VN Ren'Py The Adventurous Couple [TACOS S3 P1b] [Mircom3D]

[Nurikabe]

I'm of the mind that the problem in the relationship isn't Anne. It isn't possible to cheat in an open relationship. If it was, it wouldn't be an open relationship. What the problem happens to be is that for one reason or another Anne doesn't always want to disclose who she is seeing. Even though 9 times out of 10 her husband wouldn't mind and in fact would enjoy hearing about it (in most playthroughs). That 10th time it is because she is with someone who is inappropriate (MC's Father) or too attached (pitchfork angry cheating husband). Yet it is clear from other times she does disclose that she is emotionally involved with her partners, not just sexually, and isn't ashamed to admit how she feels in these instances.

So what is happening in the relationship with MC that she feels that she doesn't have to share sometimes? It isn't fear of repercussions and she doesn't need to worry about his feelings. He isn't going to get upset or tell other people what she has done. So the secrecy is pointless. Unless... she is feeling insecure in the relationship and is starting to feel that her husband doesn't care about her anymore. She does get upset one night about her husband being too eager to her about her having sex with someone else, professing that it makes her feel used. This is, of course, the night when the MC can choose to sleep with her mother. It is a bit of a tempest in a teacup, and it might have been as a result of an unpleasant sexual encounter that we are not privy to. Given the history of the couple to this point, it is likely that her anger was misdirected from the man she was actually upset with. It is fully possible that some of the encounters she doesn't disclose and we do not observe are not consensual.

So something about the lifestyle is hurting Anne and making her feel insecure in her relationship with her husband. Maybe even unsafe. It is opening her to mistreatment and possibly outright abuse by other men and she is probably too ashamed to admit it when one of these encounters hurts her because it will interfere with her husband's enjoyment of his fetish. Of course, it is just a theory, and it would make the game a bit of a bummer, but there doesn't seem to be many logical reasons why Anne would "cheat" on her husband in an open relationship. Perhaps this is something that is a bit of a pattern for Anne. Perhaps in her promiscuous college days not all of her encounters were consensual, and instead of dealing with her feelings or her trauma, she piled on more promiscuity to bury them. Perhaps the same this is happening again, and she feels her husband is not protecting her but rather pushing her back into those situations.

In any case, the couple has a lot to talk about. Is their relationship salvageable? In the long road, probably not. But that doesn't mean that they have to go down in flames. Maybe they need more rules and maybe they need fewer of them. Maybe it is best for both of them if neither Anne nor Tony is obligated to report who they are seeing unless they feel it is important to share. Because neither of them has been fully forthcoming in any playthrough. We know that MC has concerns and reservations that he is not bringing up to her. It wouldn't surprise me to discover that Anne shares them but will not bring them up for the same reasons. It may be that they are more on the same page than we think. Whatever is the case, all that is required is that they come to an agreement and not make demands that the other partner finds unreasonable.

We can only operate within the confines created by the author. Therefore, we know that the MC gets sexual pleasure from watching his wife with other men or hearing her tell the story of what happened. We know that some men may be off-limits because the MC has the ability to choose for certain events to occur or not (Ryan, Dre, Martin, etc.). We know that Anne participates because she enjoys it and for her husband's enjoyment.

It is not an open relationship. The perception of the MC's behavior relies heavily on how the user plays the game. For example, in my main playthrough, the MC is faithful and has sex only with Anne or when Anne directly approves of a woman (i.e. Emma). In this playthrough, the user must have chosen not to cheat and not to let Anne cheat (regardless, Anne will cheat). This is not an open relationship. It could be defined as sharing, hotwife, or other terms. But there ARE limits to what would be considered acceptable behavior from Anne and the MC. And the users' confusion here is important to note.

