Ren'Py A House in the Rift [v0.7.16r4] [Zanith]

[Bingoogus]

Does Yona have a more traditional romance path cause i feel like a dick for using her cause she feels obligated and i also feel like a dick for telling her no cause i want actual enthusiastic consent?

 

[Sleeping In Pieces]

I don't think she really has all that much character development or content yet.

 

[Bingoogus]

I don't think she really has all that much character development or content yet.

Interesting... and kind of a bummer... guess i should just accept a reversed romance path then.

 

[Cartageno]

Interesting... and kind of a bummer... guess i should just accept a reversed romance path then.

Or wait for further character and story development.

 

[Bingoogus]

Bit odd, after getting Cait some glasses the scene in the library after, Lyriel kept saying 'like' like a bimbo, but she's not so was she just trying to blend in or something?

Edit: same thing in the next library cleaning scene, did she become stupid or something?

Edit 2: I feel like, if she was always a bit of a bimbo it was either poorly telegraphed or i just missed it but i also wonder if she's just gone under a bit of a personality shift as the game has been developed, does anyone know?

 

[Evil13]

Bit odd, after getting Cait some glasses the scene in the library after, Lyriel kept saying 'like' like a bimbo, but she's not so was she just trying to blend in or something?

Edit: same thing in the next library cleaning scene, did she become stupid or something?

Edit 2: I feel like, if she was always a bit of a bimbo it was either poorly telegraphed or i just missed it but i also wonder if she's just gone under a bit of a personality shift as the game has been developed, does anyone know?

The general thinking is that Lyriel has been watching a lot of tv and thinks thats how people on the MC's world speak.

 

[Knight_of_the_lance]

The general thinking is that Lyriel has been watching a lot of tv and thinks thats how people on the MC's world speak.

I have been thinking about that, it does not add up since the programs she is watching when we see her are nature documentarys. Those don't have people talking like that. So she either is watching in secret during the night when we sleep or etherwalk or she is fast on the remote. A sceen where we catch her watching a show with characters that talk like that would help make that argument more valid regasrdless of the source of argument.

 

[voyeurkind]

Does Yona have a more traditional romance path cause i feel like a dick for using her cause she feels obligated and i also feel like a dick for telling her no cause i want actual enthusiastic consent?

Not yet, but she likely will in future updates.

 

[Bingoogus]

The general thinking is that Lyriel has been watching a lot of tv and thinks thats how people on the MC's world speak.

That's believable but:

A sceen where we catch her watching a show with characters that talk like that would help make that argument more valid regasrdless of the source of argument.

That would be helpful to back it up.

 

[Bingoogus]

I could be wrong but Irinel gives me, and i hope i'm understanding the in-universe mechanics right, serious Rae echo vibes.

 

[DisMel]

Does Yona have a more traditional romance path cause i feel like a dick for using her cause she feels obligated and i also feel like a dick for telling her no cause i want actual enthusiastic consent?

Im glad im not the only one. Yona feels so awkward as a character, she doesnt feel like a LI, more like just a quick fling. maybe future updates will address her more, but as of right now shes my least favorite of the bunch

 

[Sleeping In Pieces]

The general thinking is that Lyriel has been watching a lot of tv and thinks thats how people on the MC's world speak.

She was that way before she discovered TV. My thinking is that it's how her dialect of Elvish gets translated into English.

 

[Bingoogus]

Manga research club part 2:
I can't get this one to trigger, searching the thread i found mention of Cait needing her glasses quest completed, which it already is, though she never seems to wear them since, but other that that i have no clue as to why it won't trigger, they're never in Caits room. Been sitting in my journal for over 2 weeks of in-game time.

Edit: finally procced after her first intercourse scene, the very next day so it might be tied to that behind the scenes, dunno.

 

[Bingoogus]

Well, hit the content wall. Good game, definitely love the world building, not only is the magic system really good at hooking all the usual harem house VN mechanics into an actual explainable and believable magical system it's also wholly consistent, i found it very refreshing to not have it all hand waved away but be actually part of the story. The girls are great but Rae will always be queen for me. The visuals are fantastic. The music is completely shit. The story is pretty good, very engaging. I'll definitely be keeping on with this one.

