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Thank fuck it was posted on April Fools... not "kink"-shaming anyone but, bro... y'all make even incest look innocent.

We have a saying in my country, Killer. In translation it goes like: those who don't owe don't fear. And you don't owe nothing to either these mfs making false claims or to the law itself, since you're no criminal. Just go there with your head straight, tell the truth and get out. Perhaps these guys will finally see the obvious, see that they just raided a random guy who works as a full-time game developer and not some Dark Web overlord running auctions of child pornography or whatever the fuck they claim you are. 

Chaotic tsundere... *shivers* *Lessons in Love-based PTSD kicks in*  and I thought I had dealt with enough back then... *AHEM* Anyway, what a wild ride of thoughts you took us on, Fire. First things first, based on how the story's progressing in Serenity Ch2, I believe 9 episodes is the perfect length. And you'll even spoil people with the multiple choices to fit (most) individual tastes. So I don't think you'll see people complaining about it (much). Same about Last Human, I believe. Overall I see a very successfull and fullfiling end to those two projects. 

About the possible stories for the two next games, they're interesting to say the least. Story 1 kind of brings me Yakuza franchise vibes mostly due to "big guy with a big heart" trope, even if there'll be 0 mafia stuff in the story. A nice life sim is always good, sometimes they can teach us a thing or two, even AVN ones.

As for this so called "Viral Affair" I can't say I've ever seen any game like it in the 5 years I've been playing AVNs (didn't play THAT MANY but you get my point... I think). I can think of a few ways the story can be either heartwarming in a slow progression to... I don't know... finding a cure while falling in love with the main girl on the way (maybe), OR turn into a terrifying experience should you give us the option to turn down the feelings of the main girl, unleashing the actual psychotic nightmare a yandere really is hiding under their low-key possessive behavior, added to said deadly virus she carries.

BUT these are thoughts and discussions for the future, I believe. Whatever you decide to do, I know for sure you'll pour your very soul on to it and gives us joy, sadness, tension, the complete joyride just like Serenity (in it's current form) and Last Human. 

Honestly, if people start getting on your ass over taking time with the update, just remind them of the dozens of AAA games that were ruined because of developers bending their knees to either pressure from publishers or players themselves. Alongside with a calm and polite "shove it up your ass" if they don't shut the fuck up. 

Take your time, Fire. 

I don't wanna say that I got turned on by a tall cat girl...

But I got turned on by a tall cat girl... I need to go to church

I can feel that the old Fire is back (pun intended and not intended at the same time. Dunno how, but... yea) just from the straight up way you wrote this log, no BS, straight to the point, mind on the fade, the shade, the white and dark flames, Rin's boo- no, not that. 

Can't say much else other than I'm excited to meet the new girl and see the development of this plot involving the dark flame. Meeting the Fade Mother/Queen/Goddess was a heart-shaking moment, both in the excitement of meeting such an important figure, and in the heartwarming, slow and almost mysterious way we're thrown into the scene itself. For the MC, she's only known by name and history, nothing else. But for... Milanna(?) (I'm either misspelling her name or giving the completely wrong one) is a relief, it almost felt like she was greeting a long lost lover and her last hope of life at the same time. 

Gotta say though, out of all the girls who gonna say a brief goodbye, Mom's gonna hit me the hardest. It always felt like Karen was a guide, a safe place. I probably feel that way 'cause I lived my entire life without such a figure... but anyway. My hope is that this will open space for characters like Jas, who's the literal counselor of the King, if my Serenity lore doesn't fail me. And even before ascending she was already the big, brainiac sister that kept everyone together. 

On a side note, I'm kind of curious on that "misread prophecy" bit  of yours. I know it was a reference, but even then, It wouldn't surprise me if the MC found a way around what has to happen to a certain character in order for him to reveal the dark flame. Or maybe it would, since I had already come to terms with the possibility of what needs to happen to said character. 

