bfc233

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Why? There needs to be some stakes in the plot. If they just get separated, then all their suffering and character development would be for nothing.
Character development is never for nothing.
Even if they get separated and then life for two more scenes, it would not have been for nothing.
Because the suffering and the decisions meant something when they were taken and shouldered. It meant something to the people around them.
And you don't get to take that back.
 

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Does romancing both Alice and Liz have any negative consequence?
The narrative of the game tells you that you are in casual relationships and the woman that you meet either acepts that or dont care, convenient but not completely out of reality. However, some are more important than others, Amber and Liz are childhood friends, you will see later on how dramatic can become your relationships with them.
I would bet that if there is a consequence, it would be a situation with conflict interests or if the story force you to chose later on.
 
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Character development is never for nothing.
Even if they get separated and then life for two more scenes, it would not have been for nothing.
Because the suffering and the decisions meant something when they were taken and shouldered. It meant something to the people around them.
And you don't get to take that back.
But that still lowers the stakes. We reading it need to feel like there's a chance shit could go bad. If the MC and all his friends always come away from battles without taking any serious losses, then it ruins the tension.

The only serious loss so far is Michael, and he's going to be reintroduced anyway.

Sure faceless NPC's always die in superhuman, but for the most part you can nearly save every single named character.

Like even duncan is still alive.
 

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Honestly one of the coolest games I've ever played, the oversized Breasts are the only real annoying thing. Plot is one of the coolest things I've read in a long time and the world building is probably the best I've ever seen. Can't recommend this game enough. To anyone who is offset by the art style, give it a chance you will get used to it
 

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the woman that you meet either acepts that or dont care,
Alice gets mad at you for double-timing her with Liz or Amber in the monster world.
The scene I cannot recall, but she says you're going to have a serious talk back on earth.

But she's a monster now so..... I bet there are fewer Alice fans now given the reaction to her at the start of this year
 
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Alice gets mad at you for double-timing her with Liz or Amber in the monster world.
The scene I cannot recall, but she says you're going to have a serious talk back on earth.

But she's a monster now so..... I bet there are fewer Alice fans now given the reaction to her at the start of this year
Just like i said, some relationships are more important than others, but in general, many of the optional ¨romances¨ dont care.
 

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But that still lowers the stakes. We reading it need to feel like there's a chance shit could go bad. If the MC and all his friends always come away from battles without taking any serious losses, then it ruins the tension.

The only serious loss so far is Michael, and he's going to be reintroduced anyway.

Sure faceless NPC's always die in superhuman, but for the most part you can nearly save every single named character.

Like even duncan is still alive.
You focus too much on the ending.
And even then there are a lot of endings where things go sideways quick and you can bet your ass in endings where MC dies his friends will follow soon after, like that building that rested half its weight on a single pillar at the bottom would if that pillar goes on a permanent holiday.
...You know that is basically the secret bad end with Eye during the Cole fight where the big guy just eats a whole pocket dimension wholesale.

That said, the ending does not determine the journey as long as the journey is real.

The only way this VN could blow up if we go 'it was all a dream' and the universe ceases to exist if eye wakes up and then goes to fucking school or something.

...that said if this were a secret ending that leads you into a low effort romcom minigame with eye, not mc, as the main character I would probably dig it from the sheer effort of shitposting.

Anyways: stakes. The stakes have never been higher. But the destruction of humanity is a threat beyond personal problems. That also means that it's kind of a killer to emotional attachment. Because there is no room to be a person when everything is on the line, you just have to function.
And I agree insofar as the personal drama is the only real stake of the twin's situation. I also disagree that it's everything they have. Because whether they remain like that or split again, their circumstances have changed the way they interact with each other and the people around them. It is already permanent.
Life or death, change or stagnation, all of this has already meant something and the arc has hit its purpose and until you want to do something else with them, all paths are open again. Just be aware: there cannot be infinite drama. It has to settle at some point, the story has to finish or it will mean a bad end for any future with both of them in it. So the question is what ending you want.
 
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