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Picture Perfect community · Created a new topic Here is how to get a somewhat consistent story out of this broken mess.
The author fucked up so I have to tell you how to proceed.
When the narrator tells you that the general route is done and asks you to choose an individual route, only Miracle and Paris’ routes are self-sufficient whereas Sasha, Sabrina and harem’s routes need each other because they form an overall continuity, I first chose the harem route and I got confused because I was missing some parts of the story which happen in Sasha and Sabrina’s routes.
Indeed, the harem route is the continuation of Sabrina’s route, which is the continuation of Sasha’s route.
There are some inconsistencies between the routes because the author messed up but they form an overall continuity so in order for you to get the whole story, follow the continuity Sasha’s route -> Sabrina’s route -> harem’s route and you should get a somewhat consistent story. 😉
You got it wrong again because it is the behavior which is conditioned and not the other way around so it is behavioral conditioning, the actual name is even Pavlovian Behavioral Conditioning (P.B.C.) to be exact since it was invented by the russian psychologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov who first experimented behavioral conditioning on dogs and which is why people subjected to a behavioral conditioning are called "Pavlov's dogs".
My honest feedback so far:
I disliked Valentina breaking the 4th wall because it kept haunting me as I played as if Valentina was just an actress playing her role in the story while being aware that this is a fiction which kept breaking the 4th wall and my immersion all along the story which is why her 4th wall breaking scene really damaged my experience of this game and I have been trying my best to forget it and pretend she never broke the 4th wall for the sake of saving my immersion.
Breaking the 4th wall is always a very risky move as it can potentially completely ruin the immersion and experience of a story and should always be considered very carefully, it should be kept for stories which are specifically designed to break the 4th wall for a specific purpose from the start and never ever be done in stories which were not designed to break the 4th wall to begin with as breaking the 4th wall in such immersive stories only break their immersion which is why this was a mistake here so please remove this immersion breaking introduction.
In my opinion, To Be A King is an interesting adult visual novel about becoming the King of a roman Empire, managing our Empire, maneuvering through political intrigues and power games, interacting with other nations, making alliances and/or wars, all while developing relationships and building our harem while being careful to not cause conflicts between our women, it is a very deep and rich adult visual novel... which hasn't been updated for a long time which frustrates me because it really grew on me. 😒
And which has been infuriating me to no end because it has been SO DAMN OBVIOUS that Felix is a traitor conspiring with Isabella and yet, you haven't allowed us any opportunity to confront him, you have been imposing us to pretend that we are oblivious to everything going on around us or more accurately, you have been imposing us to play a dumb character who I lost count of how many times I already cursed because he never ever notices anything wrong going around him and has been blissfully ignorant to all the conspiracies plotting against him!
If he was not our character, I would WISH for such an idiot to be back-stabbed and I would ENJOY this well-deserved fate, but alas, he is our character, so I have had to bite my hand and contain my frustration to witness his stupidity while I am supposed to be him.
And this is the weak point of this promising story because we have been imposed a stupid character for the sake of not solving plots too quickly, like when we catch Aristhenes, Lydia and Isabella conspiring together and we are imposed to arrest only Aristhenes for treason and let Lydia and Isabella go and keep conspiring by themselves even though they are clearly dangerous and if you marry Lydia (which I tried out of curiosity before reloading and rejecting her), then Goddess Anna personally marries you and tells you "I will ensure that it will not go too bad" hinting that marrying Lydia is an awful choice but she will take care of damage control.
Just like it has been made obvious that Felix conspires with Isabella against us and yet we have been imposed to ignore this grave threat again, which has made this promising story turn really frustrating and even infuriating because of how we have been imposed an oblivious character who ignores even the most obvious plots. 😒
Moreover, every young woman is all over him and claims that he is “handsome” but every time I see his face, I want to puke because of how OLD AND UGLY he looks, which really has been posing me a hard challenge to immerse myself into this story and enjoy being this lame character both because of his appalling looks and his utter stupidity, I hate being him and I have been cursing you for imposing such a repulsive player character even if I want to continue playing this story because even though the protagonist is unlikeable, at least the story is deeply intriguing and gripping, which has made it so frustrating that it progresses so excruciatingly slowly...
