Poll: Love or lust, whatdyalike?
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Hello everyone I'm back again!
Today I come to you with an important choice. For you see, I am currently working on the next update for the game, and noticed it was very skewered to the more... Dominant side.
That got me thinking I don't actually know what ya'll like the best.
Do you like when I do those romantic/friendly quests where it's moreso about helping the girls (and occationally Ron)...
Or do you like it better when the main character actually plays more of a villain part and acts manipulative?
I've gotten some comments before wishing I went way harder on that, but given the game is at its core more goofy than serious, then I'm not here to chain anyone to a bed and poke them with sharp objects.
Obviously its not quite cut and dry - Bonnie is a good example. She doesn't really have a "love" route, but one of them is certainly more friendly than the other and has more personal drama lol.
So the question, if you haven't guessed it, is... Do you like the "nice" events more, or do you like the "Manipulating" events? I wish I had a better word to describe the latter, lol.
You can pick multiple answers.
The current patch that's being released also spends quite a bit of time on playing around with Kim and her body, so that's fun.
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Comments (29)
One thing I will say, is I sometimes have difficulty recognizing which option is the love route vs the lust route. For example, early in Bonnie's blackmail route, she is leaving the room and you have the option to be silent or tell her you didn't give her permission to leave. To me, the second option seems like it would clearly increase hate, but instead it increases love. Im not saying options need to be labeled or color coded like a Bioware game, but it can be a bit confusing at times.
Oh, that's cause you're misunderstanding how it works ^^ I did the whole "Love and lust" points thing, but it just became way too convoluted, so I scrapped it a few years ago. Now its pretty cut and dry, just pick your route when option is presented. What other choices do is that they later on gets referenced again and in some cases it gives unique images and interactions.
even if it's more difficult, it's better to be balanced. By choosing only the standard and more popular path of the lustful dominant, you will lose at best a third of your fans.
No worries lol. I'm not planning to change how I do it
So, the moment I got to the branch in Bonnie's story where the blackmail path is revealed was the moment I had to sub to this patreon and the subsequent events on that path confirmed that I will never leave. There is a threshold past which what is really fiction/roleplay (dominance and control) crosses into mean/grotesque territory (sadism/pain), but the way you write and have set the game up (and frankly, the universe it takes place in) means you will never really cross that line. Would I personally like more BDSM/restraint type events? Yes, but I completely understand why the balance is what it is.
Yeah, i agree. And not to sound like I think I'm better, but I think most games are pretty horrible at drawing the line with the blackmail. It often becomes more of a "I can make her do anything and I will do so" fantasy, than blackmail. I'm for sure adding more bdsm stuff, but its by the nature of the game going to be more on the soft side. Stuff like whipping and pain in general is too niche for me to add... Plus not something I like myself. But stuff like petplay or ropeplay can be added. Generally, if its something i can see someone do willingly (ignoring the extremes), I feel like I can add it and make it good
My personal favourite is when the dominant sex is combined with the romance. If you take Taras story and make her slowly realize that she loves more than just the dick, that would hit 10/10. Or taking Bonnies slave route into a slave wife direction would be lovely aswell.
Hey, I can't spoil Tara's story, but she's certainly not done yet. In fact, she's only really starting her second arc now that she has really settled in. As for Bonnie... Well, I'm doing the slave route in patch 24 lol. Quite literally what I'm writing now.
I definitely prefer the Lust routes, though I like having the option to be nice to make the 'evil' choices feel meaningful. I also appreciate the progressive corruption in this game.
True. No darkness without light or whatever it is they say. I try to make the corruption slow lol. And I won't lie, I totally understand why so many fail at it. As a creator, I felt like nothing was happening in that department the first year and a half - though logically I understood that my feelings where wrong
I’d love to see more of the “saving the world from the evil villain”. The conflict kinda adds something as well. I’m not trying to derail or side track you, disregard if you like. Just sharing my thoughts. You are making a great game, thank you.
Can you elaborate? Who is the evil villain in this situation? We are kinda playing as him, so its probably not what you mean. Do you mean more missions with Kim?
I think you've got a good balance regardless. Sure there might be more quantity on one side but it sort of skewers back the other way with quality. And like you said bonnie's quest line is a good example, i've sorta been nice as can be on my playthrough and when i got to her quest it hit like a truck.
I'm happy to hear it ^^ Personally I think Bonnies nice route (or paranoid route, as I called it internally) has turned out pretty well. Especially the last part where she was home and her sister decided to be a problem.
For me personally, I mainly like having the choice whether I want to nice or evil with certain characters. Hence the reason I’m in the “like everything” category. IMO it gives more variety and replay-ability than just being set doing things one way. It can also open the doors to switch up your approach, like if you starting out being evil at first but then have a change of heart and want to be nice from now on or vice-versa.
Oh yeah for sure. I wish I could go really into it and make a lot of changing choices... But on the other hand, i already get complaints about people having to play it twice to see everything lol.
I prefer the lust route a bit more than love because the girls tend to have more freaky options on this path while love path tends to have more normal cutscenes either way though I just love this game and your art style 😁
Thats true lol. Although I try to make the freakiness more innate :p Imo it doesn't make sense that there's a big difference in freakiness level between the two routes. It's more how it manifests
I like “being evil,” and there’s nothing wrong with that cause it’s just a game, and the world is already full of entertainment centered around love. One might think that routes like Bonnie’s blackmail path are common in many games, but that’s actually not the case, especially when you consider how well it’s written and developed.
True. If i thought it was wrong, I wouldn't have made it lol. Not everything can just be sunshine and rainbows or it would be boring. It's just an option that should equally be available
I like having the choice of how nice or mean I can get with specific characters.
I wish I could do more of that ^^ I sometimes wish I had a team of people so I could really do branching stuff
I'm not down with hurting/torture. Some manipulation is fine. I prefer the lust routes, not a fan of blackmail.
Oh, I would never make actual torture... I feel like if that's something you put in your game, then the entire game needs to be about that in a major way. Nice. Personally a big fan of blackmail myself, but I suppose that's over now lol. It evolved
I'm with Max and Ross on this one. Perhaps corruption would be a better term over evil.
I am a bit of an oddball. I like being mean/dom to the nicer characters and being a nice guy to the meaner ones.
I would like to think i can play a porn game a little differently than reality lol
Evil is probably too harsh of a term. Dominance, getting the ladies to admit their submission, is enough for me.
seconded