Well, I'm gonna shut my big, fat bread hole and get back to playing through Last Human again to the most recent update (because... well... reasons!) and see the little sneak peeks you mentioned at what's going on in the island. Stay safe, Fire!

Dezzy looking mighty fine in that render, I kid you not. Also, who's stupid enough to think Serenity was straight up abandoned? At one of it's highest points? I mean, I see REALLY stupid mfs in my day-to-day job at a bookstore (not a bookworm myself, not at all, Jasmine would slap me out of shame) but this goes beyond. My guess is that they didn't read those "last minute" reports that you put out explaining the entire situation, unlike other devs who just say "fuck it". Just go with your own flow, Fire. You still have plenty of people backing you up (patrons or otherwise) and you know it. Stay strong!

I'm sure that a lot of people will be whining about the longer planning and coding needed for these optional routes, but knowing the AVN community like I know it after more than 4 years playing those, this is the ONLY logical and humanly possible way to literally please everyone (i.e. people that like or don't mind lesbian scenes and people that don't like those at all and treat it as NTR/Sharing content {for some fricking reason}). If my opinion as someone who isn't a patron counts, I say go for it.

I gotta say, once you take a close look at it, the render DOES look good with the improved hs. Totally fine with it being the canvas for MNF2, especially because it reminds me a bit of Once In a Lifetime, a game that was good in terms of renders and stuff.

The kind that hopefully will meet a solid end at some point. The way things are going, he should be aware to not let this turn into another Ecchi Sensei. Too many characters, too many storylines, too much "open" world to develop and a planned script that, according to his words, will take literal years to meet it's planned end. 

A teaser? Already? B O I  you movin' fast.

Edit: just watched it and the girl... well... she looks... different. I mean, duh of course she looks different, it's supposed to be a completely new girl, I think? Even if she's a fusion/amalgamation(isthisevenaword?). But her concept is a bit... cliche? What I mean is, we already have more than three warriors, the main one being Rin and the other ones being other girls who have the beef to throw a few punches (Marissa included). So, personally, I was kind of hoping for something completely different. Like a concept that goes beyond everything we've already seen: big, beefy fighers like Rin or fancy, classy, sexy spellcasters like Morgan and Jas.  Doesn't mean that I don't like her though! In fact I'm curious about everything regarding her and how the Fade (and Fade herself) are going to explain all of this. I think Mom will have a lot to say as well? 

After watching so many vtuber clips, I literally can't hear anything in gifs besides shylily's womp womp sounds. 

Petition to get an orca girl in Serenity right awa-

Judging by the massive improvement in skill you had over the course of the last updates, I can see just how great and mindblowing these next episodes will be. The last episode of Serenity answered quite a lot of my questions (some of which you adressed yourself without spoiling before the release), but now I have even more of them. And these "darker themes"... oh, boy we gonna explore the "fun" sides of human nature aren't we. 

Damn you, Fire, now I want to play Serenity all over again... for what... the FIFTH FUCKIN' TIME???? DAMN YOU TO THE VOID FOR MAKING SUCH A GOOD GAME. 

If you plan on adding lore related stuff to these "care packages", make sure to give a heads up in advance. A lot of people will drop the game as soon as they hear about it, yes, and that's the idea. Just asking for your honesty.

Judging by what we've seen in the last few scenes of the game in the last update, I can think of a few ironic names such as "The Devil" as in "the devil is in the details", the subtle little details about the MC. 

Now that I think about it, I do remember Karen refering to him  as "ruler of the void" at one point (can't remember if it was before or after she is actually written in Serenity in her true self, but Ido remember this one piece of dialogue). So it was kind of specified, you just have to be damn attentive to dialogue itself and connect dots every now and again. 

Soooo if I had to guess... (and I have to, for now) I'd say shade magic was probably never really linked to evil and/or negative things, at least not until dark writting began. Because Shade herself isn't evil and never was, she doesn't want to plot against the king or anything, she just wants balance. And since shade magic is ALSO focused on lust (I previously thought it was purely focused on negative feelings and thoughts), I imagine that it's origin also isn't necessarily linked to any form of "primal evil". But I can't quite imagine what it would take to create the opposite form of magic to fade, which by itself originates from something even more mysterious and could very well be involved. 

