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This is me lol. I just romance the same person but on a different path. Because how can I romance someone different when my OG LI is right there looking at me?

I'm so glad RC added save slots, now I can try other LI options

Also Me: proceeds to romance the same person in a different flavor

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Every one of these is horrible but WHAT IS THIS?! Ignoring the three fingers on his hand i need to know what’s going on here

Pb: “wE dON’t uSe Ai”

I rather that old ads then this dipshit ads 🤮🤮🤮🤮

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I only romanced him so I could cheat on him with Alexandre then drop him.

Confession:

"The real villain of Vyying For Versailles is King Louis!"

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I could go for this. I don’t even care at this point really if they ever added more faces, bodies, hairstyles, etc…

I could probably Frankenstein together a passable MC out of the current Choices assets catalog. The new misproportionate female body style with the horrid coloring options are not it.

Sent by @cuddlyklaus

‘The choices for MC are progressively getting worse and worse. It makes me not want to play the game tbh. I feel like we should be able to customise 1 specific MC that’s used across the games because the choices we are being given recently are not it.’

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Every. Single. Time.

choices be like: 'make a grand entrance with this stunning outfit AND impress your li!' and then it's the ugliest outfit you've ever seen

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Sent by anonymous

‘I miss when we had sex scenes in the books that actually felt earned. Like I actually want to know the characters and their hidden depths as the plot progresses. I actually want to fall in love with them if that makes any sense?’

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Assume that the realms are separate, but connected by portals (mainly because I don’t know how things turn out if you choose to combine them as I haven’t read that ending yet lol). So you don’t have to worry about travel between the realms being more difficult, not seeing your LI/friends often, too many of the negative effects of living in the Shadow Realm, etc.

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This was a little tricky to answer because there are multiple correct answers for me, so I answered with only “high stakes” books in mind. With Blades, ES, or TCAF for example, I always played ASAP after each chapter was released (just for fun) but I always replayed the chapter once the Wiki was updated to ensure I made the right choices. But, 95% of PB’s books are completely stakes-free so more times than not a walkthrough seems pretty pointless to me.

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LMAO this is so true. Makes me wonder if any of the writers have ever actually had sex before.

The majority of the sex scenes in modern day Choices would be about 1000000x better if they just cut down on all the damn talking

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I thought I’d be able to write a semi coherent post expressing my thoughts on the finale and the book overall after stepping away from it for a while. But as I’ve started thinking about it again, I’ve only gotten more annoyed. So here’s some disorganized rambling on my issues with Blades 2 instead. Probably just gonna make separate posts for my thoughts as they come to me.

I feel like I should start with Valax because she’s one of the biggest reasons why I feel like this book was absolute dogshit tbh. When you create a whole new character who will eventually be instated as member of the main friend group or an LI, there’s a certain amount of prep work that has to go into establishing them as a character. That work doubles when the character starts off in opposition to the MC or other important characters. And in Valax’s case, not only did she start off simply opposing MC and what we stood for, she stole us from our home and family, forced and kept us in a vulnerable state (for a year? 2 weeks? do we even know atp?), and then violated us by quite literally trying to bleed us dry.

MC’s kidnapping and torture were the catalyst for this entire book. Yet the perpetrator doesn’t have to acknowledge anything that she did at all… Our friends can ignore and downplay what happened (even though it was apparently oh so hard without us) for the better half of the book… And worst of all, MC defaults to brushing everything off, placing trust in this person, and even going out of the way to empathize with her at every turn.

We have the option to express some anger and frustration with our friends’ treatment of us in a rushed scene in the second to last chapter of the book. But that’s where the majority of the focus goes. The only mention of Valax is MC expressing confusion about her role in things and a little bit of hurt about being “betrayed”. Yet up until that point, the writers had done nothing meaningful outside of diamond scenes to actually establish her as someone that could be trusted or become a friend, nothing to show that she could empathize with MC and the insane amount of trauma inflicted on MC and friends because of her, and nothing to prove that she was even seeking forgiveness for it in the first place.

Then to add the icing on the cake, they turn around and invoke the word “friend” in reference to Valax at every opportunity in the last chapter. They have her claiming she couldn’t hurt us. Pouting and shedding a couple of tears in what is probably the most ridiculous and melodramatic CG I’ve ever seen. And MC once again empathizing with her at every turn. Placing trust in her, protecting her, standing up for her, offering to leave her friends, family, and entire life behind to go to the Shadow realm with her.

It’s already been established that MC was basically just a tool the writers used to tell all of the other characters’ (especially Nia’s) stories. But as of now, I feel Valax far surpasses Nia in that regard. MC had to bleed, lose time that can’t be replaced, have her agency stripped from her, and ultimately suffer in silence through all of it just so Valax (a completely new character) could have her lackluster story told in scenes that you don’t even see if you don’t pay for them.

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So wait… Did anyone who is romancing Mal get a scene with him in the final chapter or nah? Because I didn’t get so much as a wink from him the entire chapter. Not even cute dialogue. I even got the bonus ending. So did we really get robbed, (we’ve already been getting crumbs the entire book), or was a Mal scene included with a particular ending? I chose to combine the realms.

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It probably depends on anons definition of “official” but unless there’s a third book which is highly improbable, I doubt Valax will get a romantic scene (if any) until the very end. Same with Aerin too I’m guessing.

Sent by anonymous

‘I am looking forward to the chapter when Valax gets official LI status. She is such an amazingly complex character and I love her!’

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WtD f!MC has very similar 💎 hair too. It’s not exactly the same, but close enough.

Saffron? My sister Saffron?

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Mal’s route sucks in Blades 2. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. There’s no shadow corruption. There’s no deep-rooted meaning behind his mostly apathetic attitude towards MC. It’s just bad writing plain and simple. There’s simply just not enough time left to develop a plot that would explain Mal’s behavior unless they’re setting something up for a third book, which I highly doubt.

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And unless there’s a book 3, which I doubt, we’re too far along in book 2 now for Mal to be corrupted. There just isn’t enough time to properly develop that plot. Unfortunately Mal’s odd detached behavior towards the MC is likely just a result of bad writing from the new writers who just don’t understand his character, or his book 1 development very well.

Sent by @paspeurbitch

‘okay idrc if mal is corrupted by shadow but he's a shit li in this book’

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Sent by @paspeurbitch

‘okay idrc if mal is corrupted by shadow but he's a shit li in this book’

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Now that I’ve read the first chapter of Ship of Dreams, I think I’ve come to the realization that the standards in which I judge a PB book’s enjoyability have changed quite drastically over the years. Once upon a time I would give a book 6 full chapters before deciding whether or not I liked it. These days it’s a more instantaneous judgment. Now I judge a book solely on how horny and cringey the MC is in the first chapter.