Thank you! Balancing all three Romonov’s introduction and Dawn’s own mini arc was a lot of work, but I think it came out fairly well! Hopefully people will enjoy this family’s side story through the game.
Glad the mutual is getting some love! I somewhat regret in hindsight not including any main male rebels for the game, so I wanted to start off Romonv’s gaining as quickly as I could!
Oh yeah, you can expect some more Slobby scenes from Dawn as Ava passes on her teachings!
Gains for Dawn will be identical on both routes.
Honestly a fair criticism and just a good idea. I don’t think I will be able to implement a map this dev cycle, but I’ll keep it in mind for later. Thanks!
If I could make a recommendation, maybe have the maps for each zone be in each train station. Would be a decent place to put them and having them separated by zone would avoid clutter. Side benefit is you could then also have all the maps progressively get worse material quality as you go ‘down’. Residential is a nice home registry, Uptown is a tourism guide with ads on the sides, Downtown is a bit rough and maybe has graffiti, and the Slums are straight up on a napkin someone threw up on a board.
If I make a weird complaint…
I don’t think I like the time scale being known in these sidequests.
I get why it is here, it helps the relationships grow naturally as with the weight gain. And being an alien planet, we don’t really need to worry about the passing of seasons or the like. Gaining 39 pounds in 3 weeks is fun~. But given the relative time-sensitivity of rescuing Amber’s brother, even with the pre-existing time skip that ensures he’ll be FUBAR’d for life, it still niggles at the back of my mind that we are wasting quite a lot of time on relaxation. There’s a lot to feel bad in this game, a healthy level of cognitive dissonance from the screwy morals of everyone, but skewed priorities always feel weird and hard to rationalize. By the time we finish these Act I sidequests, feels like we would have spent at least 3-4 whole months doing a lot of schmoozing.
Successful schmoozing of surprisingly high-level people for our rebels, but schmoozing nonetheless.
All that said, the sidequests have been fun to go through. It humanizes (lol) the main cast a lot. I even appreciate someone looking at Dawn and going “I can fix that” (in both senses). It’s always a little goofy that if they aren’t the cute little sister with the “incurable” illness who is the main hero’s raison d’etre, most series tend to treat someone with a limited timespan as “just let 'em die!”. Not even gonna bother healing them… It’s good to think Dawn isn’t as screwed as she is.
Another great update! I’m really glad that Dawn is being put out of her comfort zone, and into someone else’s. The Romanov’s are such a wholesome family that even Dawn stood no chance, and that’s the way it should be. I somehow doubt that there would be any other way to get her to let her guard down. She might get fat for other reasons, but I bet that she wouldn’t be comfortable. I’m also glad that we are getting a nice mutual gain, especially since it comes with a budding romance as well. The slob aspects were well done as well.
Of course, I have to mention Kikomona as well. Not only does she have a top tier Milf design, but a doting personality as well. Its such a great combination! It might be just me, but I almost feel like her expression is a little sinister. When she is happy her face seems to be a little too intense for her personality. Like I said, its probably just me, but it makes me wonder if her species (the name escapes me) are manipulating humanity in the Outer Colonies to be fat and lazy as a way to blunt their capacity for violence/expansionism. Probably not, but its fun to speculate.
I’ll end this off with the obligatory but well earned praise of CJ. Good job!
What great suggestions! I love it, having the lower quality areas get worse and worse as you go. As for map placement I might want to put free versions in the train stations, but also have handheld ones for purchase.
Completely understandable complaint. Though to provide one explanation for it, Amber can’t really do much to find Jaden without Pythia’s help, and Pythia won’t help them until she’s been paid her tiny mountain of chips.
Also it is somewhat intended that all these quests are happening somewhat simultaneously, and that the gap between coming to Pythia’s and their first mission, is about 10-12 weeks total.
Thank you, so glad you liked it!
Haha, I didn’t even think of it like that, the fixing being two parts, but you are very right!
Thank you! I’m so glad people are finding Dawn’s first section so much fun! And I had a blast making the different members of the Romonov family, all with their own unique ways of fattening and/or getting fat with Dawn!
Dawn does have her other route coming later…but it is far less wholesome.
CJ did amazing work, top tier MILF designer should go on his resume! (Though I do think I demanded her ass fatter 2-3 times!)
Whhhhat, you crazy! I even named that expression “totally not evil smile”. See totally not evil!
This is easily my favorite section of the game so far. I was already pretty sure that Dawn was the best character in the game, but this update cemented it.