But you may have chosen to play the MC (and therefore, Anne) differently. It is possible that the MC could be a cheating liar, or sleeps with anyone just as indiscreetly as Anne. Or you could have made choices where the MC is the unrelenting instigator of marital corruption responsible for his own demise. No matter what you choose, Anne will cheat and have a number of partners the MC will not know about. The author of the game writes in such a way that we know there are some events Anne participates in that we are not privy to. Again, important to note many users question why Anne is fucking everything that walks. Why does she get so upset when told she can't participate? Why does she get so upset seeing the husband screwing a random girl? Why are there no consequences for Anne's actions (and possibly the MC depending on your choices)?

So, while your interpretation is certainly more interesting and would make for a better story, we are left with nothing more than scratching our heads and asking "what the fuck?" As of the current update, there are no answers. There is nothing in the story to suggest that these courses of conflict will be used. The sex does get monotonous for many viewers (there are others who are content with no logical story whatsoever).

My version of the MC is left wandering the resort constantly searching for Anne, never getting laid, and wondering what the fuck is going on!? And I am not happy with that story outcome. I could change it and make him wander around, getting laid, and still wondering where the fuck is Anne. The only conclusion I can draw at this point is that the author is not capable or does not desire to write a compelling story that uses all of these points of contention to his advantage. BUT, this is a work in progress. It is completely possible that the next 10 chapters are devoted to ironing out these discrepancies. Like many viewers that are hanging out here wondering what is next, I remain hopeful that the story will resolve itself, however unlikely that may be.

 

[Nurikabe]

I saw this post in another thread a moment ago. And it completely applies here:

... "this must be a slut-sim filled with 'porn logic', random time jumps and robotic dialogues".

 

[latex lvr]

An open relationship is the only way that we can define this relationship. Anne does not need his permission or require his direction to sleep with anyone. Neither, evidently, does he. This is not a proper polyamorous relationship. That would be much healthier, and they would indeed do these things together. But they do not. They are instead practicing radical sexual freedom within their relationship. Anne doesn't consider, upon seeing a recording of her husband fucking a married woman without her husband's permission or knowledge, his actions to be cheating. Ethical non-monogamy is not only not being practiced here, but they don't even seem to know how it works. The examples of cheating with Walker and Ryan are dicey because both are well-established sexual partners (that she slept with because the husband arranged it) at that point so while she isn't told she must fuck them there is no rule that says she can't. There is also no rule saying that she can't fuck someone else just because she is upset. Or that he can't for that matter.

Your wrong on the walker part. The MC knows nothing about him. Also with Ryan Anne knows that the MC would be ok with her fucking Ryan so why lie about it.... That does amount to cheating. Also the first time Ryan came to stay Anne didn't sleep with him, It was the second time he came to stay that she slept with him for the first time and then lied to MC.

Im not saying that there is any rule to say that she can or can't do what she wants. The reason I was disappointed with the last update was Just because the MC didn't want her to fuck the 2 guys on the golf course and wanted to spend alone time with Anne she got upset and stormed off like a petulant teenager who doesn't get her own way and fucked the first guy she came across who happened to be the very guy who had tricked her to sleep with him before so she could get time off work to have the holiday with her Hubby and decided he would also go on that holiday

 

[Puma1978]

No you don't. You get "forced" into that by passing up multiple opportunities to stop Anne from entering the shower with Martin, and the final choice menu explicitly warns you what will happen if you do. What you're asking for is like making your character put his hand in a roaring fire, but wanting to choose whether or not he's going to get burned. That's not how it works.

I see u have a different approach to that...i dont like the forced cuckold script when u enter the showrr and intervene Martin and Anne in the shower and she just continues with Martin even u told her to stop and also later when she asks you if sje should go in Martins room in the morning and you say no she just ignores you.
I mean this things should/can happen that way
but the only thing i want is also a non cuckomd spuneöess reaction from MC. Because if he is okay that Anne fucks Martin why did he left Emma just because of this. Thats the unlogic point there.

 

[Segnbora]

I see u have a different approach to that...i dont like the forced cuckold script when u enter the showrr and intervene Martin and Anne in the shower and she just continues with Martin even u told her to stop

Hot tip: don't let her enter the shower.

