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Time is running out you know?

I think this one.

So obviously this is the thread, the other was made not only after this one was posted on the board but after the link to this one was posted in the previous thread.
Purely a attempt to split the thread.

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>mfw LunarGODDAMN kiiHEISSOATTRACTIVE

>>3978770
I'll follow you forever my liege!

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>samefagging in the other thread
>impersonating other posters
>replying to himself
This is sad at this point.

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>>3978773
There's nothing to gain from obessing over the mentally ill anon.

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>thread made 15 minutes later
How is this guy seething every day about this minuscule general which probably has 10 people in it at any time? It baffles the mind.
Anyway, Fangbros will win bigly with her quest and the boat scene, trust. The 10k word explicit sex scene will come.

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Why is everyone seething and malding when their tastes don't align with the writer? I see this all the time.

>>3978783
Because they're low IQ and emotionally stunted.

>>3978783
Because a story I don't like is heretical and must be punished.

Another writing day, another dumb idea to turn a small fight into a big fight. Angelo's quest is running at 23k words and has plenty to go. Any requests for what to prioritize before the next partial-chapter update? I'm planning this quest, the start of ch10 until you can go back out to Nanhou, the introduction of a notice board for misc small quests to pass some time, a change to make other companion quests take 2 days if doing them after the stallion trial, and, god willing, to address+fix the fact that losing my ~30 hour PTO writing days to family sickness just before ch9's release forced me to cut the entire plot to kidnap Big Zhu after the snake trial while unpowered. Could fit 2 or 3 more things to make it a solid half-chapter like the printing press or auction house.

>>3978798
>23k words
Nice.
>Any requests for what to prioritize before the next partial-chapter update?
Eeh, I'm drawing a blank here. Most of the stuff I want was already requested before and should be part of the cut content you wanted to add later like the weighted clothing during the Tiger trial.
Inability to visit the bank in chapter 9 was quite troublesome. I don't know if you want to address it or not but if you prefer not to, could we at least sell cargo? We can get a bunch of it on the Guarded Blossom thanks to Fang and it would be nice to turn it into money. Jin can probably do it in our name.

>>3978798
>Any requests for what to prioritize before the next partial-chapter update?
F A N G
If you release an update with Angelo's quest but not Fang's I am going to punch you through your screen.
>a change to make other companion quests take 2 days if doing them after the stallion trial
I would honestly suggest making the +1 day you get in Nanhou from the JDF the default. It feels pretty scuffed to try to do all the quests and the Rin/Jin/Kosuke training in a normal playthrough. Also, a source for more Memorywell elixirs would be nice. I want both the siblings and Kosuke to have at least one element, and sometimes you need to use one yourself as well depending on the combination you go for.

Also, lore question - what even is the difference between custom techniques you've talked a few times about (everybody got 2 slots iirc) and normal techniques/chi manipulation anyone can learn? Seems to me that with the right element/knowledge/genius you can already basically do whatever you want.

>thought Zhao Yang was going to make ALL your runes +2 if you pick that one training option as a Lunargoth
>turns out he just gives you three extra runes, but you can pick duplicates of those you already own to make those +2
Phew, for a second there I was worried someone else would be half as good as Eldra. Good to know she's still the only decent pick.

>>3978798
Might want to make that post again in the other thread, that's where everyone else seems to have gone to.
Make do on the now deleted TO DO sections of the code about shit to do at Thunderfall in Nanhou like getting Kosuke to train with Bo or having Big Chu pass on his family technique onto you, whatever that was about.
Also gonna repeat it here, using bossrozal token in Stallion trial should give you more time to spend in nanhou/on the island since you skip a 3 day adventure.

Is the Lost Heir trilogy worth buying? The screenshots on steam read like Life Of A Wizard, which I also checked out recently. That one played way too much like a game and not like an actual story, with very sparse descriptions and such. Part 1 being just 150k words seems to support this.

>>3978873
>That one played way too much like a game and not like an actual story, with very sparse descriptions and such.
I have a soft spot for it but if you didn't like Life of a Wizard then I don't think you will enjoy Lost Heir. While it has a bit more focus on plot than Life of a Wizard, it's still more gamey. Back in the day, these games didn't have as many words.
And you don't need to decide now, you can always check out chapter 1 for free
https://www.choiceofgames.com/user-contributed/lost-heir-fall-of-daria/

>>3978873
Just get it from choice of mods

>>3978798
I assume there's a plan for it somewhere, but cultivators who leave a lot of money in the bank and have been locked out of it for a month are either going to be very rich, If rents continue at 15%+ per day as they do the first week in Nanhou. Or very disapppointed comming back a month later to the same money as they left there, without having had access to it for a month of gameplay and maybe not beeing able to build their tavern or whatever.
Something should be done about it, at any rate.

>>3978953
Chapter 9 has 3 timepass checks.

>>3978798
>2 days for a companion quest
AIIIEEEEEE don't

>>3978873
I don't think it's that good, good build variety though.

>>3979027
Are you seriously just going to argue a thread being active is bad

>>3978783
no life of their own so they must live it through media

>>3979031
At least he is now pretending to be interested in CYOAs.

Who do I investigate for Valero's murder?

>>3979075
The killer is Sal, surprising or not.

>>3979075
Best to just investigate without any biases.

>>3979042
It's better than living in the clown world.

>>3978873
There's only a handful of these I'd consider worth buying and half of them aren't officially released yet. Best thing to do is try it and if you really like it you can always go back and buy it afterwards, that's what I did with Unsupervised

>I the unbroken one is going into it's 6th month of no content
>Officer of the fleet is going into it's 6th month of no content
>Wang is too methed out of his mind to write Wars
>Zaper died in that favela raid half a year ago
C'est fini,
there's no games

>>3979226
Zaper will rise from the ashes like a phoenix, trust the plan. Are there any promising WIPs too? I heard pactbinder had a long nothingburger update so hopefully the author got bullied into putting his talents to use in the next one

>>3979227
There's Orcgods game, assuming you haven't tried his latest work yet.
As far as Pactbinder goes, on one hand you have 3 chapters of almost nothing but on another hand its author is actually working at a reasonable pace with each chapter having like 2 months gaps at most. Maybe it will get somewhere eventually,

>>3979227
>Are there any promising WIPs too?
Have you heard of the indie gem known as Aura Clash?

>>3978798
Actually, I have something that needs to be fixed...in chapter 9, because you don't have access to the bank, you can have this issue where you *have* money but you can't get it, which is a real problem with how much stuff you have to buy in that chapter.

Also, you can straight up go into negative shards if you have the gold and silver. It doesn't convert.

