by vkalvkal » Tue, 17Jul04 14:00
The LOP team wants to know (the last post on their blog) if we'd like to see a sequel to Living with Serena.
Here's my take on this: "Maybe?
I mean, I’d love to see Serena again, but I don’t think I’ll play another “Living with” game, at least not if it uses the same gameplay of the first game, but I won’t go further into this to not repeat myself over and over again.
If you guys decide to go forward with a sequel, I’d like it to be written by the same Author: Agrippa. Agrippa made some really great games that I’m a big fan of (The Agency, Passion One, Casino of Passion, HwS, Hank Moody, Trip to Paradise, Working for Evil, My Girl is a Model). I’d love to see another Agrippa game.
I have to say I’m a big fan of NTR, cheating and some other dark stuff. I’m not really into vanila sex scenes in games. So, I’d love to see Serena’s darker side.
But, I think it would be better written by Agrippa, since I prefer to see her stay in-character and not something that feels totally off-character. I’ll give two examples of characters that I felt was off-character in different games: Tracy in LwT 2, IF (a big IF here) she cheats on Justin even though he didn’t cheat on her first (the middle finger to the camera scene, which happens if Justin previously cheated on her was totally IN character to her); and Eleanor on that “My sex date” game (she actually is much more sluttier than she was portrayed on the sex date).
So, a suggestion, don’t go full cheating/NTR here. I feel like it would be out of character for her. It would be nice to see her cheating in a route, but don’t make it the focus. And if there indeed will be cheating involved, it would be nice to see it better explored than it was in the first game’s expansion. I don’t like when the cheating scene leads to a game over like it was the case there.
Perhaps you guys could explore a change of character on certain scenes so that we can see her cheating from different perspective (we play as Justin, but in certain events we see what’s happening through Serena). It could be interesting, but I don’t know if it would be factual technically speaking. Again, don’t make it a focus, Serena should still be Serena, not a character that looks exactly like her but is totally different in terms of personality."