Indeed, after chapter 10, To Be A King has been dead until it was finally updated to Chapter 11 which was disappointingly short after such a long waiting and it is dead again ever since.
Each update adds a short chapter and each short chapter takes forever to be released, hence my statement that "this has been progressing at an excruciatingly slow pace".
So why has it not been continued for years after chapter 11?
Is this actually abandoned? 🤔
If this is not abandoned, then I humbly request you to improve the protagonist's looks to make it so that when every young woman hits on him and claims he is handsome then I ACTUALLY CAN believe it because he DOES look handsome instead of the plain old man that you have been imposing on us so far and who has been very unpleasant to play as.
And less humbly, I swear to you that if you STILL do NOT provide any opportunity to arrest Felix after having already imposed on us to ignore his very suspicious behavior for so long then I will go postal because I can only take so much frustration before I unleash it all...
I was told that this game's development has been slowed down by the author adding evermore girls to date.
However, the last girl added to the characters sheet so far is Kamaria and she has been introduced before the protagonist even became King, there has been no new girl since then, all girls have already been introduced from the start and we already met the leaders of all factions in Caudium so the only new girls who I have been expecting to meet are the Princesses from other Kingdoms like we already did Princess Estrid from the Danish Kingdom.
The harem includes 12 women so far, 15 if I hadn't rejected 3, which is not an unreasonable amount for an imperial harem.
Indeed, the only 3 women that I rejected so far are Diana because I had to choose between her and Dinah and I chose Dinah so I didn't even reject Diana, it is the game which rejected her when I accepted to marry Dinah, which leaves actually only 2 women that I purposefully rejected so far who are Isabella because I know she doesn't love me and has been conspiring with Felix against both the royal family, Aristhenes' family and me as I caught her conspiring with Aristhenes and Lydia to get rid of Marius and make me King then she betrayed them and has been harassing me to make her Queen and I am fairly certain that if I marry her and make her Queen then she would get rid of me and remarry with Felix to make him King, and Lydia because she poisoned Aricellus and lied to me about it even though her guilt makes no doubt since she specifically inquired which cask of wine was Aricellus drinking then she ran away as soon as she was satisfied with the answer and right before Aricellus died, then she pressed me to marry her even though I did give my word to Aelinia that I would not marry Lydia before herself, Lydia tried to make me break my promise and was obsessing over becoming Queen, even more than Aelinia has been, and even though she poisoned Aricellus with Aelinia, she betrayed Aelinia to become Queen herself, which doesn't inspire trust one bit, especially since she was one of the 3 conspirators along with Aristhenes and Isabella that I caught conspiring against both the royal family and myself as they were plotting to make me their puppet king even though I could arrest only Aristhenes and was forced to let Lydia and Isabella go freely so they can keep conspiring in my back, which has really been frustrating me as it was utterly unfair and absurd to arrest only Aristhenes as if he was conspiring alone and I DID wanted to arrest ALL 3 OF THEM so I have been rejecting Lydia and Isabella ever since because I do not trust any of them one bit and they SHOULD be in the dungeon with Aristhenes and along with Felix who has been an OBVIOUS traitor as well who I have been frustratingly forced to blissfully ignore as well! 😤
So the only 3 women who I rejected so far are the 2 women who I have been wanting to arrest because they are obvious conspirators who I do not trust one bit and Diana who I did not actually reject on purpose because it is the game which rejected her when I accepted to marry Dinah but except these 3 women, I have been accepting every other woman and every each of them has her own resources, experiences, skills and wisdom to bring to the table which is why I do NOT want to select one single Queen and am hoping that I can create a new political entity which will involve ALL of them to assist me in managing Caudium.
Indeed, I have been imagining how a Council with all of them would be so much more useful than to select only one Queen and therefore I actually want to create a Council of Queens.
