The topless option better be in, in the best spirit of GGGB. 
I'm kinda wishing for a sidestory with Holly as the protagonist dropping her inhibitions and getting wild (but not too wild, she still has to remain the sweet nerdy girl)We need more Holly in the game
I kinda see that cuz in Lena and Ian love route or Chad Ian route she says she didn't piss on the prof. But in cuck/beta ian route she says she did it once, and it was awkward.I
And the cherry on top is, you don't know to what extent Lena was telling the truth in her story or if she altered some details to intentionally make it more kinky (or conversely downplayed it if Ian isn't into it as much) or she did those things with someone else. So, it could just be her fantasy that never happened in reality or she was in fact even wilder in her younger days. We can never know for certain because Lena never references this story in her POV.
Another thought and fitting in with the red string idea or at least the butterfly effect, do the choices made by the players effect that character's and other characters' past. Does an Ian who is on the love path cause Lena to have a slightly different past than the Lena when Ian is on the cuck path? Obviously this would hold true for the characters themselves so a slutty Lena would have a different past than a love route Lena or a Lena who agrees to let Seymour take pics of her has a slightly different past than the Lena who refuses him?I kinda see that cuz in Lena and Ian love route or Chad Ian route she says she didn't piss on the prof. But in cuck/beta ian route she says she did it once, and it was awkward.
Yeah we see this with good Jess and bad Jess. So either Lena is embellishing her sexual exploits or Ian and Lena's current choices shape their past.Another thought and fitting in with the red string idea or at least the butterfly effect, do the choices made by the players effect that character's and other characters' past. Does an Ian who is on the love path cause Lena to have a slightly different past than the Lena when Ian is on the cuck path? Obviously this would hold true for the characters themselves so a slutty Lena would have a different past than a love route Lena or a Lena who agrees to let Seymour take pics of her has a slightly different past than the Lena who refuses him?
It could be looked at one of two ways either the choices a player makes reverberates both forward and backward in time for the character or all choice is an illusion and a particular past means that the character will always take a particular path forward. I'm pretty sure a deep philosophical discussion on the nature of free will is the point of the game so Eva should be happy.Yeah we see this with good Jess and bad Jess. So either Lena is embellishing her sexual exploits or Ian and Lena's current choices shape their past.
TBH I prefer the latter. The former kinda makes the story not move in a linear fashion and robs the story of the idea that we take these characters and transform them with our choices. Instead it becomes we choose their futures, but also their past. So no two playthroughs are starting from the same place. Fundamentally the two Lena's with different stories have different past meaning that at the start of the game we are playing different Lena's.
Go outside, throw a rock into a crowd, and you'll probably find any number of people who's insecurities are stronger than their love for their partner. You'll probably also hit any number of people who have also reasoned themselves into doing the dumbest things possible. A lot of relationships end from self-sabotage, whether intentional or unintentional, and it certainly wouldn't be the first time that someone inexperienced and insecure fell into the wrong crowd, took the wrong advice and ended up making a mistake.Interesting. "My boyfriend is so good and he's hanging out with different hot girls all the time that I feel inferior to. What should I do? Maybe dress in a different way? Try something new in bed? Try watching some porn to get new ideas to spice it up? Have more romantic dates to make him see that I'll never hurt him? No, cheating sounds like the best option. Once I'm slutty and experienced enough, no way he'll look at other girls!"
I'm not really an expert in psychology, and while technically there have been cases like these, in order for that to be possible, Holly's insecurity would need to be way stronger than her love for Ian. Because cheating on your boyfriend, who is still struggling after his last heartbreak, seems like a sure way to end that relationship in the dumbest way possible. Even if she may feel insecure intimately, I believe she doesn't think that cheating is something a loving girlfriend should do. And Holly may be gullible, but she's not stupid and can see several steps ahead. After all, she orchestrated the whole "Oh no, my room has only one bed so we'll have to sleep together" move. And on top of it, she's an avid reader. I imagine she read countless romance stories (good ones) and knows the most common relationship-ending factors like cheating, jealousy, lack of communication, etc.
