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progress report #10

happy october!! progress report #10 is out!!! it can be found here

first things first, we have a picture of andrew and ashley back at the café they were at in episode two!! the npcs look very silly here, and i didn’t even notice that these similar shapes showed up last progress report. i wonder why they go back here?? is it for the cult?? i can see the potential there, since we’ve seen them with a different cultist in a previous progress report

this area is also close to where they murdered someone and left the body to rot, so it seems strange to me that they’d come back here!

next, we get to have a peek once again at andrew and ashley’s acting skills!! at least, i assume they’re acting, because andrew has his “most normal guy” “people pleaser” expression on here. this is now the second time that ashley has “pretended” to be dating andrew in public, which is totally normal behavior for a normal brother and sister. i do really enjoy seeing their shenanigans, and i’m so so glad that we’re getting to see them cross The Incest Line over and over again

kit9 says that due to the game’s sort of messy roadmap, “it has become increasingly difficult to maintain the current reporting format.” they’ve decided that this is the last progress report, but not the last post from kit9 studios

[id. text that says “Posts will now be some variation or mix of things such as teaser content, major announcements, surveys, responses, and sometimes author commentary, if time permits.” end id.]

nemlei finally found a spot to split episodes 3A and 4, but says there’s still a “delivery dilemma” that needs to be worked out!!

there’s a summary of the dilemma as follows:

Author - Recap and Survey

Previously on Progress Report...

Episode 3A far exceeds the estimated playtime (6 hours and counting).

Episode 3A is split in two to alleviate the discrepancy between episode sizes, creating Episode 4.

Episode 3A and 4 are still meant to be shipped together to provide a conclusive narrative experience.

Team considers releasing 3A alone to keep the game alive.

Author refuses, as Episode 3A ends on a cliffhanger no matter where it's cut.

Author flip-flops between releasing 3A alone, versus forcing everyone to wait until the entirety of the branch is complete.

Decision is reached that if the audience wants to torture themselves with a cliffhanger, let them.

[YOU ARE HERE!]

nemlei encourages those who can to answer whether or not they want episodes 3A and 4 to be released together, or to have episode 3A released without episode 4 (with a huge cliffhanger!!) for the sake of keeping the game “active.” the discussion thread can be found here!!

throughout this, there is no mention of episode 3B. poor little episode 3B… i really really wonder what’s going on in 3A and 3B for 3A to be significantly longer than 3B, apparently. 3A has a six hour playtime and it’s not even entirely finished!!!

finally, we have another episode preview!! this one is titled “Be Nice”

here we see andrew and ashley in a dream plus demon realm. the demon dreamscape. the dreamonscape, if you will.

i’m thinking this is from the friendship burial route… burial, because ashley is once again reassuring herself that they’re getting along. in decay, ashley isn’t as unsteady in her relationship with andrew, and he’s much colder to her. i don’t think decay andrew would say he doesn’t mind giving ashley a hug, or say that he’s always nice to ashley, as this andrew does

with (the player, as) ashley choosing “the sane option” in her dream in episode two, she signals to him and to us that his romantic affection for her isn’t what she wants. obviously she wants his attention and affection, but she doesn’t return his romantic feelings in friendship burial. he sees that she doesn’t want a romantic relationship with him, and tries to interact with her without the romantic connotations of his actions, like kissing her head. she notices the change, as we see, and feels uneasy about that change for several reasons, but it’s a step in the Morally Correct and Healthy direction for both of them!!

i could be wrong, though :3

i don’t know why, if this were romance burial, andrew would refrain from kissing her head. it could be because of the hex that the unknown entity put on him, i guess, since we still don’t really know what’s going on with that (besides seeing andrew’s little soul running around in the dreamonscape). but, if they indicated to each other that they’re interested romantically in each other, why wouldn’t he kiss her head?? kiss her head, andrew. you know you want to. nothing is stopping you. kiss your little sister’s head.

overall, some pretty good progress reporting this time around!! it’s a shame that kit9 is fizzling them out two months short of a year of progress reports, but we’ll still be getting teasers and updates from them, so i’m not too put-out about it!!

see you next month!!