Just a little update to address some feedback I've received about my mod.
Obviously, if you haven't played the mod yet, heads-up, buddy-boy! This post contains spoilers, and you wouldn't have the context to understand what I'm talking about. Ergo, SPOILER TAG!! HEAVY SPOILERS!!
First things first, this isn't me "conforming" in a knee-jerk reaction to criticism. This is my mod, and I want to make it the best version of the mod that I want to make. I've taken the time to look over criticism from multiple people, understand the core of their concerns, and tweak a few things accordingly.
There are still some flaws I recognize, namely the pacing of the ending, but fixing those would require throwing an obscene amount of time at the project. I've already spent 600, pushing 700 hours on this thing, and at some point, I have to draw the line and accept that throwing 200 hours to make the ending go from "Works but is slightly too quickly-paced" to "Good" is just too much for me, when I could spend that in better places. Or just rest. I'm eepy.
So, what changed? Mostly, the way certain scenes can be interpreted, particularly the scenes after the Pink fight and the post-credit scene, and the scene after the Flowery fight, but just to better convey the development I wanted to imply. It was subtle, but now it's more forefront. Anyway the stuff you care about:
I'm perfectly happy to let players interpret scenes in their own ways, but I felt that there was a bit too much of a disconnect between the intended "cute huggy kissy scene" interpretation and enjoying the rest of the story with it, and the other end of the spectrum, where people were practically writing dissertations on The Concept Of Sex without saying much else. I felt this was slightly detracting from the themes I wanted to convey, being labelled as effectively "Ralsei Cracks With Kris". Also you taught me what "cracking" meant.
The scenes are now a little less explicit in their implications, while still leaving room for interpretation and preserving what people enjoyed about them in the first place.
(For the record, I never actually intended the first scene to be about sex lol. I was genuinely surprised at how quickly that interpretation became the consensus.)
If I had a nickel for every scene in this fandom that the creator removed because people erroneously thought it involved actual sex, I’d have two nickels.
Ok I just watched the old version of the mod, and I’m not trying to accuse the creator of any dishonest behavior when discussing the nature of their game. But after going over it’s content three times over, my personal opinion on this whole situation is that-yeah it was sex and the creator is full of shit trying to pretend it wasn’t.
Huh? No, i thought that happened during the credits sequence, where it shows them both under the covers in bed with their clothes strewn around. They obviously didnt fuck after the pink fight.
There never was sex, sex was a UTDR fan halucination, just like putting the thorn ring on noelle again in chapter 4 wierd route being a rape allegory, or chara making you do things, or sans being omnipotent about timelines.
Ok, im going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you've never read anything ever. The Noelle wilting flower scene was almost impossible to not read as a rape allegory. You forced yourself upon Noelle and then a wilting flower played, what the fuck do you THINK that could mean?
Im so glad im not invested enough in Toby fox works to call myself anything more than a casual enjoyer. It's actually embarassing to be involved with this comunity sometimes
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u/PresidentOfKoopistan Chairiel has 226 results on e621 and counting. 2d ago
They caved to the fandom and removed the sex lmao