Whispers of Desire.
Just adding a scene to go home with Luke would improve things dramatically imo. This chapter took a big shit all over Kathryn's character.
That's the one story element that I think was just completely wrong. There are some others - practically nothing happening with Franklin/Nate during drinks, in what should almost certainly have been a hot sharing scene - but the dance on a non-solo night was all wrong. There shouldn't even have been a choice, Kathryn should have just turned and shrugged at Pat, if even that, and then followed Luke and (presumably) got a taxi home. She should never have gone there with Luke and not gone home with him. The only way that would work is if Luke has been fucking other women this whole time and somehow it came out during the argument - that would have given her a genuine reason to be mad and to not go home with Luke, but that wasn't what happened.
I only saw it because I was going through the script for the bit below, but there's a second variant which only comes up if both "lukebad" and "kathbad" are set to "1" ("true"), and which is really weird, because in that variant Luke has been pushing Kathryn to do stuff and then gets mad at her for it. In that one she says she could see him grope her mom's ass in the kitchen (reflection in the splashback) and wonders what they got up to in the bathroom, and she raises what Clem told her about the shower situation. They argue, Luke leaves, and then Pat arrives and Kathryn tells him Luke wasn't feeling well so he left. That one works better, and more like how it should be, except the reason for it coming up in the first place makes no sense at all.
man now I hate that scene even more cause if that is forced. This might as well be a FMC to me i'm gonna keep playing Because of Kathryn despite hating this update the more I think about it. If that happens I probably won't bother finishing it even just for Kathryn even if they can get back together.
I just checked the script and it comes up regardless,even though there are two variations (I'd only seen one). I put a bit in the last paragraph in my reply to Joshy above about that second one.
Everyone shouts for months LET HER CHEAT - LET HER CHEAT!
Now,finally you have the OPTION to cheat and everyone hates Kathryn !?
If you play the path dance with Pat (optional cheating!) alone - the storyline is ok…
But the storyline dance with Luke is absolute ridiculous and should be deleted as option completely.
(Sorry,if some names are wrong. I only love and want to see Kathryn)
It seems Luke isn't the only hypocrite.
You've sort of answered your question yourself there - it's not hating Kathryn for finally cheating (at least, not for me), it's finding the way it happened to be really badly done, in regard to the fight with Luke, being hardcoded to spend the night with Pat (even if nothing happens), and having the choices to tease and then fuck Pat on all routes, even when Luke and Kathryn have been totally loyal to each other up to that point.
I meant those who didn’t like the AI scenes.
I don’t know what your problem is with the dance scene; you had the option to cancel it, just as you had the option to refuse Pat’s request to escort Kath for the night out.
I give this chapter a 9 out of 10, and that’s only because it was too short.
I put my thoughts on the AI animations in a post yesterday, so won't go into it all again, but I think some were okay but a lot were poorly done - lots of noise around everything but Kathryn, clear change in colour or feel in transition between still and animation, movements too wooden. I just don't think they were good enough quality. The other issue I had is that there were far too many of them. They were used at every possible opportunity, it feels, and it became a big distraction.
The only thing you could cancel as far as the dance goes is whether to masturbate/tease/fuck in the room with Pat. Kathryn goes dancing no matter what, it's just a case of whether Luke goes as well. And whether Luke goes or not, Kathryn ends up in the motel with just Pat.
That's what should have been cancellable. I eventually found it in the script, but there isn't an option to refuse Pat's request to take Kathryn dancing, it's only whether it's just the two of them, or three:
Code:
lkt "What do I do?"
pause 0.4
menu:
"Let them go dancing without me.":
$ datewithpat = "1"
$ nodatewithpat = "2"
"I'm going with them.":
$ datewithpat = "2"
$ nodatewithpat = "1"
if nodatewithpat == "1":
scene eb5081 with dissolve
pause 0.4
pt "C'mon son, what do you say?"
)
