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Hi, I made a comic style review for Liora’s release. I had so much fun making them for Alain’s route, I think I’m going to do this style from now on. Friday’s are goina’ be tough to post reviews cause I read Alain, Liora, and Antonio lol…

“I don’t think I make any noise, but all of a sudden Liora looks up, and her eyes lock with mine. As deep as the abyssal trenches, their swirling depths contain vast gulfs of emotion.” (MC narration)

So, yeah about that episode 9 finale…

…guys, I think I have something in my eyes, like dust. Very, very magical dust. I won’t lie, while I was reading this I started needing to rub my eyes cause the music + writing together really hits something deep inside of you. :(

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Don't fall for the "Free hearts and tickets!!" Scam

This is a long post. It is meant to help you understand why hacking tools and heart/ticket generators do not work. To get the TL;DR version, scroll down to the paperclip.

We've used our last bit of money to pay the electric bill and now there's nothing left over to buy a small pack of hearts. But our favorite route just came out and come hell or high water, we WILL be playing that route with heart options to read about sexy times.

We decide to do some online searching because the Lovestruck app is a piece of software and software can be hacked!!

Next thing we know, we come upon a promise of endless tickets and hearts!!

All we have to do is use this online tool!

No downloading necessary! We can have as many as 999,999,999 hearts in under 5 minutes!

We test out this tool and realize that for some reason it doesn't work. Huh. Weird. Ok. Forget it. There is a whole row to try! The next one just says fill out a survey and we'll instantly have 10,000 hearts added to our account!

Happily, we answer our 2 question survey, fill out our email, phone number, and mailing address?

Hm, ok. Whatever.

We get a pop-up that says: "You are super close to your reward, just answer this one last question!" What's one more question?

Click.

We're asked to enter our email one more time, you know, for verification purposes. Another pop-up appears asking us to select two free prizes!!

Awesome! We get free hearts and two free prizes! We select our prizes. Where should they ship our brand spanking new frying pan and magazine subscription that we never knew we needed? We enter our mailing address, phone number, email...

Another pop-up. "CONGRATULATIONS! Enter this sweepstake to win an all-inclusive vacation to Hawaii for two!!! Just enter your email and phone number!"

Forty-five minutes later we close out all the pop-ups and try to get back to our original window. WTF?? Where did it go? Where are our 10,000 hearts?? Nowhere of course. "But thanks for your information!"

Meh. Let's try this other link.

Oh, snap! This one comes with a YouTube video SHOWING us that it works!! We watch the video, we SEE it with our very own eyes. The guy on the video obtains 100,000 hearts and 50,000 tickets!!

This is it! This is the winning lottery ticket!

We click the link under the video, which redirects us to the "tool". We follow the steps to a T. Why isn't it working? We did EXACTLY what the guy did in the video.

Let's contact the guy! He can help us. We email him, explaining exactly what we did. He gets back to us right away and tries to troubleshoot with us. After a couple of back and forth emails, he tells us: "It must just be your phone. Sorry, I can't help you."

We decide to give up. We resign ourselves to reading our favorite route without sexy time. Life sucks.

...

Two weeks later we come home to a mailbox overflowing with sweepstakes, advertisements and letters from strange companies.

Ignoring the pile of junk, we decide to check our email. 1,478 new messages including an urgent message informing us that due to recent political conflict in central Africa, the secret Rwandan treasure with a monetary value of 100,000,000 US DOLLARS must be immediately transferred to a bank in the United States of America. WE have been found to be the only surviving heir of King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa. Prince Emmanuel Bushayija has been found to be unfit and therefore we must reply to this email immediately providing our name, mailing address, phone number, bank name, account information and last four of our social so that the money can be transferred quickly and safely. We must also provide a small fee of $6,000 to aid in the transfer. But what's $6,000 when we are going to receive $100,000,000.

The next email states that we are wanted by the IRS for tax fraud and must send a payment IMMEDIATELY or go to federal prison. We can send the payment of $10,000 via Western Union to a location in the Ukraine where the IRS has recently relocated.

...

Given this incredibly long post, you should realize by now how these heart generating tools work. They don't. They are there to gather your information or send you on an infinite loop of surveys.

📎 So why aren't there hacking tools? Well, for one thing, they are unethical and take away from the paychecks of the artists, writers, production team, programmers, etc for the game we all love. Outside of that, the biggest reason these tools don't work is that the game is server side. Have you tried playing Lovestruck in airplane mode or without internet connection before? It doesn't work, right?

Your account is part of a database that rests within the Voltage server. When you purchase a pack of hearts, they are added to your account on the SERVER side. The hearts are not stored on your phone memory or locally in the Lovestruck app.