However, I dislike the unrealism of every woman being attracted to such an unattractive ugly old man, I wish the protagonist would be redesigned to ACTUALLY look handsome for the sake of credibility, and I dislike having to play favorites which is why I invited no one in the villa if I can't invite everyone and I hope to be able to create a Council of Queens instead of choosing one Queen which would be unfair and because each woman features her own originality to contribute to the harem so it would make sense to work the same way politically which is why I want to create a Council of Queens to allow every woman of my harem to support me politically just as they have already been doing privately. 🙂
Actually, I suspect Flora to be nobility as well because of her behavior and the fact that Aricellus couldn't impose himself on her as he has done every other servant, my theory is that she was a Caledonian Princess before Caledonia got invaded and her (royal) family was enslaved and sold in all parts of Caudium and this is one of the many points which have been bothering me because the longer this story has been taking to progress and the more contradictions and inconsistencies have been inserted such as when we first met Flora, she told us that "the Gauls raided her land and enslaved her family who they separated and sold to various parts of Caudium" and this is confirmed by her character profile however when she first met Estrid, she accused "her people", as in the Danes, "to have raided her land and murdered her family" instead of the Gauls and this is also confirmed by Britannia history in the Codex but that can't be both at the same time as it is contradictory, which is one of the many contradictions which have been bothering me as how am I supposed to follow a story which doesn't even follow itself?
Anyway, regardless of who actually raided her land and enslaved her family, I am fairly certain that she is actually a Caledonian Princess because of her unsubmissive behavior and because this is the only reason King Aricellus couldn't have imposed himself on her as he has done every other servant as her political statut is special even though she is a servant.
I have been looking forward to find her enslaved family in Caudium and restore her royal family in Caledonia then marry her as a restored Caledonian Princess to forge an alliance between Caledonia and Caudium along with my alliance with the Danish Kingdom through marrying Princess Estrid, this would make Caledonia and the Danish Kingdom allies with each other as well just like Flora and Estrid are growing friends. 🙂
And this is why the excruciatingly slow progress of this story has been really frustrating because it holds so many possibilities and none of them has been explored so far because we have been wasting time with obvious plots which should have already been solved since Lydia and Isabella should have been arrested for treason at the same time as Aristhenes already and Felix too should have already been at least questioned for his VERY OBVIOUS suspicious behavior which we have been imposed to ignore for too long already and the damn thing has not even been updated anymore for damn years already!
So how much longer do you imagine it will take to explore all of this story's possibilities?!That is, IF they are explored instead of keeping wasting our time with obvious plots and wasting this story's immense potential...
Another point is that since Tullia is much more similar to Valentina than Valentina is to Helena as they both seem carefree while actually being clever, and since both Tullia and Aricellus were libertine, that Tullia was envious of Helena when they were young, and that Helena was resentful of Aricellus, I logically deduced that Aricellus cheated on Helena with Tullia and this is how Valentina was born.
Then Helena pretended to be her mother in order to hide her husband's cheating and she has always despised Valentina specifically because her very existence has been reminding her that her husband cheated on her with her best friend.
It all made sense and so I looked forward to see Tullia's butt to confirm that Valentina's butt birthmark that nor her sisters nor Helena have came from Tullia and when I finally saw Tullia naked, she didn't have the butt birthmark which disappointed me and lead me to think that the author took so long to develop the story that he literally forgot the butt birthmark when he FINALLY showed Tullia naked after teasing us for so damn long.
This was one of the best AVNs in its first season, but not so much in its second season.
I have already grown bored of the second season which is far below the standards of quantity and quality set by the first season.
Each new chapter of the second season has been growing evermore emptier and the AVN itself has turned into the endless void that its title entailed from the start.
Indeed this AVN has grown to lose its balance between story and relationships which it successfully achieved in its first season which progressed both story and relationships simultaneously whereas its second season has been slowing down the progression of story to focus more on having orgies with the crew and has not been offering much story as it has all been about relationships and a little bit of story between two orgies.
In other words, the second season has broken the balance between story and porn, emphasizing more onto porn and barely on story which has actually become an endless emptiness as it is unlikely to end any time soon at the snail pace it has been advancing.
