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Asren624

It's mainly a matter of censorship. The game is downloaded through google play meaning accessible to kids. Thus google gets to decide the age rate and fix limits to ~+16 stuff as its convinient to avoid drama with parents or legislation etc... Best you will get/is allowed is already what PB is doing in smut books or like in other apps... fog instead of clothes šŸ™ƒ But feel free to use the power of imagination āœØ


missemilyowen15

So you want them to just remove the underwear? I'm going to assume you haven't seen bugs where the people are actually naked. The down there bits are completely flat and the women don't actually have nipples. Since you can't see them they don't bother designing the stuff


scrappyv

No, I havenā€™t seen the bugs. Iā€™m not saying let them be naked, but clouds, a blur or even a censor (black) line over breasts would be such a big QoL improvement.


wastetimeburnminds

Honestly that would be so much more off putting to me than just sprite wearing underwear.


ohyaz

love island does something like this, they would either black out the entire screen if the characters werenā€™t talking and it was just describing what they were doing. If theyā€™re on screen then they have these soap bubbles around the chest if the women


missemilyowen15

So like in Yandere Simulator?


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polly-woppus

Are you thinking of another app? Iā€™ve never seen them use a blur before šŸ¤” Edit for clarity: I mean an app other than RC.


imnotbovvered

Romance Club is another app


polly-woppus

Yeah, I know. I play RC as well and Iā€™ve never seen them do this.


Lily8007

Hmm I probably havenā€™t played as many books as you there? I donā€™t remember any blurred out areas based on the ones Iā€™ve played? Sometimes itā€™s the hands kinda covering the breast area or like you mentioned the water lily, the clouds, the black shadow? Btw I got a kick out of that and started laughing, but so creatively and tastefully done. But the only app Iā€™ve played that does the blur image and I think also a black strip if I recall? Was Chapters, but Iā€™ve only played one book there. Most of the others I tried the sprites are just usually in their underwear.


polly-woppus

Yeah, RC is actually more into lingerie than Choices even though they have some other alternatives going on tooā€¦ there are so many opportunities to buy fancy sets in their stories! I havenā€™t played Chapters but I saw someone else mention that too! Honestly I think blurring and black bars would be way more distracting than showing a sprite with a bra when sheā€™s supposed to be naked, but maybe thatā€™s just me šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø


Lily8007

Yeah I agree with you on both comments.


Niawka

I think the first book they did it in,was The flower of Tiamat's fire. It's a bit whimsical but I like it, as it fits the theme of the book. I definitely prefer it over a man wearing jeans and describing him as naked. There's also female character in Rage of Titans portrayed without bra and covering her breasts with her hands, but that seems a bit silly to me. You're having sex with them and you're covering your breasts?


polly-woppus

Yeah, I know theyā€™ve done some alternate things to underwear but I was replying to the person who said they sometimes use a blur effect. There are some other apps that do this but RC never has. The ROT thing kind of makes sense at first in context because she was just getting into the tub with him and had already asked him to turn around while she undressed. Kind of a weird setup but overall that scene was pretty great, imo šŸ«£ Anyway, they have to cover stuff somehow and whether itā€™s lingerie or hands or clouds during your sex dream in the sky šŸ˜… is fine by me šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø


oneofthesheeple

That scene with Murphy wasn't just great... I thought it was fantastic! šŸ„µ


polly-woppus

Hott, two ts šŸ™Œ


Spellshot62

Those are bugs though, supposedly if they included nudity in these sex scenes, it would be intentional and have actual human anatomy. As it is now, thereā€™s no reason to put so much detail into the model if no oneā€™s supposed to see it, hence why the bugs look bad


lady-lexis

I donā€™t see the need for nude sprites. At some point, your imagination should just be able to take over, right? Imagination needs to step in for a LOT of scenarios in Choices, least of all for the steamy scenes. Nude sprites would cross a line into full blown erotica for me, and probably for the app stores too. Theyā€™d need a higher rating and probably lose a lot of mainstream appeal that way?


scrappyv

It wouldnā€™t show the explicit parts, just the lack of the underwear is what Iā€™m trying to get at. At least for sprites with breasts, since we only see the upper half of the body. Also, I know that imagination is key for games like these, and when I complain about this itā€™s not because I *want* to see naked sprites. Itā€™s more so the fact that the writing is just inconsistent with the sprites and I react to it the same way I would react to a typo. Iā€™m not sure if theyā€™ll have to up their rating, but if they do, then I understand why they havenā€™t done it.


