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Questions about a storygame? Thoughts on Eternal? Any other IF you're playing out there?

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Hey there! Not sure if this is the right thread but I'm currently playing Eternal and I'm wondering since I just married Alison (Survivor route I think?) Is there an actually a way to romance Semra? Listening to the Emperor just got me killed in that celebration.... 

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

If you married Alison, you're on the main "Struggle" path which will eventually split into two other major paths.

As for romancing Semra, you can't. There IS an ending where you can wind up with her in a fashion, but it's not really a good outcome for you. The best you can do is survive three sexual encounters with her. (Once for each chapter)

The Eternal and Mistress' personalities just do not allow for them to stay together without one eventually killing the other.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Yeah i had a feeling. Also the reveal at the end of the celebration.... Holy crap. I feel like i'm reading this story too fast... I'm already at age 30.

Ahem Appreciate the answer, is there a walkthrough by any chance?

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Yeah, someone else made one for each epilogue a long time ago. I can PM it to you if you want.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Ohhh, yes I'd like that please!

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Although it's only in the brainstorming stages as of now, me and Briar hope to begin working on a rom-com Eternal storygame. The preferable release date is slated for a 2020 Holiday release. But that's only if the potential kickstarter is funded to add visual novel like art and actual voiceovers. But be warned, anyone that funds the project must accept that the game maybe postponed indefinitely in random bouts of time with no updates as to why. 

This is also not a late April fools joke, but it may also be.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago
Does @Endmaster have a guest appearance?

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Baby steps, Stryker.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

That's a helluva lot better than Anime Demon School "With" "a" "Twist".

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

The protagonist I have planned wears their clothes in a real disheveled manner, so you just know they're unlike the average protag.

E: But are you saying you want a Highschool romance LGBT simulator? That may require more potential funding.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Of course not! It's just that this story is not unique at all and really needs something to let it stand out from the rest of the animes! Like, instead of a demon school, maybe it's also an assassin school?

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago
I've never understood Japan's obsession with high school.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

It's like their version of the nostalgic College movie. Like, if Ferris Bueller was an entire genre, except deliberately avoiding the parts that are conscious about the existential qualms and unhappy notions of people drifting apart, life not working out, feeling unloved, and lacking purpose and courage.

High school in Japan is that one "Last Hurrah" of fun and romance before you sell your life to a corporation and run the very real risk of working yourself to death or finding your way down to loneliness, porn addiction, and eventually suicide valley as your social life dies outside of immediate occupational contacts and close family members and, weird Population Sink shit is going down and making everyone depressed, angsty, and hard to maintain a healthy relationship with.

Basically High School is the last compendium of good memories that the most avidly video-game-playing, anime-consuming adults in Japan fucking have, and the market taps into their untended, and in some cases untendable needs for affection and unjaded cheerfulness to keep the rising antisocial populace from killing themselves and leaving important jobs unfilled. Well, not explicitly for that reason. Corporations and media producers usually just do it because there's such an eager audience for it, between cringe-seekers and genuinely sad, lonely people. And also the folks who just watch it for the plot, of course.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Plus there's a bunch of jailbait in school girl uniforms so there are many opportunities for inappropriate groping on a train and up skirt panty shots.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Well, yeah, but that's mostly a happy side effect of trying to appeal to the "Burnt-out 20something who lives in his bedroom and wishes it were something more than his right hand/electronic jerkoff device" crowd.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

This story can use some intense train groping. I'll need to consult my agent that totally exists on their opinion of adding some Japanese Highschool girls into the mix. Actually, we'll make the main Eternal a disillusioned Japanese businessman.  

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Wait, would this mean that the Empire becomes a massive Anarcho-Capitalist Feudal Corporation, and he's been training to become a Japanese businessman under Semra and the Shadowlawyers? Or is everything else still the same except for the fact that he's just a very upset Japanese businessman training to become the Eternal?

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

Everything is still the same but the setting is now in a anime high school. All of the other characters will be teenagers but the Eternal is a Japanese businessman that's in school?!

Quirky. Potential 2019 Fall release date. Maybe. As always things are subject to change. It may actually never be released at all, and this was just an elaborate ruse.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago
Seeing how your alleged co-conspirator Briar hasn't said a word yet, I'm skeptical about the chances of this one taking off.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago

We discussed some things in the interesting comments thread, but I do see your point. Considered the project postponed for now. 

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago
Ah well, I'll look forward to an update on this next April 1. Maybe by then it'll have morphed into a power rangers setting in an anime highschool that has an exchange program with a ninja school and a rivalry with an assassin school, with the protagonist being a shapeshifting duck with a tree for a best friend, all set on Mars after humans have evolved into a post-truth economy, where the going currency is platypodes (or something even better). Oh, and the bus driver's a failed Japanese business who invested in school buses that didn't sell (a la pursuit of happyness), which he now drives and is called the Eternal. Oh, and there are werewolves for no better reason than Twilight sold well and your producer wants to cash in on that... five years late, for good measure.

Romancing the 'Mistress'?

6 years ago
That was genuinely insightful, nice one, Sent