Bad endings


Hi everyone!

I hope you're all doing well, thank you to everyone who took part in the latest poll!

Thanks to your input, Asami will finally get a storyline that does her justice. I’m not exactly sure when we’ll include it, but I’ll ask for your feedback when the time comes.

Today, I’d like to talk about something else that’s really important: bad endings.

A visual novel with choices is great, but if those choices don’t really change anything in the end, it can leave a bit of a bitter taste…

Would you be interested in seeing this kind of game mechanic?

For example:

- If you had decided to ignore Yasuka’s problems,
- If the conflict with Noriko had never been resolved,
- Or if you had completely rejected Asami instead of becoming friends with her…
- Etc

These kinds of decisions could lead to darker outcomes. Of course, that would mean including some unpleasant scenes, but it would also bring more tension to the game — a bad choice could have serious consequences.

What do you think?

The poll related to the possibility of adding bad ends will take place on PAtreon and SubscribeStar

P.S.: We’re a little behind on version 0.11… With a bit of luck, it should be ready by the end of April!

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I think the actual tension of the story was enough, especially the cliffhanger. It’s the worst I’ve seen and it left me in a bad mood, because I couldn’t concentrate on Asami’s mother because everything was happening at the same time and the MC was in ignorant mode. So no thanks.

Nah bro. The game itself says that we must make sure that the mistakes that happened in the future do not happen. Prevent people's lives from being broken. The idea is certainly cool, but it seems to me that it will not fit at all. It will be too far-fetched that you can play an asshole. So please, don't


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Considering the cliffhanger in the most recent version of the game, I would tread lightly. It's one thing having a deep and rich story with options for characters, and another having said characters end up being badly hurt because you chose to reject them, or got caught up with something else and didn't make it in time.

That said, it's not a bad idea if done right. The intro of the game, and some comments here and there suggests that horrific things did happen in his past life. And sure, you could include those if you decide to not pursue someone, but I'd be mindful of how it's implemented. You know, since he was put back into time to correct the events that happened. He wasn't brought back to relive the same things right.

The devil on my other shoulder would like to see that because it makes sense. Does it fit in the game? Yes, the story of the game has already been concreted in that things can happen if one ignores something, so absolutely, do it. But do include some notice on the GoG page about it. Bold letters telling users that such events could happen, and absolutely offer people options in game to disable horrific events or even giving them a prompt that the story is about to change for the worse. The former might be considered as non-lore, but with how the game has been so far, let people decide.

Otherwise, good game, very enjoyable to go around here and there doing things and chatting with people. The talks are the most fun because it tells something about each one. So to have more dialogue for the "Talk" option would be cool as well. Another thing is that it would be nice to have basic sleep options with others, you know, just sleeping, cuddling, whatever. It shouldn't be limited to one character.

Edit: By talk / sleep / cuddle, I mean what if you could do that with X character, and by doing that before a major plot point, you could make them reveal something to you before that and completely skip that point. By doing mundane tasks with them, like watching tv or whatever, you grow closer and closer. Like the arcade machine event, if you know what I'm talking about. That would be entirely skipped because you spent time with X character. I'm also sure that that character would enjoy the company and the things you would do together.

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The game is about getting another chance at life, going back to the past to avoid mistakes. Why would you add bad ends? It's supposed to be a harem game; every girl wants to have sex with the MC. What "bitter taste" is there? Totally inconsistent development, I regret supporting this game now.

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It's a very good idea to introduce different endings into the game. This approach makes the game more interesting, so that you're not just watching a story, but are responsible for your decisions.

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I agree with what some others are saying and that it's a great idea to add them to add more depth to the game but to maybe give a warning or an option in settings to enable bad endings

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Well, I'd say that creating bad ending would be vital to the overall experience of the game, especially because some players feel that whatever choice they made, there would be no consequences at all.

However, It would be better if the number of bad endings aren't that much compared to the good ones ( since many players are quite obsessed to the current progress of the story now). Personally, besides NTR endings, everything's fine for me, so...yeah, I support this idea :))

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I've been playing this VN because there aren't any bad endings in the first place. So no thank you.

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Sounds great being able to have different story lines

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I don't really want bad endings. I'm never going to play them or enjoy them so there's no point. Plus it will add even more development time and stuff to debug.

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If bad endings was actually approved. I hope that would be a late development  Because good stuff will get more delays 😐. I'm pretty sure people will keep asking you about updates because they will miss the good stuff .

an alternate bad ending  and then multiple good endings would be a good twist in the game, since players can get the drive to see all of the endings after the story is finished. just hoping no NTR endings or scenarios that will be tagged as "dark", it can be like someones taking their own life for things theyve done, saito repeating the same mistake and not being able to redeem this timeline he came back to. just put on warnings i guess if there is like triggering dark endings that yall talking about with your team.

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I don't know. Do we restart our lives only to commit the same actions? Maybe other ways of reaching an end would be good, for example, letting them give the bullying the final pill, or doing it ourselves, things like that, to give us variety to play sadistically with the enemy and watch them suffer. Sorry, I got excited.

Bro what is this guy talking about? Whole reason why I'm into this game is BECAUSE of the story. The writing is phenomenal.

In the end it's your game so you and your team can decide what to do with it, I'm in agreement with fitty543 personally (turning it into an option to be enabled/disabled, leaving it to the player's choice).

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Hey no offense here, you are just a great gooning game producing company not multi seasonal movie producer. Most of us here are only looking for a quick fap not a whole catalogue of a story. I really appreciate your work and it has been phenomenal  but please stick to a small or known scope don't bite off more than you can chew, stick to your roots of great hentai with short stories. And I do also think well most of us here wouldn't want to have to make morally just decision, worst involuntarily that would result in some seriously twisted shit like that old fat man banging a fine young lady (unless you're into it). What you have now with the minor options (submissive, dominant) is already great it adds variety and different outcomes no need to complicate it. 

And finally if your sponsors actually like twisted shit at least allow us to save them and stop it like it already exist.

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Any bad ending that containing violence would be fine Except NTR(Netorare)

But in my personal opinion, you should finish the main story of this game first with a good ending, then after that you can add a bad ending. 

Of course not NTR (Netorare) if you add NTR in this game you will ruin the entire kingdom bro.

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I've always wondered what the NTR filter would look like in your game, do it, it'll be funny.

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Please do NOT add and of those scenes this game already has plenty of dark topics and scenes/situations as it is adding more will only be enjoyable to a small select group of people and will harm the rest of your audience. Please do not add any "unpleasant scenes" because I think we all know what this could lead to and there is no good reason to ruin your with these "Scenes". Please don't I am certain you will lose the majority of your fanbase based on this decision

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dasker content is always a plus if your that worried about it have a option to turn off dark congtent or put a warning before choice so that you can appease everyone even the ones with weaker stomachs

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I don't want it to have a bad ending, but I hope it can be a clean stream in the interactive visual novel game, which can make us laugh with relief after experiencing a wonderful story completely, rather than filing it nervously step by step and then avoi.Just as I bought it in the first place: this game will never let me down.

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