VN Ren'Py Where It All Began [S1 Ch.4 Fix 1 Steam] [Oceanlab]

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UncleFappy

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You have to show interest in Katie, so when she takes a shower instead of leaving William is in the bathroom with her and they discuss the reason why Leia, Willy and Katie can't mate with each other.
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Ahhh. Okay, thanks. Yeah, my run was Miru loyal, so I guess I missed out on some lore that comes with chasing others.

Thanks.

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k "Do you know why they never wanted us to be a thing?"
k "So that they could marry you and Leia off to others."
d "What do you mean?"
k "I heard from my aunt Jennifer that there are talks regarding Leia in the Morabito family."
d "Giuseppe?"
k "Mhm."
d "It seems like Leia has figured that out, and maybe that's why she's moving away from you guys."
k "It doesn't matter how far she moves."
k "One day, they will ask her to marry someone, and if I had to make an educated guess... His yes vote for you might be Leia's fall."
k "Or... They will ask you to marry someone from the other families."
k "As a sign of commitment."
k "Or as Jennifer so delicately put it... Your hands shall be reserved for the most strategic alliances."
d "...You're kidding, right?"
k "You should know how it works."
k "Eventually we'll all be married off."
d "You too?"
k "Dad disapproves of it. I have a plan if they ever come for me."
d "What is it?"
k "I'm not telling you."
Okay, this makes sense to me. I don't see the weirdness in it. Its not about Leia and William being Pedersoli and Grimaldi. Its about them being Zanes. They're to be used for political marriages to strengthen ties between other families and the Zanes. They may not be blood related to the true Zanes, but they're accepted enough to be given the Zane name, so they ARE Zanes. Sub-Zanes. Lesser Zanes? But still Zanes. Makes total sense to use them for political marriages.

Thats not even a mafia thing. Thats just real life.
 
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Ahhh. Okay, thanks. Yeah, my run was Miru loyal, so I guess I missed out on some lore that comes with chasing others.

Thanks.
From what I know:
Katie has information about the arranged marriage.

Leia doesn't have any different information if you're more intimate with her.

Helen is open to new information if you discuss Leia with her after the power goes out.
 
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Okay, this makes sense to me. I don't see the weirdness in it. Its not about Leia and William being Pedersoli and Grimaldi. Its about them being Zanes. They're to be used for political marriages to strengthen ties between other families and the Zanes. They may not be blood related to the true Zanes, but they're accepted enough to be given the Zane name, so they ARE Zanes. Makes total sense to use them for political marriages.

Thats not even a mafia thing. Thats just real life.
Yep, at first I was also surprised, what do their old families have to do with it, now they are Zanes (although Don Silvano, Leia's uncle, is alive and they are in contact). I even prepared a picture!
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But it's not mafia or even real life thing. It's for the sake of NTR :KEK: :KEK: :KEK:
Mommiiisboi will be in for a treat!
 

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For me it's not the elimination of a fetish or that the "mafia" is stupid, it's how Ocean implemented these changes


As I said, I think, in my first post after the chapter came out: The arranged marriage by alliance doesn't seem as stupid to me as many say, but the way Ocean executed it is a problem.

- As for the Pedersoli and Grimaldi families, they have been wiped out, so the feud is over. Therefore, a shotgun wedding would be too late and too little to appease the vengeance of the branches of the two families that are outside the country.

- While I see two problems with the Zanes.
The first is that it seems excessive to keep two boys aside in case you need to marry them to quell a feud for X years.
And second, probably due to Ocean wanting to remove incest from his game, Leia and William are not considered Zane in virtually any respect; consequently their marriage would have almost no value for an alliance.
Those are only the plot aspects that dosen't fully fit together yet. There are characters behavious that also dosen't make compl
Ahhh. Okay, thanks. Yeah, my run was Miru loyal, so I guess I missed out on some lore that comes with chasing others.

Thanks.

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Okay, this makes sense to me. I don't see the weirdness in it. Its not about Leia and William being Pedersoli and Grimaldi. Its about them being Zanes. They're to be used for political marriages to strengthen ties between other families and the Zanes. They may not be blood related to the true Zanes, but they're accepted enough to be given the Zane name, so they ARE Zanes. Sub-Zanes. Lesser Zanes? But still Zanes. Makes total sense to use them for political marriages.

Thats not even a mafia thing. Thats just real life.
Excepet that they aren't Zanes, they can't be. Lesser Zanes, sub- Zanes or whatever. What is the point of this reboot if they are ? They aren't adopet, they were take in. My guess that William- Italian name- Zane is for this update as a transition process. I don't know. But if William continues to go as Zane nothing of this make sense to me. Sure he waa raised but the story goes out of its way to make sure they aren't related and aren't a real family, só I don't see the point of keep William as a Zane. Maybe if the story goes full mafia once he becomes a made man or "inherit" the family but now for him be a Zane he must have been adopet and we know that Ocean won't do that.
 

