A pretty significant number of the portraits in the Gallery are inaccessible in the current public release, usually because of a small mistake in setting or reading the persistent variables that determine whether they open. I've done a bunch of patching the internal game files of my own personal copy to fix this; would you be interested in me finding more of them and posting a list somewhere?
(as an example: to the best of my knowledge, almost every Magnificent portrait fails to be unlocked in the Gallery once seen, because the update22.rpy file has a bunch of missing "= True" when making the appropriate variables persistent if you've set them in the current save)
More will be added as we get closer to the end, especially after the final challenge. Right now we're working on said final challenge and afterwards more mirror changes will definitely follow~
My literal only complaint so far is that there isn't another chapter to play through
Spoilers ahead and below
Well okay that's only partly true. I did run into a problem where as Prince Lewis, selecting to join the Poodalists for Rhianna didn't transform Lewis, though it did go through the animation and TF descriptions, I was also able to repeat the process and spend more influence to the same result.
It's also weird to me that the only character you can actively save from being transformed is Richter. I would very much like an option to save Rhianna from getting Spy-TF'd by Matthias, or stopping Magnificence from getting forcefully impregnated, or spending influence to save Akarion from getting Dog'd. I know it's asking a lot given how early in development the game is when you really look at it, but it's still something that kinda irks me. Especially when you're going down Rhianna's romance path and all of the sudden it gets hard cut-off without any chance at trying to save it, even if it just boiled down to using Influence to TF the victim "into" their previous self.
most of the time, the goal of the game is to puzzle your way through stopping those tfs! you've got two options: Either stop the character causing those tfs from winning in any of the games (meaning they won't have enough to spend), or prevent the recipient from losing and becoming marked! granted, it's not fully play tested yet, but eventually the intention will be to try and make blocking tfs more involved with your challenge battle plan!
I've experienced an issue with the browser version, where certain galley portraits aren't unlocking mainly with Maggie's. I've discovered a fair few of them but only the default shows as unlocked.
this is also present in the desktop version of the current public release (0.22), and it's because there's a minor mistake in the persistence code that results in the game never actually "remembering" that you unlocked the portrait
I noticed that I cant seem to get a few of the gethra TFs, am i just missing something or did they get removed and if they did get removed when will they be added back
Love the game but one thing: I attempted to go down the BarMaid path but for whatever reason the events in Act4 Never began. The Tavern Never opened and I wasn't able to make barmaids out of anyone then Tessa, Reese, and Marazet.
Is there something I'm missing? Heres my flow of events I took to attempt to trigger the tavern:
Defeated Akarion -> Lost to Tessa -> Resisted Training -> Tfed Reese (loyal to me) -> Led Marazet to Tessa -> Tight Rope challenge -> Betrayed Tessa -> Alliance With Rictor -> Tfed Tessa into Barmaid -> Tessa Overthrow scene -> wasn't give the option to change anyone present (Only Reese/Ramen was marked) -> Courtship Challenge -> Successfully woed Dragon with Prosthetic (cannot remember her name) -> ...nothing. No options to change anyone at all.
Based on the guide the Tavern scene should begin immediately but it didn't I went back and followed this path believing maybe the problem was the overthrow scene.
Alliance With Rictor -> did not tf Tessa -> Courtship Challenge -> Successfully woed Dragon with Prosthetic (cannot remember her name) -> Tfed Tessa -> Tessa Overthrow Scene -> Prompted to tf all maids -> BarMaid Tf Rictor and Marazet -> ...nothing.
Once again, the maid path abruptly ended. Is there something I'm missing or is the path broken at present?
The new update is amazing but i do have a question, will there be a diffrent way of making Gertha pregnant in the future? I mean without having to genderbend Elami. (totally not because i was hoping for there to be a possibility of getting literally everybody pregnant, Felcandra included, in one run)
I have two more questions, will there be a possibility of getting Magnificence in her milf form into the harem? (mostly because in my opinion she has the most gorgeous design in the game at the moment). And will be there more pregnant milfs/getting characters who already have milf forms pregnant, or is Magnificence an exception of being the only milf to be gorgeously round?
