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Hello seedlings,
Welcome to yet another edition of news from the Six Realms. The less said about last month on the business side the better (only I could increase porn by 50% and LOSE money), but we seem to have rebounded a bit, and will push on like we always do. Work wise, last month was very productive; we delivered a good chunk of Rastedel content, placing us in a position to start giving the player some agency in how the story plays from here. Nasim also seems to have been popular with quite a few people, and you'll definitely be seeing more in the way of transformation content in the future.
Moving on to the next backer release, things are well underway by now as always. On the writing front, it will probably be a little smaller, for good reason. A lot of you having been asking for a while now for us to improve the mechanics of the game, and Rein has been working hard on that task. A lot of his time this month has been taking up both working on developing said mechanics (more about that in a future post), as well as identifying and rewriting events that need to be amended. The reason he is doing this is because, although I wanted to wait until I had more money to hire extra staff, I've found a new programmer. This month he is working on something we've been talking about wanting to do for a while - moving character events out of the ruler event pool, and to their castle locations.
Other than that, everything else is progressing as normal. Winter will continue to work on Rastedel content, along with some other events, and I'm hoping to have some new fey content from Phoenix as well. Art wise, we will once again have nine new CGs (Sommy has already finished two, shared with backers, and I'm waiting on MDN to get back to me with sketches), as well as a new BG (the Codifice), and a new character sprite from Keidi.
That's all for today. The backer release will be on the last Friday of the month, which this time falls on the 29th.
New update, any thoughts?
They do probably need to include some events that increase Alexia/Rowan's relationship, it's much, much easier to break them apart than to increase their devotion—granted, that makes sense for the situation they're in, but I feel like, ideally, there ought to be a path for their relationship to come out stronger despite the adversity. I'll also echo the sentiment that some scenes between them that increase their corruption without lowering or ignoring their relationship stat would be a nice addition, as well; while personally I'm a fan of corruption breaking pre-existing ties of loyalty, whether romantic or not, I know there's definitely some demand for corrupting devoted couples.
While we're talking about scenes involving Alexia and corruption, I'd also love some more focus on Jezera x Alexia. The three scenes we've gotten are some of the best in the game (for my tastes), and seem to promise more explicit corruption beyond just "unfaithful demon whore"; though with the scenes available currently, there's significantly more focus on Andras x Alexia, which seems much more simplistic (and much less willing). It'd also be nice to see more slight differences in Alexia's scenes depending on whether she's reached medium corruption—e.g., less revulsion in the arena scenes, maybe even some excitement? Maybe a more interested reaction to the Jezera x Shaya scene? That sort of thing. I know that's throwing out a lot of suggestions for what are probably less popular portions of the game, but I suppose there's no harm in bringing them up.
On the subject of good routes, given the premise of the game (and the information we're given about the kind of military career Rowan had), a successful paladin route seems highly unlikely, though the Solansia dream scene does kind of seem to be foreshadowing a purification route that we perhaps won't see much of till significantly later in the story than we've gotten? Or is that just me?
I definitely agree with all of this post and will also add that in general there should be more ways for Rowan to build up his relationships with his wife but also with the various other characters at the castle.