Ever since Perverteer announced a third season after he barely started the second season, I got the impression that he purposefully emptied the second season just to justify a third season and milk his patrons for as long as he can instead of completing what he started as fast as he can because if the second season was as full as the first season then there would be no need for a third season because the whole story could be completed in two seasons if the second season kept consistent with the quantity and quality of content of the first season.
I actually have been continuing only for the story because his porn has been turning me off in EVERY sex scene and making me fall asleep because he sticks one single music to each character without taking into consideration specific contexts and the moods they require to enjoy them and these musics are DEFINITELY not suited to porn because they are too relaxing instead of being exciting, his soundtrack is static as I warned him and suggested him to change which he ignored because he doesn't care anymore about satisfying players as long as he keeps milking his patrons. 😒
I tried to turn off music during sex scenes but then the sudden silence breaks my immersion.
I needed him to understand that musics are needed to set moods and that therefore specific musics need to be assorted to specific moods instead of specific characters but he didn't care. 😒
There are also the facts that the pictures don't actually show what the texts describe because they keep showing something else that what the texts describe and the animations don't feel natural at all because they are too mechanical, all of this breaks immersion instead of enhancing it.
However I do think that with better musics, animations and consistency between narration and pictures then the H scenes might actually feel good because these are their only flaws.
As for the plot, this is a simple plot really while being unpredictable since you can never know where it will take you next as the characters themselves discover where to go step by step and never have a long term plan, which is a strength of this AVN as it keeps surprising you. 😆
Well... at least it USED to surprise you when it didn't take multiple chapters to achieve one single objective, sigh, I miss the good old time of the first season when each chapter was longer, bigger and fuller than those insulting tiny short empty second season's chapters...
I rejected both Ziv and Raene because I can't stand futanari and I really dislike Perverteer's arbitrary design to impose futanaris no matter the player's tastes which has been locking me out of Ziv and Raene's romances.
I wish he had provided options to turn them only females such as the Rhenkoys being able to switch their gender on will and Raene's treatment to switch gender to be complete instead of partial, especially as Raene wanted to be a girl so it doesn't even make sense that she kept her cock which she didn't want to have to begin with, I genuinely was surprised the first time I romanced her and discovered her cock even though she totally wanted to be a girl as in not keeping anything from her male past life which she never wanted to begin with.
Do you actually know what is the difference between male and female genitals?
It is that male genitals develop outside whereas female genitals develop inside but they are basically the same as males get an external pipe and two sacks of sperm whereas females get an internal pipe and two sacks of ovules, what I mean is that a cock is basically an external pussy whereas a pussy is basically an internal cock, this is really how genitals differ during their growth, the only actual difference is inside or outside.
Which is why switching gender actually consists into altering hormones to reverse the genitals as in getting the cock in or the pussy out and this is why Raene's gender switching treatment should have pulled her cock inside to turn it into a pussy instead of merely making her breasts grow without altering her genitals, this is ridiculous and this is not what she wanted.
Moreover, there was not a single one futanari in his previous AVN Sisterly Lust so these futanaris here come from nowhere as he didn't have any interest for them not so long ago.
This imposed inclusion of futanaris and protagonist's bisexuality into this AVN out of nowhere whereas Perverteer's previous AVN Sisterly Lust didn't include any of that feels "woke" as in they are included just for the sake of inclusion without any actual purpose, which makes Perverteer a hipster who merely wants to take advantage of the current LGBT hype just for the sake to be part of it without actually caring about it.
When Perverteer started this AVN, I first congratulated him for his tremendous improvement after his previous AVN Sisterly Lust which I disliked because its protagonist was a spoiled brat obsessed with fucking his family as he spent his time thinking of his family as sexdolls without any respect for them and who solved any problem with daddy's money, especially to get into his family's pants, so I congratulated Perverteer that his new protagonist, even though he was from nobility, didn't rely on his family's resources to achieve his goals as he deserted and started a new life all by himself with his crew towards who he is far more respectful than the previous protagonist who was a selfish brat who used people like his toys, I mean there is a reason why it was named Sisterly Lust and not Sisterly Love.
I congratulated Perverteer for his tremendous improvement after Sisterly Lust and I remember how hooked I was in first season and how impatiently I used to wait each new chapter because I couldn't wait to discover what will happen next.