>>3979242
Also yes please no two-day companion quests, it sucks enough that once the fang quest is around I'll have to spend all three days in the first nanhou stay doing them.

>>3979239
It's shit.

>>3978798
Give me some yuri content. I wanna do a femMC playthrough, but don't want to see my character flirting with the male ROs.

>>3979316
>yurishit
No.

>>3979330
As long as it's women I'm targeting and not men I don't mind playing as either male or female desu.

>other thread pruned
Shame, that one had more genuine discussion and less shitposting

Jannies doing their job, very cool!

>janny only intervenes when the thread is actually decent

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Why are there no ancient egypt/mesopotania/greece games?

>>3979349
Be the change.

>>3979349
There is one but it's actually horrible and I quit out of disgust when I tried to give it a chance.

>>3979349
There are a couple
Like, I am pretty sure a messopotamia one was in CoG catalog

>>3979246
I am assuming the plan is to return to Nanhou and do quests during downtime for the next trials, so some quests will have to take a backseat (maybe Guiren's).
My 5 days are pretty much Mist Chambers/new best friend, Dessy for 2nd memorywell elixir, One excursion with twins, Leona and Guiren. You could Replace Guiren with Fang.

Also, not sure but I have at least once reached Nanhou and had 4 days left to roam. I do not think it's just based on having transport ships

>>3979366
You don't need to actually use the Mist Chamber to get the event with Brass Tiger, you can simply say no and save a day if you weren't planning on using it. And Leona's quest barely gives you anything if you aren't romancing her and want to strengthen her or you just suck at crafting and need the free swords.
You get an extra ship day before Nanhou with Transport ships but the actual activity ones are fixed.

>>3979366
>Also, not sure but I have at least once reached Nanhou and had 4 days left to roam.
That's a JDF foundation effecct if you choose to train more early. You get an extra day.

>>3979374
So what triggers 4 days at Nanhou that happened at least oncee on my runs?
Spaghetti code?
Or perhaps it was the JDF run I did for Dragon Waifu

>>3979352
Same, assuming you mean Weeping Gods.

>>3979400
Lmao yeah.

>>3979366
>I am assuming the plan is to return to Nanhou and do quests during downtime for the next trials, so some quests will have to take a backseat
I'm pretty sure most of the quests need to be done before the Dragon Trial, though. You need to do them to get a romance scene with the girls (and also to get one of Desdemona's sword)

>>3979407
Leona's swords., yes.
Dessy scenes can happen regardless of quest.
You miss out on fang ship scene, but you dogwalk her later if you want
Guiren is also a source for a talisman.
And Angelo will have somehow the best reward to complicate things further

>>3979411
Ah yes, I confused the two names. They're both lunargoths and have their own paths but i don't really play them.

Anyway, yeah, I get not allowing you to do *everything* but giving you even less choices just seems a bit lame.

>>3979374
>you can simply say no and save a day if you weren't planning on using it
Yeah, I only use it as a monkey yokai. In other instances I just go there, befriend my best friend and then leave. Later you can send twins to train in the mist chamber for free if Tiger offered to cover your bill so it's still kind of nice, though obsolete if you play as a herbalist.

>>3979414
>>3979374
Yeah, I guess if you have done a couple runs, you ace Tiger Trial without mist chamber boost

>>3978798
>change to make other companion quests take 2 days

pls no

I wish I could do more things throughout the game honestly.

Has anyone played a complete failure Aura Clash run? Basically failing any check that doesn't outright kill you. I wonder how much reactivity there is to you actually being a complete loser just barely scraping by.

>Playing Sir Brante
>Try to romance Octavia
>Damn bitch hits so many kinks
>Turns herself into a gay alien
It's not fair bros

>>3979461
It's just a weird decision all around. Even if the symbolism behind it makes sense as the idea to escape from the design of the world, it's execution is questionable as it comes out of nowhere and is completely divorced from whatever you do. All the other characters progression do make sense, follow their expected character progression and you can influence them one way or another.

>>3979461
>You can save her
>..On the route where you're not allowed to romance her
"Life and Suffering" indeed

>>3979467
>>3979468
I find it rather weird that despite the theme of breaking away from the designs of the world being persistent in her romance, there's also the ending sequence where you can teach the Gods forgiveness. Admittedly, you can sort of keep the "romance" with the alien Octavia but it feels like I'm being slightly jewed over her secret society thing anyway. I'd be less upset if she wasn't a one of those hot forbidden romance types, despite realistically Brante never having a chance with basically an elf

>>3979468
>keep the family together
>Father's dream is still crushed
>Mother dies anyway
>Stephan dies doing what he does best (picking fights)
>Gloria gets herself killed being retarded
>Nathan gets a happy ending (somehow)
>You die
Life and Suffering indeed, damn is it hard to get the proper stats for that ending if I try keeping the family stable

>>3979469
It's just dumb, really.

Awww the other thread was deleted :(
Anyways! The others were spot on with their assessment of Decadent Heir. It’s a Brante clone with ESL writing that feels off. Still it’s only the first act, it’ll only get better!

>>3978798
[Random Events Will be Scryed Each Night]
Got this after Dessy's quest while having the Kiihakai style but it never seemed to do anything.

The tavern repair code has been bugging out in my femMC playthrough. The first repair left it at 80% when it always was 100% before, then I repaired it again in the second event, but then during Eldra's training when I passed a craft check and repaired it again it's still at 80%.

Typos:
"The local culture is to where your undergarments."
Also several "goodlucks" without a space. Same for "hotspring".

>"It worked!" You say back to Zhao Yang, hiding in the jungle. He's too far away to hear the 'tsk's he lets out.
Should be "you" here.

As for priorities, you should focus on Angelo's, Fang's, and Rin's quests. And all the other stuff that was cut previously. Now's a good time to go back again and see what the story is missing I think.

>>3979484
I can only hope they'll give attention to the great war portion, the eastern front (ww1) is very underrated.

>>3978798
>Any requests for what to prioritize before the next partial-chapter update?
Some sort of in-game information or headsup that demonic cultivation is actually super cucked and dooms you in the long term by preventing ascension and fucking you up if you have the JDF. I was surprised when I found out about this in the choiceofmods thread. Usually in xianxia demonic cultivation may be evil and often has drawbacks, but it's still a legitimate path to power. But in AC it's just a straight up wrong path.

>>3979498
Why do you even care about ascension?

>>3979499
Muh immortality and power. Ascension in AC seems like it's pretty boring as well desu, there are no higher realms, you just become a heavenly janitor manging ferret births or whatever on a planet for 100000 years until you get promoted to manage clouds. But actual immortality and learning all styles & elements is still nice.

