The break up doesn’t happen regardless. It is entirely possible to play the game and with enough romance score by that time that you don’t break up with Alice at all. The “hard” breakup (game over screen) or the “soft” breakup (temporary narrative break up), both of these can be skipped however it’s most common most people will get the soft beak up.
While it was stated that the dates didn’t have an impact on the relationship score. That doesn’t mean they don’t matter at all reassuring Alice treating her nice, and taking her to do stuff raises her mood up to a maximum of happy. It was just stated to you that the things that effect mood don’t impact the break up scene.
I mean yeah, her previous boyfriend broke up and dumped her because she got fat. The characters in the game are not all instant feedees which I appreciate. Alot of WG or fat games go a bit too hard with the characters being completely okay and no resistance or conflict for gaining weight. I will say your missing more than like half the game and Alice being against weight gain changes and has a huge payoff. And that starts like right after the break up.
I think the games fine the way it is. The majority of players have no issues. The game is well written, the choices in game, and interactions with different characters dialogue give you enough of an idea if you’re making a good or bad choice in the moment. I can understand changing the only punishment in game that locks you out of playing though.
The break up doesn’t happen regardless. It is entirely possible to play the game and with enough romance score by that time that you don’t break up with Alice at all. The “hard” breakup (game over screen) or the “soft” breakup (temporary narrative break up), both of these can be skipped however it’s most common most people will get the soft beak up.
This is actually something I didn’t know about the game; I didn’t realize you could actually avoid the break-up entirely. Do you know which conversation chains and variables can trigger this? I’d like to see that outcome, even if I have to do some variable editing to make it play out.
Do not mistake my frustration and criticism as Me; disliking the game… If anything this… This right here… makes me dislike this game.
Let me pose you this query, I make a game where you think you are doing everything right, I give 8 options, only 2 are actually useful but you don’t know that and an indicator that is frivolous at best, you get to the end of the game, mind you; you are still thinking you doing good and you just lose without an indication as to why. Would you play that?
Better yet, If you play an FPS, Fighting game or any game with a game over, and you just don’t know why you lost or died. Would you still play it?
You are still making an assumption you’ve done nothing wrong. The game is telling you through character dialogue that you shouldn’t be doing what you are. You either are the one and only reported case of a bug in the game people don’t know exists where for some reason your romance score is lowered at a point. Or like multiple people before you that claim they aren’t doing anything weird or wrong in the game. When in fact they are. The two most common things (although the list is not exclusive to those) are teasing Alice/ insulting her and making Alice pay for things when you have no money. The assumption your playing fine is just that. The game gives you dialogue based on choices that have negative romance score that indicate “this is probably not the correct choice”. Tiggertoos game does not lead you into thinking your playing just fine that bam game over.
you would not know that IF it is your first time running it… it seems to me that it’s this vision is from those who replayed it 50 times over and knows every tidbit of the game not stated.
There’s a lot of things that CAN be inferred from the game alone which I praise, but there is a lot of things a new player(SUCH AS MYSELF) cannot infer the way that it is intended.
You are correct there is not way to know that. Or no need to know that or not have the break up happen. It’s the more cannon part of the game and most people will have the break up happen just not the game over version.
@KingNovum I should point out that the game is work in progress. Nothing is finalised yet. I am constantly tweaking/adding to the background stuff and one of the things I will be looking at adding is better communication/warning of Alice’s overall mood. The happiness indicator is the first step along these lines. But it’s one of the most recent additions to the game and as such is only a general guide at this point.
There’s a famous old saying - You can’t please all of the people all of the time. Frankly, I’ll be absolutely freaking delighted if 90% of people like the game. It’s been downloaded well over 7,000 times on this site alone, and as I’ve said previously, I’ve had perhaps three or four people say that the breakup scene isn’t fair. And, whether it’s fair or not, it is a viable outcome.
I don’t want to sound harsh, but if you don’t think that the game in its current state is fair, don’t play it. It’s not as though it’s cost you anything except a bit of time.
If it helps, this is what I do every single run with a %100 success rate.
During the work week 1 food visit in the morning, if you get the gym text spend the hour making her feel better then do the food afterwards. Also make sure you compliment her every day and DO NOT OVER DO IT WITH TEASING. I feel like that should go without saying but apparently fucking not. Then at about 17:00 you should have maybe 2 energy left so invite her over for dinner.
Over the weekend spend one time slot exercising and the rest going hog wild on dates but don’t repeat the cinema since she doesn’t like that and straight up tells you that. In bowling and picnic you can pretty much always tease without damaging anything.
During the breakup stage make sure you do not give make her anything fattening, if you just take her to enough things over time she’ll want it naturally but maybe save just in case and adjust from there.
That is for sure, the game isn’t bad, just felt frustrated at the game over and on the second play through the break up still happens. Otherwise, I enjoy the other aspects, like Becca, Hannah and Sarah. Just reading these posts makes me not want to try further updates and not reach out anymore.
The posts after trying to find help are what killed it for me.
If you don’t want to carry on playing, that’s your prerogative. In any case, there won’t be any more public updates until the game is finished.
I do think it’s unfair to criticise those who replied to your posts on this thread. As far as I can tell, they all tried to help you out, even to the extent of offering to send you save files guaranteed to work.
Well, it looks like some of you are having problems with alice after or before (or some game breaking bugs) the break between alice and the mc.
First of all, download the game from THIS website, almost every bug that messes with you are supposed to be fixed.
The things that i do with alice at the beginning till that moment are this.
At 8 pm go to eat with her then go to the park (or vice versa, some times she will say that she ate too much)
Start working in the office and don’t waste all of your energy leave one atleast (or more if you want to interact with the other girls), invite her to the mc house.
Always go to the gym after she send you a message about that.
In the weekends i always go to the cinema, i let her choose the movie that she wants to see, and then i always compliment her.
Go to the beach and go play bowling with her, do anything you have to do, and don’t feed her 24/7.
I’m sorry if anything that was said to you would drive you away from the game, but I think myself and others that have replied to you are just looking to help you. Part of that is fixing wrong assumptions or misunderstandings on how the game works and what was needed to be done to overcome the issue you were having. I do think it is valid to correct misinformation and wrong assumption for others as well. I am of course biased as a huge fan of the game but if you give it a chance I think you’d enjoy it. But if it’s something that makes you upset or ruins it for you than I guess just don’t play. Either way take care.
It was a single person most recently and I’d say enough has been said about the romance score and what lowers or raises it to over come the game over and or break up entirely. Searching the word romance in this topic is going to be flooded with info now .
@Krodmandoon I know, it’s really weird tbh like how he (or she idk) is the only one who have that problem and almost everyone that played or playing rn don’t have any problems at all.
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I guess I should see the dialogue differences but I never have.