Weekly Progress Report (Patreon)

Hey everyone !
I think I promised that this week we'd be talking about the game. So let's dip into it.
As you've seen in the recollection room, there will be a total of 14 scenes, like I said before, but that might have been a bit untrue. One of the very first scenes to open this Chapter actually has 2 different variations that you may choose between (only if you've learned a few things from Sakura before). What you choose only affect a few dialogues and has no major consequences and both scenes unlock in the recollection room anyway, so feel free to go for whatever strikes your fancy more.

Another important point is that you'll notice that Chapter 2 won't have a proper eding and that moving on to Chapter 3 will be solely based on the player's decision to want to get new content. There won't be a satisfactory ending with the kunoichi girls or anything. As much as I'm bad with coming up with endings, this is mostly a well thought decision. This is to draw a parrallel between the player and Lazuli because the only reason you're progressing in this game is cuz you want to see more content. There's no external drive for Lazuli to go and try to meet more girls, it's only cuz she's bored and this is what I want to convey. Also by this point, if you were to start the game with next update you could just move on to Chapter 3 right after having learnt some stuff from Sakura and Hinata, and you wouldn't miss anything in terms of the content of future Chapters. It's very limited but there's still a part of freedom in how each person will play this game.

Also last thing I wanted to cover is the hint system. The hint system in the recollection room was really hard to manage because I couldn't keep track of everything happening in the game in a single event so I decided that the "Faust" that is inside the recollection room would give you guidelines on how to progress storywise. (Like which place to go to get more content). And then for each new Chapter there would be another Faust NPC that would give you more detailed directions for each girl. That should make things easier for everyone this way.

Well, I think that's it for this week.
As usual : Thank you all for the continued support !