 

[Segnbora]

A question for those who played the game with different choices than I did: if you reject Martin in the shower, what happens once Anne takes a job with Martin's Dick Airlines?

 

[latex lvr]

A question for those who played the game with different choices than I did: if you reject Martin in the shower, what happens once Anne takes a job with Martin's Dick Airlines?

From what I remember not much, She still lies to mc about who the boss is and she still has nights away with martin but we don't know for sure if she is sleeping with him or not

 

[Nurikabe]

A question for those who played the game with different choices than I did: if you reject Martin in the shower, what happens once Anne takes a job with Martin's Dick Airlines?

Assuming Anne says no at the beach, and you tell him no at the shower, then he is shut him down for the remainder. There is a scene where Anne will either have sex with him on the plane or just have a conversation with him about how good their relationship is and that he should spend more time with the MC, depending on if you shut down the Martin thing. If you shut it all down, then she is immediately honest about who the boss is.

EDIT: If Anne lets him play on the beach (but still say no to the shower), then the airplane scene leads us to believe that Anne has sex with Martin every time she is with him and she will not tell you about it. (This also happens if you tell her you do not want to hear about what she does with your dad.)

 

[Segnbora]

In other words, the shower decision doesn't necessarily prevent anything, just "kinda" in a typically sloppy way. Got it. Thanks much!

 

[Liam the Handyman]

Look, Martin has big deek and Anne likes big deeks... so its clear no matter what, Anne will cheat with Martin. It also seems that Martin is doing it as an ego trip as its probs exciting for him since he had stolen MC's gf (emma) before. All he needed was an opening to do so with Anne and hey, plot happens!

So now its fair game for MC and Martin's fam...

 

[NewTricks]

A question for those who played the game with different choices than I did: if you reject Martin in the shower, what happens once Anne takes a job with Martin's Dick Airlines?

She tells Martin explicitly that they will not be sleeping together in a rejection scene if there is high relationship and she is not in unfaithful status. What scenes are shown between them are professional. He does still have sex with Emma but Anne also brings Emma back to the MC and offers her to him once she admits that she is working for the airline.

 

[NewTricks]

Your wrong on the walker part. The MC knows nothing about him. Also with Ryan Anne knows that the MC would be ok with her fucking Ryan so why lie about it.... That does amount to cheating. Also the first time Ryan came to stay Anne didn't sleep with him, It was the second time he came to stay that she slept with him for the first time and then lied to MC.

Im not saying that there is any rule to say that she can or can't do what she wants. The reason I was disappointed with the last update was Just because the MC didn't want her to fuck the 2 guys on the golf course and wanted to spend alone time with Anne she got upset and stormed off like a petulant teenager who doesn't get her own way and fucked the first guy she came across who happened to be the very guy who had tricked her to sleep with him before so she could get time off work to have the holiday with her Hubby and decided he would also go on that holiday

MC knows nothing about Walker? Bull fucking shit. Do you even remember the beginning of the game when he collided with Walker to not only let him fuck his wife but also record it without her knowledge for posterity? The blind spot people have regarding the lengths that MC will go to stroke his fetish and his depraved indifference to his wife's feelings about it is as big as the fucking holland tunnel. He sent his wife on a vacation to New York with Walker and jerked it to the sex pics she sent in her texts. The husband knows about Walker. Trust me on that. He even encounters him in the lobby in the high relationship playthrough. He may not know his intentions for being there, but that is a conversation has to have with Anne.

Oh, and if you don't want her to storm off, play with her. You can easily avoid it by letting her blow you while the other guys fap. Be a good husband instead of a fucking killjoy. Even if you do invite them to the room they don't show up and you run into Walker instead.