This game already is the best of it's kind (with the sheer variety of decisions and transformations), but it seems it still manages to become even better, other creators will have to do a lot to even rival it when it's finished.
there are a handful of drawn sex scenes right now, but its not a focus for the project. it will be completely impossible for us to draw every possible combination of forms banging :P
for a pass where Main Character doesn't change until the end of the game? If this is the most difficult and main path, it seems to me that it would make sense to adjust these scenes to it, and leave the rest as black screen.
Well, this is my personal opinion and thoughts in the air) Just wildly high on the style of drawing
well we're glad you're excited about it! We hope to illustrate as many scenes as we can. as for which ones get priority, it will likely be decided by our patrons/subscribers and whichever scenes we feel are the most common to occur.
HOW TO SNUB MATTHIAS: challenge akarion, win, don't tg small talk Marazet twice partner with marazet for challenge 2, lose sabotage Matthias challenge 3 immediately go to the garden after challenge 3, turn Matthias gay you will now have no spies
really good game, it's a neat take on a VN that i'm excited to see more from :3
So is base Lewis going to be like the super hard play through for the best ending? cause it seems like it too me and I love it! Cause all the spirits and gods talking about everyone will change and I wonder if the Host gets mad if Lewis never loses.
You know, reading all the past comments, it seems like every other day someone is having an issue because they're trying to play on mobile, or they're asking a question about the game being on mobile. Maybe you should have a disclaimer somewhere in your banner, something like: THIS GAME IS NOT CURRENTLY COMPATIBLE WITH MOBILE, DO NOT EXPECT A PLAY SESSION ON A MOBILE DEVICE TO BE FUNCTIONAL.
Also, are you going to add more music? Something like, having different songs as the story or challenges progress? I know the two songs in the game are from a music pack, but I gotta say, listening to the same two songs during my testing of the game seems to have caused them to invade my nightmares. Kinda weird.
theres some sort of bug with how itch.io handles it. ideally it should block mobile browsers from launching the app, but somewhere along the line it stopped doing that and we don't know how to change it back.
we do have plans to add more music! but it's not a huge priority. most folks play nsfw games muted anyways :p
Though I could just add to the posts I made earlier the way I did with the replies I made, I feel this is different enough that it needed a new post: If you choose to take the mark and date Felcandra instead, the text suggests that you get influence if you were to impress them enough, something like "you feel your pockets get heavier." But no actual change in influence amount appears to have occurred. Bug, or am I misunderstanding something?
Hey uh been playing on the web version of the game and the text is impossible to read mostly because of the black background and the text being black as well is there a way i can fix that?
easy! Matthias will do it automatically if he has enough influence and doesn't transform lois into a spy. you might miss the change since its really subtle, but marazet's breasts and hip size should go up when she is transformed in this way!
it should be! you likely just have some tough competition. if earning points through the questions isn't boosting you enough, you can try to sabotage your competition by given them transformations that the suitors dislike! if a rival character has a drawn dance/kiss/s*x scene with the suitor, you are basically guaranteed to lose.
After struggling for way too long, I just gave up and looked at how the whole thing actually worked. I think that you should list the value of the individual answers in your walkthrough, because sometimes there's multiple correct answers, and sometimes there's a definitive wrong/right answer. Here I'll list the results as if I chose the best answer every time. (And just to make things clear, I try to make sure that I not only do things as base Lewis, but don't go around transforming others against their will unless, and only unless they're straight up evil... meaning Tessa and Matthias... Maybe Magnificence. Akarion's a jerk, but he doesn't really meet my standard of deserving it the way being an evil schemer or neglecting one's children does. But even the ones that do deserve it in my opinion, I'm not going to do any really bad transformations because murdering their original selves is way disproportionate in my opinion.)
Sylvie as base lewis: Max 5 points (Mat only gets above 4 if tg'd which I don't do, so this should beat him. Reese gets 8 if male and 5 if female, and a tie is in your favor, so you win as base Lewis but have to TG Reese. I don't have a problem with doing that change because he outright asked me to, so it was consensual, soooo... I guess this is how I ensure that I win without being eeeeevil. Victory is possible)
Azymandia as base Lewis: Max 3 points (Yeah, I'm not even going to bother. Akarion loses if default, soldier, or trophy, and richter needs to be tg'd, but still her normal personality to get above 1 point, so Lewis wins, right? Wrong. Odenval gets either 5 or 6 points and wins unless- and only unless- he's a slug, which is horrible and I wouldn't let that happen even if it was possible outside of the evil spy route, so victory is not possible.)
