Hey guys, I've only just started reading/playing, and have two concerns:
1) Punctuation! Too many dialogues end without a period. I find that very annoying! :-)
2) Are there any plans to add a "hide text" option in the public release? It's a bit of a downer that all the good stuff is often hidden by the dialogue marquee.
ok, I have to ask, but when (or if) will be an public update?
It's been a while now, and I'm curious. Its been a few months since all the updates here are to inform about purchasable version, so i think is ok to ask.
Hello, I come to leave a “small” review of one my favorite visual novel :3, I clarify that this will be until the update 3.16(I think), so here we go, sorry if you don't understand something, English is not my native language and I use a translator.
Let's go by parts
SPOILERS
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First part:
It's absolute cinema, the presentation of characters, the drama building, how each character reacts to Samson, the mystery of knowing what happened, god I love the drama, it really was an emotional roller coaster during the whole arc, BEAUTIFUL, 10/10, I have no outstanding complaints.
Part two:
A complete change to the dramatic approach of the first part, surprisingly, it knows how to take the plot very well towards the comedy and exploration of Samson, I love how the rhino gets lost in his desires and his mind tries to take him to the most GAY side he has, my good polar bear is my favorite man, overall it's good, watching the family reunite I like it and the climax at the festival is another peak moment of the story.
Third part:
OKEY.............we have problems, we start with the good, the story begins to show threads of plots that will be important, the powerful men of the city begin to move their chips and several conspiracies happen at the same time, in turn, Samson accepts more that he likes males and begins to mess with everyone hahahah. Until the update I played, I could see how Andrew discovered his father's dirty little secret, everything that happened in that house is great.
So ..................what's the problem?
The problem with this third part is that I see a lot of plots, but none of them advance much. I enjoy seeing Samson nervous or horny, but I think that sometimes it repeats too much attitudes or things that we already encountered in the second part, not saying that it's bad, but after a whole arc of Samson accepting his new reality, it starts to get tired to see repeated moments again. I don't understand why not focus on how each son is discovering this, it already happened with Andrew, but I had to spend about 3-4 hours of gameplay to barely get to that point, which leads me to talk about a pacing problem.
Where I see this the most is the Kinoff City men conspiracies, this plot is VERY INTERESTING, it contrasts a lot with the comedy and Big Krosbar has proven to me with honors that he knows how to handle drama and tension (first part), but barely and things happen, we have very separate pieces of information, many times the characters repeat things that the viewer already knows, I literally heard the same conspiracy of the strippers like 4 times with very little extra data. Things like Samson's possible mayoralty barely and bumps in the plot, we have the gum that for some reason the Hornhold brothers don't share information, the fact that Samson now has a boyfriend, the revelation of a possible damaged relationship between Horace and his brother, my favorite brother-in-law starting his dancing job, etc, etc, etc, etc. All these plots are interesting and obviously they are building something bigger, but my god, in certain moments reading this part gets tiring, I see many things that don't materialize and they don't stop putting more, honestly I think we should focus on few topics, or start concluding plots (I clarify that I don't know if this was corrected in the new updates).
Has this part lowered the quality? Of course not, I see much more ambition now, but it's time to tighten the brakes and start organizing the story better, honestly, Stronger Bonds is one of the stories with more heart and the best written I've found, so I hope we can continue with this and have an excellent outcome for our rhinos.
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Hey guys, I've only just started reading/playing, and have two concerns:
1) Punctuation! Too many dialogues end without a period. I find that very annoying! :-)
2) Are there any plans to add a "hide text" option in the public release? It's a bit of a downer that all the good stuff is often hidden by the dialogue marquee.
Thank you so much for this hot game so far!
ok, I have to ask, but when (or if) will be an public update?
It's been a while now, and I'm curious. Its been a few months since all the updates here are to inform about purchasable version, so i think is ok to ask.
i loved this novel but now sadly you need to pay....... :(
Hello, I come to leave a “small” review of one my favorite visual novel :3, I clarify that this will be until the update 3.16(I think), so here we go, sorry if you don't understand something, English is not my native language and I use a translator.
Let's go by parts
SPOILERS
...
...
...
...
First part:
It's absolute cinema, the presentation of characters, the drama building, how each character reacts to Samson, the mystery of knowing what happened, god I love the drama, it really was an emotional roller coaster during the whole arc, BEAUTIFUL, 10/10, I have no outstanding complaints.
Part two:
A complete change to the dramatic approach of the first part, surprisingly, it knows how to take the plot very well towards the comedy and exploration of Samson, I love how the rhino gets lost in his desires and his mind tries to take him to the most GAY side he has, my good polar bear is my favorite man, overall it's good, watching the family reunite I like it and the climax at the festival is another peak moment of the story.
Third part:
OKEY.............we have problems, we start with the good, the story begins to show threads of plots that will be important, the powerful men of the city begin to move their chips and several conspiracies happen at the same time, in turn, Samson accepts more that he likes males and begins to mess with everyone hahahah. Until the update I played, I could see how Andrew discovered his father's dirty little secret, everything that happened in that house is great.
So ..................what's the problem?
The problem with this third part is that I see a lot of plots, but none of them advance much. I enjoy seeing Samson nervous or horny, but I think that sometimes it repeats too much attitudes or things that we already encountered in the second part, not saying that it's bad, but after a whole arc of Samson accepting his new reality, it starts to get tired to see repeated moments again. I don't understand why not focus on how each son is discovering this, it already happened with Andrew, but I had to spend about 3-4 hours of gameplay to barely get to that point, which leads me to talk about a pacing problem.
Where I see this the most is the Kinoff City men conspiracies, this plot is VERY INTERESTING, it contrasts a lot with the comedy and Big Krosbar has proven to me with honors that he knows how to handle drama and tension (first part), but barely and things happen, we have very separate pieces of information, many times the characters repeat things that the viewer already knows, I literally heard the same conspiracy of the strippers like 4 times with very little extra data. Things like Samson's possible mayoralty barely and bumps in the plot, we have the gum that for some reason the Hornhold brothers don't share information, the fact that Samson now has a boyfriend, the revelation of a possible damaged relationship between Horace and his brother, my favorite brother-in-law starting his dancing job, etc, etc, etc, etc. All these plots are interesting and obviously they are building something bigger, but my god, in certain moments reading this part gets tiring, I see many things that don't materialize and they don't stop putting more, honestly I think we should focus on few topics, or start concluding plots (I clarify that I don't know if this was corrected in the new updates).
Has this part lowered the quality? Of course not, I see much more ambition now, but it's time to tighten the brakes and start organizing the story better, honestly, Stronger Bonds is one of the stories with more heart and the best written I've found, so I hope we can continue with this and have an excellent outcome for our rhinos.
Atte: A super fan of this VN
Cuando actualización publica
aww i hope it get updated for public ....
Is there incest?
anyone k owing when next update coming out?
Is only for purchase now.... see Patreeon for latest releases. There is no public release. :(
aww :/ that sad