 

[DavDR]

Bit odd, after getting Cait some glasses the scene in the library after, Lyriel kept saying 'like' like a bimbo, but she's not so was she just trying to blend in or something?

Edit: same thing in the next library cleaning scene, did she become stupid or something?

Edit 2: I feel like, if she was always a bit of a bimbo it was either poorly telegraphed or i just missed it but i also wonder if she's just gone under a bit of a personality shift as the game has been developed, does anyone know?

Lyri's dialogue has always had that valley girl style, at least since she arrived at the house. I've never quite pin pointed when it began, but I don't remember it from the dream walk scene's in her Aunt's tavern. She could just have adopted it to fit in. But Zanith does not make it clear where she picked up the dialect, it's certainly not in the nature documentaries that the MC see's her watching, altho I do recall her mentioning some other tv shows.

 

[Ddomke]

I have version 5.13 is there a patch i can download to get up to 5.14? Or do i have to download whole game again?

 

[BuckyOHare]

I happened upon an unexpected blending of two events, in the evening, Rae pulled me in with an offer to continue Naomi's etherwalk training, the second one of those, i did that event but rather than wake up in bed with them the next morning the night-time time triggered Cait coming into my room for her second attempt to the mages college, the one where you meet the headmaster for the first time. The next morning continued from Cait's event and if there was meant to be a morning event for the etherwalk training scene, i never got it. Somewhere in the code there should be a check added to prevent those two scenes overlapping.

I got something very similar, I went straight from daywalking with Rae, to her dragging me into Naomi's etherwalk training (this was the first time, chapter 10, where they talk about running into an old man who thinks Rae is Naomi's daughter), and then rather than triggering the wakeup, it went straight to Cait walking into my bedroom, finally ready to go back to the school (the second attempt, where you talk to the headmaster). The next morning continued from Cait's event, no changes, in the afternoon I could talk to all three girls in the library (and Naomi stomped out), and then I dreamed about Blair for the first time. And then the next morning I woke up in Naomi's room, in what was clearly meant to be the end scene of her story's chapter 10, and only then did the quest log switch forward to chapter 11.

Not a game breaking bug, but very weird and caused me to switch back and forth and try different variations for a while to figure out what was going on. From my save game prior to this, the behaviour is consistent, no matter what I do, if I start Naomi's 'walk in the night, it gets interrupted by Cait's request - interesting twist, if I turn down Caitlin at that point, I stand in Naomi's room at night. At which point the game is basically broken, until I wander back into bed and sleep. Then I wake up normally.

If I turn down Naomi's first etherwalk, taking the hit to her intimacy that that costs me, I still get Cait coming around at bedtime. So yes, it looks like the game is simply missing a check on the night after an evening event, to not trigger Caitlin's second trip to college.

 

[SultanOfSwing]

Bro this game is so fucking good, it has been sucking my life out of me these past few days and there is so much content I have not "finished" it yet. Congrats to the dev.

 

[3D Reaver]

The precise popularity of characters is of course difficult to judge beforehand. And there is a latecomer syndrome - we know less about those characters so they're less interesting on the one hand, on the other hand the first characters decide who is in this thread - people who like early characters like Rae or Naomi will see them and stay around, those who might have preferred later ones like Yona might have moved on. The whole crowd here might be pretty different if Yona were the first. Some would have skipped this, others would have stayed.

So I very much doubt your assumption of "very few people". Maybe less than the other way round, maybe not, but just because I don't like certain characters it doesn't mean others should. Of course I am speaking from the opposite viewpoint because I like what we've seen from our dwarf so far.

Were there a lot of people complaining that Lyriel is ugly when she was introduced ? i don't think the fact that shes newer has much to do with it

No, this is an observation:
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You saying that nobody wanted her is an assumption. And an incorrect one.

Thats never going to be accurate. A lot of people are going to vote based on what they think is expected of them.

 

[Cartageno]

Were there a lot of people complaining that Lyriel is ugly when she was introduced ? i don't think the fact that shes newer has much to do with it

Yes, there have been quite a few complaints about her back in the day, though mostly about the character not the looks IIRC.