Vixxy as base lewis: Max 4 points (Gethra loses normally with 0 points but wins if age regressed, Elami loses with 0 points unless she's a spy, meanwhile Magnificence wins with 6 points as male and 7 as female, unless she's been short-stackified or is a peasant, in which case she gets 0 points. Vixxy sure has high standards. I'll consider this as victory possible since you can easily shrink Mag at the very start of the game. But honestly, I think I prefer that she wins. I usually do the harem thing but otherwise leave her as herself in Mingle 3, since that's as far as I'm willing to go, so this is a good way to easily get 12 influence by talking to her immediately after she wins.)
Jonathan as base Lewis: Max 6 points (Base Lewis beats Marazet and Tessa no matter what with a score of 6, Rhianna loses if she's a lioness, wyvern, maid, or princess. The only one of those I think I'd be comfortable with is the lioness one, as that one's consensual I think... but I prefer Rhianna as she is, and really don't like the idea of taking away her family ties, so I'll consider this one as victory not being possible)
Extra note: I think every single date gives an extra three points to buff Lewis, letting you beat literally everyone. If you get the right answers as jacked!Lewis you just... win. ...I actually don't like that. While Lewis is still himself as far as I'm aware, there's just something disappointing about the idea that his physical appearance matters that much. Scrawny normal Lewis deserves love too, and I personally have never seen the appeal of a person's physique as long as they're physically healthy. Seriously... I have never once looked at a supermodel of either sex and understood how they were any more attractive than the average person, though actual unhealthiness/ uncleanliness like being morbidly overweight or physically injured/ sick/ malformed is something I don't find appealing.
absolutely love the time and effort you've put into this! i wont lie, that challenge is kind of a mess with how we first set it up. it's been maybe 6 updates since we first created it, and we don't always go back to update the form rosters each time we add something new. we intend to give it a thorough pass near the end of development when we have a more complete picture to structure it around.
as for the muscular preference, that is actually by happenstance decided by each of the real people behind the daters. each of the suitor slots was actually auctioned off to our supporters at the time of the update, and each one of them got to submit a list of things that they found attractive and interesting and note some of their favorite forms. muscular Lewis just happens to fit a lot of their desired criteria's lol. we do occasionally futz with the suitors preferences, but only when we need too to make a pathway possible. kingmaker/muscular lewis doesn't tend to break anything when he wins, so it's likely something we will leave in lol.
Okay, I'm replying to my own post instead of editing it since it was already really long. I'm going to list Kingmaker Lewis's scores and explain the actual scoring mechanism at the same time for any other players that happen to be reading this:
The way scoring works, all the dates give a different score to all the competitors entirely based on what form they're in. These scores are static, meaning that as long as they're in that form, they're always going to get that score. Meanwhile, Lewis's scores are based on two things: his form, and the answers given. The Maximum scores listed in the above post aren't actually completely answer based. Answers during the dates each have their own point value, but said value can be negative, so a bad answer can actually lower your score. The actual maximum possible scores just from answering questions are as follows:
Azymandia: 4 points
Sylvie: 4 points
Jonathan: 6 points
Vixxy: 4 points
The reason Azymandia is listed as 3 and Sylvie as 5 in the above post is because while Jonathan and Vixxy neither give nor take away points from an unchanged Lewis, Azymandia takes away 1 point and Sylvie gives 1 to basic Lewis. As for Muscular!Lewis, each date gives 3 points to him at the start, so the scores in the same order are:
Azy: 7
Sylv: 7
Jon: 9
Vixx: 7
Therefore, this version of Lewis always wins with the sole exception being if an unchanged Reese is his competitor with Sylvie, since in that case Reese gets 8 points to Musculewis's 7.
Are we going to be allowed to save Marazet from Matthias? At the moment, it seems like he always gets her if you're not his target. Maybe something like: If you eavesdrop on him during the first mingle, you can warn her either by talking to her or if you matched against her in the challenge?