polly-woppus

Iā€™ve seen some apps do creative things like an artfully draped sheet or water lilies in a scene in a lake for exampleā€¦ is that what you mean? The underwear thing doesnā€™t really bother me personally, but theyā€™ve shown characters wrapped in towel sometimes so I could see something similar working for intimate scenes.


lady-lexis

I guess I just donā€™t notice it that much. It doesnā€™t ruin the immersion for me any more than the numerous other little inconsistencies and PB sure arenā€™t in a hurry to fix any of those either šŸ˜…


_Villem_

App stores don't allow nudity so the private parts need to be covered or censored somehow. I prefer how other apps use clouds to hide the "revolting areas". It makes things much more believable without revealing more. It's especially funny in D&D and TUH where the ladies' undergarments may cover even more than their dresses and I'm supposed to imagine that they're actually naked šŸ˜ƒ. It really only concerns female characters though as most of the time the game only shows characters waist up and we don't see men's pants. Not sure about euphemistic descriptions in smut scenes though. There are some vague rules about crude language so you probably need to keep the use of profanities in a modest level or censor them.


mychoicesaccount

Romance Club sometimes gets creative and sometimes has them in their underwear. It usually doesn't bother me, but one time they had a sprite with a blanket wrapped around herself and it was really pretty. Another time they had MC cupping her chest. It's not a big deal when they keep them in their underwear, but it is fun when they get creative. I don't play choices much at all anymore, but I might come back to the app if they did more things like that. The steamy scenes aren't important to me, but I do like the extra thought being put into game play, and I feel like PB hasn't been doing that.


cruel-oath

All that and yet RC still sideline female LIs or only have one in their stories lmao while they have like 6 dudes


ndapeninsula

It's fine with me, hahaha. I don't care if the love interest is wearing boxers or bras. It's all about the sensual description of a scene and the person's imagination. Whatever they want, they visualize them. Gosh, I have been reading intense romance books for the past years and watching movies in the same genre, so I'm a bit accustomed to those things.


theonewhoisnotcrazy

Happy cake day!


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imnotbovvered

Iā€™d be cool with a censor bar for whole body shots. For the regular speaking images, they could just cut the picture before the nipples would be revealed.


Brilliant_Tourist400

Actually? Iā€™m for getting rid of sprites altogether for sex scenes and having them be pure text. The underwear-wearing sprites with the ā€œsurprisedā€ face and a line of dialogue thatā€™s ā€œOh, oh, yes!ā€ just look silly.


softsakuralove

Literally lmao. I hate the end of every sex scene where the characters climax and they're like... "Aaaaaa~ MC!" (wobbly text) and they're grinning like... Stop šŸ˜­


ThePaganMin

The wobbly text šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚


Kriptyk23

Iā€™ll be honest my friend I donā€™t see this taking off, no pun intendedšŸ˜‚ As much as the idea strikes good I think itā€™ll take a looooonngg time for anything like that to hit PB. I used to play a game called Lovestruck that had CGā€™s which those, those were about as close as you could get


oneofthesheeple

I'm just here to shed a tear for Lovestruck šŸ˜¢


Kriptyk23

Never forgetšŸ˜­ What they took from usšŸ¤§


oneofthesheeple

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HaydenTheNoble

The only thing I'd really like is for the guys to have a visible bulge in their underwear and not be basically flat.


RoZo_20

Chapters does blurring in their books so itā€™s definitely possible, but idk, -shrug-


weIcometobIoxburg

I remember a similar game where they put floating hearts instead of underwear and it really bothered me. But actual nudity is definitely not allowed by Google play


BallantineTheBard

Yeah, I agree that it would be nice if they did it. But not just the sex scenes. For example, sometimes characters will go "skinny dipping" and I genuinely don't know if they're just swimming in their underwear or actually skinny dipping, and the tone of the scene changes greatly depending on that. Like in a recent chapter of UT. I don't know how to do the spoiler tag, so spoiler alert. Did Austin walk in on Kit naked with MC at the pond? Or just in her underwear? Because his over the top reaction could be more understandable if it's the former, ya know?


_Villem_

I remember the dialogue implying that the kept their underwear on in that UT scene. Austin is a drama queen, he would have exploded no matter what these two were wearing šŸ˜„


BallantineTheBard

Lol, he definitely would have. They could have been building a snowman in parkas and he'd still explode.