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ALREADY???? LES GO CAN'T WAIT FOR THE UPDATE :D also congrats on getting to the climax of Devils Gambit! 

it's weird knowing the game is nearly done. I want to say something emotional and deep but I'm blanking hard.

so instead, I'm just gonna go with thank you. thank you Dyne for sharing this story and continuing to update it all these years. this is a game I cherish deeply and know will stick with me for a very very long time. from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

if your concerned about a game possibly being abandoned, check the devs social media's. it's how I usually decide if a game has been abandoned or not. 

Congrats on the 2 year anniversary! :D

I think it's exclusively the CG's, not the scenes. could be misreading tho

nice job getting it all done! gonna be sick when it comes out, but with the option to get it on itch, it is gonna be like a separate game uploaded to your account or some kinda donation thingy on the main page?

YAY :D

I think it's supposed to say "Hakan's eyes bulge out at you, you almost think they would pop out of his skull." and it's not a you you typo, just missing an ,

55K WORDS?????? Y'ALL WENT HARD ON THIS HOLY SHIT. also congrats on getting this far, and thanks for sharing this story and journey with us. this is an amazing story and we all appreciate the effort you've all been putting into it! we're all looking forward to this. July can't come fast enough XD

when the game's done do you intend to put it on Steam like some of your other titles or is this gonna be like a Itch exclusive?

starting with Storm and Pedro, the redesigns are really fucking cool. this feels like I'm being a little on the nose but they look a lot more.... mythical, and holy shit the Argos picture looks SICK! then there's the cobalts getting unique designs??? and said redesigns are ADORABLE???? peak.

plus there are PLANS FOR A RELEASE DATE THIS WEEK? we are being spoiled rotten it would appear. thank y'all greatly!

I wanna answer your question with an actual answer, but nobody knows what's going happen except Hyao. I mean a LOT of us hope what your asking about happens, but no one has any idea if it will, and while there is a good bit of evidence that leads toward that being a possible outcome, the evidence isn't solid enough to be absolutely certain it'll happen or if it won't due to a lack of other sources/samples/examples to actually confirm our theory.

meaning it could be just major cope from us lol. 

hey just realized I never found out how to become the tender of the Garden, I'm blanking hard does anyone remember how to do it?

Bottom Route Logan, just go check out under the tavern and go to the area you mine diabosite. you need to have given Blake the Diabosite first tho. i got it at night past 23:00

disregard my previous comment, it has a CG and you just gotta go to where Blake get ore's when he's not in his smithy/house

I don't know exactly what I'm talking about, but from what I know on the regular download and the 32 one, it's about your operating system. most computer's are either 32 bit, or 64 bit. it's just what your system runs, you can check in device settings I think?

YEAH IT'S OUT :D

congrats on the first CG!!! gonna be fun to check it out, especially since I'm pretty sure I know which scene it is. gonna laugh at myself if I get it wrong again like I did with guessing literally anyone but Ulrich was gonna be the secret route lol

also is the gallery mode gonna have Legacy stuff like the old sprites or are those just going to be retired for good? 

edited to add: I found the CG and after got curious about the expression's so I decided to check other scenes in my Drellis saves and got a visual glitch where Drellis' and Aelfric's head kinda just vanished and all the sprites got launched to the top of the screen. I think I should start a new save if I wanna see the new expression's XD

also Aelfric was naked on a new save. like the entire time, all his clothes are gone. they came back on day 3

for the CG before and During, Balto's sprite was fine. because of that I'm gonna check if Balto and Trax's routes still send the sprites up or if maybe they aren't affected. also Balto and Trax on the bugged scene's did keep there head's. 

updating this: I checked Balto and Trax on random saves did also get put farther back/further up on the background, even when it's only there sprites. I don't know why Balto's CG scene didn't send him up though. and restarting did fix everyone's sprites so I got to Aelfric's new expression stuff, he looks great! gonna check Drellis soon now.

(CG was great btw, looked awesome :D)

what happened to the images??? they were working on the first day of the update.... now they are just like gone??

genuinely cannot wait this is gonna be fucking AWESOME.

