with, but it is the very reason that those characters have the appeal they do.
Practicality.
A movie has thousands of frames of images that depict that single fight scene. For us to render just 1,000 images, enough for just a few seconds of fighting, would take around 4 months, not to mention be boring as hell for poor MrKnobb to spend all those months posing and rendering just that one thing. So, we have to 'cheat' and suggest a lot in just a relatively tiny amount of frames. A book, from which a VN gets the word 'Novel', has to use even more words.
You can spoil it for me cause now you got me wondering. When ever a game loses the harem route I start to not care about that game to much anymore so spoilers don't bother me.
There was never a Harem route, and there are tags you can check to look for Harem games. This game never, ever had one. It was never intended as a Harem. How many real-life Harems have you come across personally first hand? Exactly that, they are exceptionally rare, and the few there are are generally arranged relationships for power and money, not sex or love.
Pretty much most of the games on here are story based so you basically have no point.
Not really, no. The so-called story of a large proportion of games here are suitable only for porn - hackneyed, unbelievable, and there purely to carry a particular fetish fantasy. That you can't tell the difference is a sign of the Dunning-Kruger effect, and while it massively widens the amount of games you'll be able to enjoy, it likewise means you'll be a terrible judge of what is actually believable or a good story. You just don't have the appreciation for what makes one. Go, enjoy games. But bear in mind you have no natural appreciation for story, so go easy on the reviews and judgements.
It's just so FUSRTATING to devote so much time and energy in to playing a game only to have it all mean nothing... for
MrKnobb to string us along from update to update enjoying getting closer to these women, thinking that in the end all our hard work would be rewarded with a perfect happy ending only to have it ripped away just ruins the whole game! I already referenced it, but now the crossover with acting lessons makes even more sense.. they're both sadist who enjoy plucking our heart strings and dashing our hopes..
That's a long-winded way of saying "I completely misunderstood this game, and completely ignored all the months and months of discussion and reviews, and now I'm butt-hurt that this game isn't the game it never was, never claimed it would be, and that never existed except against all else, in your own head".
Um ... Congratulations on that achievement? Not sure what else could be said to that.
To us, a perfect happy ending is exactly where we are heading. One that is true to the characters, and thus believable within the context of the story. We are, and have been, telling a story. We've been completely clear and open about that, and we make no apologies whatsoever for it. YOUR one and only job, as a 'consumer' is to decide whether or not it is a story you want. Please, don't blame your failure, in your one and only job, on us. Thanks.
I haven't played this in a while i believe(might have been since last update or the one before.). The girl choices don't seem to matter as of S2 and they kind of didn't matter in S1 either but the pheromones was there for that. I'm currently starting up S2 for a recap.
Anyways I clicked neither and Vicky(just as a test) for interested at the start but i noticed her daughter, Nicky, still throws herself at me for some reason and the dialogue doesn't match the choice i chose. It kind of defeats the purpose of that choice at the beginning imo if she's still in the running.
The story is still good though. I'm just not interested in Nicky at all tbh. Hopefully in S3 the choice are more solid with the women as they feel a little too loose currently. Since there's no harem I'd atleast like to have an absolute choice on one girl and have it stick.
Evaline and Tania are the best girl's btw.
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The choices matter. The criticism that there are very few choices is a fair one, there are, and there are many reasons for that some of which are simply about the practicalities of multiple paths and the effect of having to develop multiple storylines with different scenes on the development and progression side of things. So we have warned pretty much all along that the main branching will be towards the end - the point we are now starting to reach.
Nicky still acts as she does because there were several scenes in Series 1 that you could not avoid through choices. You could NOT avoid agreeing to date both girls, because that was the ONLY way to date either of them. Each of them only proposed to date you to force the other to give it a go. Each wanted you to ideally end up with the other, at the beginning.
If you missed that, then you really didn't get what was happening in S1, and it is very, very likely you missed a lot else too.
Well, I played handful of first updates (between 5-10), and at first I liked it a lot, the writing was solid, no grammatical errors afaik, renders were good, girls were endearing, but when I read further, the story was too predictable for me to continue reading, because I knew MC (Jensen?) will get all the girls and all of them want him just because he is unnaturally attractive. So it felt like it's not even important to know the details, because the conclusion was obvious and that's why I think some people skip through it as you said.
I was reading it whole at first, but in the last update I played, I skipped parts of it ("Oh, MC met a woman... they gonna fuck, skip... yeah, they do"). I didn't feel any tension, because you can't fail, MC doesn't even have to seduce them or make them like him in any other way, because they throw themselves at him and I couldn't even get into the MC, because he was just way too perfect to be believable. It's maybe because of my preference to have a hero as an underdog or have him get knocked down and then have him get up and fight back (figuratively speaking). I also like roleplaying, but that's beside the point. I know that a lot of people love overpowered perfect main characters, else there wouldn't be so many popular isekai stories nowadays. I don't consider stories with op perfect mc as good, but they do have a huge consumer demographic, so there is nothing wrong in creating them.
Anyway, "It's like... my opinion, man". I'm not trying to shit on your work. I have to add this, because a lot of creators on the internet take critique or a different opinion as an attack. I like to discuss different opinions. And I am looking for a reason to try this again.
We don't mind opinions, not at all. But we hate when people state opinions as facts, and especially when they are based on things that aren't true.
You didn't play 5-10 episodes worth, as the entire first Series was just 6. From where you were up to, you hadn't gotten past about Episode 3 of Series 1. That thing of all the girls throwing themselves at him, and his own extreme horniness in responding, was down to the effects of some genetic experimentation done on him, and was removed before the end of the first Series by other events in the story.