This is also the reason why you can't just add a bunch of hearts in. You'd have to hack your way into the Voltage server, find your account and manually enter the amount of hearts and tickets that you desire. To hack into a server is not an easy task. If you did manage to succeed, Voltage would be able to see any changes that were made on the server and roll these changes back. In other words, you'd just lose all the hearts that you dishonestly gained. Server breaches are flagged almost immediately and have shutdown safeguards in place.

Hoping to breach a server, find your account, add hearts and then read an entire route is close to impossible. You also risk losing your entire account by being banned.

To sum things up, stay away from these hacking tools and empty promises of unlimited hearts and tickets. The only legitimate way to acquire hearts is by buying them, participating in the weekend challenges and winning them through the daily puzzle system.

And if you think about it, why would you want to cheat the system? By buying hearts, you are supporting the fantastic team that is creating these amazing stories FOR YOU. Remember, they have electric bills, mortgages and groceries to pay for too.

I know this was a long read.

I hope that those who have read this entire article have learned a little something.

If nothing else, take-home points:

1. if it's too good to be true, then it probably is.

2. don't support cheating, support the hard work of the Lovestruck team.

I wonder whatever happened to that frying pan...

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Lovestruck Heart Choice Cost Inconsistency among male and female routes.

I’ve been keeping track of the cost of heart choices in the routes for Lovestruck. What I’ve been finding has been somewhat unsettling. Here is just one example of what I have found.

These are the heart choice costs for Alain’s Season 1-4 routes in Love and Legends.

Next, we have Helena’s Season 1-4 routes and her heart choice cost.

As one can see, there is definitely a difference in cost. 

The cost difference for all four seasons is as follows:

Season 1: Helena costs 17 hearts more

Season 2: Helena costs 10 hearts more

Season 3: Helena costs 21 hearts more unless you decide to reread Alain’s S3 Ch2 and opt to get the second heart choice; then Helena costs 2 hearts less.

Season 4: Helena cost 8 hearts more

Over a span of four seasons, Helena costs 56 more hearts than Alain’s routes or she will cost 31 more hearts if you go back to read Alain’s second heart choice in S3 Ch2.

Overall, given my other data, I have found that lesbian routes cost more hearts than their male counterparts.

I understand that Helena is an incredibly popular LI and her story is phenomenal, but I find that there should be some consistency when it comes to cost. I feel the message that is being sent is that one story is superior over another or that lesbians are expected to pay more due to their sexual orientation.

If you are an optimist, then perhaps you can say that females are worth the higher price because they are just that awesome.

In all cases, I would like there to be some consistency. I've been a loyal supporter of Lovestruck and continuously purchase hearts. It would be nice to know what to expect every route. Setting a flat heart choice cost would be helpful, especially for people who are on a budget.

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I freakin knew it!! That bitch gave me major creep vibes from the very first episode.

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I am probably the only person who thinks of stuff like this... but, Alain just got to Chicagoland. He doesn’t know how anything works here, he has no money or a place to stay. Let alone trying to figure out how to get back to Fantasy World.

I mean, fine we are split up, we can deal, but isn’t walking away sort of a bad idea?

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LOVE IT!

Inktober 2018, Day 18, sketch of Altea Bellerose from Love and Legends. I was actually in the middle of drawing another character, when I saw @a-lovestruck-salamander‘s cosplay costume of Altea and it inspired me to sketch this instead. While looking at reference CG images from her route, I noticed that Altea had a very beautiful neck and shoulder area. So, that’s the main reason for this ¾ back pose. 

I was indifferent to Altea’s route until I went back to reread it, then it kinda’ grew on me. I do enjoy her route a lot, it’s very sweet. Plus, the MC in Altea’s route is so damn awesome. Did you guys see that Altea started speaking French in the latest release? Lol…I thought that was so cute! I love European languages!

FYI, I will continue Inktober into November.

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Can't wait for this route to come out!

Inktober 2018, Day 17, Zain from Voltage’s new series, Sweet Enchantments. It’s almost 7:00AM now and I haven’t slept…my thirst for Zain kept me awake. LOL…

Is this guy Andi Kim’s cousin or something? He’s got the purple colored stuff goin’ on. I’m hoping the people who worked on Andi’s or Renzei’s route get put in charge of Zain’s route. It’s a personality vibe I’m getting or something lol. I think the writers who contributed to those two characters from Villainous Nights would do well for Zain.

