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[Defiant Explorer]

That's a very fair point, I completely ignored the fact that she was on a journey to the capital of the republic when she got lost. Which is a huge step for someone who went through what she went through, therefore the simple "resemblance" of a soldier from the republic wouldn't have that big of an impact on her like i initially believed it would have.

All in all, something tells me Selene Survivor will feel uncomfortable the next time she sees a soldier or guard in standardized Republic iron armor. But of course, she must meet them first. And the story just hasn't gotten to that point.

 

[CarlH]

To be fair, the symptoms i'm thinking of are also quite subtle and easy to overlook.

Well, now I'm bound to go back and look, ain't I? Any hints - hot flashes, tender breasts, mood swings?

Based on the conversation with Murella as she is suffering from period cramps, our Selene is pretty much ovulating sometime in the early days of the adventure (provided she has a regular and average cycle). So a pregnancy wouldn't be out of the question by now.

 

[ffive]

Well, now I'm bound to go back and look, ain't I? Any hints - hot flashes, tender breasts, mood swings?

I don't remember/looked if there's more, but the one i spotted (in the script) was Selene throwing up which she chalked up to poor food quality she's scavenged while stuck on the little island, after jumper attack. Note, this won't happen for all pregnant Selenes, just the ones who had it happen early enough for effects to start to kick in. So she might be pregnant even if you don't get that little bit.

 

[CarlH]

Ahh, I see. Thanks. I gotta be promiscous even faster! Got it.

 

[Defiant Explorer]

Well, now I'm bound to go back and look, ain't I? Any hints - hot flashes, tender breasts, mood swings?

ffive is correct.

There are only two tiny manifestations. In the first one, the game only checks if variable pregnancy = true. This isn't very realistic because Selene could have had sex 10 minutes before and who knows? But the "signal" itself could very well come off as a trivial physical activity expression, so it's a minor thing. In the second case, the game not only checks the pregnancy variable but also the time factor (at least 10 game days, if I remember correctly). But there the manifestation is more prominent. Although, strictly speaking, the time is still too short, so this too can be considered not very realistic as well.

In general and overall, Selene will most likely realize whether or not she's pregnant at the beginning of Chapter 3, after the time skip of 1 or 2 in-game months between chapters. And of course, other factors could play a role, like one remedy that makes a pregnant Selene today not pregnant tomorrow, and she did not even notice it, because the pregnancy was at the very beginning. That's the territory of randomness, not guarantees. To completely rule it out, don't take various poisonous things.

 

[CarlH]

To completely rule it out, don't take various poisonous things

That's smart advice in general, whether working on a baby bump or not

 

[Defiant Explorer]

Hey, Kendra011. Aside from everything else in your review, I want to specifically mention that I never “positioned” my game as porn. Not in the features, not in the disclaimer, and not even in a whole scattering of comments here and there, where I repeatedly wrote that this is not a porn game.

An 18+ game? Definitely. But a porn game, i.e. one where everything is driven solely by the need to insert sex scenes? Nope, never.

And it's also not erotica, because all the possible sex scenes are way too detailed for erotica standards, which is essentially the same as porn, just more... restrained in its descriptions. My game doesn't fit into the conventional genre boxes, and that's one of the biggest challenges I have to work with.

 

[DarthSion98]

Hey, Kendra011. Aside from everything else in your review, I want to specifically mention that I never “positioned” my game as porn. Not in the features, not in the disclaimer, and not even in a whole scattering of comments here and there, where I repeatedly wrote that this is not a porn game.

An 18+ game? Definitely. But a porn game, i.e. one where everything is driven solely by the need to insert sex scenes? Nope, never.

And it's also not erotica, because all the possible sex scenes are way too detailed for erotica standards, which is essentially the same as porn, just more... restrained in its descriptions. My game doesn't fit into the conventional genre boxes, and that's one of the biggest challenges I have to work with.

TL;DR Inner Empire is a well written RPG that happens to include a bunch of adult content because that's what people did back then.

 

[bolondro2]

TL;DR Inner Empire is a well written RPG

Period.

 

[Defiant Explorer]

TL;DR Inner Empire is a well written RPG that happens to include a bunch of adult content because that's what people did back then.

