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Well, yes, but it's also definitely intentional that the experience is very different for a negative respect vs positive respect MC.

That might be a bug. There were definitely options that imply that you don't do anything with him, and you're definitely supposed to be able to pick a monogamous route. I didn't pick those options, so I'm not sure what happens in that case, but it's unlikely to be intentional that you can't avoid it.

Yeah, it is difficult to do missions with negative respect. Definitely possible though; I managed it. You'll have to have sex with Rylan and/or Feraldo (once each per day and you must sleep to reset it) to get compliance (it will become 2 immediately regardless of current value) until you can afford enough upgrades to increase everyone's compliance. Even then, it's possible not everyone will have above 0. It's a bit awkward because you aren't going to have much use for the extra resources by the time they become easy to acquire, but there are plenty of games that work that way normally.

I believe the dev is planning to add more people to the list of possibilities for sex for compliance, but I can't confirm that, nor do I know when if he is.

I don't feel the breadth of choices is sufficient to express the breadth of possible reactions. Particularly when it comes to whether the male character wants to hear details. The option of wanting to know everything is fine -- no issues there.  But the other two options? There's a wide gulf between what sounds like "I demand to know at least the bare minimum and reserve the right to ask more" and what sounds like "I don't wanna hear it," and that gulf simply isn't addressed at all. Where's "I don't need to know, but you can tell me if you want" as a choice? That's how I feel, and honestly none of the choices come close.

Most of them are acquired from missions.

I think you must attempt to sleep in a bed there at least once.

Any crit will cause an extra action, as long as you use a full action to crit. Note that an extra action is not itself a full action.

The thing that's causing Vortex gem matches to crit is the enchant Aero Support.

Well, I don't intend to pursue a relationship at all, but Nyra doesn't seem to care about that, at least not in the current version.

In the new update, when confronting Nyra, it says that Nyra's death is the *likely* outcome. But I'm not seeing any other possible outcome. What could cause Nyra to not die? In the previous version, I had the choice to spare her, but the option is gone now.

Oh, uh... I think the story needs some major rewriting, then, because both Balto and Aelfric strongly suggest the possibility of a FWB route with Balto, more than once.

Maybe it was just because of the choices I made, but I'm not aware of an interaction with Aelfric that isn't either domming Aelfric or just not being on a Balto route.

I'm aware, but that's not what I asked.

What I want is:
1. Balto route (whether that's Balto only or both Balto and Aelfric)

2. Aromantic/FWB route

3. BDSM route

4. PC sub (not switch)

The way the choices are currently organized, it seems like BDSM route and PC sub are mutually exclusive, but that seems extremely weird, so I wasn't sure if I just make a wrong choice somewhere.

I'm not sure if it's not possible or I just didn't make the correct choices, but is there a way to be on a casual BDSM route with Balto without taking the choice to dom Aelfric? When I made that choice I wasn't really expecting to suddenly become a dom; I was thinking Aelfric and I would both sub for Balto.

Yeah, Water is one of the worst early game elements. Apparently it's better later on, but I think you'd need to play the full game to see most of its effectiveness. (I'm not a Patron so I still have only the demo up to Ch 2.)

I will note, Water is better than it initially seemed to me because I didn't quite understand what bubbles are for. My initial impression was that they're for extra movement that can sometimes cause matches, with the tradeoff that that they might sometimes lock if you're using Ice or Elec. The actual intent is the reverse, though: You're supposed to change them using Ice or Elec to create additional Freeze or Shock gems, with the tradeoff being random gems moving around when you might not want them to.

I found a couple of issues:

The PC gender selection doesn't matter at all because PC gender is fixed and set per story.

You should mention in the reflective portal story that the PC is attracted to women. When I saw M/M I expected a gay PC, but that clearly wasn't the case.

You can buy some of them once you unlock the Fortune Teller, but the Fortune Teller doesn't have every spell for any of the elements.

Yes. I actually don't know why the screenshots on this page are censored, but those screenshots are also very old (the entire UI is different now).

