[quote name='gilby']No. It is an expansion. I spent some time reading up on the bundle before buying. (Which is why I did the minimum. I may very well never play these.)
The "Girl's Love" expansion came out a couple of years after the base game. It's basically the lesbian relationship expansion. And the bundle page made it clear what was included was just the base game. Oddly enough, you can buy either the base game or Girl's Love on its own.
It is kinda disappointing to see the game showing the prompts for the other portion. That's annoying, to say the least.[/QUOTE]
It's an "expansion" by a very twisted understanding of the term. An expansion is something that comes adds additional content to the base game; not something that unlocks features shown in the base game. That's a very big difference.
Also, the bundle page does not make it known what you're getting.
Product Description
Spirited Heart is a fantasy life simulation game.
Create your fantasy alter ego choosing between an apparently normal human, a cute elf and a wicked demoness. Once the game start you’ll be able to run your life in a virtual fantasy world: choose a job from the 20 different ones available.
From time to time, random events will occur and you’ll also make random encounters: there are six potential partner for your character in the game, two for each one of the three races. Each partner will have his own personality and will react differently depending on which race you’re playing, offering over 100 different dialogue combinations!
Play with your character for 10 in-game years in which you have to do your best! The full game has 20 normal endings plus 12 special marriage endings, providing hours of gameplay and lots of replayability.
Notice the underlined bit. Why would anyone think that they wouldn't be getting the full game? Not to mention the installer exe for it is named "SpiritedHeart
Full", and the game installs as "Spirited Heart Deluxe".
That is a very tricky and deceitful way of wording things and attempting to squeeze more money out of your customers. I complain not because I'm set on lesbian relationships, but because the game is very limited when you're forced to do only certain jobs to match up with your correct relationship partners. A lot of the time, those jobs don't even match your character build (stats, etc), so you have to go out of your way to build a stat you're not working on to find random encounters with the correct partners.
I went through quite a bit of the game (one completion so far), and in one case I was purposely trying to find encounters with a male relationship choice (on the farming job). What happened? I almost always could only find random encounters with the female character on the farming job. I can look at my relationship sheet and see that I've unintentionally built up 1.5/5 hearts with her (relationship meter), yet it's a complete waste because that bit of the game is locked. That is not how an expansion works. It feels like half of the game is locked, all the while teasing you with 75% functionality of that part of the game.
It's a silly game, and I'm getting tired of it after 30 minutes or so anyways, but it's worth seeing how Winter Wolves conducts their business.
EDIT: Also, on my other playthrough, my character build made the "dancer" job a good fit. That was the job I primarily worked on, and the only character you get to know on that job? A female, so I built relationship hearts with her by working that job uselessly as well. I worked up to a higher tiered job, yet there was no relationship partner on that job (it seems there are NO random encounters on higher tiered jobs), so I was stuck with a character I couldn't pursue a relationship with and ended up finishing the playthrough via other means.
You can see how the entire setup is a blaring play for your money to unlock the full game. Not to mention they're probably just riding on the hopes that fapping teenage boys will use their parents' credit card to buy "lesbian mode".
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