VN Ren'Py The Nature of Magic [Part 3] [Slate Interactive]

[Profane4492]

Just finished the update and im gonna need more anwen right now! Please never take those piercings away again lol

 

[TsubameYui]

If I'm understanding the whole discussion correctly - and going off of the rewrite mentioned - then it seems the crux of the issue is people misunderstood Aine's sexy talk as referring to her past partners rather than a generalized reference. Having proofread and tested that specific scene (Howl can also attest to this) I assumed Aine was talking about us without explicitly saying "you".

The part I take issue with is the claims of what Aine should say/do as being more correct than what the dev originally wrote.

The problem is that she can't be talking about MC, since none of the things she talks about having done have been done with MC yet. She also uses a lot of plural pronouns, which don't really reconcile with her talking about just MC. It seems a pretty easy misunderstanding to make, if Aine really was meant to be talking only about MC.

I never intended anyone to take issue with anything I wrote. My main point was that her sexy talk seemed a wild deviation from how her character was written up to that point and comes across as the kind of oversharing that many romance fans are not comfortable with.

The rewritten lines deliver the same information about Aine's kink, while also making it clear that she's only interested in MC, and not thinking about her past relationships.

 

[Juerhullycin]

You are probably right. Then goes all my points.

Not really, after having sex with MC, she calls herself a young elf, and how they age is of little to no consequence, you simply can't measure creatures that can live hundreds of years by the same metric. Friren showed that, beautifully/tragically, she only got a grasp on how fast time for humans passes after she lost a close friend. So her having one or even no prior relationship is absolutely believable. If she has anything, then it's time. Even more so if you think about how important romantic/emotional connection is to her.

Personally thought it showed MC in a very good light compared to her previous lover or lovers. Definitely the best both in looks and deed. I think that was the Devs intention conversation carries on in the style of the quite forthright Grym women. I actually found it flattering and she agrees she is yours now even to the point of discussing getting the law about marriage changed.

Cool, I don't need or want to hear what bedroom acrobatics my LI did with other people. It's that simple.

Sorry but much prefer the Devs original vision. Personally find Juerhullycin's sanitised rewrite a bit sad. Feel a rewrite would be like telling Aine to shut up and not be her self.

fuck yeah, she should shut her trap. If my gf would constantly go on about how her ex did this, that or the other for her in bed, I would question why she isn't with him anymore. And the relationship would end probably shortly after that.
If her one true self is that of a cum guzzling slut that loves to take any dick, then I'm frankly not interested. However, as mentioned before, that is somehow completely contrary to what she claims to want in a relationship. But thats

 

[Juerhullycin]

If I'm understanding the whole discussion correctly - and going off of the rewrite mentioned - then it seems the crux of the issue is people misunderstood Aine's sexy talk as referring to her past partners rather than a generalized reference. Having proofread and tested that specific scene (Howl can also attest to this) I assumed Aine was talking about us without explicitly saying "you".

The part I take issue with is the claims of what Aine should say/do as being more correct than what the dev originally wrote.

I have not the slightest fraction of an idea how you come from
"partners, them, they, them, them, them, them, them" to her speaking about you without either a massive amounts of cope or narcissism. The only time she talks about you is "yours is my favourite" (out of an uncounted bunch).

i know, i know today words mean shit, but back then, when I was a wee lad and went to school, words meant something.

And even if she spoke in general. so what?
If you speak in generalisation (all gypsies steal), you speak about a group (gypsies), a group you generalised. What should she generalise when not her multiple ex's?

 

[Sneak Monkey]

When the mc speaks with Aine during their first couple of meetings, he asks her if she is single and she confirms that she is. As for previous relationships and the reasoning behind why they didn't last, I'm pretty sure that you can put that down to the people were just getting close to her because of her family which is why she is so focused on looking for someone that is more interested in her than her family background.

Personally, I don't think she is a virgin for 2 reasons, firstly, she has more sucking power than a dyson which shows she is experienced in that and I wouldn't put it down to training with a banana like some girls do in preparation as she didn't miss a drop of cum. Secondly, she showed no signs of being shocked when he was womb fucking her, in fact she was using that to her advantage to make the mc even more excited. I can understand that she went through training to learn all those magic skills to improve the sexual experience but I don't think there is any training that would teach her how to behave like I mentioned.