Slob content was great, and the mutual gaining stuff is absolutely peak. Character development was extremely well done and surprisingly wholesome. I like how warm and cozy these side quests are in comparison to how dark the main story can get, it makes for a nice tonal contrast and keeps the game from feeling too one-note/depressing. (Even though the dark stuff is hot too.)
Really looking forward to seeing how big all these gals can get before the game is over, and what effect gaining so much weight is going to have on the narrative.
Finished both Quest, per usual they were both great. And I’m lovin the CG for the girls
Thank you CJ !
Amber’s quest while the shorter of the 2 was a fun premise, being a training montage, which helped plump up the most malnutrition member of atlus to a l health weight, with eaching little training procedure having a present charm and creative approach (my personal favorite being the icecream mountain). It also introduced the mysterious Zoey who reveal at the end has me eagerly awaiting her return. Her and Ambers flirty relationship was also a highlight never expected Amber to be so forward.
Meanwhile Dawns upadate was a girthy one which work in it’s favour fleshing out all 3 new characters while leaving bit of mystery to explore later, while aslo exploring Dawn change in convictions as she goes from hating all humans, to falling for one. And becoming a part of his family. I thought the choice to have each family member contribute to Dawns weight gain was really intresting approach out of the 3, I’m torn between the slobby gains of Avas enabling and encouraging and exesive doting and forceful pampering of kikomona, on which I like the most.Other than this Dawn and Romans romance was excellent as the development of their relationship felt very natural and wholesome, with this side of Dawn being a pleasant surprise.
All I can say now is I’m thoughly excited for B.B to get her time in the spotlight.
I’m so so glad you liked it! I had a ton of fun putting this one together and felt proud of it by the end, so I’m glad people are loving it!
Woah, sounds like all the quest was a success on all cylinders! Don’t worry all future installments of the romonov quest will contain more slob, mutual, and wholesome content!
Happy to hear it! Though not all these sides quests will be quite so wholesome…as BB’s quest might soon show.
Here’s a spoiler on how big, BIIIIIIIIIIIIG.
I double this thanks to CJ, the games would not be nearly as awesome without him!
Thank you so much, I’m glad you liked it! I especially liked the excuse to put in a super catchy 80s training music score!
Oh trust Zoey will return…with ice cream!
It’s so good to hear how many people enjoyed the Dawn quest! Seems like the concept struck gold!
Don’t worry, you will get PLENTY more in the future!
This I am the most relieved to hear! It’s a delicate balance here, as if Dawn accepts Roman too quickly she seems like a huge hypocrite for how much she bashed humans before, but if she remains stubbornly against Roman’s obvious non-hostile intentions, she comes across as too stubborn and delusional.
Hopefully she came across as the perfect blend of initially aggressive but her distrust slowly melting away.
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Thank you both (and everyone else showing their support) for the kind words and compliments it really means a lot!
I spent a few hours doing the new Dawn and Amber quests today. They were very good! I wasn’t expecting the Dawn one to be as involved as it ended up being. I felt Dawn’s story was more interesting than Amber’s, maybe because there are a lot of details in it and I think the relationship progresses at a more natural pace, where as the Amber one feels more sudden and a lot of the details are still a mystery. In addition, for Dawn I quite like familial drama, so having all the stuff with the Romanov family was nice.
I like Amber as a character more than Dawn, so it was a pleasant surprise to enjoy the Dawn story. The new characters (especially for the Dawn story), were a treat to see. I especially liked Roman.
As always, very nice art by CJ and writing by WaxerRed. The sprites were big, detailed, and a lot of times even animated. The full bust portrait art for the new characters were also very colorful, detailed, and expressive. Not to discredit the incredibly well-written dialogue and plot by WaxerRed!
I took screenshots of typos I noticed while reading, like I did before:
Thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoyed them both, Dawn’s especially it sounds like! Not that I blame you, I think Dawn’s quest is one of the strongest in game, but I wouldn’t count the other’s out just yet!
Atlas is very much a team effort, I think CJ and I both know we couldn’t do it without each other!
Whew, thank you so much, this is super helpful I’ll get this fixed up by the time BBs update comes out.
And sorry to anyone reading this about the BB delay, I wanted Atlas done by the end of June and have Apostles started, but that hasn’t been in the cards, still have plenty of work left on BB to do before she’s ready. Sorry about that, we’ll keep at it until it’s done and make sure quality makes up for all delay!