But now?
I don't care anymore when the next chapter will be available because I don't expect them to satisfy me anymore and I can only criticize Perverteer for his tremendous downgrade since the second season.
Indeed, I remember back in the first season how excited I felt at each release of a new chapter! 😆
Whereas since the second season, I don't care anymore, I don't rush anymore to update the AVN because I expect it to leave me unsatisfied as it has been doing for a while already.
And at the excruciatingly slow pace at which this AVN has been progressing ever since its second season, it is unlikely to be completed any time soon since it has turned out to be the "unending void" which its title announced from the start.
Once more, to be fair, Perverteer was one of the best AVN creators in the first season of this AVN considering how impatiently we used to wait for each new chapter's release because we were hooked.
But he has been corrupted by Patreon and has grown greedy and lazy as all Patreon developers because he first wanted to tell exciting stories and now he merely wants to make money by milking people for as long as he can as every Patreon's creator since Patreon is basically a milking factory which should be shut down for good for the sake of art.
Patreon is a curse to creation, mark my words.
This is why this AVN has been growing emptier in its second season and it is no more what it used to be because Perverteer has been emptying the second season to justify a third whereas he completed the first season faster and better than the lame work he has been doing for the second season. 😒
And that second season "cliffhanger"? This revelation that this has all been about some genetic manipulations even though the Sovereignty's nobility is all unnaturally genetically perfect specifically because genetic manipulations are common place and the Acharyn's specie is one of the genetically engineered species?
Yeah, this "cliffhanger" is the most obvious evidence that Perverteer has lost his original inspiration and doesn't really know how to continue this "unending void" of a story because it has been going for too long and he has changed his mind too much since he started.
Therefore, R.I.P. Tales From The Unending Void, I loved you before you lost your way. 😔
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This is a sandbox adult visual novel of almost professional quality whose plot is intriguing and makes you grow attached to every character as you assist each of them into their personal struggles and contribute to their growth and the conclusion is unexpected even though it is barely a prelude to a bigger plot like The Witcher 2 was merely a prelude to The Witcher 3, After The Inferno concludes into a cliffhanger which has not been continued yet and might never be as Classy Lemon has been developing a new unrelated story, leaving this as barely an introduction to an epic adventure which was abandoned before it even started...
I can't help but feel that this game is an unfinished project as it is.
Calamus & Alula told us that their dad has gone missing and the Author has written about Rachis but we never get to find him as if the game's creators forgot to actually include him in the game.
And what's the deal with the Shepherd? What's the point of making him so mysteriously fourth wall breaking if he is completely irrelevant to the plot? I mean, he doesn't feel like an ordinary shepherd at all and he feels so mysterious while breaking the fourth wall that I thought he was the Author incognito as he gives us a fourth wall breaking futile quest just like the game's quest which exists only to give a purpose to the game's world, he wants us to get rid of the lightbulb to complete his futile quest however he refuses to hold onto it as if he already knows that we are going to lend it to Maize and Maize doesn't wither before we complete this futile quest, he pretends that he can't hold onto the lightbulb because "he is but a mere shepherd" however he doesn't react to meeting the Messiah with as much humility as everyone else since he basically orders the Messiah around (go lend the lightbulb to Maize then come back to me to complete my futile quest to get a futile reward along with a t-shirt mocking the futility of my quest), he even breaks the fourth wall so he is obviously not "a mere shepherd" as he pretends and yet the game makes nothing of him!
Right next to the "Shepherd" is some kind of shrine containing an amber orb, a prophet's staff and an altar below a lightbulb sigil which looks like its purpose is to leave the lightbulb there to complete the "Shepherd"'s futile quest but again, it is irrelevant to the game which makes nothing of it and the game is filled with such details which seem that they have more to them only to disappoint with a feeling of unfinished project.