 

[Nurikabe]

MC knows nothing about Walker? Bull fucking shit. Do you even remember the beginning of the game when he collided with Walker to not only let him fuck his wife but also record it without her knowledge for posterity? The blind spot people have regarding the lengths that MC will go to stroke his fetish and his depraved indifference to his wife's feelings about it is as big as the fucking holland tunnel. He sent his wife on a vacation to New York with Walker and jerked it to the sex pics she sent in her texts. The husband knows about Walker. Trust me on that. He even encounters him in the lobby in the high relationship playthrough. He may not know his intentions for being there, but that is a conversation has to have with Anne.

Oh, and if you don't want her to storm off, play with her. You can easily avoid it by letting her blow you while the other guys fap. Be a good husband instead of a fucking killjoy. Even if you do invite them to the room they don't show up and you run into Walker instead.

You are confusing Walker and Kenny. Kenny was her boss in the beginning who recorded her and shared it with the MC.

And your scores and choices determine whether she will storm off, stay and play, or play with you. Not everyone has the same score required to prevent the storm off.

 

[Puma1978]

In other words, the shower decision doesn't necessarily prevent anything, just "kinda" in a typically sloppy way. Got it. Thanks much!

If u want to avoid all future cheating or fuckung between Anne and martin u must not let her put off the bikini and allow Martin to put sun lotion or grab her ass at the first time when u r together with her and Martin on the beach. This will lock or unlock Annes cheating or cuckold path with Martin. After these decissions u will then in the shower have more or less options for Annes reaction to Martin.

 

[latex lvr]

MC knows nothing about Walker? Bull fucking shit. Do you even remember the beginning of the game when he collided with Walker to not only let him fuck his wife but also record it without her knowledge for posterity? The blind spot people have regarding the lengths that MC will go to stroke his fetish and his depraved indifference to his wife's feelings about it is as big as the fucking holland tunnel. He sent his wife on a vacation to New York with Walker and jerked it to the sex pics she sent in her texts. The husband knows about Walker. Trust me on that. He even encounters him in the lobby in the high relationship playthrough. He may not know his intentions for being there, but that is a conversation has to have with Anne.

Oh, and if you don't want her to storm off, play with her. You can easily avoid it by letting her blow you while the other guys fap. Be a good husband instead of a fucking killjoy. Even if you do invite them to the room they don't show up and you run into Walker instead.

Woah there. What's with the rant. No need for the expletives or the aggression here.

I remember the beginning of the game very well indeed, It was the only time that the game made sense and was logical.
Oh and I think the word you are looking for is colluded not collided.

You are completely Wrong
That's not walker..... That was her old boss Kenny or whatever his name was. Walker is the boss of the agency for the airline stewards (sluts). He only came into the game a few updates ago when Anne wanted to book time off to go to puta canna and he basically forced her to sleep with him or to pay for his ticket to go to puta canna also.

I suggest you take a chill pill and check your facts first before coming on here and going on a totally incorrect rant

As for if you don't want to her to storm of, Why just because the MC wanted to have some alone time with his wife should he let her be a spoilt little slut and fuck with others over her own husband. Just the latest in a long line of events where the game is nonsense and ill logical.

 

[Adviar5050]

I honestly really enjoy reading all these posts. I even like the ones that may disagree with me. It gives me a different perspective. One common thread I see is that the majority of people enjoyed the game early but have soured on it recently for a variety of reasons. Either the logic of the story doesn't make sense or the fact that Annie has become such a slut (while others enjoy it) or the stupidity of the MC or the lack of Annie's perspective (my personal choice). No matter what the reason I really hope the developer moves the story past meet, fuck, repeat. I have my own ideas like everyone else does. I just hope the developer reads these posts and takes it to heart. I have recently started following the developer of Exciting Games which is still new but kinds still down the same road as TAC. He actively encourages feedback from his patron supporters as to how he can make the game better. I wish all the developers followed that concept. You don't have to make the changes but you can at least acknowledge you heard them.

 

[Segnbora]

One common thread I see is that the majority of people enjoyed the game early but have soured on it recently for a variety of reasons.