This month’s theme for the fan heart thing is cafe. @lovestruckvoltage

“Feel free to come back if you’re ever thirsty. The bar is always open.” (Zain dialogue)

Is anyone else thirsty? Want some coffee made by Zain? I don’t drink coffee that often, but damn…I’d love a cup if Zain made it!

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And there it is...

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During the confrontation in the council room, we get to see the MC’s decent into darkness.

I really feel for the MC. I’d be losing my shit too if someone locked the Love of my life into a room with a serial killer who takes pleasure in torturing people. Plus in this case, Alain is his former abuse victim. Way to go Ishara.

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Holy wtf?!?!

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The MC is a riot. Bahahaha.

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The Bachelorette Party 😂😂

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That's how I feel every day sometimes.

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Voltage Kings of Paradise Prologue Review (Part 5)

After about a week of no luck finding a job, we get a request for a personal interview. We get led to a familiar building.

At the top of the roof we find:

And now we get to choose one of our millionaires to shag!! W00T!!! 

All’s well that ends well!!! 

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Voltage Kings of Paradise Prologue Review (Part 4)

Finally we get our pearl...No, wait! We get:

Hell yes! Gimme those rocks!!

Yeah, yeah. Just give ‘em here!

Now that we are all dolled up, we are ready to head back out to the party.

Yeah buddy, the good ol’ ball and chain will be shedding a river when he sees these rocks walkin’ on by.

I bet he’ll want to chase this all the way to the bank.

Before exiting Yosuke has this important question for us:

Guess you’ll need to know whose name you’ll be screaming later tonight, huh?

We leave the private room and walk right on up to darling hubby.

Clearly not from your broke ass

His side piece decides she needs to be involved.

Not anymore, we caught us some BIGGER fi$$$$h, if ya get our drift.

 You ugly, broke and stupid.

 We decide to let hubby dearest know that it’s time we cut ties. This marriage isn’t working out and we’re off to greener ($$$$) pastures. His reply:

Did we mention that you’re stupid?

Apparently hubby didn’t understand that our sexy self is just too good for him so we had to make it more clear to him:

What do you mean what? What nothing. Peace out, asshole.

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Voltage Kings of Paradise Prologue Review (Part 3)

So hubby shows up, but apparently he’s been out chasing skirts and has brought along his latest conquest.  

While chewing the fat with the birthday boy, our ball and chain claims that he doesn’t know us when he is asked. 

This apparently shocks us so much that we drop our wine glass.

Goddammit. That was probably some expensive shit.

Boy genius then interrupts us with this important message:

DUDE!! WTF?! Mind your own business! I’m only here to get laid and maybe snag a pearl necklace or something.

Yeah, no shit right? Nobody wants to bang a married chick. Way to go, Shun!

We look super upset so Taki grabs us by the arm and drags us off into a private room. SCORE!!

Wow, no foreplay or anything, getting right into it!

Wow, it really is an orgy...but why is he bringing clothing?

Wait? What? I thought we are getting nekkid.

*looks around for dog*

 Instead of getting shagged, they dress us up like a Barbie Doll.

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Voltage Kings of Paradise Prologue Review (Part 2)

When we finally get home we get to meet the husband. He orders us around and tells us he won’t be home for dinner, like...ever. We also find out that our husband isn’t attracted to us and our sex life is non-existent with him. Fine, whatever. We’re going to try to shag some millionaire anyway.

Finally, Saturday comes around and we go to the party. We let Ryoko know that the old ball and chain wasn’t able to make it due to work obligations. But we are kind enough to ask about her old man.

We then get to overhear the most shallow and asinine conversations in the universe:

ZZZzzzz....

The party is in full swing. We keep eyeballing the four guys from earlier. Ryoko decides to run off to chat with her neighbor, so we do what anyone would do at a party...stuff our face with overly expensive food.

All of a sudden, we hear the guy named Shun warning his catch-of-the-day about eating salad and roast beef. He mumbles something about lemons and how his bride would turn into Acne Amy from the Garbage Pail kids if she ate it.

She claims there is no spoon...I mean lemon. There is no lemon in the salad.

BING! On goes the lightbulb. We now turn from housewife into the Iron Chef and explain that there is indeed lemon in this dish.

When we hear about the allergy, we suddenly transform from the Iron Chef to the next WebMD graduate and recommend that she doesn’t eat the food.

Shun then asks if we do this “thing” (I assume taste testing) professionally…Um, no. We just don’t spend our days licking boots and…

Next thing we know we are surrounded by the other three millionaires who are now starry-eyed over us and tell us how amazeballs we are.

While our potential shag mates are drooling over us, our sleazy husband shows up.

Gawd dude. Go away! We are trying to get laid here!

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