So does Cerys, something that made some readers quite suspicious, the whole "surprise bet you didn't think I'd be a virgin..." which is in itself a really weird thing to say, it appears to be her own commentary on how she doesn't appear like she would be, probably due to her hoover powers.

 

[Sneak Monkey]

Personally thought it showed MC in a very good light compared to her previous lover or lovers. Definitely the best both in looks and deed. I think that was the Devs intention conversation carries on in the style of the quite forthright Grym women. I actually found it flattering and she agrees she is yours now even to the point of discussing getting the law about marriage changed.

How did you get that from it?

She explicitely states that she behaves in this way around all the men she sleeps with, both suggesting it's a line of quite a few that he's just one of and that if she gets all cock worshipy on him that it's literally not him, it's just how she always behaves during sex. I cannot fathom how that made you think she was making Rane special. As for marriage, the only reason anyone wants to bed and wed him is the magic kids thing, it's political. Literally none of that interaction was remotely personal to Rane.

 

[Sneak Monkey]

Not really, after having sex with MC, she calls herself a young elf, and how they age is of little to no consequence, you simply can't measure creatures that can live hundreds of years by the same metric. Friren showed that, beautifully/tragically, she only got a grasp on how fast time for humans passes after she lost a close friend. So her having one or even no prior relationship is absolutely believable. If she has anything, then it's time. Even more so if you think about how important romantic/emotional connection is to her.


Cool, I don't need or want to hear what bedroom acrobatics my LI did with other people. It's that simple.


fuck yeah, she should shut her trap. If my gf would constantly go on about how her ex did this, that or the other for her in bed, I would question why she isn't with him anymore. And the relationship would end probably shortly after that.
If her one true self is that of a cum guzzling slut that loves to take any dick, then I'm frankly not interested. However, as mentioned before, that is somehow completely contrary to what she claims to want in a relationship. But thats
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I regret to admit that I actually did attempt to make it work with someone who gave me even more tmi than Aine does in this scene once. I can confirm that 10 years of attempting to make it work, has only revealed that people don't change and that I'm an idiot.

 

[Beate]

The Cerys thing isn't a big deal, so much as it's a big question. If you bring something like that up in the middle of sex, suddenly you say "I had my fun before we met." That begs the response "WHAT NOW?" You can't just drop that during a moment that's supposed to be intimate and not explain why. It killed the intimacy completely cos suddenly there's a question, one that would not have been thought about, at all, until she suddenly starts talking about it out of nowhere, then after she plants the thought of what exactly has Cerys been doing with other people, when she had her fun...? She doesn't elaborate and Rane doesn't ask like any normal person would in that situation.

People have sex, it's normal, they have pasts, it's normal. But suddenly planting a thought of what you've been doing with other people, when you're with someone who's expecting closeness and intimacy, kills that intimacy.

The thing that bothers me is that Cerys and others mention throughtout the whole thing that she loved you, she searched for you, she never gave up on you.

So that same girl also dated and apparently blew multiple dudes if those lines are taken at face value?

How is this the same girl? Also, why even say any of that?

I am all for subverting expectations but ruining the childhood friend/first love trope just to do that isn't the play. Especially for who is the MAIN LI of the game.

That paired with the Aine random slut rant just came so out of left field and really soured an otherwise amazing experience. I honestly had this game as my most looked forward to update, on par with Eternum, but this sudden shift into giving detail on past lovers is like the one thing that instantly turns me off.

It's so easy not to do too...either make an NTR game or don't. This is the worst of both worlds.

 

[Sneak Monkey]

The thing that bothers me is that Cerys and others mention throughtout the whole thing that she loved you, she searched for you, she never gave up on you.

So that same girl also dated and apparently blew multiple dudes if those lines are taken at face value?

How is this the same girl? Also, why even say any of that?

I am all for subverting expectations but ruining the childhood friend/first love trope just to do that isn't the play. Especially for who is the MAIN LI of the game.

That paired with the Aine random slut rant just came so out of left field and really soured an otherwise amazing experience. I honestly had this game as my most looked forward to update, on par with Eternum, but this sudden shift into giving detail on past lovers is like the one thing that instantly turns me off.

It's so easy not to do too...either make an NTR game or don't. This is the worst of both worlds.

Lol yeah it is actually the worst of both isn't it. Just figure out if you want to make NTR or not, then stick to that choice.

