Tips from the creator
Posted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 3:45 pm
Some tips that may be useful to playing the game:
- Even if things start going wrong, it's generally a good idea to continue playing until the game and/or episode ends. Often you will see new content, get more information about the characters and often also get hints about what went wrong. Other times you will get information that may help you on other paths, or sometimes you may just learn something interesting about the universe. On occasion, you may find that there is a way to recover and continue on a new and interesting path.
- Easy and Medium levels restrict content and most achievements are disabled, but they can be useful for helping to get to know the characters better.
- The characters will react differently in many places based on their mood, how much they like you, your reputation, and your actions in the past. Sometimes small things build over time.
- There are three levels of paths in the game.
- Easy paths are generally, well, easy. They have multiple routes to success. These paths are slow burners, meaning that it may be further into the game on these paths before the girls get too naughty. Easy paths will generally converge to a single ending. Failing an easy path usually resorts to losing your relationship with that character.
- Standard paths are moderately difficult. They also have multiple routes to success and are considered the main routes for casual players. Failure on a standard path usually drops down to an easy path. Standard paths will converge to a few different endings.
- Elite paths are for the hardcore players. The ones who like a challenge. To succeed on the elite paths takes an in-depth, intimate knowledge of each character. Elite paths come in two categories,
- Perfect Paths, are exactly what they sound like. Perfect, no mistakes, maximum relationship with a character. A mistake on a Perfect path generally drops the player down to a Standard path. Each love interest has one perfect path. In a few instances, there are perfect paths involving more than one character.
- Corruption Paths, are a bit more complicated. These are the hardest paths in the game requiring a familiarity with the character where you know them better than they know themselves, and can give them there innermost desires that they themselves may either be unaware of, or actively repressing. In this context, corruption only means change. A mistake on a corruption path will either end the relationship, or in some cases, end the game. Every character has a single Corruption path, and there are no multi-character corruption paths, although occasionally another character may assist.
- There are no "gotchas" or "hidden selections" in the game, even on the Perfect and Elite paths. Every selection and option should make sense and be explainable, especially when you know the characters.
- Each of the women is unique, with different desires, motivations, goals, and personalities. Getting to know them and understand them is critical to success. As the game progresses through the episodes, characters will often reflect on past events and give insight to their reactions. They have their own story-lines and they will progress through those story-lines even if you don't interact with them much. Your actions will influence what happens in their stories to some extent. It will also influence how they react to you later. An easy example is if the criteria are met for Emily to arrive at the Bar on Wednesday, she will do so whether Brad is there or goes to the Strip Club. How Emily reacts to Brad the next day is different based on three possibilities.
- Emily didn't go to the bar
- Emily went to the bar and met Brad.
- Emily went to the bar and Brad wasn't there.