No worries about not having the right mindset to play right now.
Hi!
Hey! I've completely forgotten about the points, tried to play with mod, but with other girls everything was pretty straightforward and logical, so i turned it off. With Katy, evidently, points I had weren't enough. Maybe because some of the choices I've made were made out of confusion about her dissapearing out of MC's life after college. The reason was partly explained in later episodes, although I still don't get why couldn't she just called him or vice versa.
The MC and Katy will come back to that topic soon, but obviously that doesn't mitigate the fact that you as the player are more clueless than you should be if you're trying to immerse yourself as the MC.
Yep, something in the episode when she appears would've been great. I've run into such problem huge time just today before playing "Seeking Closure", in "The Nymphomaniac". Some girl wanted sex and I didn't know who she was to me, besides her name. But here it is very slight, more about polishing and finishing touches. If we talking about this - when I met El at the pool, I was thinking that she was my ex I dumped, not my best friend, for quite a long time. Maybe I've read something wrong in that episode.
yeah, you are right, as a player, while immersing myself, I only see and know what you show me, so far I tried to be as natural as I could, acting more on instincts and it was all fine, though i haven't played last update yet.
I'll be sure to add some appropriate background information when seeing Katy and El for the first time (and maybe some other instances as well) either to the MC's thoughts or by sprinkling it into the dialogue while trying to make it sound natural. It won't help anyone who's already played it, but it will at least make things clearer for future players.
oh, also, I get that probably majority of players don't like choices that only slightly change some dialogues, but i want to say that personally I find this approach very enjoyable, i like the diversity of playing through, even if it's sometimes only in dialogues
Hmm... Not to many can appreciate true art of language it seems but I can relate to that. There are many, many games out there which tried to do the same with rather more annoying and less successful way so I don't blame people to be annoyed right away seeing solution like that. Nevertheless, good job with that.
That is quite common thing unfortunately - lack of little introduction. There are scenarios where a little bit of mystery is good but it should be relieved at the time where player needs to make some decisions. I remember I had this problem in STWA: Unbroken without playing The Author first. MC got a lot of complicated relations with bunch of people straight from the start and even knowing some of them from previous game was not easy to understand what is actually going on both around him and in his head. Where it all began is another tough example and for me it became so unclear what is going on there I actually dropped this game to trash. As far as I remember Summer's gone has also some mystery but it is written much much better.
I appreciate stuff like that too. It's hard to gauge the percentage of people who feel one way about it or another, so I have no clue if deciding to cut down on such dialogue options was the right move or not.
TIL that Unbroken actually has a game that precedes it. I'll be sure to play through it before getting back to it.
Hopefully that useless war will be all over as soon as possible and you'll be far from it. Because you have a real talent for creating Vn's
Thank you, I greatly appreciate the sentiment and hope for that as well.
I was thinking that for Katy growing long hair makes a lot of sence plotwise since she is living through tough times. If (fingers crossed) she manages to get through, cutting them short again would symbolize her being her cheerful self again.
Yeah, I had a similar line of thinking and I might implement it closely to how you've suggested it. The only thing is that it won't be up to the player in-game if a LI changes her hairstyle or not because that would mean I'd to render all future scenes with them twice for each hairstyle, which is too much work for not enough benefit. I'll probably just make a poll on Patreon and maybe here and the side that loses will just have to live with it, sadly.
Double renders crossed my mind, but inspiration carried me away higher than tecnical details. Come on, Patreon! Go for Team Tomboy!
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