If anything, if she's indeed this insecure, I think it would make her open to share Ian with other girls instead so he'd feel sexually satisfied with them and emotionally satisfied with her. You can already see this in the way she treats her relationship with Lena. When she learns about Louise or Ivy being side-hoes, she doesn't feel jealous (inferior to Ivy, sure) and is instead willing to share Lena with them and simply be happy that she's willing to spend time with her at all.
Yes! this was exactly what struck in my mind (Dream sequence Good/Bad Jess). Also notice how story changes(Jess's boyfriend/girlfriend) according to Lena's decision about working with Seymour.Yeah we see this with good Jess and bad Jess. So either Lena is embellishing her sexual exploits or Ian and Lena's current choices shape their past.
It's hardly the case. Holly can currently have a crush on an absolute piece of shit of a guy, to the point she invites him on a trip with her, lets him fuck her three ways to Sunday, then gets dumped the next morning without even as much as a thank you. It'd be a tall order to paint that as a good decision.If Holly is going to be this mary sue character who can do no wrong, who always makes good decisions, even if she's surrounded herself with people making bad decisions and trying to influence her, that's boring and not realistic either.
Well, I was talking about the route where Ian is good to her, and Lena is manipulative. What I'm trying to say is that in that path, it doesn't seem like Lena/the player is able to have any influence over her. That's why I included the latter line in the paragraphIt's hardly the case. Holly can currently have a crush on an absolute piece of shit of a guy, to the point she invites him on a trip with him, lets him fuck her three ways to Sunday, then gets dumped the next morning without even as much as a thank you. It'd be a tall order to paint that as a good decision.
Holly can also be in exclusive relationship with a pretty great guy, and still lust after her friend to the point of getting romantic with her and confusing the hell out of herself over what it is that she really wants. Again, hardly good move making.
-Ian can be a dick to her, retroactively making her crush and decision to sleep with him a bad decision.Having a boyfriend shouldn't make her suddenly impervious to manipulation and corruption.
This sounds like something either Ian will hallucinate about when doing drugs, or Seymour will have a pompous quasi-intellectual monologue about while he's trying to get Lena to orgasm using his collection of sex toysIt could be looked at one of two ways either the choices a player makes reverberates both forward and backward in time for the character or all choice is an illusion and a particular past means that the character will always take a particular path forward. I'm pretty sure a deep philosophical discussion on the nature of free will is the point of the game so Eva should be happy.
Nah nah nah... Holly is the mastermind in all this.It's hardly the case. Holly can currently have a crush on an absolute piece of shit of a guy, to the point she invites him on a trip with her, lets him fuck her three ways to Sunday, then gets dumped the next morning without even as much as a thank you. It'd be a tall order to paint that as a good decision.
Holly can also be in exclusive relationship with a pretty great guy, and still lust after her friend to the point of getting romantic with her and confusing the hell out of herself over what it is that she really wants. Again, hardly good move making.
Considering how Mike doesn't add anything to the story other than a sex toy for Lena to possibly ride and force the guy to cheat on his girl, who will likely end up cutting off his dick and leaving him to die, resulting in Lena going into witness protection and leaving town to head into the States or the UK...SerHawkes Wanna fight about it?
Hmm ok i kind of get the complaint, but then on the other hand one could argue that Holly simply falling under influence of Lena/Ivy even if she's in relationship with Ian ignores the agency Ian (as the other MC) has in this setup. That she doesn't can be boring for some players, but on the other hand it can be source of satisfaction for another group of players, that they can actually have a vanilla relationship with a girl that doesn't end up with her getting "turned into a slut" and cheating on their male MC, despite her friends trying to mess things up.However, on a path of Ian being good to her, and Lena being slutty/manipulative, Holly seems to default to the Ian solo romantic path. If you follow that story with those decision factors, I think she ends up looking kind of faultless and it's a boring route to play, since Ivy and Lena's influence seems restricted, when having a insecure girl take bad advice from friends isn't a huge leap for the story to realistically take.
He’s a branch in the story. It’s a life sim and fuck buddies exist irl. Also, it’s a sex game, and sexual flavours to the story is kind of the main point of playing this.Considering how Mike doesn't add anything to the story other than a sex toy for Lena to possibly ride and force the guy to cheat on his girl, who will likely end up cutting off his dick and leaving him to die, resulting in Lena going into witness protection and leaving town to head into the States or the UK...
Pretty much a landslide if ya ask me.