How do you do that? Talking to him only gives one option which repeats endlessly: 'Discuss Challenge 1'. The walkthrough makes no mention of him even being an opponent despite the fact that he's clearly a pickable option, aside from a single brief mention in the changelog for ver 0.20 that to get a male spy transformation: 'face and defeat akarion in ch1, then face and lose to matthias in ch2!' There's no selection when facing him, so do I need to talk to someone else first? Also, this text box is formatting my reples weirdly. What the heck, I didn't hit enter after "no".
as female lois, go to magnificence during mingle phase 1 and talk to her. she should offer you a chess piece in exchange for wearing a dress from her collection. if you accept it, you will have an extra life for challenge two, which will allow you to beat Matthias.
Ah, so you can't do it as base lewis. Okay. Guess I can't save Marazet and win both challenge 1 and 2... And I assume the chess piece can't be acquired by giving Magnificence 3 coins or something? (Why did I say three? Because it's the same amount that you win in the first half of challenge 2, so I'd say that's what the value would be.) I was hoping it was possible to do everything in a sort of "pure run". Like the earlier post I made about how in challenge 4 I couldn't win no matter what I picked. I like it when games let you do everything possible even under minimum conditions and using as little cheese as possible. Like Sundered, an action platformer where the main mechanic of the game is that you can infect yourself with evil demon-alien powers that vastly increase your strength and versatility, but they're not required (and to get the best ending you need to beat the game as a pure human with no powers).
Edit: Or maybe a better comparison would be Devil Survivor on the DS, that game is a visual novel/tactics rpg hybrid, where the main plot is that the people of the Yamanote Circle in Tokyo have been barricaded in by the government because of a demonic incursion. There's a whole bunch of different routes in the game, and charcters can die, but it's possible through picking every correct choice in the visual novel sections and by getting all the correct objectives in the trpg sections to unlock every single route at once and save every single character who dies in the game.
at the core, we want it to feel like a puzzle game. but the big thing is the game is still incomplete. we'll certainly add new options in the future that might make this sort of thing possible.
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A pretty significant number of the portraits in the Gallery are inaccessible in the current public release, usually because of a small mistake in setting or reading the persistent variables that determine whether they open. I've done a bunch of patching the internal game files of my own personal copy to fix this; would you be interested in me finding more of them and posting a list somewhere?
(as an example: to the best of my knowledge, almost every Magnificent portrait fails to be unlocked in the Gallery once seen, because the update22.rpy file has a bunch of missing "= True" when making the appropriate variables persistent if you've set them in the current save)
Just a very quick question will there be more options for people to join the harem story line in the next update?
Currently we're working on the final challenge and endings, however once those are done we plan to get the next harem member chosen!
I wonder when the next challenge will be added
this next update! version 0.23~
This took me way to long to realize it was royale and not royal
we get that alot lol
could you maybe add more mirror options to the other courts?
More will be added as we get closer to the end, especially after the final challenge. Right now we're working on said final challenge and afterwards more mirror changes will definitely follow~
yay! any ideas what's to come next?
My literal only complaint so far is that there isn't another chapter to play through
Spoilers ahead and below
Well okay that's only partly true. I did run into a problem where as Prince Lewis, selecting to join the Poodalists for Rhianna didn't transform Lewis, though it did go through the animation and TF descriptions, I was also able to repeat the process and spend more influence to the same result.
It's also weird to me that the only character you can actively save from being transformed is Richter. I would very much like an option to save Rhianna from getting Spy-TF'd by Matthias, or stopping Magnificence from getting forcefully impregnated, or spending influence to save Akarion from getting Dog'd. I know it's asking a lot given how early in development the game is when you really look at it, but it's still something that kinda irks me. Especially when you're going down Rhianna's romance path and all of the sudden it gets hard cut-off without any chance at trying to save it, even if it just boiled down to using Influence to TF the victim "into" their previous self.
most of the time, the goal of the game is to puzzle your way through stopping those tfs! you've got two options: Either stop the character causing those tfs from winning in any of the games (meaning they won't have enough to spend), or prevent the recipient from losing and becoming marked! granted, it's not fully play tested yet, but eventually the intention will be to try and make blocking tfs more involved with your challenge battle plan!