I also had high hopes, figured this would be on Eternums level too with the initial setup, I was looking forward to it so much after the initial release and my god is it such a let down after that.

My giving the benefit of the doubt with the dialogue is that the dev attempted to make it sexy by trying too hard and didn't actually think it through. But to be honest with the way they went with the Áine sex talk it does appear they've got a bit of cuckold fetish going on. I mean that did spring from somewhere, and that somewhere was the writers brain...

 

[TsubameYui]

The thing that bothers me is that Cerys and others mention throughtout the whole thing that she loved you, she searched for you, she never gave up on you.

So that same girl also dated and apparently blew multiple dudes if those lines are taken at face value?

How is this the same girl? Also, why even say any of that?

I am all for subverting expectations but ruining the childhood friend/first love trope just to do that isn't the play. Especially for who is the MAIN LI of the game.

That paired with the Aine random slut rant just came so out of left field and really soured an otherwise amazing experience. I honestly had this game as my most looked forward to update, on par with Eternum, but this sudden shift into giving detail on past lovers is like the one thing that instantly turns me off.

It's so easy not to do too...either make an NTR game or don't. This is the worst of both worlds.

This really brings up an interesting point in the Aine discussion. Dev actually went back and rewrote that line from Cerys, so instead of "having her fun", she only says that she dated a bit *before* she ever met MC, which is fair, since she was already 22 by then, and it doesn't even suggest that she did more than go out to dinner. Dev clearly understood that a lot of players didn't like the idea that Cerys had fooled around with other guys, so he changed it. Yet, for some unknown reason, repeated that mistake with Aine, but on a much larger scale.

Similarly, dev acknowledged that a decent number of his target audience(harem/romance) do not like lesbian interactions within the harem, so he gave players the choice to have Cerys discuss her bisexual fantasies during sex, or not. Seems like, at the very least, he could have given players a similar choice to have Aine rant about past lovers or not, considering the vast majority of his target audience does not like to hear about that.

At the very least, we should have been given a choice to turn Aine down, or at least refuse to have sex with her, after she reveals her obsession with dicks/cum. I originally made all the choices to flirt with and pursue Aine, because early on she seemed pretty perfect. The romance lock-in choice for Aine comes very early on, long before the cursed scene. As such, we end up getting blindsided by the rug-pull, and the only option we have is to reload and replay like 80% of the game to avoid getting locked-in with her again.

 

[prpa]

The thing that bothers me is that Cerys and others mention throughtout the whole thing that she loved you, she searched for you, she never gave up on you.

So that same girl also dated and apparently blew multiple dudes if those lines are taken at face value?

How is this the same girl? Also, why even say any of that?

I am all for subverting expectations but ruining the childhood friend/first love trope just to do that isn't the play. Especially for who is the MAIN LI of the game.

My god, you people can be so dense, or maybe your reading comprehension is just terrible. Even if she did all those things, it was before she met the MC. Cerys and the MC met when she was 22 and he was 20. They were friends for two years before he disappeared for five, and she waited for him that entire time.

 

[slick97]

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I have not the slightest fraction of an idea how you come from
"partners, them, they, them, them, them, them, them" to her speaking about you without either a massive amounts of cope or narcissism. The only time she talks about you is "yours is my favourite" (out of an uncounted bunch).

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And even if she spoke in general. so what?
If you speak in generalisation (all gypsies steal), you speak about a group (gypsies), a group you generalised. What should she generalise when not her multiple ex's?

Dear lord man, you're losing your mind over how someone writes dialogue. Either rewrite the script yourself if it's that much of a turn off for you or don't. Either way you seem to be part of the minority that has an issue with Aine's "creamsicle" scene.

 

[OWSam000]

Friren

Who is she? The secret streamer?

 

[Danv]

dev rewrites half of dialogues every patch, those few lines you people arguing about for last 10 pages - would be probably gone by the next update anyway

 

[OWSam000]

Sometime some Dev or some players forgot they are MAKING/READING a VISUAL STORY adult game that some players did read lines between lines to understand and enjoy the atmosphere/ambiance the story brought to players. When they suddenly saw some lines that may conflict their expectation or feel uncomfortable, they are certainly having opinions towards those lines. Dev at least did a great job not to show some disturbing image in his game.

 

[kMimster]

Terrible, my eyes hurt after ten minutes of playing from visuals in the game!