There's hundreds of pages here around that discussion but we don't know yet, if MC is changing the past of if it's already predetermined.
About Love, for what we saw till now I think love is a strong word for any relationship the MC had till now, most were flings and a few were a bit more strong but don't think he had time to deep relationship with any girl yet.
Oh, you mean there's no romance yet with any character, both in the past and present? I thought this would go the Eternum way, but I guess not. Well, I hope we still have a long way to go before the ending and that he won't just finish it without any development and lump them together just because they fucked.
Oh, you mean there's no romance yet with any character, both in the past and present? I thought this would go the Eternum way, but I guess not. Well, I hope we still have a long way to go before the ending and that he won't just finish it without any development and lump them together just because they fucked.
I don't play Eternum so I wouldn't know, there's romance, but it's not a harem game as far we know and there's already at least a scene we can't have if you on a girl path in detriment of another
My guess is it's mostly the 2nd case. We've seen hints that small things can change, but major events seem to be fixed.
There are cases, like Scarlett where she looks at photos of her and the MC together that hadn't been taken yet in game and Luna who freaks out when she sees you in '19. Which happens before he even meets her for the first time in '99.
Then depending on who you give the pendant to in '99, some conversations change in '19.
The masked man talks about this stuff at one point from what I recall. How you can try to change a major event over and over in different ways but it'll always happen, just not always in exactly the same way.
This is a subject that's been debated quite a bit here and nobody knows for certain how exactly it all works yet.
I don't play Eternum so I wouldn't know, there's romance, but it's not a harem game as far we know and there's already at least a scene we can't have if you on a girl path in detriment of another
Well, I'm not too far in yet but Krystal is cool with sharing, so maybe there's a harem but with selective girls that have compatibility. And bro, your top 5 are all in my favorites, so you need to play Eternum. It's peak.
My guess is it's mostly the 2nd case. We've seen hints that small things can change, but major events seem to be fixed.
There are cases, like Scarlett where she looks at photos of her and the MC together that hadn't been taken yet in game and Luna who freaks out when she sees you in '19. Which happens before he even meets her for the first time in '99.
Then depending on who you give the pendant to in '99, some conversations change in '19.
The masked man talks about this stuff at one point from what I recall. How you can try to change a major event over and over in different ways but it'll always happen, just not always in exactly the same way.
This is a subject that's been debated quite a bit here and nobody knows for certain how exactly it all works yet.
Oh, that's interesting. I guess if he made it so every trip causes major changes, he would need to put in a lot more work every update. So making it like this is the best option, and it makes for interesting interactions with people who met you but you haven't met yet.
Well, I'm not too far in yet but Krystal is cool with sharing, so maybe there's a harem but with selective girls that have compatibility. And bro, your top 5 are all in my favorites, so you need to play Eternum. It's peak.
Oh, that's interesting. I guess if he made it so every trip causes major changes, he would need to put in a lot more work every update. So making it like this is the best option, and it makes for interesting interactions with people who met you but you haven't met yet.
Oh yeah, for sure you can be with lot of girls, and share them (edit:share not the right word maybe, you can't share them with other guys hehe) , there's some threesomes already in the game I just don't think there will be a Harem in the sense that all the girls are your "possession" and they all acknowledge the harem and accept it.
I tried Eternum 2 or 3 times because is highly rated but couldn't handle the humor, just not for my tastes
I love Superhuman from your Signature though, and Nico is top 3 girl there
Oh yeah, for sure you can be with lot of girls, and share them (edit:share not the right word maybe, you can't share them with other guys hehe) , there's some threesomes already in the game I just don't think there will be a Harem in the sense that all the girls are your "possession" and they all acknowledge the harem and accept it.
I tried Eternum 2 or 3 times because is highly rated but couldn't handle the humor, just not for my tastes
I love Superhuman from your Signature though, and Nico is top 3 girl there
Man, I was the same. I tried it a couple of times and dropped it. But I gave it another chance, stuck with it, and ended up with something great. I don't know where you stopped, but I would advise you to keep playing until a mission where you go with two of the girls to retrieve a weapon (don't wanna spoil too much). That's where I got hooked.
Well, if you already played enough and didn’t enjoy it, there's nothing I can say to that. But like I said, I also didn’t like the beginning at all.
Man, I was the same. I tried it a couple of times and dropped it. But I gave it another chance, stuck with it, and ended up with something great. I don't know where you stopped, but I would advise you to keep playing until a mission where you go with two of the girls to retrieve a weapon (don't wanna spoil too much). That's where I got hooked.
Well, if you already played enough and didn’t enjoy it, there's nothing I can say to that. But like I said, I also didn’t like the beginning at all.
I never played more than an hour I would say, maybe will try again eventually talking about other games in the Ripples thread isn't the best though
Hope you enjoy Ripples though
Oh, you mean there's no romance yet with any character, both in the past and present? I thought this would go the Eternum way, but I guess not. Well, I hope we still have a long way to go before the ending and that he won't just finish it without any development and lump them together just because they fucked.
