Affect and React

Affect

Affect verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.

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React and affect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "React" instead a verb "Affect".

React verb - To act or behave in response (as to a stimulus or influence).

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Affect and react are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "React".

ability	affect ability	react ability
people	affect people	react people
range	affect range	react range
time	affect time	react time
Other words: way, characters, animals.

This doesn't affect how much gold you have later on, but it does affect how the townspeople react to you.

Source: Video Game / King's Quest (2015)
His name is Skinner, and you are assigned to find his two missing agents, Mulder and Scully.The game has a Visual Novel-like format, giving you three choices at certain occasions that affect the game play and how people react to you.

Source: Video Game / The X-Files Game
The answer to that depends on the player and the choices they make throughout the story, which can drastically affect the way events play out and how the characters react to each other.

Source: Video Game / Until Dawn

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