>>3979497
One can only assume, most likely your character will assume command of a peasant leave or something (if they do talk about the eastern front, it’ll most likely be short desu) (the story itself seems to be focused more on the revolution)

>>3979501
>actual immortality
flayedCHADS win yet again

>>3979503
It's still a bit scuffed because your immortality stops working when you run out of chi but yeah it's pretty great. Unless you're a JDFchad it's the obvious choice. Meanwhile the poor indiana jones knockoff is really just whatever. Even as a Lunargoth I don't really care about him.

>>3978798
I want to be able to forcefeed my Roc a mountain of soul treasures until she reaches 3k AP and becomes a cute bird yokai wife.

>>3979505
Indiana Jones gets to partially rewrite reality. Seems much more grand than being able to get punched more than usual without dying.

>>3979316
>>3979332
>begging for gay sex to be added
the thread made by a fujo was less gay than this one
imagine that

>>3979512
Yuri isn't gay.

>>3979511
The world ritual is cool yeah, but that's not part of his mentor/foundation abilities.

>>3978798
Is there any reason why Yang doesn't kill you like those demonic tribe cultivators and instead even offers you a foundation that enhances your inner hellscape? Angelo has the excuse that by the time we're in too deep we're already basically friends, although it's still weird that he doesn't say anything. But Yang at that point has noticed it, is against it, and has no previous relationship with us. So it's strange that there's not even any comment about it.

>>3979518
I read it as he thinks you just got a little messed up by the corruption of being at ground zero for the Demonic Gate and he offers that option to help you with it.

>>3978798
>Scarlet Bladed Chi explodes away from you in eighteen simultaneous shattered energy attacks.
Got this sentence in the Sakura fight while on a sorcerer run, which I'm pretty sure is a bug.

As for requests - sex. You're like a million words into the story, it's honestly a travesty that you haven't used some of the classic xianxia tropes yet. Aphrodisiacs, a yin/ice constituation/foundation that coincidentally requires our yang rod to cure it, some really cocky cultivator randomly swearing a soul out to do anything after we beat her, I could go on for several paragraphs. Same thing for non-sexual tropes, which I could actually just write books about. Despite the shounen nature of AC and it being more xuanhuan it's no reason to give up on the classics.

>>3978798
a) Give unique names for each core assignment for Palm of endless beating. Like, Soul Core is 'imagining a beating'
b)Actually have the MC or his aura shout 'Endless Beating' whenever the technique is used
c)Maybe give it a .gif or sound effect too

I want my edgy demonic cultivator to DESCEND and become a terrible demon king.

Some of you guys remember how is the method to play the games on the browser extracting the .apk with winrar and editing some text files?

>Other thread got 404d
Did the OP do something dumb or the jamny just apply earliest thread wins?

>>3979682
>earliest thread wins?
Probably that one.

IF writers should be locked in a cage for 12 hours a day and get shocked every time their writing rate fall below 500 words per hour

>>3979712
An overseer with a whip would be better

>>3979655
For most games you can just extract the /assets/ directory from the APK and run index.html

>>3979682
Earliest thread does win, unless it's an obvious troll thread or something. That's why making duplicate threads is dumb.

>samefagging stopped the moment xer's thread died

>>3979472
I always believed in Nathan, he was such a fucking chad in the end.

>>3978798
Was wondering what happened to that Big Zhu plot thread.

>>3978714
I won't lie. None of AC's romance options really speak to me. I play the game for the shonen fight scenes pretty much exclusively.

>>3979859
Nathan went from the failure of the family to the only one who actually succeeded, what a chad indeed.

Chapter 9 beat the shit out of my Alchemymaxxed Kiihikai Kitsune.

>>3979932
It doesn’t help that CultivatorAnon can’t write romance.

>>3978714
Where is he from?

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>>3980013
Fang! is from Aura Clash.

>>3980033
Wait, it's a g*rl? Aw, man...

>>3979461
I hear people talk about the judge and the priest paths all the time in Brante, but never the third one. How is the "you suck at this game" route?

>>3980047
It's bretty good, you can become a full-on revolutionary terrorist and genocide the ayys which is based. It's not really a "you suck at the game" path, just a different one, in some ways it's better than the noble one. It's just very straightforward so there's not much to discuss.

>>3980033
The perfect woman!

>>3979859
>>3979935
Based and same.
Especially because I did the Priest route and he seemed to have failed at all the places I succeeded. Especially because he seemed like a decent guy. Made me feel bad for him.

Was really glad I was able to give him the nudge he needed towards the end.

Does Jinlai have enough content to be worth playing? I heard it's just a side project for the poma guy.

>>3980057
Sophia's final portrait sucks ass, but yeah

>>3980106
Not really. What's there is fun, but it's very short

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>>3980106
Oh well, just started it.
>33 year olds
Another unc game huh.
Noticing a lot of typos. Way too many in fact.
>first obvious RO was a married woman
>date with second RO and the first thing she does is say she wants an open marriage
>flashback friend was a golddigger
>next door actress seems entirely fake and has some bitchy friends
Not gonna lie, the only woman I'm interested in so far is the little sister. But I'm not expecting incest from nicky. Wasn't interested in slutting it up with random whores so my MC is a wizard.

>>3980120
Yeah it's kind of whatever. As someone sort of in finance, it wasted too many pages on finance stuff without really saying anything worth reading, and the part that people actually play the game for, romance, seems lackluster.

>>3980121
Also, I just got to the first negotiation (with the movie studio) and it's a joke. Despite picking the best answers and doing a ton of prep beforehand, I keep losing a charisma check regardless of what I pick and it doesn't matter. Feels like the charisma pick at the start is the objectively correct choice because so far my intelligence hasn't really done anything.

Dragon's Covenant also has a bunch of typos. Really annoying. It's 2026, grammar checking is easy and free.

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>>3980131
This game is pretty baffling to me. There is no reason for the MC to care about the kingdom. He was already strong enough in his early years that the presumed strongest guy in the kingdom couldn't keep sparring with him, and the dragon in his mind can take over his body at any time and still cast magic. So why is he still the lapdog of the kingdom? I presume there is /some/ reason, like magic mind control or something in the MC's past, but for now it just feels weird to play. He's a magic experiment with no freedom, if not the ability to just run away, then at least let me not care about these soldiers and civilians. I haven't been ordered to fight yet so I don't want to fight.

>>3980135
You FOOL you thought there would be meaningful CHOICES in your cyoa? The author has already envisioned a predetermined personality for the MC and by god are you going to stick to it

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>>3980137
It really is quite tiresome how many IFs work like this. Like, here I just met the obviously designated wife created by the author for the MC, so I just... return to the army? Why? Just a single sentence explaining why the MC does it could explain it, but without it, it's just immersion breaking.

