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Oh, I think those are just text errors. I don't think you did anything wrong or out of order.

The sequence of major arcs unlocks in order. It's possible to go back to things that you never finished, but not skip over entire arcs -- there are a few arcs that you can miss based on your choices, but they can't be returned to if you do. If you're noticing inconsistencies, it's probably because you started a quest line and never finished it (or the next part just isn't implemented yet) before moving on to another. Or, you might be just reading text for an event that already happened, regardless of how long ago, but those instances should be pretty obvious.

Though, TBH, the story is starting to branch out more, and it's possible the order might be less fixed once more arcs are complete.

Unless you're talking about the Harmonia University arc? That arc certainly doesn't make any sense time-wise, but it never will unless you're actually locked into it, which wouldn't be very fun.

Good faith self-identification is valid. The issue is that a lot of straight cis men pretend to "identify" as women or gay in bad faith.

Zero of them are. Did you even play the game?

This is not even fucking English and he thinks I'm the reason that nothing he's saying makes any sense to me...

A guy who is saying he wants to play as a straight man pretending to be gay is claiming to be angry that I said he *is* a straight man pretending to be gay, and doesn't see the irony at all.

You're an absolute piece of shit.

...Yeah, ChaosEight is absolutely a straight man pretending to be gay by saying what he mistakenly thinks gay people like, and claiming that it's a common desire of gay men, when the reality is that it's a common desire of power hungry rapists regardless of sexual identity.

Wow, you are blindingly idiotic. I should have just blocked you the first time you spewed utter nonsense on this page.

Uh... It's 2 to 1 right now, dude. If you're playing numbers, get the numbers on your side. You claim it's "well known" and "not obscure" but it's extremely uncommon in gay media in my experience, and you really need to dig deep to find a single instance in gay media.

I mean... I see that a lot in mostly-straight games by fully straight authors who include one not-actually-gay M/M route option and call it gay because they think that's what being gay is like, but I'm pretty sure the reason it's not common in media aimed at gay men is that actually, no, most gay men have zero interest in that trope. Which is not to say none do, but... I really don't think it's anywhere near as common of a fantasy as you're suggesting.

Copy the link text instead of clicking on it. The link text was updated, but not the link itself for some reason.

Yeah, I can see how someone can still enjoy it. Personally, just knowing that ruined my enjoyment of the game. But that wouldn't be the case for everyone. And it sounds like you probably enjoyed it more than I did even while I was enjoying it.

Well, yeah, the game itself doesn't give that impression at all. I only discovered it because the author himself explained what the red choices mean.

Honestly, to me Lustful Desires is too much story and not enough of either horny or meaningful gameplay choices. Shortly before I quit playing it for good, I even discovered that the dev seems to think lust is inherently evil and that's why the choices that involve increasing lust are the red "evil" choices. I didn't even realize they were color coded, since no choice is more obviously good or evil unless you consider sex to be evil.

On your last point, cheats are actually available in the public version currently. Though, I think that was an error -- I don't think they were intended to be left in the public build, since they were supposed to be Patreon exclusive.

I haven't used any, but imagine it would depend where your stats are now. Unless he specifically wanted to test edge cases, I doubt the dev would have accounted for situations that aren't actually possible without cheating, such as positive relationship with Keirys and Snake after they've already been locked out. (Though, at least in my save, Snake's actually can't be changed, but Keirys's can for some reason). So those could result in some weird situations.

Uh..."A dime *in* a dozen" isn't a phrase, and the phrase "a dime a dozen" means "so common as to be practically worthless." Pretty sure that's not what you intended.

Earth and Wind are good at moving gems, so they can definitely help you. But there's always going to be a factor of random chance. You can also get more chances at it with the Bandit Ring. Pinpoint Attack can also potentially help.

The healing kits being bugged certainly is an issue, but... I'm confused how you are having difficulty with the first mission? It's extremely easy. I've played through probably a hundred times and literally only used a healing kit once, and it definitely wasn't on the first mission. They're simply not needed, which might be why no one else has noticed this bug before... no one uses healing kits.