I wouldn't say there's no romance. Some of the LIs have a lot more in that department than others, though, and it's definitely still building for a lot of them.
Hmm, I'm at the scene where he meets Scarlet again and it got me thinking. Does every time the MC goes back to the past, the future change a little? Or is everything predetermined and everything we see already happened?
Well, I guess it doesn't matter. Even if they remember him and loved him at some point? they won't think a guy who just looks like him is actually him. Unless their first thought is, yeah, that's him, he must be a time traveler, lol.
Oh, you mean there's no romance yet with any character, both in the past and present? I thought this would go the Eternum way, but I guess not. Well, I hope we still have a long way to go before the ending and that he won't just finish it without any development and lump them together just because they fucked.
My response: Yes, there's romance, but it's probably a bit to early to say anyone has reached the "Big L" except one character.
As for the question about time, up to this point it looks like there really isn't anything major that can be changed. However, I personally suspect there might be a shift in the narrative coming in update 0.9, but I'm just guessing here, and everyone has their own interpretation of the events so far. (unless Jestur accidentally leaks something).
My response: Yes, there's romance, but it's probably a bit to early to say anyone has reached the "Big L" except one character.
As for the question about time, up to this point it looks like there really isn't anything major that can be changed. However, I personally suspect there might be a shift in the narrative coming in update 0.9, but I'm just guessing here, and everyone has their own interpretation of the events so far. (unless Jestur accidentally leaks something).
Which is why I agree that there really hasn't been any indication up to this point that the time travel is anything but "everything has already happened" ... I still think that might change in the next update, but if it doesn't then it probably shouldn't change.
Darci was upset with Krystal and so she started calling her by her middle name (Kira). When the MC starts calling her that too, she only thinks he's playing along but is then worried when she realizes he actually thinks that's her first name.
The MC then tries to remember if Kira was always her middle name or there was indeed a change caused by not giving the necklace to Krystal's mom. He doesn't remember. Which isn't surprising, considering he didn't remember Scarlett coming over to paint with Tiffany several times before (we're told she had blonde hair, but still).
Glad to see a familiar face here. Yeah, I'm really enjoying it so far. The writing is witty and self aware, and the Lis are all charming in their own way, even though there are too many if you ask me, lol. But it's working so far and nothing feels forced.
I will heed your advice and keep an open mind about the 1999 Lis. I just hope he cooks something great with it. My suggestion would be to just forget about the fathers altogether, not bring them up, don't explain why or how, just make them recognize the MC in the future and get back to it.
Jestur does, IMO, a great job helping us to keep track of them using the contacts 'app' in the in-AVN phone.
Before I start a new rev, I usually go through the contacts list to refresh my memory about where I am with each of the women and who I am 'on path' with.
It also updates back story well, so it is like a 'CliffsNotes' for the player.
I would have hard time letting go of most of the women in Ripples and I suspect that someone like Shelby, who I was close to kicking to the curb permanently once, is in the early parts of a bigger redemption arc that will see her helping the MC and becoming someone important to him.
The wait to see if I am right on this will be hard but I'm planning on a full replay at the end of Summer to try out some choices I missed the first time through so I can unlock a few gallery items that are still hidden (IMO - Ripples is one of a few AVNs that I view as worth being a completionist because the renders/animations are so good and I am enjoying the story -- so a redo won't exactly be a hardship).
I don't play Eternum so I wouldn't know, there's romance, but it's not a harem game as far we know and there's already at least a scene we can't have if you on a girl path in detriment of another
Well, I'm not too far in yet but Krystal is cool with sharing, so maybe there's a harem but with selective girls that have compatibility. And bro, your top 5 are all in my favorites, so you need to play Eternum. It's peak.
Oh, that's interesting. I guess if he made it so every trip causes major changes, he would need to put in a lot more work every update. So making it like this is the best option, and it makes for interesting interactions with people who met you but you haven't met yet.
Glad I made this post recently, so I can just quote it regarding if the game is harem or not (you'll need to go back to the original post to see the snips of Jestur's comments). The TL;DR is that some type of harem is planned according to the dev, but we don't know if it'll be full harem or not.
So it's not been clearly stated that it'll be full harem (at least that I can find), but there definitely are harem path(s). In any case, Jestur has been pretty tight-lipped about exactly what that means, probably for story spoiler reasons if I had to guess.
Edit: There are actually both "harem" and "poly" points in the scripts. I think early on they were called "harem" points, but have changed to "poly" points around the middle of Episode 3 (you can get a "poly" point in Episode 8 for example, not a "harem" point).
And in the Variables script file, Jestur left this comment about the "poly" variable:
That variable change doesn't necessarily mean a harem was removed from the plan though, since a harem is a form of poly. Particularly since the comment calls it poly or harem points. If I had to guess, it probably was changed to encompass a broader range of CNM relationship outcomes.
but we don't know yet, if MC is changing the past of if it's already predetermined.