>>3980121
>>3980122
First RO is the heiress (and she doesn't actually want an open marriage, she's just giving you an out in case you only want a marriage for the political advantages), second RO is the single mom and third RO is the actress, the married woman is just a fling/side RO as far as I'm aware.
>negotiation
Intelligence doubles the effectiveness of the preparation you do for the negotiation, so Intelligence and Charisma characters end up in about the same place (Charisma characters get bonus points for picking the best options, but you still need to actually pick those options). Of course if you were retarded and told your aunt you were going to compete for the crown she'll absolutely fuck you over here.
Intelligence also gives you some in-character pointers for what are obviously bad decisions like approaching your competitors for the movie company.

>>3980142
I did all the preparation I could and got to 70% I think. I groveled at the beginning, which the seller liked, but then in the actual discussion no matter what I did I always got a failed charisma check meaning the result was average or negative. Then I also got the retarded gold digger event with the actress where paparazzi photogrpahed us together and all choices led to a reputation loss with the seller. At that point the game was over anyway but I would've just dropped it otherwise.

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Oh the capital city is getting sieged? Great. Where's the option to help the attacker. Or to just run away. I don't want to keep harping on this, but seriously. The author seems to have established the MC's personality as someone who really cares about the kingdom, for some reason, and then never bothered to explain why that is the case.

>>3980146
>and then never bothered to explain why that is the case
Not necessarily the city, but your two siblings

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>>3980146
Well, at least the designated wife is saying the obvious. So making the MC retarded has been a deliberate choice by the author. I don't know why this keeps happening, but IF authors seem to love this sort of personality.

>>3980148
That I do get. Just take them and fuck off. But the way this is going so far I fear that the MC will work for the kingdom for another 500k words.

>>3980047
I only ever played judge, but Sophia's a pretty hot bitch so I might try lotless. Might be hard to get the family ennobled though, it was pretty hard as a Judge anyway because I tried keeping the family together instead of convincing Gloria to get married which made her become a Brante and fucking CRATERED our reputation. Quite sad, but I understand why it hapened
>>3980057
>>3980112
Sophia goes from pretty cute in two of her appearances to actually ugly in the last one (and psychotic). Anyway, I saved the singer as a Judge and somehow she never shows up again? Is that a bug or something I messed up in?

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What's the point of choices if everything is locked into a singular path anyway? I took all of the indifferent options so far but my MC still just spergs out and loses his mind in rage. So many IFs feel like the author just wanted to write a book all along.

>>3980150
>But the way this is going so far I fear that the MC will work for the kingdom for another 500k words.
Finish the demo before you make such blanket statements

>>3980144
70% prep should have been enough as long as you researched at least two of his favourite films. Best route is always to be respectful > say you admire his work. mention two of his favourite movies and one of your own > say you want to make his company great again > say you'll modernise their filmmaking techniques, without mentioning internationals under any circumstances. The only thing those failed charisma checks indicate is that even when you pick the right options you're just not charismatic enough to convince him 100%. It's not a significant difference though, with the absolute best result a Charisma character can get 100+% chance to win at ~300M and 70%-80% at ~150M, and non-charisma characters can get ~80% at 300M
>got the paparazzi event
Yeah, it's owari for you. The only way to avoid that is to either not trigger the event or pay a couple hundred million extra to suck up to the guy.

You could always just conspire with his granddaughter and put him in a coma.

>>3980153
The illusion of choice

>>3980153
>I took all of the indifferent options so far but my MC still just spergs out and loses his mind in rage.
Exile-san...

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>>3980154
I can't read if I'm too angry to keep reading.
And oh my god what is up with the IF audience loving angst so fucking much? Give me a REASON to care about the population damn it if you must write angst every third sentence.

>>3980156
I guess time running out before I researched the second movie fucked me then. Regardless of the negotiation though, I didn't particularily care about the story. Not a single RO I liked and the finance stuff was a nice attempt but still fell flat for me.

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Oh my god. Why on earth would the children with bodies warped by unethical experiments and forced to fight in the worst wars betray the kingdom? What reason could they possibly have for doing this? We may never understand.

>>3980160
>I can't read if I'm too angry to keep reading
Then.. stop reading it?
>Give me a REASON to care about the population damn
Pretty damn sure anyone would react emotionally for a moment if they see a freshly charred corpse of a child, or anyone really, in the streets

>>3980162
>Then.. stop reading it?
The premise is still decent enough, even if the execution so far has been shit.

The backstory of the MC is that he bascially never interacted with the population, or anyone really. Someone like that shouldn't grow up to despair and rage at the sight of this.

>>3980162
(he’s doing this to spam and bump the thread at this point)
do we really need to hear his opinion on every page of the game?

Forgot your signature.

>>3980165
>(he’s doing this to spam and bump the thread at this point)
Sorry, I'll remember to leave space for the usual shitposting.

>>3980168
No, just ignore him. Finish the demo before making judgments though.

>>3980160
Yeah, it's possible to get by without doing as much preparation as possible but you really need to at least research his films, which means skipping at least some of the optional events during that week. If I remember right you have enough time to go to the actress' party (which will probably be much more important in future builds) and do two other events, but that's it.
>regardless of the negotiation though, I didn't particularily care about the story. Not a single RO I liked and the finance stuff was a nice attempt but still fell flat for me.
That's fair. It's really meant to be more of a k-drama/Succession simulator than an autistic finance simulator. I've enjoyed it so far, I think the investment management is a cool concept and I'm interested to see what he does with it, it's certainly a hell of a lot more promising than whatever the fuck he's doing with PoMA these days.

If you feel like replaying it, I recommend a Physique build with the genteel capitalist personality, the heiress is pretty cute when she starts defrosting.

>>3980168
Ignore the guy who ever talks about "bumping", its some outdated old guy who doesn't know how slow the board is. There's no such thing as a bump when you're on page 1 for 8 hours at 0 new posts. Now tell me about the combat system, does it at least let you pick how you fight?

>>3980172
>its some outdated old guy who doesn't know how slow the board is
Weren’t you guys complaining about the fliptranny thread getting too many replies in too little time?

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>>3980170
Alright. I hope the king isn't actually dead ("gone" usually means alive) because the game didn't let me get my revenge by killing him before.

>>3980172
Pretty sure this game doesn't have a combat system. At least in chapter 1. I trained flying a bit (but this probably always happens since you need to fly to get back to the capital) and also my swordsmanship with my designated wife. Never saw an option that would obviously raise some stat or use one though. Maybe it'll come up later.