I've actually been thinking about this exact point of the lore: how all three sources of magic came to be. I imagined some Big Bang-esque event in which whatever form of chaotic magic that existed was broken down into three components, the ones we know today as two sources of magic that are entirely opposite to each other and a third component that, from what I understand, can give control over both...? Because with the sometimes (by that I mean often) clunky plot points of Ch1, it was never really specified what the white flame can and can't do. Sometimes people would tell us that it can do anything and sometimes they'd tells us that it has several limitations. 

To this day, after playing through Ch1 three times, I still don't understand if the MC is or is not the ruler over both Fade and Shade. By that I mean if he could learn to control shade magic if he wanted to, something that would be extremely useful in avoiding what Cammie and Mia did to him. One because he'd have more control over his feelings and therefore more resistance to the shade, and two because he'd be able to see someone setting a trap like Mia's from eons away just by feeling that very familar magic. Or, worst case scenario, would be more than capable to break himself out of said trap using shade magic. All in all I do hope that Fade and Shade themselves get some time in the update so we can learn even more about the magic and about them as well, 'cause I also wanna know what they truly are. Just angels? Goddesses that are the very sources of magic personified? Something deeper? And just how sexy can Shade's english accent possibly be? 

Wait a minute, ignore that last one-

So the epilogue will also contain what you can call a "subtle cliffhanger" for the next game? I love and hate you at the same time, Killer. More love than anything, though. You really know how to build the hype.

OH RIGHT... man, how long has it been since I played CH2EP1 again...? I can't even remember if I made a review on it... I either forgot to review IT or Last Human, probably both given my extensive knowledge on my own level of stupidity. 

Yeah, I do remember that short dialogue now, he was talking to... Kat? Jas? Morgan? Anyway, I'm currently replaying through CH1 for the third time (because... reasons) then I'm gonna play CH2EP1 again and definitely remember everything that I need to remember about, including Marissa being alive and the other girls staying in the island. 

Hold on, that's actually the android girl? I thought "Well, Fire probably gonna say that's just Morgan and she's fighting Rin and yadayada" 'cause I thought she was doing some spell that caused her eye to go white, and I do remember Marissa having an eyepatch. Didn't expect her to come back tho, with all of that "let's put her soul to rest in peace" speech someone gave after Rin drained the Dragon Script out of her. 

And Rin looks really good, yeah. She already impressed me all the way back in her ascension, her and Kat's forms are my favorites (I don't necessarily dislike any of them, don't get me wrong), and since then she only gets better. So you get bragging rights for that, Fire. 

Hell, she even made me debate who is the best dragon girl, 'cause before Rin, Zara from Oppai Odyssey was hands down the best. But now she has strong competition XD

Btw, the arena is looking pretty good too. From what few bits and pieces I can see, it looks a lot better than I imagined. 

The new artstyle is already confusing me... trying real hard to understand if thats Morgan or the undead/android/dragon-scripted girl in the second render

Also, when I thought Rin`s Fury Form could not get any sexier... she`s working hard for the award of best dragon girl.

I mean, isn't this weapon hitting everyone nowdays? I was spared until now for some reason. Maybe not looking good at all is finally paying off, but I digress. 

First of all, shit are you really approaching the end of Book One? How long have I been asleep? Did I lose anything? Did the Old Ones finally take over my brain? Anyway... I like the approach of making the "Gender Canon" thing. Especially by making it that whatever each individual player is doing in their game or whatever name or gender they chose is set in entirely alternate realities, because that's not something often done even by big names in gaming. For an example, to this day more than 10 years after it's release, it was never set in stone who the Dragonborn is. Was he a man? Was he a Nord? Maybe he was a female dark elf? 