I would say that this is a case where the protagonist's sexuality, her willingness or unwillingness to weaponize it, directly affects the story. Even though in the first (current) chapters, it may look like a kind of fanservice that could have been done without, I think somewhere around chapters 4-5 - it will become more evident what I just wrote about and why I go this way and not another.

One more aspect of adding highly detailed sex scenes was my long-standing internal protest against the peculiarities of modern culture. Where many people won't bat an eye at any kind of violence, even ultra-violence, but if you dare to add detailed sex scenes, these very people bring all hell on you, “Oh, no! That's disgusting! Dirty porn! That's not right! Blah blah blah!”

 

[Defiant Explorer]

Period.

*Blush*

 

[damnedfrog]

*Blush*

Murella went to this thread?

 

[Soldier209]

I presume the area where the story takes place isn't very mountainous because the protagonist doesn't seem to believe that snow exists?

 

[XVGuil]

I presume the area where the story takes place isn't very mountainous because the protagonist doesn't seem to believe that snow exists?

or it could be in a tropical or equator? Many mountainous regions in Indonesia never see snow, only hails that break your roof at most, and this doesn't happen at every mountainous region either..

 

[ffive]

or it could be in a tropical or equator? Many mountainous regions in Indonesia never see snow, only hails that break your roof at most, and this doesn't happen at every mountainous region either..

The area game takes place isn't near equator (which is quite literally too hot to live in, if it wasn't for some specific plants) but the planet is quite hotter place than Earth in general, being iirc in a system with two suns.

 

[XVGuil]

The area game takes place isn't near equator (which is quite literally too hot to live in, if it wasn't for some specific plants) but the planet is quite hotter place than Earth in general, being iirc in a system with two suns.

I mean, if people could live in Hell, we could live on Earth with 2 suns.

 

[Defiant Explorer]

I presume the area where the story takes place isn't very mountainous because the protagonist doesn't seem to believe that snow exists?

The area game takes place isn't near equator (which is quite literally too hot to live in, if it wasn't for some specific plants) but the planet is quite hotter place than Earth in general, being iirc in a system with two suns.

I mean, if people could live in Hell, we could live on Earth with 2 suns.

A little north of the equator. The black and white map shows a speck of the White Sand Desert. The equator is even further south, where the so-called Endless Forests (which are not forests, but it's a long story).

Some facts:

• Seasonality is weakly expressed, there are only Dry and Wet seasons (half a year each). The temperature in the Dry season is somewhere around +30/+45 °C. So when the game goes on to describe that Selene is hot, she really is hot.
• In the Wet season, the temperature is somewhere around +20/+25 °C. On particularly cold days it can even be +15°C.

Curiosities from this:

• In the Valatean Republic, they don't wear underwear (in the sense we know it). It's not just the prevalence of spacious types of clothing like togas and tunics, but also the banal temperature. Way too hot.
• Because of the location of the Sky Ring around the planet's equator, from this vantage point (Republic territory), it's kind of at a slight angle to the south. A perfect natural compass. Well, when the sky isn't covered in clouds. Like rainy days of the Wet season. It's hard to get lost in this world as long as you can see the sky.
• Most people in the Republic have never seen snow. Although there are small caps of snow in the central mountains of the country. The mountains in Ranala (to the north) are somewhat more snow covered. So the phenomenon is known, but like many things that someone has never seen, is not taken for granted. And some people don't believe at them at all.

 

[Kalenz123]

Some facts:

• Seasonality is weakly expressed, there are only Dry and Wet seasons (half a year each). The temperature in the Dry season is somewhere around +30/+45 °C. So when the game goes on to describe that Selene is hot, she really is hot.
• In the Wet season, the temperature is somewhere around +20/+25 °C. On particularly cold days it can even be +15°C.

With such hot seasons all the characters should have way darker skin tones.

 

[ffive]

With such hot seasons all the characters should have way darker skin tones.

They're already darker than what passes for average in most games. The skin tones are similar to people in North Africa. The Yardanari, who have re-settled from farther south are darker, and then there's people in the Black Phalanx who are darker still.

 

[burnerone1]

That assumes that the people's biology and the two suns in the setting work the same as ours.