I've experienced an issue with the browser version, where certain galley portraits aren't unlocking mainly with Maggie's. I've discovered a fair few of them but only the default shows as unlocked.
this is also present in the desktop version of the current public release (0.22), and it's because there's a minor mistake in the persistence code that results in the game never actually "remembering" that you unlocked the portrait
Question, will there be combos transformation or more transformation for both muscle lewis and TG muscle lewis in the future
yup!
Nice
와.. 털! ㅋㅋ
I like this game and all its options, kinda wish there was a guide for it since there is so much.
There is a walkthrough in the downloads section
Will the options "Gender Distribution: Majority Female" and "Widespread Polyamory" (The Magic Mirror) affect the game in any way in future updates?
they will have a great impact on the endings which will be coming soon!
I noticed that I cant seem to get a few of the gethra TFs, am i just missing something or did they get removed and if they did get removed when will they be added back
I think they were harem tf form which got removed (its the same for me)
Love the game but one thing: I attempted to go down the BarMaid path but for whatever reason the events in Act4 Never began. The Tavern Never opened and I wasn't able to make barmaids out of anyone then Tessa, Reese, and Marazet.
Is there something I'm missing? Heres my flow of events I took to attempt to trigger the tavern:
Defeated Akarion -> Lost to Tessa -> Resisted Training -> Tfed Reese (loyal to me) -> Led Marazet to Tessa -> Tight Rope challenge -> Betrayed Tessa -> Alliance With Rictor -> Tfed Tessa into Barmaid -> Tessa Overthrow scene -> wasn't give the option to change anyone present (Only Reese/Ramen was marked) -> Courtship Challenge -> Successfully woed Dragon with Prosthetic (cannot remember her name) -> ...nothing. No options to change anyone at all.
Based on the guide the Tavern scene should begin immediately but it didn't I went back and followed this path believing maybe the problem was the overthrow scene.
Alliance With Rictor -> did not tf Tessa -> Courtship Challenge -> Successfully woed Dragon with Prosthetic (cannot remember her name) -> Tfed Tessa -> Tessa Overthrow Scene -> Prompted to tf all maids -> BarMaid Tf Rictor and Marazet -> ...nothing.
Once again, the maid path abruptly ended. Is there something I'm missing or is the path broken at present?
Should be noted I was finding Fel for extra influence
how do you get more influence
Influence is awarded for winning contests!
Where is all of the Felcandrias hiding spots? I can only find the one in-between the tree in the court?
the other two will pop up in the parapet and banquet hall areas. in both cases, Felcandra replaces one of the stone busts.
will there ever be an option to join the Poodalists with lafs Rhianna rather than having lafs Rhianna join the oleogarch faction?
there is currently one in game!
yay new update
The new update is amazing but i do have a question, will there be a diffrent way of making Gertha pregnant in the future? I mean without having to genderbend Elami. (totally not because i was hoping for there to be a possibility of getting literally everybody pregnant, Felcandra included, in one run)
absolutely!
I have two more questions, will there be a possibility of getting Magnificence in her milf form into the harem? (mostly because in my opinion she has the most gorgeous design in the game at the moment). And will be there more pregnant milfs/getting characters who already have milf forms pregnant, or is Magnificence an exception of being the only milf to be gorgeously round?
yes, and yes!
This game already is the best of it's kind (with the sheer variety of decisions and transformations), but it seems it still manages to become even better, other creators will have to do a lot to even rival it when it's finished.
So on 21.1 and can't seem to access Wyvern Rhianna as a Koi. I've tried with 9 Influence and 18 Influence. The dialogue said I need 6 Influence.
So in what specific day will the new version come out like in day 5 of this month, or day 6, 7 or 8
likely the 4rth!
I found a bug
in the gallery even though I unlocked double be rhianna watermelon its not showing it
By the way, I noticed your graphics are a bit like The Pirate's Fate game. Were you inspired by this game?
exceedingly so lol
Hi, I just wanted to ask.:
1. How many endings will there be in the game?
2. How many more challenges will there be in the game?
3. Will Lewis have more transformations?
1, no idea
2, there will be a total of 5 challenges and 5 mingle phases
3, absolutely lol
Will there end up being any sex scenes or will you limit yourself to nsfw sprites and a black screen describing the scenes?
there are a handful of drawn sex scenes right now, but its not a focus for the project. it will be completely impossible for us to draw every possible combination of forms banging :P
for a pass where Main Character doesn't change until the end of the game? If this is the most difficult and main path, it seems to me that it would make sense to adjust these scenes to it, and leave the rest as black screen.