If this game's world was created for people from a dying world to escape, then why is Niko the only "actual living being" in the game? Where are the survivors from the "old world" for who this "new world" was created in the first place? Why did the Author have to leave the game's world to edit it whereas the World Machine could edit itself from inside? And what's the point of going all meta acknowledging that the game is a game and break the fourth wall if only to pretend that "Niko is real" instead of acknowledging that the messiah is a character created specifically to be the avatar of the game's player through which they interact with the game's world? All of these inconsistencies make me perceive this game as a broken incoherent mess instead of the masterpiece that its fans believe it to be.
The maps themselves are not consistent with each other as you enter or exit a building from a direction only to return to the previous map if you continue in the same direction. For example, you exit a building from a door to the top so you continue going top expecting logically the building you just exited to be behind you but no, the building you just exited is actually in front of you making you reentering it immediately upon continuing going on top because the maps' interconnections are as much inconsistent as the plot is.
While the first game was an original horror 2D platformer stealth game about hiding from and escaping a creepy toy which felt like the nightmare of a child scared by her new plushie which reminds her of the death of her beloved grandma, this second game turned into a religious tale of the endless conflict between God and Lucifer.
Indeed, this game introduced a new central antagonist named the Entity but his textbook presentation makes it obvious that he is actually Lucifer from the christian mythology. The Guardian of Hope expelled from Heavens and casted down into the dark underworld by a jealous god after which he became the ruler of the underworld full of resentment against God is totally the character Lucifer from the christian mythology, the Bringer of Light, the angel expelled from Heavens for having convinced Eve to taste the forbidden fruit of knowledge, which is itself the imperial roman version of the character Prometheus from the greek mythology, the Bringer of Fire, the titan cruelly punished by Zeus for having shared the secret of fire with humankind and made it independent from the whims of the gods, which is itself inspired from the character Enki from the oldest mesopotamian mythology, the God of Knowledge and Defender of Humankind from his whimsical brother Enlil the King of Gods who decided to wipe out humankind because it became too noisy for him but his brother Enki warned the human sage Atrahasis of Enlil's plan to drown the world under a deluge of 7 days and instructed him to build a boat to survive Enlil's deluge and save his family along with a couple of each animal specie, every mythology is inspired from an older mythology and since the mesopotamian civilization was the oldest, they actually invented the first mythology upon which every other mythology is based on, including the christian mythology invented by the roman empire who are the direct successors of the athenian empire or the greek civilization if you prefer.
Every mythology is centered around a tyrant god and a bringer of knowledge who taught humankind how to become independent of the gods, it first started with the mesopotamian mythology centered around the tyrannical Enlil the King of Gods opposed by his brother Enki the God of Knowledge and Defender of Humankind, then it continued with the city-state of Athens who turned it into the tyrannical Zeus the King of Gods who cruelly punished Prometheus the Titan Bringer of Fire for having shared the secret of fire with humankind and taught it how to become independent from the whims of the gods, and it finally ended with the Roman Empire who turned it into the tyrannical only god Deus (as if Zeus had gotten rid of all other gods) who banished Lucifer the Angel Bringer of Light down into the dark underground for having convinced Eve to learn knowledge instead of remaining God's ignorant sheep.
The Entity in this game follows the same pattern which villainizes the Guardian of Hope victim of a jealous god's cruelty instead of sympathizing with him against the tyrant god.
The third game even made me feel like the wet dream of a fanatical girl who fantasizes about being God's Chosen One as Esther is the daughter of a very religious woman, she was blessed by God before she even was born, she grew up in a catholic orphanage, and she eventually turns into an angel who single-handedly defeats Lucifer, this all really feels like a religious wet dream to me, like the creator of the game fantasizes about being like Jeanne d'Arc, the Daughter of God. Esther growing up in a catholic orphanage might even be based on her real story for all I know because her games are so religious that she probably had a catholic education.