I think I heard somewhere that the Dev for this and the Dev for another VN called Distant Travels started working together, so maybe they are focused on DT and plan to work on this one later?

ye it is, thank you!

I'm pretty sure you can just play the SFW version if you don't wanna see the NSFW stuff.

after a certain questline is finished you can just walk through to the areas over there ignoring the caves. I think it's the orc war one where you fight an important character I'd rather not mention as it's a possible spoiler.

yeah, the Antilycan just makes it so they can remain in control at all times even when transformed. it's not a true cure.

it doesn't do anything bad CURRENTLY, but it WILL someday in the future as it's a red option and those always have a consequence later on. 

and for who can you date the answer is literally any and every character you meet that has a relation log. not reputation, relation.  if you want to know if you'll eventually be able to romance a character, just check that. if they have one, they can eventually be someone you'll date. listing them all would take a minute and I am entirely sure I wouldn't be able to remember them all off hand lol. 

for the love triangle thing, it might happen more often later with other character's, but currently it's just a special event between us, Bernard and Logan where we have to choose which of the 2 we wanna go on a date with. you can still do the event with the other person even after you've done the first date with the first person. 

also there is no limit to how many people you can romance. I've gotten a LOT of hearts lol, maybe someday it'll bite me in the ass, but at the same time it prolly won't because one of the main appeals of this is the sex stuff, and limiting your options in a game like this would be a bad move.

this is happening for me too, could it be the weird 1 GB storage thing with Itch from a long time ago causing it again?

most likely, yes. 

also I just realized I missed something about your original comment, Logan remains a werewolf even after being giving wolves bane. same for Bernard. it just helps keep them in Bareshade and not go to the forest. so unless you mean you want both Logan and Bernard in your dungeon, it's prolly better to just give the wolves bane to the person you chose. 

also if you are going for them both in the dungeon, having sex with them will eventually have a consequence. it's not in game yet, but the game warns us that it will happen in the future.

something funny though, you have no need to worry about actually curing them as right now there is no way to get Logan and Bernard back to being purely human. just to have better control over themselves.

pretty sure not giving the wolves bane doesn't do anything later on, just gives you a "likes you less" thing and or makes them lose like you gained. only way to cut off the routes would be getting the black heart as far as I know. if you wanna be safe, just give them it after reloading a save, but I'm pretty sure your good.

and no. it's been asked a lot but it would take.... a while to update everything. maybe after the game is completed as a DLC or something but currently no it is not planned from what we fans are aware of.

Papa Bear. whether we spell it how Asterion said it before or if we spell it normal idc I just need to see him react to us ACTUALLY going for that as a nickname.

but like more serious suggestion I've got Muse. he's an artist and he already gets inspired by us just existing, why not let him call us his living inspiration, and we call him ours?

nice job getting those other one's! I am not certain but I was able to unlock the ability from Silas so I think we just need to spam the ever loving shit out of it until he has new dialog and tells us we maxed it or something. if I get it I'll edit this reply with how.

ohhhhh I kept trying to recreate it by closing and reopening the game or trying to see if catching up on routes was the requirement when that didn't work, it being the day in game makes way more sense lmao

got curious and wanted to know exactly when the title changes and it seems like you just need to trigger the moon phase animation/day change to change the time on the title screen. I thought you just had to load a save from that moon but if it doesn't trigger the animation it seems like it stays whatever you left it on before you loaded that save. now I'm more curious so I'm gonna be checking what all the moon's change. it's always fun finding stuff when you think your done/caught up :3

I just loaded up the game and suddenly the title screen changed to all the howler's at night shifted into werewolves instead of the other one I usually see where it's all of them hanging out in the day when they aren't transformed, is it random and I coincidentally had it happen at night or is this like a feature where at night the title screen changes? cause either way it was very neat to stumble across!

(I also had no idea there was a version of the title screen with Balto and Aelfric transformed, I thought it was only Trax, Drellis and us lol)

for Safe Passage you need to say the Name (Spoiler so i'm redacting it but it'll be at the end of this comment) to the Minotaur the first time you meet him. it's been a while since I got that achievement so I'm not certain it hasn't been changed but that should still be the method from what I remember.