Well, this is my personal opinion and thoughts in the air) Just wildly high on the style of drawing
well we're glad you're excited about it! We hope to illustrate as many scenes as we can. as for which ones get priority, it will likely be decided by our patrons/subscribers and whichever scenes we feel are the most common to occur.
i have 2 questions
Question 1 how many of the charatures are gonna be impregnatable?
Question 2 is their plans for creating hybrid children?
all, and not on screen, but it is possible
i will say this who ever is writing for rhianna is gonna have a hard time with the harem transformation for her
don't remind me XD
HOW TO SNUB MATTHIAS:
challenge akarion, win, don't tg
small talk Marazet twice
partner with marazet for challenge 2, lose
sabotage Matthias challenge 3
immediately go to the garden after challenge 3, turn Matthias gay
you will now have no spies
really good game, it's a neat take on a VN that i'm excited to see more from :3
i personally turn him into a raccoon ill try that at some poin
All are good. Art are good. Furryes, I loved. İf l play this game, l wanna become woman or futa
It's rare to see a really good furry game that isn't made in AI these days, thanks for making this game and always updating it. v:
Every update is better than the last! My fav route so far is koi lewis and tg rees turning eveyone into dragons. She gonna make one hell of a ruler.
I liked Lewis's male spy form more than I expected. Will we be able to see more of him in the future?
absolutely! spy lewis has 2 progression forms at the moment!
So is base Lewis going to be like the super hard play through for the best ending? cause it seems like it too me and I love it! Cause all the spirits and gods talking about everyone will change and I wonder if the Host gets mad if Lewis never loses.
exactly lol
Oh so base Lewis is the hard mode of the game! I wonder whats the end reward for winning all the challenges and (slightly rigged) games.
Achievement: Know thyself and love thyself (Deny the gods and be loyal to what you are and stick to base Lewis for the entire game)
You know, reading all the past comments, it seems like every other day someone is having an issue because they're trying to play on mobile, or they're asking a question about the game being on mobile. Maybe you should have a disclaimer somewhere in your banner, something like: THIS GAME IS NOT CURRENTLY COMPATIBLE WITH MOBILE, DO NOT EXPECT A PLAY SESSION ON A MOBILE DEVICE TO BE FUNCTIONAL.
Also, are you going to add more music? Something like, having different songs as the story or challenges progress? I know the two songs in the game are from a music pack, but I gotta say, listening to the same two songs during my testing of the game seems to have caused them to invade my nightmares. Kinda weird.
theres some sort of bug with how itch.io handles it. ideally it should block mobile browsers from launching the app, but somewhere along the line it stopped doing that and we don't know how to change it back.
we do have plans to add more music! but it's not a huge priority. most folks play nsfw games muted anyways :p
Game keeps crashing whenever I try to run it through JoiPlay. Provided a screenshot of the issue for context.
If JoiPlay is an android thing, the devs keep saying that the game isn't mobile compatible, and that it's best to try on a computer.
the game is not currently mobile compatible. we recomend downloading on a pc for the best experience
Though I could just add to the posts I made earlier the way I did with the replies I made, I feel this is different enough that it needed a new post: If you choose to take the mark and date Felcandra instead, the text suggests that you get influence if you were to impress them enough, something like "you feel your pockets get heavier." But no actual change in influence amount appears to have occurred. Bug, or am I misunderstanding something?
Hey uh been playing on the web version of the game and the text is impossible to read mostly because of the black background and the text being black as well is there a way i can fix that?
That's not occurring with me when I tested it just now on my laptop on firefox, so maybe there's something going on with your browser settings.
I tested it in my laptop it seems to be only for mobile so the issue is a mobile issue that's weird
the game is currently not mobile compatible! we recommend downloading on a pc for the best experience!
do you think you could ever be able to add a path where you play as a different character?
highly unlikely. it'd nearly double our workload since we'd have to start from scratch
Is there a chance to contribute to this game with artwork or writing?
we always welcome fan content! feel free to reach out to me on furaffinity or patreon if you want to talk about something more official!
