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Honestly, this VN doesn't really play up the brother/sister relationship as hard as others. At least for most of the chapters, you could totally interpret their relationship as best friends who are sharing an apartment for college (literal roommates). It isn't until later where there are some cracks in the dialogue that hint at a taboo where the sibling relationship becomes more evident. And then later it's revealed that they were raised together in the same household, so logically they'd have to be step or foster siblings at the very least.
I personally don't care whether or not there is Incest though I trend towards preferring non-incest. It's just so common in VNs that it's practically a rule at this point that hot family members are fuckable. That said, more than anything I like dialogue to work in context though and sometimes incest is specifically NOT intended (like in the case of Origin Story). So usually I'll start a VN with the default dialogue right up until the dialogue doesn't make sense without incest, then I'll toggle it on or get a patch.
Yeah same for me overall... some games are written like incest games all the way, but dont have incest to avoid Patreon ban. But its crystal clear that its incest. Most of the time there is a little i-patch for it, or you can set the relations and everything makes sense.
And than there are games where it jumps around like a horny rabbit... shale hill is one of those. Most of the times MC and Leah are acting just like good friends that attend college and live together. And than there are serious incest vibes. Like growing up together with the same parents in the same house. The whole taboo vibe with their relationship. Or that the MC got money for his illness and gives up the money to buy him and Leah a appartment and pay for college... for the both. You dont do that for a "friend". Its like the DEVs couldnt decide if its incest or not... so it jumps between non-incest and incest back and forth. Overall a somewhat "incest" relationship makes a tiny little bit more sense in Shale Hill to me, but with or without incest doesnt matter, in both ways there are just huge problems.
When a game has incest tag AND patreon, i usually look up if its written as a non-incest game, if not i try to avoid those games for now... sometimes the tag is just there cause someone made a i-patch that doesnt really work well for the game. (where the heart is, is a good example) But if a game is written as incest and just avoids it in a ridiculous way just to stay on patreon, the game is mostly ruined. Good example for a ruined game because of that is Life in Santa county. You cant play it with i-patch anymore cause its a buggy mess where my hair is turning grey and without it is just totally ridiculous nonsense. It gets like that if DEVs dont have a plan to write (or re-write) the game without incest but need to.
So more and more "incest" games are not really enjoyable anymore, but well, looking at my play-history, my favorite games dont have incest in them. Shale Hill is not one of my favorites... it just has way to many flaws. But its still a good one.
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Agree on the very loose application storywise of that relationship...... the one thing that struck me playing it a few times is how unlikeable the majority of the characters are.
Majority of the time the MC spends being used while having little agency, the majority of targets are untrustworthy or outright hostile and after 16 odd chapters he still sits back taking it.
The ending had better be a banger because so far the only power fantasy in the story is for the NPC's.
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There is some comments in the crack thread about getting the crack to work in Linux, might be there.
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Awesome thanks! Finally figured it out with Lutris.
Since there isn't a walkthrough yet for running this on Linux, this is what I did (hopefully this works for others, but I'm no linux wiz):
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1) Unpack Shale Hill Secrets into directory of choice
2) Run Lutris > Add Game > Add Locally Installed game
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3) Game Info Tab. Fill out Name and set Runner to Wine.
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5) Runner Options Tab: Toggle on Advanced, set Wine version to GE-Proton (Latest) or GE-Proton9-4, then create a DLL override defining
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6) Save your configurations. Should be able to play the game now.
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Greetings,
How are you all doing? Here, the work continues at full speed. We know that Episode 17 of Shale Hill Secrets ended up taking a bit more time than anticipated. We had some personal issues, but everything has been resolved, and very soon, we will bring more news about the release date.
Shale Hill Secrets
Speaking of SHS, the episode is practically finished. We are already in the polishing stage and finalizing the script. Next week, we promise to have updates regarding this highly anticipated release!
Streaming For Love
Speaking of our other project, Streaming For Love, we decided to hold off on releasing the third episode until after Shale Hill Secrets is finished. We understand that your focus is currently on Episode 17 of SHS, so we took the opportunity to touch up some aspects of this project.
As we mentioned earlier, we are using this game to update several tools in our engine, adding features that make the game more immersive and fun. For Episode 03, for example, we are preparing a big surprise related to the sex animations that we hope you’ll all enjoy!
That's it, folks. We just wanted to give you all a quick update on what’s going on. Thank you for your partnership and trust, and stay tuned!
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Really enjoying this game. But man, do I have some thoughts. One thought in particular. Alexis. That was bar none one of the most wasted potential characters in just about any game I've played. This game set her up as one of the most interesting character arc developments I've seen in awhile. She was shallow and single-minded and dumb and aggravating all at the same time. Then she goes through a horrific experience and that begins a deep fundamental change in who she is. One she didn't understand, but made huge attempts at trying to reconcile who she was and the new awakening she had experienced. She immediately assigned the only good person she knew to be her Sherpa, the MC. She latched on to him and without question made him her new BFF. She filled the silence around our MC with her silliness, but there was a definitive sweetness to it. She had the potential for some amazing growth and she actively wanted to grow. She didn't know why, but her old life was no longer acceptable to her. She was actively seeking to be a better person and even used the philosophy club to find some kind of meaning to her recently discovered desire to be something more than she was. I was never so intrigued in a redemption arc as I was with hers. Then she drops off the face of the earth for awhile and then the MC simply tells her to go be a raging slut to prove her new "goodness". I can only guess that the writer decided he was tired of her arc or whatever. Instead of at least giving the MC some kind of choice on how to help her, the writer suddenly decides, nah, fuck her awakening. Fuck her attempt at finding meaning. Let's just end this character's potential in the worst goddamn way possible. Man, I was bitter as hell after that. I mean, I'm still going to finish out the game and I had no intention of making her the new "best girl". But I was really emotionally engaged at her blossoming new persona and genuinely wanted to help her reach her potential. What a horrific waste.
Maybe a weird question, can the assets be watched without actually play the game? Or are they packed in a weird format? I don't want to run something that doesn't work natively in my OS, but the renders look good and I will like to take a look at them without actually playing the game.
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if you are linux user then you can play this under wine.
anyways images are in .dat format so easiest way is to try open those in any image software but that might not work.
Hmm after looking a bit more I don't think it contains all the text, probably it's inside the data.win file that seems to be in IFF format. But I don't care enough to dig further.