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[SPOILERS AHEAD FOR DIEGO'S ROUTE; READ AT YOUR OWN RISK]

Just finished the update and I gotta say; this was, overall, a really satisfying conclusion to Diego's story. Just the sappy, story-book esq. happy ending that Diego deserves. Everything was wrapped up pretty well, I feel, and all the conflict was resolved in a satisfying enough and realistic way.

All that said, I still don't like Kyrex. This is, primarily, just me being dead set on holding a grudge against him, though I've noticed (what I believe to be) a couple of holes in the story he told on day 19; Kyrex says to Tai and Diego that he never viewed the situation as being in a relationship and saw Diego like a clingy stalker type, but if you go to the gym on day 5, Kyrex talks about Diego like his ex as opposed to a fling gone wrong. At least, it's very heavily implied that he viewed his time with Diego as a relationship, so much so that MC specified the topic as being about Kyrex's ex; the way Kyrex talks about Diego being "high maintenance" and that he had "needs that weren't being fulfilled" sounds like someone talking a bad relationship as opposed to what he said on day 19. 

I don't know, maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it just doesn't line up to me and the fact that MC doesn't bring it up at all just feels... off...


On to more pleasant topics! Now that Diego's route has come to a close, I'm way excited to start seeing the other routes! Looks like the next update will be Tai, but I'm crazy looking forward to the start of the Axel/Dom route(s)! I remember it being said that the plan after completing Diego's route was possibly to start writing on multiple routes at once; is that still the case or should we expect Tai's route to come to a close before work starts on the next? No real complaint either way - just curious.

There were no new issues with any visual elements this time around, so I don't really have anything particularly new to bring up. The only visual aspect that I feel inclined to bring up is that there's an errant pixel off to the side Axel's sprites (towards the right side of the screen in the gallery's sprite orientation). It's been there for a long while and I don't remember ever brining it up, so I figured I'd just mention it, in case it wasn't, like, a known thing.

I really enjoyed that interactive scene at the end of the game, too! Pretty nice seeing Diego on bottom! I've got no actual complaints about it, just would have liked a few more options for what to do, though I get you can only include so much. Again, not a complaint, just a thought; interactive scenes are always a nice time in these games, I just like to have... as thorough an experience as possible.

Great work on this update as always! I'm really looking forward to seeing where this game is gonna go in the not too distant future!

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Hey there, thanks for the comment! We made some changes in 0.17.1 to bring those scenes in line with the later plot, but I gave it a read over while reading your comment and noticed I missed a bit in the second scene! Whoops! This is adjusted now and should fit in a lot better as of 0.20.1/0.21. 

Right now we're focusing 100% on Tai's route and I don't expect that will change anytime soon. Reason being that the very reason we had to make adjustments like the above to Diego's route was that we didn't have things as well planned in advance as we could have. During December, we took the time to plan Tai's route out in significantly greater detail in order to improve consistency and ease our workload in the coming months, however due to the myriad of other changes we made during that month, we didn't have time to do the same for any other routes. Unless we find the time to do so, we likely won't be delving into any of the other routes until Tai's is wrapped up.

I think that rogue pixel issue with Axel's sprite was fixed in 0.20. Take a look when next months update arrives. I can't see anything on my current dev build at any rate, by all means let me know if I've missed anything.

The interactive scene was our first, but certainly not our last! Next time we do one, we'll more than likely take it further!