>>3980171
My build was genteel capitalist + intelligence. If I replay it in the future I'd probably go a fully party animal build with charisma and such to see what the differences are. The heiress was decent, but I am totally not interested in children, and even less so having children in a game.

>>you guys

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The railroading continues. I can't even choose whether this guy joins my party or not. Same for the elf princess.

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>>3980181
And I don't know if I missed anything, but I'm confused at where the MC and co are even going. They've started journeying... somewhere, and I don't know what the goal or destination is.

>>3980182
You missed something alrighty, you’re on the independent kingdom route speed reader-kun :p

>>3980184
Huh? I am even more confused now. There are routes, and I took one? Was the dragon transformation a condition for that? Because other than that I don't remember any meaningful choices.

>>3980185
Yeah I might be mistaken it’s been awhile, but there should’ve been an option for you to
>go your own way
or to either join up with the princess or prince sometime after the siege

>>3980186
I woke up, talked a bit, flew up in the sky and saw two magical signatures. I talked to the princess and was forced to recruit her, then talked to the researcher and was forced to recruit him, and after that everything was pretty linear as well. I guess maybe I missed a choice somewhere.

>>3980186
>>3980187
>prince and princess
Oh yeah, it might be because I basically told both of them to fuck off initially. But then I'm surprised that the route locks in that quickly.

>>3980187
I should mention that joining up with the princess and prince are routes to be written btw, so far the independent kingdom is the one that’s been completed for the demo.
But yeah, there was a “choice”, with the two other routes being greyed out

>Wanna see new shit in Poma
>Have to go thru the slog known as the rest of the game
Just fucking scrap this entire game and start anew, Niggy. Idk plagiarize AC or redo the entire hub page and mission style progression of the story.

>>3980189
Alright that makes much more sense. As I thought, so far I haven't really made any important choice other than choosing between the general and the bird wife.

>>3980190
At this stage scrapping PoMA entirely and rebuilding it from the ground up would be the best course of action, which is why he'll never do it. I think he still doesn't know how he wants the game to actually play which is fucking baffling after so many reworks.

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I have been hoping for the independence route all along, but this isn't it. To begin with, why return to general Zatus? I picked the bird wife over him we we didn't really have any interactions, but the game acts like we're friends. But also, what are we gonna do in the cultist city? What's the goal here? Rebuilding the kingdom? Defending it? Making the MC the king? The game kind of feela aimless right now. I think the story is too trapped in the kingdom. Who even gives a shit about it? Probably my last post about this because I'm losing interest, and since I know this is the only route currently written it'll be linear from here on anyway.

>>3980175
Charisma Playboy is a fun combination, credit to Nicky that he has included a decent amount of dialogue for different personalities. There's even some fun little stuff that acknowledges if you're a playboy but also secretly an autistic wizard, which is neat. Who knows if he'll be able to keep it up though.
>the heiress was decent, but I am totally not interested in children, and even less so having children in a game
Shame, at this point she's by far the best thing about the game. The single mom is also pretty cute

>>3980194
Anon… all of it is literally explained in-game, you just have to keep reading!

>>3980162
>Pretty damn sure anyone would react emotionally for a moment if they see a freshly charred corpse of a child, or anyone really, in the streets
A corpse of the people that enslaved and tortured you? Yes, there certainly would be emotions, ones like joy, glee, maybe jealousy that they did it before you could

>Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION
Anyone tried this yet?

My personal pet peeve is that certain writers clearly want to impose specific emotional reactions onto their MC (for storytelling purposes or just their own convenience, as it's much harder to write a compelling narrative without touching on the protagonist's feelings) but are too chickenshit to commit and make them a defined character, or at least mostly defined, without player input. Once you start leaning into "play any kind of person you want", you forfeit the ability to say "you feel extremely X about this" without the reader potentially and justifiably reacting with "no and fuck you for thinking that"... unless of course you have it be a variable reaction based on the choices thus far.

>>3980643
I have too many personal pet peeves to remember but I hate when an option switches perspective from your character to game master. I don't know if there's a better name for it but I mean choices like
>You open the door and see: character A, character B or character C
It shatters my immersion. At best this is just bad writing that could've been handled by just rewording the question, like
>You call A, B or C to hang out
At worst, it's your protagonist suddenly gaining meta-powers of rewriting narrative. Reading Magikiras now and it's full of this, but the worst moment so far is when you're attacked on the train and you, the player, chooses who attacks you - pirates or shadow niggas. Why the fuck am I given an option like that, not only is my immersion broken like I said but also now I know neither group will be interesting to fight because the author just treats them as interchangeable
All the times you're asked about your relationship with someone right after the game tells you their name and nothing else also count for this
>hey anon you have parents. Do you hate your parents, yes or no?
Magikiras is guilty of this too

>>3980642
It's dogshit.

>>3980653
If I remember correctly, the choice between the pirates or the shadow niggers impacts the game quite a bit. It's a weird design choice though, sure.

>>3980643
Wang is the only writer i know that gives good room for roleplaying different dragoon personalities, though even then your dragoon can be a bit bipolar, like my cynic mercy dragoon that was always trying to position himself the best politically and trying to stay unaffiliated as long as possible for the flexibility, but also bemoan about how aweful politics is and how much he dislikes isobel and wulfram and his life. It does kind of work in that he could just be a massive hypocrite, its just sometimes his narration is overly cynical and about whats best for me and the other half is lamenting about how high he's climbing and that the number of people dying under his command has only ever multiplied. It does work but it would be better if there was more meshing between the two modes

>>3978798
Weighted Clothes in the first trial

>>3980653
>Reading Magikiras now
Finished
Any game that has puzzles is an automatic 0/10, the fact the game ends on a fucking music puzzle (the pseud favorite puzzle) makes it a - 5/10. Otherwise completely unremarkable, amateur prose and shitty plot about nothing. Not sure if the game ever explains what the terrorists even want in detail because I confess I speedread the ~10 epilogue pages due to how mad I got at the game ending on a fucking music puzzle and only checked if I at least get to fuck Morgan for my efforts (no). At least I picked the route where she survives, if I picked to fight against the shadow niggas you apparently can't even save her according to the forums, this>>3980673 anon was right about the choice being important
But that just reinforces my point, the pirates and shadows appear once, you don't even fight the pirates they all job to the shadows off screen (off text?) and then the one seemingly random option of who ambushes the train decides who's going to be your enemy for the rest of the game as the other is never mentioned again. Pirates also go from, well, pirates, to the best equipped terrorist organisation in fiction that manages to out-tech the fucking mage glowies nation, all the while completely dunking on both mage and american intelligence agencies (presumably others too) despite operating out of a single cave in a desert like they're Taliban. The only explanation you're given for this massive shift is
>maybe they work with pirates
And then it's completely swept under the rug, the real pirates never appear again

>>3980656
Why?

