Hmmm, I don’t think Toshio, Momoko, Kohaku, or even Jun likes the MC because of looks. Sure, the MC is described as oddly attractive, iirc, but the attraction is not based on the looks - if it was, Momoko who is described as shapely and practically gorgeous, should be even more attractive to the characters.
But sure, I agree with you that good looks are more appealing to people in general and in real life. I just don’t think it applies to the MC in this book.
Yeah easier, not “I do nothing and everyone freaking loves me regardless of my actions”
love and attraction are very different things
I bought and finished the game today and I must say that it made me feel some things.
Exhausted and desperate are a few of those things, but only because my MC felt that way.
I also felt really out of it when my character…forgot something…like I couldn’t get back into character and ended up losing a lot of attunement, but it also makes sense for my MC to just not act like herself after losing such an important piece of her past. In a bizarre way, I felt like all the mistakes I made and all my bad choices just worked with the narrative and the characters (even if I do regret the outcome)
In the end I felt really justified on the naming of my save games:
Book 1-Yuko f*cked up
Book 2-Yuko can’t catch a break
Book 3-Junko?
and now I’m really excited to see where my train wreck of a main character will end up in the next book.
After seeing the success that other choicescript authors have had, I finally decided to set up a page for myself. From what I’ve seen, the best part about it—besides the money—is that it allows me to constantly produce for my fans.
It’s hard to stress how big of a deal that is when you’re trying to cultivate and grow an audience! It takes over a year for me write/edit/script/playtest an interactive novel, but through Patreon I can now make content on a monthly basis.
My rewards include polls, monthly side stories, and early access to Book 4 chapters! If any of that catches your interest, check out the page and consider becoming a patron!
Note: There’s still going to be a public demo of Book 4 posted here on the forums a couple months prior to book release (estimation: early 2019). The demo is a great way to build hype and awareness, and I’m more than happy to do it. These early access chapters are just a way I can thank generous fans.
If I can be painfully honest in my opinion, I absolutely hate the idea of paying a creator on patreon to get Early Access to something. Even if it’s just rough drafts or something that is heavily a WIP.
And while I understand the support helps you. I would rather pay to let everyone get to see those considering I understand the fact that not everyone can support you considering their financial situations and I feel like they shouldn’t be left out of that sort of thing.
But that’s my own view. I am sure most people would probably disagree with me. Either way, hope it works out. I love your books.
While I know how much it sucks to not be able to afford to pay a creator monthly, they do need to get paid for taking time away from working to do all this. And most of it, he is offering early access—not no access. So people will get to see things, just not as early as the patrons. I tend to think of patreon as supporting the author so that they can afford to dedicate more time to create their works more than what I’ll get out of it. I know that’s not how others see it, and that they’ll want something for their efforts every single month. So he has to entice people to support him somehow.
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Do you think the MC had any childhood friends during their training under Sensei?
Probably not. The only “friend” the MC would had during the childhood might had been Junko.
Okay, I just played 10 chapters of Book 2 and I really need to get all my thoughts down in here. Sorry if this is a wrong place, I am new here, so bare with me.
Book 2 was…a disaster. Overall, it felt like the writer was giving me their story where I could only make minor tweaks, with outcome still being the same. And it would be okay if not for one thing: Book 1 was amazing. It felt like a top tier “choose your adventure” game where your choices actually mattered. It was good and it respected your choices. I love how we could shape our character fully from the ground up and all the little interactions we had.
Book 2? It does not respect your choices. First of all, books forces you to be moody piece of shit. I understand that PC is having issues but my PC would rather say, “Fuck you Jumko, I will carve your tits off as payback”; instead, I am forced to have hots for her.
Second thing, and let’s get that one out early, we are forced to fuck Momoko. Don’t get me wrong, she is a nice character who I enjoy; but I don’t feel this way for her. I, multiple times, tried to get her and Hatch together only to end up fucking her. I even played game where Hatch saved her and pulled her from bridge while I did minimal amount of things toward her; she still has hots for me. I was literally forced to get in bed with her.
Third, I was forced to betray my boy Hatch. My second best friend after Masami. The sweetest bro you can ever hope for. If I was Jonathan, he was my Speedwagon; if I was Josuke, he was my Okuyasu. I tried time and time again to help him get it on with Momoko, only to be forced to betray him. My character, multiple times, made a point of not liking to lie and being open; if Momoko likes my PC or is lesbian, that is fine. The issue is that she never tells Hatch no and instead I bang her behind his back, pretty much.
And then there is the last point which really made me rage quit the game after chapter 9: Masami. She was by far my favourite character. She was the perfect counterbalance to my brutal and impulsive character. I will come out and say this right now: I actually want to romance her. I think that there was actual chemistry between the two. Time and time again my PC told her how bad she felt about failing as bodyguard, how sorry she was and how she will be better; to what? Be forced to not take her to theater and then abandon her during her celebration to fuck a chick I don’t care about?
