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Hello there. A third party is joining the conversation. ;-)

I can agree with damalon, various seemingly important choices feels to be superficial or with minimal effect. My personal option is, that this isn't something bad but a perfect example of "illusion of choice", something necessary in game development, also in Triple-A-Games. So maybe with that in mind, we can all agree and appreciate what we get here for free. Made by someone within hundredths of hours of free time.

And I think damalon made clear, he likes the game in general and this is just his personal quirk, where he dislike this "illusion of choice" stuff and he is aware about this personal preference. So NoGlory, don't be disheartened about it, you can be proud of what you created.

Finally, a suggestion or my thought about this topic: Some other AVNs offer a "story mode" option, where all choices are made automatically. This might be easy to implement, as you just need to define a default choice everywhere, choosen if the "story mode" is active or displaying the selection as it is now if in "normal mode". I think this is something people like damalon would like, and you would be able to implement.

So for, thats my 2 cent. Have a nice day guys!

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Elegantly put Itchiofv, thank you.

Indeed 'Illusion of Choice' is something that annoys me greatly and yes its just a personal preference. I speak only for myself in all that I say.

May I add that this is one of the few times someone else has brought up the term 'Illusion of Choice' before I have.

Lastly, your suggestion of a 'Story Mode' is a good one. Of course thats more work instead of less... :P

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You're welcome. I'm happy my interference was helpful.

Since Mass Effect 3, many players know the term "Illusion of Choice", and having bad experience with it. I was also upset there, with this three colored unepic climax. Nowadays I can laught about it, because it was don kind of comically stupid. I guess you would have run amok.



If in a future version of Astreon, we ever come across a choice between a red, green or blue door. We know NoGlory is mocking us (or ME3) now. :-D

Hah! I remember that 'choice'! I was just glad it was finally all over!

I mean I loved Mass Effect but 3 was definitely the weakest in the franchise. No Andromeda doesn't exist, not in my world.

Believe it or not there are times I can just switch my brain off and chill :P 

For example: I like Starfield. I loved Cyberpunk 2077, even though the epilogue/s made me sad. #JohnnySilverhandisadick!

By the way I am interested in what kid of VN you consider good enough to recommend 🧐. It’s really Genuine interest. I have been running low on them these days and I would appreciate a helpful hand of a seasoned veteran in these things. I haven played as many games as I would like. 

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There are a number of AVNs I consider good enough to recommend to other people: 

5 stars: Crimson High (Simple graphics, very fast dev time, fantastic story, very responsive and understanding dev), DropOut Saga (Amazing story, average dev time, nice graphics), The Inn (Hilarious story, good dev time, nice graphics).

4 stars: New Antioch (Nice graphics and interesting story, inconsistent dev times), Pale Carnations (Beautiful graphics, interesting story, very long dev times, devs never respond to fanbase on itch, body types of the girls are basically the same), Projekt: Passion (Funny story, fairly interesting story, reasonably fast dev times, good graphics).

3 stars: A Foreign World (Nice graphics, responsive Dev, reasonably fast dev times, story is ok), Genex Love 1 + 2 (Simple graphics, cewl story, actual gameplay involved rather than just pick a path choices, frustratingly long or inconsistent dev times).

Thanks for your help 

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Oh, this sounds like a really good idea tbh... In the future, I will add this feature to the game 😄