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Reading the other comments, I see a lot of people advocating for just skipping content. That's good, as long as the skip is actually canon. If you skip content and it really didn't happen, that's fine. If you only skip the scene and the skipped events remain canon, it's pointless to even bother. 

This means that there should be a visible choice and at least a minimum of optional narration that ties the parts before and after the skip together, to establish a new canon where the skipped scene really didn't happen. Future events should acknowledge those events only if they happened, not if they were skipped.

Alternative sex scenes sound great at first [edit to clarify: they aren't], since it looks like you're giving the player something to make up for the missed content. But now you have two paths where one will always be missed, and that FOMO does not feel good, particularly in a harem game. I mean, harem games are specifically targeted at completionist players who don't want to drop one route for another. [Edit to clarify: Optional paths are great, forced choice between alternative paths is bad.]

I would wholeheartedly agree with having the skipped content in the gallery, so you can see it as a kind of fragment from that alternative timeline. If the scene contains important dialogue, make sure to include it.

[Edited for clarity.]

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Umm... I kind of said the opposite though? Canonical skips are optional routes, that's not quite the same as alternative routes.  I was talking specifically about the fact that alternative routes would be detrimental to the game, but optional ones are fine.

Also, this is quite clearly a harem game, and that's a great thing. 

Thank you for clarifying, i didn’t get it at first. I understand that alternative universe aren’t a good fit a a specifically harem universe. It’s just my opinion that i like them. I mean there are great games like Eternum that managed to do both but Lucky Paradox it still awesome regardless.

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interesting, sometimes a skip could work, but sometimes an alternative route should be better, cause there are canonical things that must happen for the story to unfold

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Now you've got me confused. If certain things must happen, aren't they neither optional nor alternative? 

Optional: You can have chocolate, or not. Also Vanilla, or not.

Altenative: You must choose between chocolate or vanilla, but only one.

Mandatory: You can't order without a cone, Sir. No, Sir, I'm not scooping it into your hand.

Something that must happen is just regular mandatory event, or am I missing something?

if there are alternatives, you can just do both seperately. Like taking the chocolate today, and coming back tomorrow for the vanilla

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No, that would be optional, not alternative. And it still doesn't answer my question.