Yes you can. It's very easy. If there are major gamebreaking bugs, just don't release it yet. Zero people are forcing you to release prematurely.

Okay, seriously, do you even test before putting out releases? Every single update has major gamebreaking bugs. I mean, I realize I've helped you find the solution to bugs before (despite having less programming experience than you...) but it feels like you aren't even locating them despite them being extremely simple to detect just by attempting to play the game normally.

That fixed it. What seems to have happened is that the old version somehow didn't get deleted when the new version was installed, and running the installer manually actually did that check and deleted it.

Do you know why auto-updating to this version doesn't seem to work? I can see that an update is available in the app, but it fails every time.

I see. Really odd though that romancing Snake unlocks more Gravel content when Snake is clearly monogamous, which is the entire reason I didn't want to romance him. I just didn't realize that not romancing him would suddenly make him despise me and never interact with me again. Though for some reason Snake still doesn't seem to mind casual sex in the MC's bed regardless of who else I'm in a relationship with. Honestly I kinda feel most of the Snake scenes, relationship-focused or not, don't make a lot of sense and should probably be rewritten.

Okay, I guess they do. They... definitely do not use it. Ever. I wasn't even aware of it, and it's not linked anywhere that I know of. Hell, the dev may not even be aware it still exists.

They don't have a subscribestar page. I think you are confused about something, but I'm not sure what's confusing you...

??? Your comment makes absolutely no sense. There is a one hundred percent chance of a paid version being removed from itch.io but you're concerned about the paid version being on Patreon and not on itch.io?

The most updated version is on Patreon. The lowest tier is $1.50/month and does provide early access to updates. This page has the most updated free version.

I see... Well, I don't particularly want to redo the Dozer route immediately after just playing it. Maybe I'll do the Chester route first so I also get that Best Ending and unlock the poly.

That probably depends on your OS and how you installed it. But if you installed it on Windows through the itch.io client, just right click on Launch, select 'Open folder in explorer', then double click on the folder called savedata.

Do the extra scenes trigger if I load a save from any time before that scene after getting Best Ending, or would I need to restart from the beginning?

Pretty terrible walkthrough considering I also got Dozer's best ending with several radically different choices.

Dozer has a poly route? I've done Dozer's route already and didn't get that option. No matter how many times I try to say I'm completely fine with it, both Dozer and the MC seem locked to being very, very monogamous on Dozer's route, even though I know that isn't true from playing Dwayne's route.

I think I'm confused what getting the Best Ending actually does? Apparently it provides extra scenes, but would that mean I would need to replay that route to see them? There's also the implication that it might affect other routes besides that one -- so the order in which I play the routes first time might affect those routes? So far I have two Best Endings, but I'm really not sure whether the first affected the other routes I played or not.

Huh. I'm actually still confused. I know that I can no longer fund Snake in my current playthrough, so I would have to restart regardless. However, that city at the north of the map you mentioned --  that city is being rebuilt. As far as I was aware, the completion of that city hasn't been developed yet. Is it actually possible? Snake did ask me for funds, but that was in the *southern* city, not the northern city.

Ah, okay. I know how I missed that then, and I'd need to restart with different choices. I probably will restart at some point anyway, after more of these storylines are completed, so that I can do things in the proper order rather than starting tons of quests that aren't finished yet. But that will probably be  a while.

Volga. The only character you play as.

The latter two are relatively new, so it's entirely possible the flags weren't set properly. However, there was one instance for me in which a kink being disabled seemed to mean I see it once then decide whether I want to see it again. Which is a really, really weird way to handle disabling kinks, but that seemed to be how it works. Just to confirm you didn't actually enable it rather than disabling it though (because the menu isn't entirely clear which is which), disabled has the circle on the right side of a red bar, and enabled has the circle on the left side of a green bar.

I didn't get this error, but apparently other people who did get it fixed it by going to the mirror in their room.

Gravel moves to new location? Is there something specific that triggers this, or some prerequisite?