>>3980974
20 powers, like two or three fights in the entire gams so you barely even see them.

I'm liking a shriek of ash and fire so far. Looking forward to seeing how all the different routes play out.

>>3979450
It's called Path of Martial Arts.

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I haven't read any cyoas for a couple months, anything good come out or nah

>>3981052
Not really, a few of them got some updates.

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>>3979450
Your prestige sucks ass, Kosuke has to bail you, your score in the trials is minimal and you do not get the 'holy shit 'reactions, you lose to Jack and lose all mentions of being in the top 5.
There is less negative reactivty and more lack of positive one

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>playing as a no name new character instead of the guy from War for the West
Wtf

>>3981069
He wanted you to be able to load your save from Bad Ends where you died, which is neat, but not worth the time investment. A passion project DLC addition maybe.

>>3979461
>Damn bitch hits so many kinks
tell me more, what is she like

>>3978798
If you do this >>3980722 can I request a scene with Sun Wukong if a monkey yokai has weighted clothes and doesn't have to surge power cores?
The image of a monkey making a complete mockery of the trial by backflipping over the finish line is hilarious to me

>>3981123
>Elf-adjacent in terms of being alien but also human
>Wealthy Oujo-sama personality
>Secretly hates the whole nobility and lot thing the game has going on and the Arknian supremacy
>Running an esoteric cult on the long dead race of a long dead empire
>Actually a pretty submissive girl when you get her into bed because she wants you to lead
>Has you beaten as a child if you give her back something she dropped
She's sort of like a rich girl who's secretly nice, but plays up being a haughty noble in public

Any good western BL VN's?

Otome is fine if the protag is male and not just treated like a woman.

>>3978798
Could you let monkeys swap their mist clone tech for a different flavored one as a free action the same way akas can swap passive DW for a third accessory slot? That'd be great, thx.
Also, no blood clone option for demonic cultivators? I hope that's because you're planning on having Taio teach it to us.

>>3981448
>>Has you beaten as a child if you give her back something she dropped
Oh yeah I remember that, that's a minus from me senpai.

>>3981069
These are only if your character has died (or got captured in the oracle ending/fled to live as a commoner) and you have an heir.
The first game was originally going to end with the MC's death or imprisonment but people hated that

Games or CYOA with Trans-exclusive romances? :3

>>3981620
>Games or CYOA with Trans-exclusive romances?
Press Play
Fallen Hero
Drink your Villain Juice
Not that many surprisingly

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A new update for Chop Shop just dropped! Can't wait to romance all of these characters

>>3981646
They're so attractive...

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Best route here?

>>3981646
This is what real art looks like. None of that fake AI shit.
Will give it a try later.

>>3981646
Think I spot some Trans cuties there :3
Have you played the demo? Is it any good?

>>3981659
Despair's Demise (Royalist, Revira)>Grey Torment>New Yeirshee

>>3981671
>Royalist, Revira
based

>>3981671
My Avalina! Basilisk machine path!

>>3981711
I'm Gibleti's chew toy, rebel choices.

>>3981611
It adds to the appeal when I get to pin her down

>>3981734
I don't remember, did she find out eventually that you were that kid?

Just played Sins of the Sires, and what the fuck was that shit? It's like the writer gave up halfway through or something. Or perhaps ran real close to the deadline and rushed the fuck out of it.

>>3981771
>Sins of the Sires
ChatGPT, tell this guy why he is wrong about his opinion.

Vampire: The Masquerade — Sins of the Sires, an interactive novel by Natalia Theodoridou, was a finalist for Best Game Writing in the 58th Annual Nebula Awards. Published by Choice of Games, it is a 300,000-word text-based game set in Athens, exploring themes of corruption, power, and betrayal within the World of Darkness.
Key details about the game include:
Finalist Status: It was recognized as a Nebula Award Finalist, marking its high-quality narrative writing, according to the Choice of Games forum.
Character Options: Players can play as Clan Tremere, Ventrue, Malkavian, Banu Haqim, or thin-blooded.
Plot: The story focuses on navigating vampire politics in Athens and unmasking the player's true sire.
Reception: While acclaimed for its writing, some players noted on the Choice of Games forum that the later chapters felt rushed compared to the beginning.
Availability: The game is available on Steam, the App Store, and Google Play.

Are you feeling bad now chud?

>>3981774
>Reception: While acclaimed for its writing, some players noted on the Choice of Games forum that the later chapters felt rushed compared to the beginning.

So chatgpt agrees with him?

>>3981771
The only part of that game that's good is reading up on the drama, you shouldn't have played it
I'm sorry anon

>>3981774
thanks Geppetto

>>3981777
I didn't even know there was drama, so I guess I did it as ass-backwards as possible.

>no games
It's over.

>>3981806
>no games
Splendid. I better start writing my game now!

>>3981806
New Meimei content in POMA in just 2 weeks.

>>3981752
Yes, she remembers. It's kind of cute how she says she has to act like her kind in public despite clearly having "friends" that are lowborn when you walk into her chuuni-ass cult.
>>3981771
Sins of the Sire is widely regarded to be one of the worst VtM text games up there with Back for Blood yeah. It's not thematically bad but I heard that you just don't get a good conclusion and the premise of the game ends up meaningless.
>>3981806
Truly yeah, stuck waiting on new Hunter kino releasing in the 2nd half of '26 and the actual WoD games coming out in 27.

>>3981862
>Back for Blood
At least that one had moments of unintentional comedy whenever the wheelchair guy showed up, like when the game decided to make a speech about not looking down on disabled people as he was trying to wheel himself through a forest or when the goddamn ghoul struggled the overpower him in melee
The sex scene with the zoomer vampire chick was nice

any cyoa with femboys or dickgirls?

>>3980642
Tried it now, bounced right the fuck off the writing.
Even just directly commenting on the player's choices in a downright meta way like "boy you sure are a Reasonable guy and not the type to follow his Gut huh", that's the kind of return to old CoG tradition nobody in their right mind asked for

>>3981950
>dickgirls
Isn’t that just futa? Wouldn’t the bunny girl from Villain Juice fit that criteria?

>>3981878
Maybe, it had some redeeming elements but I always remembered it wasn't a real VtM game

>>3981987
Unfortunate

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>>3981989
>comparing the perfect and natural beauty of the futanari female to hormone-taking, surgery-having trannies
Had it not been for the laws of this land, I would have slaughtered you.