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/sluttyanimals
how are you supposed to turn marazet into a spy? I tried following the walkthrough but still couldn’t do it
easy! Matthias will do it automatically if he has enough influence and doesn't transform lois into a spy. you might miss the change since its really subtle, but marazet's breasts and hip size should go up when she is transformed in this way!
Is challenge number 4 even winnable if you're base Lewis? I went with the answers in the walkthrough and none of the dates picked Lewis.
it should be! you likely just have some tough competition. if earning points through the questions isn't boosting you enough, you can try to sabotage your competition by given them transformations that the suitors dislike! if a rival character has a drawn dance/kiss/s*x scene with the suitor, you are basically guaranteed to lose.
After struggling for way too long, I just gave up and looked at how the whole thing actually worked. I think that you should list the value of the individual answers in your walkthrough, because sometimes there's multiple correct answers, and sometimes there's a definitive wrong/right answer. Here I'll list the results as if I chose the best answer every time. (And just to make things clear, I try to make sure that I not only do things as base Lewis, but don't go around transforming others against their will unless, and only unless they're straight up evil... meaning Tessa and Matthias... Maybe Magnificence. Akarion's a jerk, but he doesn't really meet my standard of deserving it the way being an evil schemer or neglecting one's children does. But even the ones that do deserve it in my opinion, I'm not going to do any really bad transformations because murdering their original selves is way disproportionate in my opinion.)
Sylvie as base lewis: Max 5 points (Mat only gets above 4 if tg'd which I don't do, so this should beat him. Reese gets 8 if male and 5 if female, and a tie is in your favor, so you win as base Lewis but have to TG Reese. I don't have a problem with doing that change because he outright asked me to, so it was consensual, soooo... I guess this is how I ensure that I win without being eeeeevil. Victory is possible)
Azymandia as base Lewis: Max 3 points (Yeah, I'm not even going to bother. Akarion loses if default, soldier, or trophy, and richter needs to be tg'd, but still her normal personality to get above 1 point, so Lewis wins, right? Wrong. Odenval gets either 5 or 6 points and wins unless- and only unless- he's a slug, which is horrible and I wouldn't let that happen even if it was possible outside of the evil spy route, so victory is not possible.)
Vixxy as base lewis: Max 4 points (Gethra loses normally with 0 points but wins if age regressed, Elami loses with 0 points unless she's a spy, meanwhile Magnificence wins with 6 points as male and 7 as female, unless she's been short-stackified or is a peasant, in which case she gets 0 points. Vixxy sure has high standards. I'll consider this as victory possible since you can easily shrink Mag at the very start of the game. But honestly, I think I prefer that she wins. I usually do the harem thing but otherwise leave her as herself in Mingle 3, since that's as far as I'm willing to go, so this is a good way to easily get 12 influence by talking to her immediately after she wins.)
Jonathan as base Lewis: Max 6 points (Base Lewis beats Marazet and Tessa no matter what with a score of 6, Rhianna loses if she's a lioness, wyvern, maid, or princess. The only one of those I think I'd be comfortable with is the lioness one, as that one's consensual I think... but I prefer Rhianna as she is, and really don't like the idea of taking away her family ties, so I'll consider this one as victory not being possible)
Extra note: I think every single date gives an extra three points to buff Lewis, letting you beat literally everyone. If you get the right answers as jacked!Lewis you just... win. ...I actually don't like that. While Lewis is still himself as far as I'm aware, there's just something disappointing about the idea that his physical appearance matters that much. Scrawny normal Lewis deserves love too, and I personally have never seen the appeal of a person's physique as long as they're physically healthy. Seriously... I have never once looked at a supermodel of either sex and understood how they were any more attractive than the average person, though actual unhealthiness/ uncleanliness like being morbidly overweight or physically injured/ sick/ malformed is something I don't find appealing.
absolutely love the time and effort you've put into this! i wont lie, that challenge is kind of a mess with how we first set it up. it's been maybe 6 updates since we first created it, and we don't always go back to update the form rosters each time we add something new. we intend to give it a thorough pass near the end of development when we have a more complete picture to structure it around.
as for the muscular preference, that is actually by happenstance decided by each of the real people behind the daters. each of the suitor slots was actually auctioned off to our supporters at the time of the update, and each one of them got to submit a list of things that they found attractive and interesting and note some of their favorite forms. muscular Lewis just happens to fit a lot of their desired criteria's lol. we do occasionally futz with the suitors preferences, but only when we need too to make a pathway possible. kingmaker/muscular lewis doesn't tend to break anything when he wins, so it's likely something we will leave in lol.