My favorite part of the game was (post-revamp, at least; before that it was nearly impossible to connect actions to outcomes) the stretch from Punta Cana to right about when things started getting out of control (Dre, Martin, Ryan, Malcom, anal on the beach and at the spa, Anne and the husband their own affairs with someone who works for him and her husband, etc.). Their marriage was clearly in crisis, though there were very few obvious flashpoints or fights, but they essentially stopped having sex and mostly did their own separate things. Right around then, there was a rich, fertile ground for for conflict, compromise, resolution...really, anything that might move the story forward.

But that's when the wheels started spinning. Anne went through the checklist of every other corruption-style game's partners: fat guy, check. Teenagers (and c'mon, they're obviously in high school, no matter what the story claims), check. Pervy doctor (even better: old family doctor) on the examination table, check. Test subject at a sex toy party (admittedly one of the better scenes in the game), check. More than one of her husband's relatives, check. Did she fuck an old man at some point (other than Martin or the aforementioned doctor)? I honestly can't remember. The game's gone back to the "go on vacation, let loose (or even looser)" well a second time, and is taking a third bite at the "Anne fucks her boss" apple. The husband's company had to hire someone else just so he'd have another employee to bang, since he'd already worked his way through all the others. So did the diner. (Since the husband outright lied to his wife so he could screw a waitress, the obvious thing to do with that plot point isn't to have that lie blow up in his face, or to have him get entangled in a web of deceit and growing expectations from his burger-and-milkshake harem, it's...to hire a new waitress for him to screw!)

I'd be happy with any one of a number of progressions. Wrapping things up, one way or another. Some conflict and narrative tension, rather than just more sex with more people. One or more of Anne's (or the husband's) dalliances becoming existential threats to their marriage, as several of them already should be. A significant ramping up of the depravity (by now, regular old DPs should be a weekly thing for Anne; we should really be seeing her experimenting with more extreme acts and edge fetishes). Why isn't there a regularly scheduled gangbang every Saturday night at their apartment? Whoever's in town, just stop by and pick a hole while hubby's off doing his own thing, only to come home Sunday morning and fine Anne passed out in a pool of semen with nipple piercings and a Queen of Spades tattoo. Anything but constantly backing up and traversing the same old ground, over and over again.

 

[Nurikabe]

...only to come home Sunday morning and fine Anne passed out in a pool of semen with nipple piercings and a Queen of Spades tattoo.

That would seal the deal for me. I would close this turd and never look back if he wrote that into the story. It has been a recurring bad thought since the paint-on tattoo scene.

 

[Puma1978]

Fully agree wit

I honestly really enjoy reading all these posts. I even like the ones that may disagree with me. It gives me a different perspective. One common thread I see is that the majority of people enjoyed the game early but have soured on it recently for a variety of reasons. Either the logic of the story doesn't make sense or the fact that Annie has become such a slut (while others enjoy it) or the stupidity of the MC or the lack of Annie's perspective (my personal choice). No matter what the reason I really hope the developer moves the story past meet, fuck, repeat. I have my own ideas like everyone else does. I just hope the developer reads these posts and takes it to heart. I have recently started following the developer of Exciting Games which is still new but kinds still down the same road as TAC. He actively encourages feedback from his patron supporters as to how he can make the game better. I wish all the developers followed that concept. You don't have to make the changes but you can at least acknowledge you heard them.

Fully agree with that. Anyway the most fun is to play around and tryout different choices and get surprised by different scenes and outcomes.
For that TAC is really already like it is a wonderful playground to explore. It really makes fun. I also think when the game will be finally completed the dev will try his best to finetune some logic issues and finalize some loose ends.
We must all consoder we get ghe game for free and everything is WIP and these devs are not working fulltime on the games.

 

[Segnbora]

That would seal the deal for me. It has been a recurring bad thought since the paint-on tattoo scene.

I was kidding, of course, but I wouldn't mind it as one among a number of possible endings.