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(Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong or outdated!)

The threshold mechanic has the (intended?) effect of increasingly softlocking you towards the path you pick in your early choices. Like, if you go through a few reluctant choices, you can barely dial things up later on, and viceversa.

I think it works for continuity's sake, I'm totally ok with doing several runs of the game. But maybe I want my darling to really explode out of their shell, or have a sudden bout of shyness? ;3

Could be cool to add a cheat mode to be able to pick the scene variant you wanna read. Maybe a 'New Game+'?

LilySauce286 days ago(+2)

Hi! Please take this message with a grain of salt, since I'm talking about plans for things that are much later in the game's progression and development, as well as very tentative, possible ideas. :)

Both "paths" ("reluctant scenes" and "eager scenes") are meant to gradually nudge the protagonist towards self-acceptance and self-exploration (in regards to both gender and sexuality).

...So they're planned to eventually end up at a similar destination anyways plot-wise - probably with some specifics of it defined by player choices.

I've considered the idea of having optional and repeatable stat increases which are gated to a degree by story progression. If this idea were implemented, it would allow the protagonist to accelerate towards "eager" scenes during a playthrough that had previously been more "reluctant" (but not the other way around), if the player wished. I don't know if it will actually be implemented or not, but it's a possible consideration. It's also possible that the game's stat gains in general may eventually be rebalanced, but we'll have to see.

That idea of having some sort of unlockable mode where the player could directly choose whether the scene is "reluctant" or "eager" could be interesting. I'll have to think about it more. :)

Miriada285 days ago (2 edits) (+1)

Repeatables that increase points up to a capped amount may be the optimal choice, since I'm guessing most people will want to "upgrade" from reluctant to eager path (unless they are heavily role-playing and self-inserting, imagine that, how crazy, haha...ah...) But we'll see, we'll see 👀

Pesha205 days ago (1 edit)

Personally, I like how this was solved in "Star Knightess Aura", which is also an RPG Maker game here on itch. There is an extra room after you finish where you can replay each scene again, not unlike the "Lewd Book" pocket dimension. Only with full context and visuals. And only after the game. There you can choose what level of content you wanna see before the scene. Perhaps you can implement something similar some time in the future.

LilySauce204 days ago (1 edit)

Hi! It's possible that the ability to replay lewd scenes might be implemented in the future, but it's not an urgent priority for me at the moment. It would require a decent amount of work to implement (especially for certain scenes), due to how integrated with the rest of the game a lot of the scenes are.

That said, I think "replayable lewd scenes" is something that is perhaps likely to be implemented eventually.
Thanks for playing! :)

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