played from the very beginning with the preconception that it's a game about Anne taking the proffered ball and running with it...running far, far away from the MC
I ve done the same hh...
I never realized until now just how clear it is. I suppose I was somewhat blinded by the regularly suboptimal spelling, punctuation, and grammar (sorry Mircom3D) into thinking that the writing was similarly haphazard, but it's really not. (Or if it is, it's consistent in its suggestion of a rather obvious narrative.) Frankly, the writing is — assuming I'm right — much more on-point than I ever actually acknowledged.
Exactly, but there is a problem with it. My problem a bit, but all in all we might share a boot here with two different aim to reach. My two cents according to this, that at a time, Microm
(might have personal experience, opinion on this regard) personally could not see any other way, how a relationship like this would end. Problematic, he/she is a "deus ex" here therefore... might not able to make a clearer picture. Than he was clearly overcame this prejudice. A would be more happy to doing so.
The problem is that MC and Anne are on the same page with themselves, they are everything but not not insecure. It can be a subtle death sentence to the marriage, and to any marriage in general, but it can be a simple fixation also, that makes them stronger, and this my personal experience.
If we do start the story however, on the fundamentals that: MC is a scumbag, Anne is a Slut and they do deserve each other, thats ok... BUT
A,) i dont think that sexual fantasy of sharing would make him a malignant, nefarious creature so there is no "le verdict initiale" in my book, but thats just me of course.
B.) than i ve to say that this is exactly that
"préjugé de diamant" ... a prejudice that is a bit
bitter novel, than a
narrative. Simply.
In this case, i will read Justin/Juliette from De Sade, and got frustrated and mad by it rather. = )
(That's why i do suggested earlier that we should encounter with something they have to fight for, together, or face something serious, to relativize this whole process of "just getting off, in a technocrat society", in my book it would be an interesting experience.)
That Anne is going to enter into meaningful extramarital relationships well beyond the casual sex they mutually agree upon, but that she's going to keep doing that too
Thru ways like this, extramarital sex, and all of its
"éclat émotionnel" can deplete quite easily on the other hand, when we have to face with the personalities exactly and traits those are forming them for example. See... Dre is not the most intelligent guy i ve ever seen, Martin simply just fucks the world, Ryan is a scumbag and thats it, etc... and Anne Married to MC for some reason. That reason is not implemented yet.
(No mistaken, there s or there is not an author suggested route, routes those are inevitables, but these are not written in stone in real life either. That's why i keep telling that Microm's initial intentions those are traceable around the game, in coding and in laziness sometimes, well these are no existent nowadays, not as they were.)
Also, it is one route to me, disturbing and hot, of course, but i would rather not live by it. Simply.
If the game could clear up its various paths and make the choices and outcomes logical, realign the variables so that they're meaningful, fix some of the earlier, somewhat tragic animations (or just eliminate them; later animations are so much better), and get a solid editing pass to clean up the words, it could be an epic. It won't be the epic I hoped for, at all, but there still wouldn't really be anything like it.
That's why i do suggest variables. If you make a
choice based game, in a crisis, let us manage MC towards chaos and die in his scumbagness if we see that fit, or having him realize what is on stake, if we see that one fit. Both MC and Anne. With all the previously written problems, and your suggestively right perception.
I'm not saying, that there were not basic concept, that is not, somewhat moraly a
"La bonne façon", i do simply saying that as a player intend to witness MY way in THEIR shoes in Microm's narrative (Not his/her story in my narrative, thats somewhat not the reason of choice, basically, but again, i think Microm exactly realized this when announced the revamp (that the routes are routes, more likely crossroads, not sideways leading all into one direction. Life not like that either. If we are not speaking about death, but that is another genre)). And well, i know also, that easy to say that.
Not to mention that your observation is unilateral. It is a cheat route. From the two i mentioned.
Dont misunderstand me. I KNOW exactly that if you make a choice free, tasteless routes of morals we wont see any epicness ever in a concept like that, more likely we just heading towards somewhat emotionally taciturn, grey closure. And i do assume, that this troubles Microm hard enough as well. That's why he/she needs this/a framed structure. A possibly untold plot at the beginning, what can be, must be unfolded thru the end. That is what we call catharsis. Epicness. And according the subtle implementation of this, Microm done a fantastic job, yet its too shaky to express at its fullest. But this experience must have different outcomes according to the story we manage. So, i know, i know right. Its a helluva job to a revamp, hard to articulate, but honestly not that much. If he/she starts to, can love his/her own creatures (vs my fav. yet narcissistic author Alberto Moravia)...
Reasonably i do repeat myself here: Take your time Microm.
