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Overview:The Polyamory Edition is a complete overhaul of Bare Witness. It features extensive rewriting and scene rearrangement in order to enhance the existing story and focus it on a single polyamorous relationship with the four main heroines. This mod seamlessly combines most of the MASH content into a single route with a fresh, but familiar, poly love story.
Updated: 09 January 2025
Game/Creator: Bare Witness / AlterWorlds
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- - Modder: Archangel
Mod Version: 1.0
Game Version: Current Steam Build. Should be compatible with any version post-launch.
Language: English
Installation:
0. Backup existing script.rpy
1. Unzip into Bare Witness folder.
2. Overwrite
3. Start New Game
1. Unzip into Bare Witness folder.
2. Overwrite
3. Start New Game
Major Features:
-90+% of the script has been completely rewritten.
-Focus on "realistic" poly romance. The girls all develop believable relationships with each other, not just the MC.
-All main characters have been fleshed out and given additional backstories while remaining true to their original personalities.
-Sadie upgraded from cousin to sister. It makes more sense, trust me.
-Removal of all other romanceable characters.
-Focus on "realistic" poly romance. The girls all develop believable relationships with each other, not just the MC.
-All main characters have been fleshed out and given additional backstories while remaining true to their original personalities.
-Sadie upgraded from cousin to sister. It makes more sense, trust me.
-Removal of all other romanceable characters.
-Scenes from all routes have been incorporated into one mega route.
-Removal of lower quality images/webms. (There are over 14,000 images in the game. Unfortunately, not all of them can be good.)
-Dialogue cleanup. (For scenes that weren't rewritten, awkward/verbose dialogue was shortened. Grammar was fixed.)
-Sex Scene cleanup. (Removed extraneous images.)
-Original game is preserved and should still be playable with the mod installed. (Barely tested.)
-Removal of lower quality images/webms. (There are over 14,000 images in the game. Unfortunately, not all of them can be good.)
-Dialogue cleanup. (For scenes that weren't rewritten, awkward/verbose dialogue was shortened. Grammar was fixed.)
-Sex Scene cleanup. (Removed extraneous images.)
-Original game is preserved and should still be playable with the mod installed. (Barely tested.)
Why did you make this?:
Bare Witness suffers from supporting too many options. While it can be seen as an accomplishment to have multiple routes with lots of heroines and a ton of endings, it comes at a cost. Any one individual route's quality will suffer in order to fit it into the whole. The polyamorous routes in particular are composed of some scenes that must also make sense in the monogamous routes. A lot of nuance is lost because of this, as characters will rarely reference one another in their individual scenes.
The Polyamory Edition started out as an attempt to simply edit the existing game, adding some additional references here and there, but the more I looked at it, the more problems I found in the original MASH route. Sadie and Mora in particular have zero reason to be involved in a poly relationship in the original script, and Mora actually has dialogue where she actively opposes it. The whole thing ends up feeling like a weird wish fulfillment ending and not something that the characters would actually do. So I said fuck it, I'll rewrite the whole thing. Now, four months later, here we are.
The Polyamory Edition started out as an attempt to simply edit the existing game, adding some additional references here and there, but the more I looked at it, the more problems I found in the original MASH route. Sadie and Mora in particular have zero reason to be involved in a poly relationship in the original script, and Mora actually has dialogue where she actively opposes it. The whole thing ends up feeling like a weird wish fulfillment ending and not something that the characters would actually do. So I said fuck it, I'll rewrite the whole thing. Now, four months later, here we are.
One route with no branches.
The same basic story with WITSEC and PCA, but with new dialogue and storylines that connect all of the characters together. I did my best to give each character an equal amount of attention and while one will sometimes take the spotlight during a specific arc, they are all present as much as possible throughout the story. However, because I was limited to working with pre-existing images, there was only so much I can do.
Also, the first chapter takes place before Sadie and Shelby get their visual update. The story can't really open up until that happens, but I took that into consideration when writing it.
The same basic story with WITSEC and PCA, but with new dialogue and storylines that connect all of the characters together. I did my best to give each character an equal amount of attention and while one will sometimes take the spotlight during a specific arc, they are all present as much as possible throughout the story. However, because I was limited to working with pre-existing images, there was only so much I can do.
Also, the first chapter takes place before Sadie and Shelby get their visual update. The story can't really open up until that happens, but I took that into consideration when writing it.
Probably not. I wrote this for myself, and I'm only sharing it because I think it came out really well. It is not intended to be a product that I will continue working on or optimizing for profit. If you don't like some aspect of it, fire up a text editor and change it. That's what I did.
