Damn, this game is
HUGE.
Honestly I'm very impressed. It took me almost 2 months to finish just one of the paths (Shared Liam into True Iris route). And there are multiple of them!
At first what seemed as "pretty standard" porn/specific fetish game turned out to be a novel, with likeable characters, very interesting history, intrigue and lots and lots of content. Hell, it came to a point where on some days I did not care about porn and just wanted more story. Kudos to you
YedaGames
Now for some quick thoughts:
- Blake looked best with short red hair. Got kinda disappointed when I saw Blonde Blake near the end. Oh well;
- there were also some points where Blake was irritating to me. Like mate, go visit your neighbour Zoey and do some yoga, or visit your girlfriend Iris at school/in bookstore or call your buddy Jamal instead of sitting on that ass of yours all day. Good thing that Iris called them out on this, but still. I guess my limit was after party at Dominique and talking about legs. I know it's important for building character (and goddamn, it is one of the very few novels where MC has defined character instead of blank face), but goddamn there are so many great characters -
INTERACT WITH THEM MORE!
- regarding walkthrough - it's weird seeing that to get
Rebecca changing you need to acquire "bad choices" and "
Rebecca disdains". They should have been named more appropriately. Also what's the difference between these two?
- is it possible to get
Rebecca and Jamal back together? I had to use to "I did this for you too" line in Scene 6 Act XI to get the character change, but apparently they still broke up, which is surprising.
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Is Claude dead or not? I'm not really sure here. He gave me a room after Slums, but because I went to Slums I failed to meet only one check on Tanya's Secret Route that happens if you stay (kinda sucks, ngl), I didn't get convo with her. So I'm not really sure.
- Do Josiah and Gillian points matter at all?
- why is Reese more or less hostile to you?
- NGL I got teary eyed when I learned that
Zoey and Tanya plan to move out. I like them so much.
- It's funny how you can be anti-Deliverance during most of the dialogues
but once your love interests move there You are going there too;
- thank you, THANK YOU so much for unlimited save slots. 47 pages on my current playthrough...
- there are honestly much more, but I will be spending hours and hours writing them down
Chances are I won't be making any games after Shattered. This process is beyond exhausting.
Oh no, I'm devastated to hear that. While I get you, I think that you have huge talent. This game is so great that I was thinking about advertising it to some non-cis folks I know ;_;.
Also if I can have some questions to the author:
- will it be possible to get sub/dom and other "point counters" put in codex?
- who are your favourite characters?
- were there any storylines that you put in a game but several chapters later decided to abandon them? If I were to guess it would be meeting Mack again (which Forthwall told will happen) and Resistance storyline.
- in what year does the game take place?
- what's the situation of the world anyway? From what we learned Europe is mostly okay, there are other cities in the US which are more or less functioning... So why Deliverance anyway? Why not move to Philadelphia or something?
- will Blake finally learn how to call their friends first rather than wait for them to initialize the contact? ;P
- is Zoey right about Doctor?