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Obviously a bit early so not likely anyone does, but on the off chance, does anyone know if there's liable to be more light-hearted content in next update? I'm not saying this as a criticism, but I personally found that the content in this update was too heavily weighted towards serious situations, and in several cases downright depressing.

Don't get me wrong, as an author myself, I think the story in this update for the characters makes sense in a narrative sense. There wasn't anything wrong with it. But I just felt the extremely 'heavy' nature of the content, especially with Maria and Android, was kinda too much in one go without any more light-hearted content to balance it out. Whilst the nature of the world in the game means there will be serious sections, the overall feel I get from the game as a whole is more fun, and this update didn't balance well towards that. Even the Ash event, which you'd think would have ended with a more cheerful vibe, kind of felt sad, even at the end.

Sorry if that seems critical, don't mean it to. Just wondering if we're going to see a bit less doom-and-gloom in the next update, because this one was just a bit too depressing for me :) Obviously with android event and Maria's situation in particular, there's going to be some more seriousness to come, but I'm hoping the next one's just not THIS heavy again.

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I can't tell you what content I'll be adding in v0.13 specifically, but a big theme in this game is fixing people, healing mental scars, that sort of thing. The MC has helped the women in the hotel a lot, but the world is still a bad place, and every character will have a reason to want to change the world into something better. You saw two good examples in Maria and Android this update.


In v0.13, android's next event may involve the philosophy what it means to be alive in an android's body, which may not be the most cheerful event. After this little arc though, she will grow as a person and be happier.


Growing as a person after being knocked down is also a repeating theme in Harem Hotel, so please continue to expect that :)

As for Ashley's event, I intended it to be uplifting. She woke up depressed that morning, not knowing why, and it ended as one of the best and most memorable days of Ashley's life.

Yeah, didn't want to know specifically about events, just general mood :) As said in original post, wasn't trying to be critical, because it was a very well written story, and fits into the world well. It's not the darker mood content in itself I had an issue with, just felt it was a little too much depressing  stuff in one go, because up until now been a good mix of lighter and darker content, and this one was almost all heavy. Just jarring in comparison to that previous content - e.g. the Lin event in 0.11 (I think, sorry if wrong patch) with queen being offset by the Felicity/Emma/Ash stuff.

And yeah, got the Ash event was meant to be uplifting at end. Sorry, badly worded that in original post. Just that the crying/memory kind of made it seem less cheerful than I expected it to end, even if she was technically happy.