It's the route that Cuck lovers and Axel fans hate so much aka Romance path, you must be committed to Cindy.
I'm pretty sure it's still conditional on the boundaries choice, which is counterintuitive for a porn game (I like it this way though - too often in games merely picking the most "heart-ey" or "love" themed option is sufficient to guarantee progress with that LI)
What I DIDN'T like is if you're on full romance options instead of boundaries, if you snoop the photos, there's no restrained responses, literally ek makes the choices for you on how ian reacts; options ranging from break up immediately to take some time off from relationship.
Nope, Cindy rejects Alex if she and Ian talked about committing to each other.
AFAIK this isn't true - the only relevant choices are the 'boundaries' answer, and whether ian looks at polaroids at end.
The issue with Louise is not the character itself, but how both MCs disregard her and hardly see her more than just a fuckdoll. Lena always pushes her away because Louise got too clingy, and Ian is pretty smug about her from the get-go. Louise has a bit of the Robert treatment in how she isn't taking seriously, is usually presented in a bad light and ends up in unlucky situations.
This sounds like a specific path - when I select all enthusiastic responses to her prompts Ian seems very head-over-heels with her, not at all smug or pushy. Methinks you're projecting one specific dialogue route on to all of them.
Got around to play the new update, so here is a compact first impression.
- Great stuff in it for the Alison fans, for all variants of her, be it sweet Alison, experimental Alison and slutty Alison. It is the first time Ian and her can fully commit. Not only sweet Alison, but also experimental Alison........
100%, loved this update for Alison progression. I like how she reverts to her brunette hair if you react less than enthusiastically.
Louise has an overly emotional and impulsive personality, and a rushed romance path makes sense for her. She has the idealized romantic tendencies of a teenage girl and has been ogling Ian for some time. I thought Eva Kiss nailed the scene because it works, narrative-wise, regardless of player choice. The same can't be said for many of the hookups on Lena's side of the story.
I absolutely loved the way this scene was done, furthermore the pacing felt perfect (which is RARE here, either turboslut events or dripfeeds).
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Separately a thing I've noticed as worrying trend- and I guess it's always been there but getting worse the more characters paths cross and weave:
I HATE how EK makes major decisions for you in the case of stopping relationships. With almost every relationship conflict in the game, the outcome is predetermined. It's crap, why not just briefly prompt the player? Examples of this are the numerous Alison/Lena intersections, Cindy/Lena intersections, Cindy/Alison intersections. It's little to no coding work since there's only 2 outcomes which already have their respective variables and labels, just need a short menu: choice to establish who the player wants to stay with.
