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Ooooh, that quite informative, thanks! Albeit an exponential level of tech advance can be achieved in the span of 20, i get that it can be confusing when setting the lore for both scenarios and all that. Still, the city DOES look lile something that could be built over an existing settlement and grown into a urban hell on less than a decade.

Now I wonder what would Nico could think of Elisha...choice of career. Albeit he al least is probably happy his son is loved and has a comfortable enough way of living I guess.

Design wise, I have to admit that my favorite characters are Salazar and Reno. I also noted the similar, Typhlosion-like colors in both Reno and Alister and wonder a bit if they're relatives, but I think that may be overthinking it just based on their appareance. 

Honestly, I'm quite surprised of, while the setting of the VN isn't something that I'd find myself looking after (I live on a rural-ish area and sorta hate it :v), all the characters and the whole thing feel endearing/charming on their own right.

Even guys like Merle or the veteran guy from Tros route, rough as they are, seem genuinously dunno...pleasant to be around? 

So far, Nico and Denver routes have been my favorite. Lyle's being a close third. But I have to agree with Lyle tho:

If given the chance, I'd put Nico in a cow-onesie and force him to moo :p

Just for the hilarity of it.
 

Also, is there any particular reason on why Hermes and Atlas? seem to particularly hate Cooper, while Elisha and the girl (can't remember her name, only that is long and starts with "S") seem to be fond of him. I can assume that is because Hermes is a toddler and they tend to be grumpy towards certain adults and Elisha is just nice to everyone.

Holy shit, that was almost one of a thing VN. Read this and felt tension creeping every passing moment. Going from bad to worse to even worse, only to getting that ending.

Simply amazingly done, you two.

That said, I wonder why people kept complaining about Crom's shrimp-y breath? I'm sorta used to it. The fact I live in a zone where seafood is very common and river shrimps are a staple food may have something to do with it :p 

Spoilers, avert your eyes from here if you haven't finished LC or Scavenger:

I was actually surprised of Crom getting such a happy ending, was beautiful. Also, never I though that I would despise a "freedom fighter" as much as I got to despise Sawyer. The madman almost drove his most close supporter to imminent death, and for what I got, the overall future of his group doesn't seem very bright.

Also, after playing most of Lavender County routes, and reading the Wild King stories, I wonder. How much time passed between LC and Scavenger events? 20 years, roughly? Elisha looked like 6-7 y/o in LC, Hermes like 4 or so, and Elisha seems to be on his late 20s-early 30s, while Hermes looks early-mid 20s in Scavenger. I also wonder if Nico or Aeria met Tax at some point, specially since Hermes seems acquainted with Elisha working/living at the brothel. 

Another thing that left me clueless is the city's location. Crom specifically points the chef's accent as "southerner", yet the city doesn't fit the US mainland much. Unless is one of those dystopian cyberpunk cities built on no-mans-land, like the middle of the ocean, or a unclaimed territory or the like. Or a private corporate land where no government rules apply.

I apologize if that's the perception it gives. Rather delete the comment than misled people.

Again, I an unlikely to have the full picture on the scenario.

That's the painful point. I wouldn't bring myself to truly love someone if I would know that it won't be more than a fleeting thing. Love requires commitment. Why care so much if the guy is going to die in a few decades?

Also, I call bullshit on the whole biolock thing. Were I on Rael position, and given the overall advancement of technology that the VN seems to have, I'd do anything to keep myself alive. BY ANY MEANS necesary. Making a clone and transfering the mind. Making a bio-synthetic body and doing a similar process, copying the memories into a synthetic brain and putting said brain into a synthetic body lookalike of myself. ANYTHING.

That said, I've been seeing a pattern in a lot of VN, and the biolock thing seems to follow a...unfortunate trend. The idea of taking away the player's/MC agency to put the MC an echelon down than the rest of characters, who are not subject to the same disadvantages. I see this as a bit of a shared knee-jerk reaction to the "power fantasy" trope seeing on other VN, but overall, at this point, taking agency away in places where isn't very impactful, seems irrelevant, and just makes the reader feel worse.

POTENTIAL SPOILERS?

I mean, what I take is that he potentially won't live as much as the rest of the crew. And that's the sort of thing that pisses me off (quite a lot). In a sci-fi scenario where everyone can live centuries, if not more, the MC being restricted to the default for no good reason (aside "character building") leaves a sour taste, at the very least.

And makes pursuing any love interest, well, completely irrelevant. Since the MC isn't supposed to live as long as them. Why bother on the first place?

It's a bit of a prickly subject, for me in particular, or perhaps my brain is too nitpicky on some details that are actually not very relevant. Again, if this detail is related to the plot in more depth, I won't pry further to avoid spoilers.

So far one of the best VN that I have seen as of late. Rael has to be one of my favorite MC by how well he's written and how rich his background building can be made(Sorry, Nick, but Super Nova has been on hiatus since 2024)

Still, bit of question here.

