Romance, as we all know, is a very complicated matter. So we try to bring it as simple, entertaining, and fun as possible. We try to cover that zone between “I am in love and don’t care about anything-mania” and “It is over, but I am hopeful for the next big thing” lies.
Believe us; it is very slippery area…
Back to the game… When you are casual friends with NPCs, your romantic possibilities will start to appear with a relationship bar. Not with all of them, but according to your choice, you may share romance with someone. There will be three main stages in romantic relations:
Crush
Date
Lover
When our character crushes into an NPC, we can invite him or her out to have a drink. At this point, our shared interests (both positive and negative) play essential roles in determining the future of our relations. If everything goes well, we can start to “date.” In which there will be some regular duties- sorry behaviors expected from us. The player must invest a lot of time, effort, and yes, money to a relation at the "date" stage.
After that, we come to the “lover” stage. Here we will have some quests to prove our love to our partners. You know all those little-stupid-things we do…
Most of the time, these romantic relations will give you happiness. Still, at the same time, they can raise your stress level with a multiplier, so if you are brave enough to date with two people, you have to bear the stress of more than two relations. Why? Because in a relationship, you always deal with more than one person; ex-lovers, idols, best friends, mentors, role models, disappointments, etc.
The more your relationship gets “serious”, the more stressed you will become.
But don’t worry if anything goes wrong, you can always have the option of “restoring a relation” quest. And yes they will probably cost you more time, more money and more effort. But we all know true love is hard to find and harder to achieve.
If our relation bar goes under a certain point, our romance will end. We are proudly cast a light of hope at this point: We can always start from the first scratch. The lovers are always dreamers. So, keep your eyes on the price (or prices) and charge!l
Cheers and smacks!