or that dangerous "canyon" race they talking about, imo something goes wrong there and she end up in hospital, maybe even in coma
This would be a way to avoid the legal aspects - Stefan would be unlikely to press charges against a comatose or hospitalised Bella, and is more likely to use blackmail on Amber for a date.
The heirloom is unlikely to actually be an heirloom if we look at WiaB Stefan wasn't doing well, and now he has golden underwear on a stand? WTF? His parents would've sold off the hierlooms if the company was doing badly. So it's more than likely it's be 'magnanimously' ignored as a prank. He'll probably even pretend sympathy over Bella's condition.
If Bella's hospitalised, I can see that as an interesting way to get her an Vic closer. Vic doesn't just have an affect on Nika, but we can see Bella gets awkward when VIc focuses on her and ignores Bella's bitchiness.
Damn reaction limit, as always in the worst moment.
Even could be a moment for create new girls or introduce new characters, who knows.
Like mostwanted said i think Bella will end arrested at some point, but not for
the heist. I think Mario´s family will try to obtein something from Bella or Amber before try to get her arrested, for some reason Bella´s family is very important for them so i think they will take advantage of the situation if suddenly the police discover Bella implication in the heist
About the idea of sell Bella to
Ceril´s sister would be interesting, if Nika is in bad terms with Bella he could end up selling her to
the cop, even make a deal with the cops like if he testify againts Bella he won´t be arrested or something.
Ceril isn´t a fuckable Npc right? Because she is crazy as fuck and well, if we are following a path less "happy" could be interesting.
That bombshell is pretty amazing. My guess is the travel would be to either search for Summer (based on the info Emilio provides), search for Willi (Emilia and Katie's dialogue suggest people in WOllust haven't seen Willi around recently) or travelling for some sort of sports tournament (potentially the most likely, that there will be national games that don't occur in Wollust)
Yeah, I'm thinking Stefan will blackmail Amber. That's what he wants, not 9K or some heirloom he bought at a garage sale for millionaires.
...although golden underwear could suggest two different religions, not gonna go there though. Mario is pretty much a placeholder for Stefan at the moment anyway, he'll do whatever Stefan wants.
I think Melanie will be an LI, or at least lewdable. THere's no meaning to a game that has healing if it's inevitable. I think it will be also possible to finish the game alone, and not have healed, or finish the game having moved on and become an asshole (not a dark path as such, but still an unhappy ending) partnering with the bullies, hanging out with the wrong crowd. A proper story about healing/mental health should have the choice to be better, and without options, it's not going to be as compelling.
I just thought of something even more scary well for me personally when it comes to Bella's well being. She gets injured in the street race and goes from being injured to arrested. Be both things id hate to see personally but know 1 of them probably will happen. Also probably be more on the realistic side if it did happen like that.
It could be that one precludes the other: if Bella is injured, Stefan goes a blackmail path. I mean there could even be dialogues where Nika can persuade Bella not to do the canyon race, and if your relationship is strong she doesn't go, or something happens and she gets arrested before racing. Either way the story is going to be tense around these two issues, and one or other will bite, because Bella needs to grow as well. Part of the story to me is how Nika and each character overcomes their past traumas. Bella just seems to have the most so far (well, the most in number, not the highest levels of trauma, we don't know enough to say that yet).
Interesting premise. The panic illness part has been more pronounced now, or I missed it somehow, it has been more than one year since I played SG. I have my fair share of living 10 years with brutal panic attacks (I have basically lost those years, had to relearn how to walk, talk with people, hard stuff), the way it is depicted for the MC(I will never call him Nika, that is a girl's name) is rather mild. It is the very definition of hell on Earth, not just some sweating, heart racing and dizziness. Even by taking medicine, if one has an attack it will not pass as easy as in SG. But kudos for the effort of putting it in a story, don't remember any game about this topic, almost as heavy stuff as drug addiction, strong depression and the like.
I'm glad your through that and can enjoy reflecting on it without it being a brutal reminder.
I also thing it could be dealt with more seriously in the game (more regularly, every time it happens the world goes dark, would've been a great way for the LI's to appear as angels pulling him out of the darkness like Sasha does). THe flashbacks could even have had some sort of glitch effect like film grain (even if it's not accurate to the way we remember) to stylise that he's in his head, not remembering things honestly, necessarily. That's also link in with Maja's comments about the camera keeping rolling.
At the moment it's a bit of a missed opportunity to dig into mental health fully. But then I remember that most people can't look at themselves in the mirror for too long, and this is meant to be entertainment with a broader appeal, so I think it's an okay middle ground, serious enough for people who haven't had intangible (ie other people can't see what is triggering) issues plague them.
I feel like people are too caught up in the old version and very fickle. A couple scenes got changed and/or removed and suddenly this is the worst vn to ever exist, All because of a couple lewd scenes. That has to be it because I know people can't be mad at dialogue changes, because ain't no way people remember any of the dialogue in these visual novels. Like be forreal if it was not pointed out would any of you actually of realized he changed dodge viper to muscle car, no absolutely not, the only way is if you look in the code. I feel like people are being too stuck in there ways and only want porn, which the dev has made it clear on many occasions that season 1 is not and will not have sex and other stuff. I just feel like people need to get over these changes and move the fuck on and stop complaining.
100% There weren't even a couple of lewd scenes cut, there was one, and it was already gone in the previous release. The frontal nudity, gone, and there were only a couple, and mostly male nudity. SOme dialogue changes, which haven't changed the actual content in meaningful ways - 'fuck machine' might not be said, but we still know what Nia's talking about when there's a big barrel of lube, a strippers pole, immaculately cleaned water toys etc.
The only thing that really changes significantly is Nami's path, her scenes and dialogues. So I do understand people who were interested in her story being upset, as most of the cuts have happened to their favourite character - it's changed how they see her. Same as what happened with all the Mila model reworks. People remeber their favourites even without looking at the script.
My attitude is that what is cut now will be replaced with something that can be more detailed in the future. Nami's jacuzzi scene is nowhere as good as what is in WiaB, so we know Ocean can do better lewds ...when the story sustains it. I always felt it was a step too far without Nami being obviously drunk - they're meant to be making a good impression on the Benz's. I wouldn't put it past Vanessa to have a camera installed there... ...there's also the render where Nick talks about how good Nika and Nami's relationship is, and the scene focuses on Vanessa in the background. Developing the race against impossible odds make sense to start a little slower for more awkwardness.
yeah it never was gonna have sex in S1 there used to be a "blueball" warning when you open the game up before saying there won't be sex in S1 and he got rid of it for whatever reason.
He got rid of it because a 16+ game by definition will not have sex. Implying that it will have sex in further seasons would probably make the reviewers force it to be 18+, defeating why Ocean was limiting the amount of lewd content to a 16+ level. You'll also notice there is no 18+ warning. That should be enough for players to realise ther is no porn, but the level of horny we've witnessed in the thread bypasses logic. I honestly don't know (other than one scene) what lewds they're actually missing. I'd like someone to list all the things that they imagine have been cut that are 18+ content. It's so tiny, smaller than Mario, and mostly content I don't actually want.
We never did see Bella recover her phone after it fell down the stairs during the break-in . Bit of an oversight
Ocean mentioned this, and I checked, you do have a dialogue where she grabs it ...but it's too dark and it's not very good to explain what happens. In this case ambience of the scene won over exposition unfortunately.