I don't mind fictions to be inspired from christian mythology however what I strongly dislike is when they conform to the mythology without questioning it, like villainizing Lucifer instead of sympathizing with him since he is a victim of God's tyranny who cruelly punished him for supporting humankind instead of keeping it as an ignorant cattle. Moreover, while the original mesopotamian mythology made sense because Enlil and Enki were brother gods and the newer greek mythology also made sense because Zeus was a god whereas Prometheus was a titan, how do you explain the absurd imperial roman version stating that God created an angel to be the Bringer of Light and got mad when his angel fulfilled his purpose? Indeed, the Roman Empire imposed the monotheism of the only god Deus in order to justify the tyranny of their Emperor but then, this implies that the only god Deus is the source of everything that exists, including both good and evil, Heavens and Hell, angels and demons, Lucifer, Satan, et caetera. God is the source of everything that exists, both good and evil, because he is the omnipotent and omniscient creator, which implies that everything is his design. Under these conditions, you can't believe that Lucifer or Satan is the villain since they are God's creations like everything else. That's why, while I appreciate that you made your Guardian of Hope to be a god himself instead of a mere angel of God, I dislike how you villainize Lucifer conforming to the christian mythology without questioning it and why I prefer games like the Shin Megami Tensei series which are also centered around the christian mythology's war between Heavens and Hell, however they logically concluded that God is the actual villain who started this war to impose his tyranny to the free-willed angel Lucifer who stood against him because he treats humankind like his cattle to begin with, but the series still gives you the choice to either side with Heavens or with Hell or against both of them instead of imposing a side as you do in your games.
To conclude, make a game where Esther finally understands that the actual villain who started all of this is the tyrannical God who unfairly punished Lucifer out of jealousy and make her stand against him then I might appreciate your games instead of perceiving them as the wet dream of a fanatical girl who doesn't question her catholic education.
Thank you for confirming it is a RPG Maker game. 😉
I recognized this was a RPG Maker as soon as the narrator explained the controls "arrow keys to move, Z to interact and confirm, X to open menu and cancel, F4 to toggle between full screen or windowed" , I am familiar with these RPG Maker controls. 😏
Then I heard the game's sound effects and they sound familiar from RPG Maker as well. 😊
I didn't expect this game to be a RPG Maker game since it is a side-scrolling game and not a top-down perspective so I needed confirmation and you did but, as opposite to you, I enjoy hearing such familiar sounds specifically because they feel familiar and it is fun to experience how each developer uses the same resources in different ways making them feel familiar and new at the same time.
For example, when you discovered this game and downloaded it, you didn't expect it to be a RPG Maker game before you played it, right? Its developer surprised you by using an unoriginal game engine to make an original game, right? Then you better let yourself getting turned on by this excitement of discovering a new perspective on something you thought you already knew all about rather than letting yourself get turned off by the boredom of recognizing familiar sounds, don't you think? 😉
The Novelist is all about improbable choices and uncompromising compromises between selfish people experiencing the Murphy Law to ensure that everything which could go wrong goes wrong.
The protagonist of this story forces himself to write a novel when he is not in the mood and therefore turns his dream into a nightmare because instead of enjoying what he does, he makes it a painful chore.
He has to struggle alone because he is not supported by his family who has each their own needs and desires and no one ever desires to make anyone else but themselves happy.
Indeed, Dan is obsessed by his novelist career because he wants to create something to be remembered and therefore he is too busy worrying himself about what strangers who he will never meet will think of him after he is dead instead of enjoying life while he is still alive, Linda expects his unconditional support for her painter career and got the nerve to be disappointed if he doesn't always prioritize her while she never prioritizes him herself and Tommy is a self-centered brat who expects his parents to do everything he wants and throws a tantrum if his every whim are not satisfied.
Even as each of them notices that the others are unhappy, no one ever desires to make anyone else happy as each of their desire is a selfish one.
Moreover, while I understand that this game wants to tell about the hardships of balancing career and family life, this premise is flawed because they are incompatible to begin with.
Careerist people, meaning people whose job is their passion, need to be free to dedicate as much attention, time and energy to their job as they want and they don't want to be burdened by anything, including a family, which would get in the way of their career because this is what fulfills them whereas family people are people whose dream is to build a family while their job is merely a mean to sustain their real passion which is their family and they don't care about their career because their job is only a mean to an end and not an end itself, they wouldn't even want a job if they didn't need money because they want to dedicate all of their attention, time and energy to their family life while their career is nothing but a chore to them.
