Visual novel emotions: Child-rearing problems: To hit or not to hit?
In real life, some parents are hesitant to punish their child for fear of seeming unfair to them. Sometimes, parents are afraid that the child will fall out of love with them.
The relationship between parents and children in the visual novel Tricky Gang is not as complicated as in real life! Therefore, the characters in the visual novel, take the punishment calmly! The emotions of the visual novel are quite normal!
The protagonist, accidentally overhears a conversation between mom (Mother) and son (Bro).
Mother scolds the son (Bro) and daughter (Sister) for bad behavior.
And threatens to introduce Saturday floggings, as it used to be.
You bet!
The daughter smokes a pack of cigarettes a day! And not just any cigarettes!
And the son has fun installing his Wifi camera... wherever he can!
And mom doesn't like it!
The protagonist, overhearing this conversation, realizes that he can use this situation for his own purposes! (Recall that the protagonist is a private detective who has infiltrated this family to carry out his investigation)
So, from this point on, the protagonist has the opportunity to tell the Mother about the cigarettes or the camera! That is, one of the kids will get a spanking this coming Saturday! (I remind you that all characters in the visual novel are adults!).
Flogging, too, is taken for granted by the characters in the visual novel. The emotions of the visual novel are present, but in measure!
The protagonist doesn't have to plant the cigarettes himself! The Sister herself often forgets them, it's enough just to look for them.
If the protagonist finds cigarettes forgotten by the sister, then the sister gets a flogging.
It's the same with the WiFi camera. Bro "forgets" it anywhere too.
Just look around carefully!
If the wifi camera is found. - it's Bro who gets the flogging (If both cigarettes and a wifi camera are found, both get a whipping.)
Your worldview doesn't allow you to treat visual novel characters this way? Then - just don't press the "Report to Mother" button =)
The protagonist can find the items mentioned above in all locations of the map "Grandfather's House". When entering a game location that has these items, a button with a phone image will appear in the right menu. If you press it, your Mother will receive a message and maybe your relationship with her will improve!
By the way, at the beginning of the game, the protagonist doesn't have many other ways to improve the relationship with mom! And she is a key character in the game and the success of the investigation largely depends on her!
On Saturday, at 10 am, the protagonist can walk into the "living room" and see "mom at work".=)
In the next versions of the game, it is planned to expand and improve this mechanism.
And add more emotions to the visual novel!
Remarks:
*Some elements of this mechanism are under development!
*Some elements of this mechanic are only available to Patrons!
*The Tricky Gang visual novel games is part of the project Bathyscaphe!
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