The MC is repeatedly sent to the same places, but they're totally different depending whether the MC has a quest there or not. And the order of the quests is such that if you do them in the order you're told, rather than the order they're listed in the choice menu, the game just ends waaay prematurely, but the narration acts like you did the things you skipped over.

Yes. That's already possible.

Did you try opening your eyes?

Making a game worse is the opposite of progress.

I would have zero reason to complain if any progress were actually made on this "in progress" game.

Nova Nexus.

He's at his house. If you haven't unlocked his house, you've talked to him fewer than three times.

I... don't think there's even supposed to be a way to complete the game yet. If the end is programmed already, it's probably supposed to be inaccessible, but can be found through some bug.

Also, I got the impression you weren't far in at all, since the scenes you're talking about are early game scenes.

Literally says AI assisted graphics right at the top of the page. Try reading.

I dunno if it's just because it's incomplete, but uh... the order of events makes absolutely no sense, and the game seems to assume you did certain things that you never did if you make choices in a different sequence than expected.

Also, some of the audio clues don't actually show up in the notes, which is pretty terrible for accessibility.

There are multiple ways to get pregnant if your character actually can. What I mean is that my character doesn't have the ability to get pregnant, but the flag isn't set properly for some cases, so it still happens even though it shouldn't.

The Garth route doesn't prevent interactions with Egon, so it must have been something else you did.

The graphics are AI assisted, so among the least creative in existence since they're largely derivative from others' works.

Oh, huh, didn't realize that could happen. But if the game is asking you to talk to him while also flagging him as dead, that does seem like a bug or oversight. I've only had the PC die in that fight, which was just an automatic game over. So I didn't experience it with anyone else dying.

Oh, what I meant was that I thought the only permadeath for Rylan was if you choose to kill him as the MC (which is an option). I just figured everyone would auto-revive if they died to the Warlord. But I guess not.

I didn't realize Rylan could die fighting the Overlord, but I'm not aware of any way to revive anyone in the game. There may be a way to change flags in game files, but the game files are archived, so you'd need to unarchive them and find the correct flag (if there even is one, which I don't know). But it also sounds like you aren't very far into the game anyway, and restarting is honestly probably faster than unarchiving the entire game.

It likely won't be updated until it is finished, which will probably be sometime this year.

If you're even able to cast Glacial Strike four times, it means you and Mohtir have both been extremely hyperdefensive. Mohtir is not actually hard to beat at all if you just aggro rush him before he can get off his physical resist gems.

TBH I am getting the impression the people struggling against Mohtir are all unaware that he can create physical resist gems. Do people just not read the gem enchants? You're gonna have a really tough time in any fight that way.

I think his Friendship points just need to be high enough. I don't know what the threshold is. But he won't do anything before he trusts you.

It used to have the tag, and no longer does... that change probably wasn't an accident, so I think it was originally planned, but the dev decided against it.

That or the dev thought removing it would somehow remove the shadow ban that should have been removed just by requesting support, since NSFW games aren't shadowbanned anymore unless they aren't tagged.

So apparently this is the update where you can get pregnant even if you can't, and there's mutilation content with no content toggle for it. I'm not sure how both the dev and the Patrons failed to notice this before public release, because those are pretty major errors.

Uh... All the new update has done is introduce more bugs without fixing the old ones.

I'm gonna uninstall for now. May come back in a few years when you figure out how programming works.

Oh, I didn't realize there was a pattern to where they were moved. I just assumed it was completely random.

Games? Is this Patreon content? I'm not aware of Gruebert mentioning any games.

Wind has a healing spell, and so does Light once you unlock the fortune teller. There's also a physical ability that creates heal gems. Also, Earth is very good at moving gems, which can help generate larger groupings of heal gems if you really need to heal.

Water is generally pretty weak early, though I'm told it's powerful in later chapters (wouldn't know because I'm not a Patron).

The best defensive combination might actually be Earth/Wind, which gives you Rock enchant that can reduce enemy actions, Air enchant which can nullify enemy matches, physical resist gems from Earth, a heal from Wind, multiple ways to move gems (either specific gems or randomly) from both Earth and Wind, and Wind damage that will swap Rock gems with another gem randomly.