BIG SPOILER

Is the whole biolock/Carrison disease thing a relevant part of the plot, or is just a lore tidbit that was added in as part of the main character background?

Because I was merrily going trough Sam route, when I stumbled upon the line mentioning and all what it implies, and honestly, the whole thing gave me BAD vibes. I thought, that, if its just a background thing, it could be made into a yes/no background thing, like the sex/asexual thing, or every of the background picks, and the bit of convo on Sam's bit be omitted if the MC picked "yes, I have a biolock" (and no Carrison disease); on the same way, he could say "I had a biolock set at my 20-ish" when meeting the Captain.

But then I thought again. It may be a significant part of the plot/relevant plot-wise later, so it may be a thing of waiting and seeing. Still, reading that line felt dreadful. MC cannot live as long as the crew? Yep, he's gonna be killed off as per the plot at the end. Of some similar event.

The whole biolock thing (or the lack of one, actually) feels more dreadful than the whole pirate affair, IMO, and makes all the romantic interactions feel sorta...pointless?

Sorry if I'm not very articulate as I write this, as I'm not exactly very fluent on English.

In any case, whatever happens, I wish the team the best of lucks on the VN development.

No, going for that path I only get Rat Cyril joining me, and nothing else. The Rat King stays.  Spit-roating Cyril only leaves him at the rat's den, not unlike what happens with the Guardian, though the Rat King joins me in the latter scenario.

Is there a way of get both Rat Cyril and the Rat King in the Sanctuary? So far I've only able to get either Rat Rohan + normal Cyril + Rat King,  Captive Guardian (not in Sanctuary)+ normal Cyril + Rat King, enslaved Rat Cyril (not in Sanctuary) + Rat King and Rat Cyril with no Rat King.

Since when lack of interest/dissapointment means hatred? Or is ceaseless praise the only input allowed here?

If you enjoy the route as it is, good for you and anyone who thinks that way. But I came in hoping for a M/M VN, so my expectations kinda deflated on this route. If it were a side route with a side character (like the skunk woman seems to be) I wouldn't have the slightest issue except the odd irk about dates. Mind you, I even find some of the (actual) guys (namely Mark and Etienne) not much of my liking.

Also, there's nothing inherently wrong on putting a character like Hiro in stage. But I must repeat myself, why, of all reasons, his route was set at the height of the militaristic Imperial Japan era. The goddamn 30s, for crying out loud. While not impossible, is REALLY improbable. Every other character has a realistic background, except Hiro.

Oh, so I don't have the right to be dissapointed, then? It's more of a personal preferences thing, than anything else.

Hiro still has appeal from a narrative standpoint, if anything.

Whatever the case...I'm pretty sure that I'm not the only one highly dissapointed by Hiro's condition. There's more people companining about it, albeit I'm the only one that is not...well, cowed into faking at least some enthusiasm on the matter.

All in all, it seems like his situation seems a bit forced in, to have that sort of character in the history just for the sake of it. While on its own doesn't detract (nor adds) to his personality, it still feels out of place at the mid 30s.

I probably overlooked that. I always associate the term "experimental" in surgeries with cancer, life-threatening injuries or congenital issues.

Though, there is a small issue *coughs and hums* that must be noticed even if we ignore the primary and secondary sexual characteristics. Unless male and female foxes just happen to have the same pitch of voices.

With all this said, that doesn't makes my dissapointment smaller. What is done, is done, since it was the writer's prerrogative after all.

As I said below, my main issue is the dates. His route seems to happen in a decade where that sort of surgeries weren't practiced, not even in backwater...odd locations.

If it happened on the 50s or later, it would be a non-issue. As it is, seems like his condition was just shoehorned in.

And while assuredly, there's more in than what's between each character legs, I think that here's the issue that we simply didn't get what was advertised on the box.

I'm gonna be clear on something. Not because a character is male I'll mean that I'll automatically like him. For example, as it is now, I really dislike Etienne and Mark, and Ken, well, I can't say for sure. However, I really liked the skunk woman, albeit in a non-NSFW way.

You have your right to speak your mind. There's nothing wrong with that.

And, dissapointment? I won't mince my words: after this update my interest in Hiro dropped to zero, sadly. I may follow the route just for the writing, tho.

This update made Hiro drop a few places in several people's list it seems.

I was kinda hoping the chest wound was some work-related injury, and both the hips and "smell" thing some related to foxes and the like.

Honestly, I feel a lot like when Shang fell in love with Ping...only to realize that he had been deceived and that the "he" was actually a "she".

And my major issue is how...out of place his...particular situation seems to be. That sort of surgeries are from the 50's onwards. Seeing it on the mid-30s (the zeppelins around make it impossible being a later date) is a bit hard to believe.

All of this makes his condition feel a bit forced and quite shoehorned in, as it makes no sense, at least in that specific date. If his route were to take place, say, on the 70s, it wouldn't be an issue.