Shifting Ideal's you need to meet the Doppleganger thing in the mirror in the castle place once without Corruption and then once with Corruption. it'll switch from a corrupted reflection for the not corrupted you and a not corrupted reflection when you are corrupted. I don't remember the amount needed for the corruption but to be safe maybe like 100? or whenever you get kicked out of the base area for being too corrupted.

I don't have the other 3 so I can't help, I'm sorry. but from what I remember Silas is the Naga dude and the Patron of Silas achievement talks about "Reawaken Forbidden Knowledge of the Bastion" so maybe it's something that Silas needs to talk about then we can find it?

the Name is Tiadane

they don't even like you accepting that women play the game???? how the hell could you even deny it or prevent it? just say "oh btw girlies you gotta go" and magically they all just vanish? 

also I had no idea you were dating someone let alone MARRIED until recently when I stumbled across your twitter post about it, congrats on that! I hope y'all stay happy.

and seriously, what is even the issue with character's being Bisexual in a gay game if that part isn't even important to the story or mentioned anywhere other than outside as a side detail? it's not like your trying to force us to stare at women's tits/vagina's or switching the genre to suddenly be straight.... 

and how does making a character Bisexual make you Bisexual? I'm gay and I've written some stories in my head that were straight, does this mean I am no longer gay? and also why did they specify mutt? cause your OC is a dog? are they trying to use mutt as a slur against Dog Furry OC's??? didn't ever expect furry species racism to become a thing but... I guess we reached that point. (and just to clarify Bisexual people are wonderful and valid, if you are bisexual that's good for you and I'm glad you know who you are and who you love, there is NOTHING wrong with bisexual people.) 

also they started rumors your going to cheat on your husband with women because your character's are bisexual and your fine with women playing your game? the more I hear about these people the less I understand.... that's like saying because a gay guy is gay he will cheat because he like men or saying because a guy is straight he'll cheat because he likes women. sexual orientation and affair's have nothing to do with each other. cheating is exclusive to loser's who don't care about other people's feelings.

and lastly I 100% understand that fear keeping you silent, I am so sorry you had to go through that and hope those people realize that women aren't a threat or anything negative to gay spaces. they are just women. people. we all live here and all exist, they don't want to take away gay spaces they just wanna interact with a game they like. plus this space was never specifically stated as exclusively for gay people, it's just very clearly catered towards gay people as the main demographic.

and isn't inclusivity what we want in real life? if we shun or judge people because they aren't like us, are we not doing the exact same thing we want to stop happening to us to another group?  it's hypocritical. 

Human, it's also not likely we'll ever get lycanthropy or any other races due to how many things would need major changes/to be updated with the new character details.

wait since when does he have a second heart event??? 

I saw the update and was uber excited. completely forgot where we left off and now I'm sobbing lmao. still excited as fuck tho

I found 9 total on my best run, 1-8 and 11, but I'm pretty sure it's not a glitch and I meant to ask if it is in game yet and I needed to focus more on trying to get the achievement or not, thank you for responding!

editing I found out they apparently all collect across saves when you check the stuff in the main menu because now I have like 90% of them and I know full well I did not get that many in one run lmao 

is it possible to get the achievement for the clay tablets? so far I've gotten most of the other achievements (minus the ruthless master ones because I'm a major wuss and a few other achievements I'm working on) but in all of them I was half focused on trying to get artifacts/the tablets as well as other achievements but haven't been able to. is it possible and I'm just sorta messing it up and need to focus it more?

also Speedrunner is my absolute favorite route nothing can convince me scaring the shit out of Argos wasn't worth it.

I remember seeing Ulrich in my Aelfric save. why did I not think of him as a possible candidate for the secret route SOJDHFA

also his route answered a question I had about this games lore, and or could werewolves be born as werewolves and it's neat to know they can be! but now I'm curious how genetics affect the curse..... could some people be born more resistant to it so they turn a lot later in life or some have less resistance and turn earlier? would a full werewolf be able to tell if they met someone who was resistant and didn't know they were a werewolf? 

idk if we'll get the answers but it's fun to think about! good update :D