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Is there a way to screw a romance? can you get "locked-in" a romance?, can you romance more than 1 character or only 1 per playthrough?

You get to choose the partner at the end of Act 2 and it stays for the rest of Act 3. Romance makes it so that they like you by default (instant support, no persuasion) until I assume you really breaks their quests.

Then Epilogue happens and you go kick a dog out of pure rage.

The Epilogue is that bad?

the problem i had with the epilogue is that the ending cutescene did not match the dialogue i had with the red prince on the ship right before that. my romance with him ended with me living with him as his "slave" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), but the "where are they now" segment mentioned none of that

Ok so before that point i can pretty much go trigger happy with the romances without problems? Are any non companion related relationships considered "romances"?

Romance wise, I will say it, in Fane voice too.

It's shit.

Your partner will go from lusting and loving from you to "Haha I joke with you and goodbye! I go my way now you go your way". Even with the prince dialogue, that's more of a joke or anything. It's soulless. It's generic. It's boring. It has no love. It has no life. You don't step on what makes a journey fulfilling and make it feel like you are left behind.

It's like, imagine a scene where a couple must part way at a train station and instead of the dude running after the train as it leaves to tell the girl how much he loves her and will continue to love her, he just turn his back, take out his phone and go on Tinder searching for a new girl straight away before the damn train even leave the station.

Or to take a lover out for one last goodbye dinner and ask him/her to fully pay for it.

Like, WTF. Did someone coat the stair on the way down with slippery oil?



All you get is a few dialogue in Act 3. That's all. The rest completely forget they love you and just stick with the generic attitude-base dialogue saying stuffs like "YOU CAN SEE AFFECTION IN IFAN EYES" that you have been reading everytime you say "I should go" to him in Act 2.

Wow that either seems like a huge oversight or like it was tacked on? I mean up until the end of act 2 its seemed pretty cute...save for Red Prince whose romance rubbed me the wrong way the instant he was like naw baby you're the side piece but you should be happy about that! (and it doesn't seem like you can change that at all : I )

Also 10/10 full critique read in Fane's disgusted tone of voice made my evening.

i dont think he was treating you as a side piece, i thought it was more like being in a polygamous relationship, granted i dont know a whole lot about lizard and their norms, so i don't know how they view polygamy. because you can ask him about it and he is like "i love sadha, but i love you too" i thought it was pretty cute, i just wish they would change that last cutescene to match everything that happened. something tells me the last cutescene after you finish the game was made before the romances were made

Well, I would think that of him too but in my attempt to change the scene if you click the second option or so the uh.. " What would she think seeing us?" He basically shrugs it off and said if he saw you with her it would break his heart. I kind of took that as 1. Sadha didn't know about the lil affair business and 2. He didn't want to share. Either of you. xD I guess it might be just me but the entire thing just made him seem rather... Skeevy.

And so it takes a fantasy world filled with magic and miracles for a powerful emperor to only have 1 wife that he doesn't even have 100% crush on.

The one with Sadha, he always call it "Destiny"
But the one with you, he mention it that he hungers for it and will even use the wine he save for his "Destiny".

Complete slap in the face with generic prepared ending.

i guess that is true, but i would also like to point out that the only reason who mated with sadha, is because destiny pretty much dictated him to do so. he only met the girl like once aside from his dreams. i dont think sadha would be as broken up as the red prince would be, i think she cared more about birthing the red dragons than anything else

We were even the one to help save Sadha so pretty much own us her lives to begin with, both with protection and with swornbreaker.

At this point, the ending is 100% the reason I don't want to replay the game yet because who likes to invest 80 hours into something they know will slap them in the face with the NTR?

who knows, hopefully they will change the ending, after realizing they kinda dropped the ball

I doubt it. I thought they got rid of the wife in the release since Sadha wasn't mentioned in Act 1.

Suddenly, she's back.

And she even gave you the NTR ending, the most hated ending in any romance.

Hell, make me the next Shadow Prince, I will dye my char black and make her my new footstep.

ntr?

Netorare

When Char A and Char B relationship is built up for like 80% of the game and even commits as a couple.

THen Char C is brought up and A decide to go sleep and wed C instead.

B has been NTR'd, completely defeated by someone the viewers and players don't even care about and even hate.

The ending no one wants in any romance.

to be fair, he is pretty much forced by destiny to marry sadha, but that doesn't mean he can't marry the player, i mean he is the god damn dragon emperor now, and it is not uncommon for a emperor to take multiple consorts

That's the problem. I will have no problem if after the slave joke and you accept, the dialogue go slightly further where you actually get to express the desire to go with him and he express some kind of desire to have you around as well.

The current one with the "You go sleep with Sadha then, I will go on a new adventure." is a cuck move, one where you completely accept the defeat.

i kinda just viewed the whole slave joke thing as intentionally leaving it open ended. because if you accept he is like "cool, we can welcome you into my house and reminisce, but in the meantime, my boots need cleaning" and that is where it leaves off but even then i still think the ending could be changed just by changing the ending cutescene that the narrator voices

They really just have to add "With you by his side" to the start of the red prince narration and remove the last part.

Add this to every char you commit to and agree to stay with so it goes like

"The red prince" "With you by his side" "blahlbalhlbah"

Done.