>>3979758
>apk
the problem is that you must edit the .json and another file to avoid the demo or test chapters that's is the part I can't remember

>>3979461
You were supposed to embrace the will not fuck aliens.

>>3982042
I'm sure grandpa is proud watching his grandson fuck blue pussy.

>>3982145
He is only really proud when you win duels

>>3982145
I'd be surprised if that guy could ever actually be proud of you, considering he thinks you're the son of a whore
>>3982149
If he wanted me to win duels then he should have let me train with swords instead of being gay about the whole thing

>>3982156
He unironically thinks you're based on the noble route.

I like the commoner ending in Brante where you play the rebels and give them up to the secret police and the entire end game conflict doesn't happen

>>3982171
Interesting, I guess I antagonized him too much for that.
>>3982344
I'll have to play through Priest and Commoner later after I try to get my family ennobled and resolve the revolution peacefully instead of uniting the family and having everyone die

Priest is the best route if you want a real power fantasy.

>>3982374
>mogged by the retarded brother

Browsing cogdemos, God I fucking that tmaty/Thato Matabane. Why does this cunt keep spamming the site with a billion shitty works that are unfinished even by demo standards? Can't he stick to one thing at least? It'd still be bad, but I at least wouldn't be baited into thinking there is something new to check out.

>>3982374
>just end the game earlier to become a third god
Eh. A well played noble route is more satisfying.
>save your stupid mother
>elevate your house and shake hands with your cool bro
>marry your worthless sister off and keep communicating so she can be happy and engage in her artsy fartsy nonsense
>turn your useless bro into a prophet
>team up with grandpa to kill a blue nigger
>become the emperor's right hand man
Yup, now that's kino.

>>3981987
Add to that the fucking:
>Follow the Sacred Narrative

I can't get into any of the orcguys projects. I'm trying out the demo for ash and fire and it's just boring.

>>3982392
Too much branching unironically, not focused and distant.

>>3982392
I found myself getting more into them when I forced myself to read further and digest the lore/setting jargon.

>>3982392
I like them because he actually remembers that these are games

Started playing Sleeper Citizen II and so far it's a straight upgrade to the first game. And I enjoyed the first game.

Less of a blank slate start tho.

>>3982374
Even without the secret ending I felt like a badass whenever I had to team up with that paladin and got to use my silver 'fuxk you' cards.

>>3982378
Nathan was based

>>3982374
>a world where magic and miracles exist
Wizard/priest builds are always the best.

>>3982380
>team up with grandpa to kill a blue nigger
You can do that? How do you even?

>>3982493
I think you just need a good relationship with him and to do the Blood Tide ritual in his crypt. When you fight the bluenigger he'll power you up since he's basically a part of you now.

>>3982496
Ah but I could never betray my good friend and nigga the prefect

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i am playing a story with an ai and it is better than 90% of the gayslop i endured

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games or CYOA where i could impregnate a trans girl? and raise a family with her? just something wholesome you know?

>>3982524
You'd be better off focusing on your other hobbies or reading an actual book frogbro

>poma and AC
>both like a million plus words long now
>no thousand year old loli master in either of them
Can't reach the apex.

>>3982533
>loli
Cog will instaban you.

>>3982534
Sue them for discrimination against lithe and petite women. You need to turn the virtue signaling back on them. "Oh you think women need to have this bodytype? You are such a mysognistic chud."

>>3982533
Nicky could 100% get away with it.

>>3982534
So anon has no excuse now.

>>3982534
We've been over this, it's okay when Infinity and Book does it
Anon's not on Cog though, he has no excuse

>>3982533
>loli
Anons here were crying about Wang and his inclusion of a possible age disparity between the Dragoon and the Fiancé, no way either of those tools would add loli to their game lol.

>>3982543
That's less about loli and more about Wang being a giant fucking faggot.

>>3982534
Just use twine lol

>>3982542
>Anon's not on Cog though, he has no excuse
Pretty sure he's not into small and flat women so he'll never do it.

>>3982547
How do you get paid though? Patron will ban you too, not sure about itch but my guess is they too

>>3982550
There is vastly worse stuff on patreon than a woman in a text-only game being described as small and flat.

>>3982550
>ESL
Just… don’t explicitly state ages or describe their body type too much?
Look at DoL, as soon as the developers stopped mentioning the players age, retards automatically assumed the PC and other characters were aged up. Be vague if anything

Can you do the Mei route in Poma without going full cuck? To be honest, if you can tie her down and rape her like in classic xianxia stories for daring to poison you it would be kino, but from the threadreading of Mei content I've done you can only do her route if you basically act as her slave.

Thoughs on a tiny and flat dark elf?

>>3982556
Nah, you can safely ignore all that shit and act like you're way above her (which you are).

>>3982556
It's actually how you fail her route.
Your relationship with her is almost purely transactional, she just tries to kill you if you act the simp.

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>>3982558
It's mostly shit like this, where all options are you simping.

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What's the correct choice here, morally speaking?

>>3982561
Chuddy…. Maybe my English is failing me, but how are any of those options cucking out or simping for Mei Mei?

>>3982566
To begin with, even when being in an "alliance" with Mei and trying to fuck her, I wouldn't really give a shit about someone blackmailing her. I would like an option to blackmail her in that girl's stead or to do something else to my benefit. Mindlessly helping Mei seems like a losing proposition.

>>3982556
>To be honest, if you can tie her down and rape her like in classic xianxia stories for daring to poison you it would be kino
Finally someone gets it but that will never happen. Niggolai is too much of a cuck to write something like that, and too much of a simp for his own character to let her suffer reasonable consequences for her actions. He will cut out the other characters specifically so he can focus on writing her.

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people throw around the terms cucking and simping way too liberally now

>>3982575
Helping out a woman who poisoned you the first time you met her and who is obviously looking to betray you the first chance she gets for the chance to get even a crumb of pussy is the very definition of simping.

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First time reading povs. I am only becoming more certain that Nicky regrets not writing from Tang Ruo's perspective. They really feel like the real protagonist.

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>>3982582
I know there are discrepancies between how someone thinks and how they act, but Tang Ruo here feels like a completely different character. Feels like Nicky made them nicer for some patreon fanservice, because you never see even a tiny fraction of this thought process in the actual story.

>>3982582
The entire game needs to be redone

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>>3982583
Ah it's even worse than I thought. Tang Ruo could've won at any time and just decided to lose for fun. Piss off, Nicky.

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>>3982586
This part is still as hilarious as ever. I know Nicky retconned this as "aktschually, they never touched the concubines" ever since female Tang Ruo has been an option, but that just sounds like immense cope.