Of course there will be people who proudly hold sticks up their own assholes regarding things they understand very little about wanting to jump on your throat for this, but you made it clear that it won't invalidate their in-game stories and choices. If they decide to whine about it, it's not your problem. After all even in the AVN community there are many developers currently playing with the idea of alternate reality/multi-dimensional stories. 

All in all, I 100% support this idea. Now if you'll excuse me I'll find myself an Elder Sign to ward off whatever tricks the Old Ones are playing on me and get back to Mythos.

Something tells me that, if the little cat ends up visiting a certain island, she's going to want your head on a pike for choosing Sandra as your favorite, K 😂

If she finds out, that it. Something very possible in that place

Ironically I downloaded Ch1 just a few days ago to replay it on my laptop and get myself ready for episode 2 (of ch2), remember a few key details, get the hype going, you know the deal. I don't even remember any "questionable" content in the game other than that handful of scenes with... Cassie? Whatever her name was. Y'know, the demon girl. Those could be considered "reverse rape" by more sensitive people, but to be honest I've seen so much questionable content being marked as "BDSM" and such that I just glance over this type of scene in games. I literally only started paying attention again when Katy showed up to kick some ass. 

Judging by the quality of ALL the previous renders I highly doubt my laptop will be able to run this beauty, meaning that I will need  to go through some witchcraft of my own to make it work (barely), so here we fuckin` go 

Call me a pervert, but seeing how we're going to see a lot of Rin in episode 2, I hope the promised lewd scene with a super tall dragon-cat girl is in the plans... y'know, for research purposes... 

I think you're forcing yourself a little, K. Just drop the design of the girls for now and pick it back up maybe a few days after MNF is officially finished, or whenever you start officially working on MNF2, then you can post pictures of the final design of each girl as teasers as development goes on. 

So she's basically nuts and a masochist to boot. An odd combo. 

Btw, is it just me or MC looks like Connor from Detroit Become Human? 

I'm gonna guess that Momiji's first physical appearance in the next update will leave a very big and surprising impression... unless this is just "for the viewer's pleasure"

´´This game requires use of GL2 that can`t be initialised´´

This goddamn error screen has been haunting me in many games, and it seems that Lucky Paradox joined the party. Did some research and it seems to be linked to ´´Opengl´´ but I couldn´t find out how to update it, so it could also be a spec issue since I´m playing on bonestock laptop. Any help regarding this problem is welcome.

She'll probably end up as a major fan favorite, unless we get a despicable MC in LH. I doubt it but who knows...

I know BUT Serenity  ch2ep1 was so good that it left me yearning for a lot more

Don't ask me to "hang in there" when I'm starving for some romance filled with nekos, sir.

That's some ungodly timing, man 😆

I literally just logged in to check another game's page and received your message here. Kthulian literally goes "I'm Godspeed" out of the blue.

Ok, cool. I saw the "pet" thing and considered the possibility. Good to know, at least for me.

She's hot and all but... the whole "pet" thing there, is it just something cultural of her people? Just asking because, to be honest, I'm not into sub/dom stuff and all of that so if she's planned as a side love interest, I might end up avoiding her unless she has a standard love route. 

Also, panther girls now? Getting rather complex but cultured here, Mr. N2. I like the variety. 

The image there looks kind of creepy... foreshadowing some big problems?

The girls look somewhat similar to the nekos from Serenity, especially Natalie and Kalina who both remind me of Lena and Rin respectively.

I personally have always liked  when there are similarities between characters from one game and another, it brings this weird feeling of familiarity. I noticed some subtle changes in the looks of the girls in Serenity (or there were none and I'm just dumb), but I do hope these are the final designs of the nekos here in LH.

Man, these are some drastic changes. I like it. Sandy kind of reminds me of Alex (Sylphine) mixed with Becca which means 100% Milf mode in the next game... nice. And now I'm curious for this major plot point, it's not hard to notice how Elaine seems to be in her mid 40s at worst when supposedly she's much older but I didn't know that there was some plot to it. Even if it isn't some sci-fi thing, it's still interesting.