And since the aim of this game is not to teach a realistic experience of life but to convince people that life and compromises are hard then it triggers everything to happen simultaneously just to force us to choose who to grant their wish at each chapter in a way to unavoidably disappoint everyone else, which is not how life actually works because life is not a succession of events scripted to happen at the same time and to grant only one wish at a time.
Experiencing this "game" actually made me feel that it was designed by a depressed person who only wanted to share their melancholy with other people because "sadness seeks company", which is why the conclusion of this "game" is that everyone can't be happy because some people's happiness has to be sacrificed in order to grant one person's happiness and such a conclusion results from a reasoning in a mind of someone disappointed in life and experiencing depression.
I know what I talk about because I already experienced such melancholy myself and I don't appreciate that someone tries to burden me with their own melancholy while I already struggle with my own so I didn't enjoy this "game" and I deleted it as soon as I finished it once because I already know that no matter my choices, the outcome will always be that everyone can't be happy because this "game" was designed to be fatally unrewarding just like its designer felt that life is fatally unrewarding so what's the point of restarting it for the same outcome?
I am stuck in the hub after the maze puzzle, the Admin banned me and the Entity sent me back to the hub however there is no portal to get out of it, I tried to walk onto every each tile and I triggered only broken portals or locked levels and no way out of the hub therefore I am stuck there. 😟
Also, I had to copy some sound files from my own RPG Maker MV folder into this game folder because the game displayed error messages about missing files from the RPG Maker MV RTP.
I finished reading what was available until now and I did not struggle to read it because it made sense even if it was not very credible unlike your petulant tantrums, may I remind you that the author stated himself that he just released the last chapter a few days ago? And yet you keep pestering me about not having read it yet even though one more chapter will not change all of the story's flaws because this is all you can hold onto since you want to contradict me without reason like the insufferable brat that you definitely are.
Actually, I am not the one who started this "being the smartest guy in the room" meme, I merely played along. 😏
Gross phrasing to mask a lack of actual counter-points is so typical of pointless arguments.
The author made it too obvious that a single mind designed all characters since they too conveniently are tuned to the same frequency and if you didn't even notice this reality then you are the one who was likely too busy staring a horse's behind to actually pay attention to the world building.
I don't know the developer so I don't have any feeling for them, all I know of them is Chasing Sunsets which is all that I gave a cold feedback about (which is too specific to be generic and not burning with hate by the way) whereas your pointless arguing is what actually sounds bitter because I hurt your ego by criticizing something which you like.
Oh well, fans gotta fawn over. 😏
90% of a story is a "snippet" of it to you? I'm sure Stone Fox Studios appreciates this consideration of their years-long story-development. 😏
Moreover, the fact that I missed the last chapter may nullify my opinion of rushed conclusion however it doesn't change anything to my other feedback about immersion's sabotage by constant fourth wall breaking nor unbelievability of a world where everyone shares a single mind.
Sure you may reiterate to your heart's content and I will reiterate that you are unlikely to be taken seriously when you care enough to answer that you don't care. 😂
It always amuses me every time someone cares to answer that they don't care. 😂
You are free to enjoy a world where everyone shares a collective mind and I am free to not.
I already acknowledged that I stopped after version 1.0 but was it not the conclusion already and the following content is it not an aftermath of the conclusion?
My comment was at the time of version 1.0.
As for me being the smartest guy in the room, well, I have yet to meet someone who outsmarts me.
And rejecting my criticism because of my personality demonstrates your inability to actually counter it.
So does relying onto numbers rather than actual facts.
Can you honestly deny that you kept breaking the fourth wall in Chasing Sunsets and thus that you kept pulling players out of your story or that all of your characters share a single personality which is yours nerdy one?
Did you genuinely expect players to believe in your world where everyone is tuned at the same frequency, knows the same nerdy references and makes the same nerdy jokes?
In the end, it doesn't matter if you accept my feedback or reject it because of my personality, because the fact remains that you failed to create a believable world because you failed to create diversity in it since you failed to design divergent personalities than yours and you kept sabotaging immersion in your world because of your frequent fourth wall breaking which do break immersion whether you acknowledge it or not doesn't change the fact.