Okay, I'm replying to my own post instead of editing it since it was already really long. I'm going to list Kingmaker Lewis's scores and explain the actual scoring mechanism at the same time for any other players that happen to be reading this:
The way scoring works, all the dates give a different score to all the competitors entirely based on what form they're in. These scores are static, meaning that as long as they're in that form, they're always going to get that score. Meanwhile, Lewis's scores are based on two things: his form, and the answers given. The Maximum scores listed in the above post aren't actually completely answer based. Answers during the dates each have their own point value, but said value can be negative, so a bad answer can actually lower your score. The actual maximum possible scores just from answering questions are as follows:
Azymandia: 4 points
Sylvie: 4 points
Jonathan: 6 points
Vixxy: 4 points
The reason Azymandia is listed as 3 and Sylvie as 5 in the above post is because while Jonathan and Vixxy neither give nor take away points from an unchanged Lewis, Azymandia takes away 1 point and Sylvie gives 1 to basic Lewis. As for Muscular!Lewis, each date gives 3 points to him at the start, so the scores in the same order are:
Azy: 7
Sylv: 7
Jon: 9
Vixx: 7
Therefore, this version of Lewis always wins with the sole exception being if an unchanged Reese is his competitor with Sylvie, since in that case Reese gets 8 points to Musculewis's 7.
Are we going to be allowed to save Marazet from Matthias? At the moment, it seems like he always gets her if you're not his target. Maybe something like: If you eavesdrop on him during the first mingle, you can warn her either by talking to her or if you matched against her in the challenge?
there is a way! deprive him of influence! you can beat him in challenge 2, and he won't be able to afford marazet's spy transformation ;3
How do you do that? Talking to him only gives one option which repeats endlessly: 'Discuss Challenge 1'. The walkthrough makes no mention of him even being an opponent despite the fact that he's clearly a pickable option, aside from a single brief mention in the changelog for ver 0.20 that to get a male spy transformation: 'face and defeat akarion in ch1, then face and lose to matthias in ch2!' There's no selection when facing him, so do I need to talk to someone else first? Also, this text box is formatting my reples weirdly. What the heck, I didn't hit enter after "no".
as female lois, go to magnificence during mingle phase 1 and talk to her. she should offer you a chess piece in exchange for wearing a dress from her collection. if you accept it, you will have an extra life for challenge two, which will allow you to beat Matthias.
Ah, so you can't do it as base lewis. Okay. Guess I can't save Marazet and win both challenge 1 and 2... And I assume the chess piece can't be acquired by giving Magnificence 3 coins or something? (Why did I say three? Because it's the same amount that you win in the first half of challenge 2, so I'd say that's what the value would be.) I was hoping it was possible to do everything in a sort of "pure run". Like the earlier post I made about how in challenge 4 I couldn't win no matter what I picked. I like it when games let you do everything possible even under minimum conditions and using as little cheese as possible. Like Sundered, an action platformer where the main mechanic of the game is that you can infect yourself with evil demon-alien powers that vastly increase your strength and versatility, but they're not required (and to get the best ending you need to beat the game as a pure human with no powers).
Edit: Or maybe a better comparison would be Devil Survivor on the DS, that game is a visual novel/tactics rpg hybrid, where the main plot is that the people of the Yamanote Circle in Tokyo have been barricaded in by the government because of a demonic incursion. There's a whole bunch of different routes in the game, and charcters can die, but it's possible through picking every correct choice in the visual novel sections and by getting all the correct objectives in the trpg sections to unlock every single route at once and save every single character who dies in the game.
at the core, we want it to feel like a puzzle game. but the big thing is the game is still incomplete. we'll certainly add new options in the future that might make this sort of thing possible.