If you look closely, you see a pattern: I use the word “forced” a lot. Because this is what this game does; it forces you to follow a vision of the writer. Which would be fine if this was a standalone game; there are quite a few “choose your adventure” games where your choices matter little and you kinda go, “eh, it was an okay game” after finishing it. My issue was that it was the second game after the first game, which was one of the best choose your adventure games I ever played. My issue is that I actually got invested into the first game, could not help it but to finish it in one day only to be slapped across the face by the second game. I felt like I was playing Mass Effect 3 after Mass Effect 2; I felt like I was playing an EA game after Bioware game. This game did not respect my choices because it ignored them to push me down the path the writer has chosen for me. And it would be okay if not for the fact that the first game was nothing like this and the first game respected your choices.
So, why do I write this? First, to vent. I am angry and I won’t hide it; if I was rude, I am sorry, but I really got into the game and this is why I am so angry after the second one was so…shit, honestly. Well, it wasn’t shit as it still had it good parts, pretty much everything up to the first match of Shogi was going great, but everything after felt way too forced. Like, I want Masami; I would not go to the theater if she can’t go. My character is a drinking-killing demon, she wouldn’t give two fucks about kabuki. She would rather stay and study with Masami as that would make her feel better. Back to the point though: the reason I am writing this is because I want to know one thing. Does Book 3 feel better? Is Book 3 more like Book 1 than Book 2? Will my choices be respected again? Will I interact with Masami more? Will I, maybe, have a chance to do something relatively romantic with her? Or will I be forced down the predetermined path once again, forced to act uncharacteristically and forced to fuck someone once again without caring for them?
Once again, I apologize if this is a wrong place to post this, but this is “the freshest” post for this game so this means I have a higher chance of getting an answer from here and I don’t think my post is worthy of creating a whole post of its own. But yeah, if I will potentially spend $6 on Book 3, I need to know if it gets better again. I need to know if I will finally be able to spend time with Masami again and if the game will respect my choices again. Because, as it stands right now, I don’t want to even go beyond chapter 9 in Book 2 because of how disgusted I feel.
If anyone finds time to reply to me rambling, I thank you ahead of time.
Yeah don’t bring up the Masami romance thing. That one was very controversial on this thread months ago and I believe the author had to step in and end that.
But you’re not really the only one that did not enjoy having to go behind Hatch’s back and potentially get into bed with Momoko. I know, I tried to set them up but Hatch just kept on blowing it while Momoko was never interested in him in the first place. Book Two did feel railroady but it did have a purpose to push the plot of demon hunting and the side plot of Junko further even if alot of people didn’t like it.
But as for Book 3, I’ll try not to spoil it but for most parts of the book, you do have choices that does matter because it’s a life or death situation that you will be thrown in several times. Yes, you will get more interactions with Masami, you kind of have to because you are her bodyguard first and foremost. But, sometimes you will be forced to act out of character if you’re playing a certain personality but its purpose is to show that your character is growing while some parts of the ronin’s past is revealed as well. I’d say Book 3 is better than the first two because of how grim it is and shows me just how brutal, manipulative and oppressive people can be in the land of Hyuga.
Uhhh, I don’t know what game you guys played, but you’re not forced to fuck Momo.
I said “potentially get into bed with her”. I wasn’t saying that you had to unlike that one CoG story but that’s for a different thread.
Thank you for your passion! I want to clarify that no romance in the Samurai of Hyuga series is forced, however the fact that the main character was in a prior relationship with Junko/Jun is just part of the story. It’s a great source of conflict between them!
Conflict = drama, and you describe another large source of it: in Book 2, the main character is caught in the middle of a romance between Momoko and Hatch. To summarize it, things don’t go well–whether you bed Momoko or not, the main character ends up with a healthy dose of conflict vs his/her friend Hatch. Can they work this out? Will this trial ruin their friendship or strengthen it?
^That stuff, the drama, cannot be optional. I can’t create an interesting story without it. That being said, I completely understand the perspective that some interactive fiction readers have. They want to be in control, and what I’m asking of my readers is to give up some of that control so that I can deliver the most dramatic experience I can.
It’s not an exchange everyone is willing to make, and that’s absolutely fine! As far as Book 3 goes, you can check out the free demo here. Regardless of what you do, thanks for reading!
I’ll just be sitting over here and waiting to save Junko.
Literally my main goal for this entire series at this point. I don’t care how it happens. I want to love and protect her.
Everyone who disagrees can fight me. (ง’̀-'́)ง
I want to cut Junko’s tongue out. Momoko needs to be avenged
P.S. @MultipleChoice Plz dont make us meet Momoko again. I will cry.
Well I still got the feeling that we will get to see her soon… Devon seems to love angst/dramatic moments but in my view, my Ronin need to see her since she was a friend and my Ronin worried for her as well.
Really now? Odd. There are, quite obviously, 2 clear ways you could romance Masami without her age being an issue. Just make her birthday conveniently happen and boom, she is 18. Just odd if anything. But hey, I don’t think there is anything wrong with bringing it up.