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botc76

The Crawling Chaos, Bringer of Strange Joy
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It's depressing how we have this exact same discussion with every update and nothing changes.

The game being a sandbox would work great if it was like Water World or Cure My Addiction (to name a couple) where there's tons of minor repeteable events and "sexy" images when you click on zones without them to make the world feel alive. Instead you have empty buildings, useless side quests (wrench, what the hell was that for?) and half the content of a usual monthly VN as it happens with most sandbox games.

He's making a linear VN, without a need to farm, and turning it into a sandbox, and it makes absolutely no sense.

There's also a working hint system and a way to see if something is actually happening in Water World.
IDK, there are many, many sandbox games which work.
The problem is that for some reason many devs think only Sandbox games will earn them real money, but they forget that for this to happen the game needs to work as such.
 
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Gunner0X

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How did this beautiful game get to that level? I have already given up hope that this game will return to what it was before. With each update I am more disappointed.
 

Eerie Entity

❤︎ Victoria Shields' One True Love ❤︎
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The thing is, the dev has stated that the sandbox is necessary for the gameplay he intends the game to be. I don't know what it is, but he's adamant about keeping the sandbox element, so it's rather pointless to keep asking about switching back to normal VN, it's quite clear that that's not gonna happen, the dev has his vision and plans to stick to it, so that's it.

A clear walkthrough usually helps navigating to all the scenes/events though, and we do have a walkthrough, it's just not updated to current version. Apart from that just possible bugs should be a mild annoyance to players.
Even though I prefer normal VNs, as long as sandbox VNs have a WT or task system implemented, you won't hear me complaining :p
 

N1K17Y

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v004 to v005 images folder comparison:
1850 to 1931
81 new images added

I'm guessing that from v003 to v004 was something similar?
well its known that devs put sandbox crap to make their games seem longer. 80 images, thats what, 4 scenes, 3-4 min of playing (if it was VN) i guess this is just one more confirmation.

im not a patreon (i havent even played the game since it switched to sandbox) so if anyone is, can he please share what his patreons opinion on this is. here 90% of the posts are complaining about it, but since most dont pay its understandable that dev might not listen, but i doubt that his paying customers have much different opinion

The thing is, the dev has stated that the sandbox is necessary for the gameplay he intends the game to be. I don't know what it is, but he's adamant about keeping the sandbox element, so it's rather pointless to keep asking about switching back to normal VN, it's quite clear that that's not gonna happen, the dev has his vision and plans to stick to it, so that's it.

A clear walkthrough usually helps navigating to all the scenes/events though, and we do have a walkthrough, it's just not updated to current version. Apart from that just possible bugs should be a mild annoyance to players.
Even though I prefer normal VNs, as long as sandbox VNs have a WT or task system implemented, you won't hear me complaining :p
i was gonna say that its getting annoying reading "boo sandbox" but there is that small part of me that hopes that his audience is annoying enough and he will eventually cave in. (lewlab for reference)
 
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sdfa

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Here comes another one... to the ID party :)

v.0.05a WIN COMPRESSED 378 MB RAR (original 2,55GB):

p.s. done by UnRen v0.7 and Cruncher v0.31; transparent textbox mod v2.5.3 and optional incest-patch (id-free.rpy) have been applied
Where is link at "Mega", Lebowsky?
 
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HHUUKK

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Become a Rock Star also started with some scenes with sandbox. and the 2nd or 3rd update removed them from the game. it is wise to rectify. And now it has some of the best games you can find here.

I have no idea how to make a game. But I guess the easier it is to play, easier to create. With what you can spend time to make more content ..
 

HHUUKK

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Returning to the theme of the remake.. :LOL: :LOL: Anna Exciting Affection has a unofficial Ren'py Remake.. I don´t see so crazy !!!
 
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Joshua Tree

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Why can't people just accept a game for what it is? If you don't like something then walk away. Or better create your own games? Leave creators alone to create what they set out to do. "Backseat creators" seldom work out very well :p
 
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