Re: Noxian Nights (Updated 9/28 - FINAL CONTENT UPDATE)
Thanks for your enthusiasm in general, glad you're looking forward to it! But... you felt the choices in the preview didn't affect anything? Depending on your choices you can get different sex scene variants or even avoid the sex scene, and a lot of your decisions affect how the orcs react to you, even just in the preview.
Well, I have to say I had the same impression. After several tries, it's because the only option with an effect (run away) is the option which doesn't have any real change in the choices (I mean, it's just removed and you have to choose between the remaining 3) when the other 3 have a direct change on what is happening. Attacking an orc leads to H-scene, defensive stance/reason lead to more choices, which are also doing nothing actually (and for real, this time).
Basically, on a VN like this, players will try a lot of things (especially since they can come back with scroll). And if you give options which are immediately removed without any effect, they will think "it was a useless option without any effect, just few lines".
So basically, I think something should be changed. For instance, if you don't run away, you will have only the "attack an orc" option (not the break through the circle), leading to the H-scene, while if you run away, this option is removed, and you will have only the "break through the circle", leading to the insta killed orc.
"Run away" will have an effective change on the options (and so, the player will immediately see something changed), while the options which are not changing anything (the middle 2 at the start and the last 3 at the second choice) are really not changing anything.
That's how I see it, anyway.
The game looks very nice anyway.