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I finally got some free time to read BOLAS 3 and they're going to keep thrashing Aerin eh? I thought all of this mess was sorted out in Book 2 and the team was at least tolerant towards him?

Tho I'm mostly annoed at MC joining the thrashing. Come on, you declared that you love each other in ch1 so wtf is this shit.

Kinda ruined their relationship for me a little bit ngl. Maybe I should stop at Book 2...? 🤔

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For reference, the votes will be counted on the basis of amount of chapters completed (disqualifying blatant results skewing—presumably, stuff like only playing ch 1 of a book over and over), which breaks down as follows:

One full playthrough of The Elementalists (b1, b2, winter special): 19 + 17 + 4 = 40 chapters One full playthrough of Endless Summer (b1, b2, b3): 16 + 15 + 12 = 43 chapters

So basically one full pt of each one is the same as 0 votes for TE and 3 for ES

Reminder that the voting period is from June 25, 9:00am PDT to July 9, 5:00pm PDT

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The Do No Harm 2 cover is so… intense. They’re so face tuned and for WHAT, like chill

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*Does not include LIs who are race customizable

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Did I miss something, because why is it that in ch 3 of OR, it’s Aphrodite playing the part of the lie detector going “he’s being honest”, “he is telling the truth”, when Apollo is right there and is literally the god of truth? 🤔

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Yeah, would’ve been more of a twist if we didn’t literally choose the guy’s last name in chapter one. Made the whole “mystery” feel dumb whenever it came up.

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This ID chapter was so stressful with Gabe being a massive red flag and MC just la-dee-dahing through it, head completely empty 😭

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GIRL, IF YOU DON’T GRAB CAS & THE BOOK AND GO–

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OH 🥺

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This would’ve made for a really nice CG

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Wait ew then why did she just change into their clean clothes instead of showering first? 😷🤢

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Choices pulling up the TE loading screen…

Give me a week, I’m coming for you 🫵🏼

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You know, now more than ever, I'm surprised Choices hasn't given the daily release book format another go 🤔

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👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

If I catch any of y'all replaying Endless Summer, it's on sight.

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Right? The Choices series that's generally lauded as having the best ending, and mostly because it had three completely different endings that were up to the player. You can't incorporate that into another installment unless you pull an "oh, that choice didn't really matter".

Blades 2 got away with that going into its third book because the second book and its endings were never meant to be the end of the series, so to have the b2 ending choice not be very important in b3 did not feel like a cop out; in fact, they incorporated it a surprising amount considering that the endings were about determining the fate of realms that the cast isn't even in for b3.

ES3 and its ending were supposed to be final. The only way they could do something without completely messing up those endings would be by playing with the time travel stuff, but even that's unnecessary, as no one has ever accused the ES ending of being lackluster.

In my opinion, and to answer your question, why would Endless Summer need a sequel? No reason. They're just banking on nostalgia and jumping at the opportunity now that they have generative AI to do what they would've deemed too difficult/not worth the effort in the past. Whether they do ES or TE or any other classic, it’s easy money for them because it's much more low effort with their new AI model and it's practically guaranteed to bring in money; whether the series in question needed a sequel is inconsequential.

Why would endless summer need a sequel

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I KNOW I don't want them to go there. I KNOW it would only hurt me. But I would be lying if I said an It Lives revival didn't cross my mind...