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Those are only the plot aspects that dosen't fully fit together yet. There are characters behavious that also dosen't make compl

Excepet that they aren't Zanes, they can't be. Lesser Zanes, sub- Zanes or whatever. What is the point of this reboot if they are ? They aren't adopet, they were take in. My guess that William- Italian name- Zane is for this update as a transition process. I don't know. But if William continues to go as Zane nothing of this make sense to me. Sure he waa raised but the story goes out of its way to make sure they aren't related and aren't a real family, só I don't see the point of keep William as a Zane. Maybe if the story goes full mafia once he becomes a made man or "inherit" the family but now for him be a Zane he must have been adopet and we know that Ocean won't do that.
Way to miss the point. But sure, go ahead.

BTW fucking fishes is wrong on many levels.
On the ground level and high altitude, sure. Sea level and deep sea is acceptable, surely.
 
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Dr.TSoni

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BTW fucking fishes is wrong on many levels.
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I love that William and Katie are so immature that they don't want to/can't admit they like each other, and then, five seconds after almost jumping each other, they have to say:
"I'll make your life hell."
"If we fried you, how many fish fingers would we get?"
 
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For what? He's a nobody....something Leia takes great pains to remind him. No family, nothing. As I stated in my deliberately long and silly post, asset for what exactly...and they gonna force him upon? No one wants him.
And this is the biggest hole in the story - no one sane will stick with the family where no one respect (or like) him, just move on with your life... and if he is still sentimentally connected with anyone after all that shit-talk than he truly do not deserve to be respected by anyone. William have real retarded behavior in story so far.
 

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After all the comments here, I've now played through the game a second time. I thought that if so many people were crying, I must have missed something important. Maybe I didn't understand something either. Checking yourself and your own opinion is an important basic characteristic of adult civilized people. Well, I'm sticking to it. The game is better in its current state. The incest stuff isn't needed for the story. The mafia stuff didn't come as a surprise. That there is some form of organized crime has been in the game for ages. No one ever implied Ocean was good at storytelling. So I don't expect him to adopt the Hollywood clichés about the mafia either. These clichés are just as out of touch with reality anyway.

By the way, some said the whole thing about taking in children of wiped out mafia families was unrealistic. Also that these children are then misused for marriage politics. Well, there have indeed been such cases. Both the Ndrangheta and Cosa Nostra have a number of known cases. One such case is, for example, the marriage of Giulia Immacolata to Vincenzo Macrì. Such cases also occurred in the historic blood feud between Greco clans in the 1940s. Allegedly also in the San Luca feud in the 1990s and 2000s. But in the case of the latter, it is more likely to be the conjecture of investigative journalists, as I am not aware of any evidence.

So all in all, one can make the game worse than it is just because one is anal about the fact that ones favorite fetish is no longer included. But I don't have to take that seriously and accept it as a basis for discussion.
Love this! Thank you! (Out of FUCKING reactions).
 

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A fish belongs in a fish tank, ocean, river, lake, or sea. BTW fucking fishes is wrong on many levels.
Way to miss the point. But sure, go ahead.


On the ground level and high altitude, sure. Sea level and deep sea is acceptable, surely.
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I love that William and Katie are so immature that they don't want to/can't admit they like each other, and then, five seconds after almost jumping each other, they have to say:
"I'll make your life hell."
"If we fried you, how many fish fingers would we get?"
Hey, now, there is a long tradition in the Mafia of sleeping with the fishes, and it's a much more fun way of going to the mattresses.
 
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yossa999

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William have real retarded behavior in story so far.
In fact, it's Princess Leia who shows retarded behavior now, even her closest allies and companions, Emilio and Riri, are about to leave her, and set an ultimatum. And that's the real reason why she called Willie. At least that's what she said.
 

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Well I have to take my words back. Ocean does have a plan. After seeing the leaked final scene, I can confirm that he has this shit planned out until the very last moment. Posting it below.
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Wollust. Fog. Remains of a burned house. Only the gazebo remains. William stands in front of it, reminiscing about times long gone. Next to him is a generous 5 foot tall 18 year old. He breaks the silence first.

"Don, what are you thinking about?"
"About how things change yet stay the same."
"Do you regret anything? Do you regret.. having me?"
"No, you will always be my consigliere. Even if my relationship with your underboss isn't the best now, it's not your fault."
"Will the Familia ever be whole again?"
"We'll see. Time heals all wounds."

The scene slowly pans out and the two figures vanish in the fog.

Finito.
 

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Hey, now, there is a long tradition in the Mafia of sleeping with the fishes, and it's a much more fun way of going to the mattresses.
I'm pretty sure this sleeping with the fishes is better XD
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Wollust. Fog. Remains of a burned house. Only the gazebo remains. William stands in front of it, reminiscing about times long gone. Next to him is a generous 5 foot tall 18 year old. He breaks the silence first.

"Don, what are you thinking about?"
"About how things change yet stay the same."
"Do you regret anything? Do you regret.. having me?"
"No, you will always be my consigliere. Even if my relationship with your underboss isn't the best now, it's not your fault."
"Will the Familia ever be whole again?"
"We'll see. Time heals all wounds."

The scene slowly pans out and the two figures vanish in the fog.

Finito.
We keep quoting The Godfather or The Sopranos, but I'm starting to suspect Ocean was more inspired by Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
 
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