Hey folks, been awhile since I inflicted my special type of PITA on f95... LOL
STWAdev Love the game, this is much stronger than the first game. You are just getting better as you go. I am really looking forward to seeing what happens with Valentine. I'm also curious what your plans are after the third game (I know that is a long way off, but I am curious what your long-term plans are).
FYI it is reins not reigns, if I really wanted to be helpful, I'd include a screenshot here showing where you misused the homophones. You take the reins, so you are in control of the metaphorical horse or in these cases responsibility or family.
In the Kana's gym scene: a "Usually only when nobody else is around to take the responsibility reigns."
And in the Elspeth's dad scene: da "Thomas, my eldest. The one we all expected to take the reigns of our family someday."
Got to love the way people don't think about the characters in this. The MC cares about these women and doesn't think of them as hook ups. Each of the girls, Els, Vi, Amrit, Ines and the MC are broken in some way. The MC is soft with them but is still holding out of care for them. We haven't got the story on what caused his damage so far. We know Vi's and El's and just got a look at Amrit's.
Right? I suppose if the MC was just looking to fuck everyone all he'd need is astroglide and a smile, this game is supposed to be about the MC finding out that you don't heal by ignoring your issues and fucking everyone who offers. He is going to be in a relationship at the end of this game with one to two women whether the "let's fuck all the sluts" crowd of F95 gamers want it that way or not (I suppose there may be an ending where he ends up alone but that would be a "failure" ending to the game IMO).
And he might be soft torwards them but he isn't a pussy like some people here like to claim, the damage he has taken plays a big role in how he is. Its not being a pussy, its having a trauma.
Yeah, I don't think most of those complaining understand what it's like to experience trauma. Especially emotional trauma. The MC seems like a strong person who has "walled himself away" to ensure he doesn't get hurt anymore. So, he deflects, he hides behind humor and sarcasm, he doesn't open up because that would allow someone the chance of hurting him again.
I think the problem comes with some people not understanding what kind of game it is.
The dev is making story based romance games. Like the first game there are a bunch of broken characters that find each other and eventually find love.
Unlike the first game this one is setting up a lot more throuples, the first only had one the rest were solo endings with 1 girl.
He isn't going to be using and abusing these girls, that isn't the kind of game it is.
It is heavily story based, it is going to be romance based and you are going to have to choose eventually. There is no harem here and he isn't going to screw over people he cares about.
Yeah, wish F95 had a way of separating the "serious game that has a story and isn't all about smooshing naughty bits together" games from the "no plot to get in the way of the hawt taboo sexy times" games. Some big banner that proclaims "THIS HAS A STORY YOU NITWIT"...
Yep, that's the one.
Her cousins are love interests in the third with the aunt being a partial LI. I don't fully know what the dev means by partial LI but i'm guessing side girl but not getting an ending.
All he's said about it is it is going to be a lot darker than the first 2 with it being heavily mob based.
We do also know one of the cousins is an incredibly violent lunatic.
Still think it is unlikely I will play the third, not a fan of mobs or violence or Aoife's family. We shall see, if STWADev keeps getting stronger as a writer and dev I may just have to take the plunge... Hope it starts off in a big way and really embraces the mob/violence angle (don't spare me) and goes all "No Russian" or something.
A trend in these stories seems to be super intelligent (intimidatingly so) beautiful women who come from money and privilege. I wonder if that will continue in the third one. Also in this one the MC's know each other but the set up for the third doesn't make it seem that they would be friends with the first two MC's so the only connection might be Aoife's family. And anyway, yes, you are so quotable I had to quote you twice.