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>>3982586
>I could do THAT, do THE THING
>hmm, no, not THE THING
Hate this trope so much

>>3982588
I thought with the lightning transformation and without any of their artifacts, the MC would've been temporarily stronger than Tang Ruo, but nope, they just gifted the MC a win out of boredom. Horrible writing, honestly.

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I always feel like there's a lack of middle ground options in POMA. You can often tell people to piss off or punch them (always a mistake in this game) or be a sycophant, but not a normal person.

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>>3982594
Why is my Ruo turning into a tranny mid sentence?

Also, this really encapsulates the problem with the game. This guy fake surrenders and then tries to kill you when you turn around, and nobody does anything. Then when I choke him a bit in the next page, not even intending to kill him, this Yang faggot shows up and tries to aura farm on me. It's like the sect rules only ever apply to the MC, everyone else is free to do whatever they want.

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And this is why I can never go the Mei route. The most obvious poisoning of all time yet somehow she's still larping to the very end. I would respect her more if she actually admitted it. How has nobody ever killed her until now?

>>3982594
>>3982597
>Why is my Ruo turning into a tranny mid sentence?
This is a problem in almost every single game with selectable gender characters, no one proofreads their shit

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>kill some bandits
>get a devil breakout
Are you telling me every cultivator in the world has these devil breakouts? Because all of these guys kill 100x more than me.

>From what my research has shown, Devil State triggers after a Martial Artist loses control. Now, such a loss can occur due to a variety of reasons: trauma, loss, grief, or, the most common for a Breakout to occur, when a human gives in to his most violent, darkest desires. It's exactly the latest cause — and the fact that Beasts, unlike sentient Spirits, can't have Breakouts — that forces me to think that Devil State is tied, at least partially, to our humanity and consciousness. When the link between our mind and our body shatters as a result of intense emotions, the Devil, which I theorize is present inside each and every one of us from birth, gets loose.
Yeah fuck you Nicky, that bandit killing scene had zero emotion.

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I am interested in possibly working together with Mei - everyone in this setting is an asshole anyway, so maybe I can forgive the poisoning if she makes it up to me. But it's ridiculous that you need to ignore it to even start her route. If I pick the first option I get -99 rep and she still larps as innocent, and I cannot take any of the other options without feeling like a cuck. Working with her requires meeting her in a secondary location - there's no reason why you wouldn't expect a trap there. So going for Mei just feels like making your MC a low IQ retard simp.

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>>3982603
Like good lord, what is this? You've got the moralfag option (one of those wouldn't have met her in the first place), the coward option, and the retard options. Where's the option to ask what is in it for me? At this point the MC knows she's just bullshitting, and there is no grudge with Long Chen. Why do I have to help Mei Mei /for free/ like I'm some 4chan janitor? Really not beating the accusations of this being the simp route.

>>3982605
>>3982603
Because you are still a frog in the well, junior

>all this autistic screeching over a game
Maybe it would be best if jannies nuked these threads forever

Forgot your signature again!

>>3982608
I'm trying my best to get through this because people said you can do her route without drinking the koolaid, but those seem like straight up lies. To even start her route you have to be a complete Mei Mei simp, because you're helping her with her plan to kill Long Chen, who you do not have a grudge with, for no benefit to yourself (you'll only get a powerful enemy), right after she poisoned you. The only characterization I can come up with for this sort of MC is that they got heart eyes and a massive boner when looking at Mei and turned off their brain afterwards. This is peak simping. Even the Rent A Girlfriend MC is better since at least he gets a pretend gf from it.

>>3982603
>unable to say "hello" or "what do you want" without feeling like a cuck
Brainrotted beyond recovery. Nicky's writing is retarded, but being unable to express why without resorting to 4chan buzzword slurry isn't doing you any favours.

>>3982614
Are you retarded? This bitch poisoned me and tried to get my heartsblood to "help" me afterwards. Yeah sure the next time she asks me to jump I'll only ask "how high?".

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Oh nice, I got a demon in my head now because I killed like three bandits total. I am sure all other cultivators are also dealing with this nonsense and it's not just a retarded MC-only nerf.

>>3982615
>Are you retarded?
Are you? What the fuck are you even complaining about?
>saying "hello" makes me feel like a cuck
Then pick the option where you confront her about it.
>b-but that gives me negative relationship points!
So?
It's not that hard, nigger.

>>3982621
If you could read, you would understand that I'm saying the entire Mei route is cucking you because you can only act as a cuck if you want to stay on it. But you're obviously just shitposting.

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Ah, here it is. Possibly the worst scene in the entire game. If someone asks what Poma is about, show them the Ai wolf scene and they will understand.

>>3982612
>'m trying my best to get through this because people said you can do her route without drinking the koolaid, but those seem like straight up lies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

>>3982623
No one cares about your commentary, stop spamming fag

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So Nicky DOES understand that Mei is supposed to give you something in exchange for risking your life to injure Long Chen (Mei already said the pill won't kill him) and gaining a strong enemy? Why not let the MC bring this up beforehand instead of hoping for some crumbs like a good little cuck?

>>3982625
I like the art that one guy made of Mei so if anything I'm biased a bit towards here (the fact that she's the only RO with content also helps). But the story simply is like this.

>>3982626
I am so sorry for taking up the scarce resource that is thread space in this thread that can go hours without posts at any time, for a hobby that can go without good new games or updates for months at a time.

>>3982629
You're making it too obvious.

>>3982627
How many ascensions until you are not kicked around by half the seniors that pop up?

>>3982630
And you forgot your signature again.

Member when back in 2024 people only talked about Poma?

I care about dumpanon spergouts

>>3982633
It was promising for all of one or two updates because with barely any content Nicky could hide that he had no idea what he was doing. Sadly POMAstocks have been in freefall ever since.

>>3982622
>saying "hello" is being a cuck because I'm a mindbroken retard
rumao

>>3982626
I do. Games need to be criticised when they deserve it, and PoMA was the golden boy of IF for a long time. If anything, it's overdue.

>>3982639
Now you're making it too obvious.

>>3982637
Saying hello (or calling her your favorite alchemist) to someone who tried to poison you like nothing happened is in fact cucked behaviour. If you hate the word so much you can say pathetic or spineless instead
I hate phoneposting

>>3982633
Even from the start there were issues. Remember that he originally wanted it to be a freeroam game.

>>3982645
I have dumped all of the relevant sections so far in this thread. "Threadreader" in this case means as much as normal reader. And he's right. Ignoring an attempt at your life is indeed very cucked. Especially considering what happens after that.

>>3982645
I'll stop being a phoneposter tomorrow when I get up from bed
You, however, will be a retard forever