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As far as scene-specific, I'll do so if time permits.

T is entirely accurate, though he does skip over the part about me not wanting to be That Asshole who gripes about a good thing.

None like this, as it would work even for vanillas. I am partial to The Headmaster, because I am that sort of perv. This game's predecessor, Once in a Lifetime, is not only great, it is finished, so start there. Ripples is also excellent, even if my old ass can't handle the (accurate) dialogue. I will give a shout to Dreamlink here as well. It will play like a homage to this to start, but it has potential, and does not appear on "games like this" tab, ever, so needs to be searched.

Promise kept. Eye-focus posted. As an aside, the examples given in this post are not encouraging. Evermore is essentially abandoned, and Ripples artist seems to be growing tired of the assholery of the free masses. Seems to be friendly with the Sad Crab guys though, which, while parts of that game are very good, at the time I first found it, Innocent Witches was a masterclass on how not to do a rework.

I very much enjoy this game, homage-in-part though it may be, and it has great potential. Hesitated to comment lest it be taken as negative, but promised Tanxui that I would post this here if I played through and planned to continue (I do), as he said this is something devs want to hear: the girl's eye movements sometimes remind me of my huge cat, who has a big enough snout where he gets cross-eyed in close. Some of the girls (seems more pronounced if eyes are blue or green) seem as if their eye-focus setting was placed right in front of them during illustration, or perhaps where the screen is, not back where the MC's POV is. It seems to get better over time. Again, I think the game is great, and don't want this construed as a negative.

Just like to say that tonight at bar trivia, I pulled "who was the first woman in Greek mythology" out of my beer-filled head (to the amazement of my teammates) not because I took Greek Mythology years ago, but because I laughed my way through the play in this game several times. This is educational stuff, and should be mandatory.

For what it's worth.

If you really need to see Once in a Lifetime cameos, head of to Ripples and buy a phone.

Related Games button gone. Did the whiners push future updates from this platform? 

Sorry dude, but the pillow fort scene is the most life-affirming scene in AVN history. Some big-budget mainstream movie is going to steal that, as soon as one of their peons find it. Alex's life is dark, but the way all of the main characters interact is overwhelmingly positive.

Am old. (potential spoilers)

I recall Tuco (The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) saying when it is time to shoot, shoot, don't talk. And Indiana Jones using the pistol (and Han shooting first). And playing Doom, and making all the demons shoot each other. I was SO hoping this would happen, and it did.

Charlotte was committed: not sure if this is a spoiler or not, but:

Charlotte has to be the cam girl when watching porn. I was a bit surprised that Rachel didn't innocently rat her out past a certain point (football related). I, too, want to see all the girls developed. Including Tia. And since you are a big April fan, "Abbie" which one assumes is the name of the rounder girl Cassandra Cassandras in the showers. 

That is my favorite scene.

Judie from Once in a Lifetime is in the phone shop. I think that is Iris with her, as well. And I think the game is on Alyssa's laptop screen as well.

I think not. Harem ending is idyllic, and dev has said he prefers to move forward.

Look at the walk-through first.  Ruth needs you advance all of the chapter one girls and Sally. The Sally part you need for Ruth are keys, which I vaguely (been over a year) recall unlocks maintenance guy bringing you to old headmaster's site, where you get the combo to finish Ruth. It isn't coaching the class, it is talking to Sally in locker.

Nova neither lives with nor goes to school with the MC, so her early-game development is a bit slower, but she is in the middle of the current story, and the teaser pics seem to indicate the pirate server will be a big part of 0.8.

And the arena scene was the greatest. I envisioned it while reading MC's thought monologue, and then it happened. Seems like decent character development if I can do that.

And, on the language, I am perhaps a bit sensitive, as are many who got the degrees I have before word processors existed, I suppose. It isn't just how jarring those language bits are, it is that relatively speaking, addressing them takes a lot less time than almost every other aspect of the games and, correct me if I am wrong, the dev community is not nearly as concerned about that as an aspect, given the dozens of languages spoken by the players.

On the last paragraph, for My Bully, some of the dialogue is such that I couldn't be sure of the artist's intent. I read Spanish at an eighth grade or so level, but speak and write it like somewhat slow first-grader. Some French and German, pretty hopeless in any others. Took classes in Geneva and Strasbourg one summer, and thought I was finally picking it up, as I could understand the four guys walking ahead of me in Chamonix complaining about their lighter dying perfectly. Turns out they were all from Quebec. They were speaking French with my consonants. So, I'd do OK in Quebec, but not France (in Geneva, no one speaks only French; the other language isn't always English, but the tolerance if you can attempt more than one is very high).

I will consider what you said about Dreamlink, and if still valid when I finish the currently available content, I'll post it. Don't be surprised if I cite you as an influence for doing so.

Usually when people only get ten, it is because they only get 1 from Wilson in his last quest. You want to get 2 from him. I haven't tried a play-through from the beginning with this update, so not sure if staff training can get you there or not (and have not seen Ada's second hallway interaction because I had Maxine's quest finished already). Spoiler:

Three ways to finish; one gets you 1 point (giving him the pics), two of them get you 2. The one you want to do is to refuse to give him the pics, get him the generic viagra for cheap instead of the real stuff, then enjoy Candy instead of him while he's passed out. That's Candy in the seventh slide/pic down on the right. Used to be that was also the only way to unlock the Japanese subway porn movie in the MC's office, but don't know if that is still true.

Because I don't know enough about the tools used to know whether my perception is correct, same as I never tell an artist "you should do [my fantasy]." In all of these games, the thing is to roll with the author's vision.  I don't ever want to be that asshole who  complains about free games not catering to my kinks (this one mostly doesn't, it's just so good, it is the LotR of AVNs, and having the Hobbit already finished is also way cool). I answered here because that was the question posed.

If you are bilingual in My Bully native and English, I'd be happy to help, but I don't think this is the thread for that.

Love Ripples, but the number of sentences ending in "at" and the liberal use of "anyways" disconnects my old ass too often. That's on me, not the game, as that is how characters that age speak now, but it still rankles.

Once in a Lifetime is a finished game that, while in some ways a product of the tools available at the time, is better than almost all similar games existing now, much less then.

I went a few chapters into My Bully, but the dialogue is hard. The story seems great, but the translation hurts my head.

Downloaded Dreamlink based on this post. It isn't just like this, so far, it looks like an homage to this. Nothing wrong with that. Shows potential so far, and other than Lucy having blue eyes in one scene, the only complaint I have is that I have a very large snowshoe Siamese cat, big enough to put his front paws on the kitchen counter while his rear paws are on the floor. Being that large, he has the head-down mountain lion walk instead of the meshed left-right head-up shuffle of the other cats, and has a pronounced snout, meaning he's a bit cross-eyed when focusing close in. The girls in Dreamlink seem the same, as if their eye-focus setting was placed right in front of them during illustration, not back where the MC's POV is.

My saves don't show a step 20 at all. Perhaps they erase when Rachel's quest is finished (she is the only one whose questline is fully complete, as far as I know) and I have no saves showing steps after 13. What level is Rachel at now? 

Regardless of the day counter, the current plot has the girls at the school for only a year, and perhaps not even a 12-month term, but a typical school year, before exams. So the only pregnancy that would be likely to even show would be if Sarah or Rosie show up on campus in that condition. Honestly, I'd love to see them both show up, but I don't think it is very likely, pregnant or otherwise.

The two-point Wilson content is worth doing. You get the scene in the seventh picture down and it also unlocks the Japanese subway video.

Hard to tell from the description. If you only got one from Wilson (ie, didn't give him the pics or didn't trick him and nail Candy yourself) I am not sure how to get 11 in the current build, as have just played new content. You may be able to do it through staff training, but not sure. If you got two from Wilson when completing his quest line, are in chapter 2, and still only have 10 influence, you must have missed something.

Most of the people who end up with 10 influence do so because they took the easy way out and only got 1 point from Wilson. I haven't tried to progress that way, so not sure how that if it can be done in the recent update (I am not sure if the staff training with Debbie unlocks in Chapter 1 or not) but you can check out the walk-through, it is very detailed.

The content you get from tricking Wilson and hiring Candy (in addition to 2 influence points instead of 1) is worth playing.

Once in a Lifetime is finished, no waiting. And if you want to know who "former President Stabb" is in Eternum, well, ya gotta give it a look.

Heh, piling up minus signs because peeps think my response was to you, not the deletions. All good.

Given the previous response, it is certainly not my place to argue, and I think this is an excellent take (I mean, if I am the villain, so be it, right?) but the division between Mycock's backers (the plot, and the patrons) is real. The girls actually benefiting is real, too, if one takes into account the target audience. World at large? Maybe not. Women that like being spanked? A lot of the defining characteristics for each of the girls in the game are there, even if reversed (as Rachel).

Advance to chapter 2. Locked at 50 until then.

I think you judge by the standards of now against what the world was tech-wise when the game was created. Yeah, the division of character traits is better in Eternum, and there is less squick (even accounting for hosting rules imposed during development) but I find your critique of little merit.

This game is evolutionarily relevant. If you know of a finished game even remotely similar that is even half this good, please share with the class, as all of us would love to play it.  If you don't get WHY this game appeals to people (which seems likely, given the wording of the critique) even across non-appearing kinks, then you just don't get it, and never will. And that's fine, but don't undermine the game.

Possible.

I think it is about the space station. 

Spoiler:

If you take the hand (you'll know the scene when you come to it) then Rebecca's priest will not talk to you later, and you lose her path.

Don't take the hand.

C'mon dude. This game was finished by the time the other games you even like hit update 3. This game is all that, and the bag of chips, and its existence is why many games are better than they would have been.

And it still rocks.

Scroll down. Don't be That Guy (it works fine).

Most of the people who end up with 10 influence do so because they took the easy way out and only got 1 point from Wilson. I haven't tried to progress that way, so not sure how that would work in the recent update (I am not sure if the staff training with Debbie unlocks in Chapter 1 or not) but you can check out the walk-through, it is very detailed.

The content you get from tricking Wilson (in addition to 2 influence points instead of 1) is worth playing.

I fully agree on choice. However, the nature of this game is not monogamous, and the various characters hint strongly at the planned combinations, even if MC is off-screen.

It is even set up so that not pursuing them, in most cases, makes their virtual existence worse, so intentionally cutting off routes in this game is abandoning them.

Short answer: the dev made it so people could play monogamy, but doing so is like buying Turbotax Premium and filing a sing 1040EZ.