VN Ren'Py Completed A Knight's Tale [v0.36 SE] [Neverlucky]

[-CookieMonster666-]

Thanks. I don't play with skip, even though it's highly recommended. That's why it has taken me so long to get through it. Maybe I will start doing it for a bit.

It's not so bad update-to-update once you're caught up, but that fact that it seems to repeat the same activities a million times is part of what I and others have complained about with the game. Slice-of-life can be great if done well, but that means providing enough variation in day-to-day happenings that they don't get boring. Practically nobody wants actual repetitive gameplay, no matter how much it's supposed to reflect just an average day in the life of the characters. Even IRL during the lockdowns of the past couple years, I haven't ever had that many days in a row with literally no change.

I'm still enjoying the game, mind you, but it can get a bit rough to go through a lot in a single sitting. Honestly, NeverLucky would probably be even more successful if he improved this type of thing. As is, he's just under US$1K / month, which isn't bad for having started in 2018 or so (with his previous game, Triangle). Still, I feel like if he improved dialogue and activities a bit more, he could easily be up to US$2.5K+ monthly. I find it a bit of a shame. But he models well (my personal favorite is Lydia), does so-so for the few animation efforts he's made, and comes up with interesting concepts for his games.

 

[muschi26]

It's not so bad update-to-update once you're caught up, but that fact that it seems to repeat the same activities a million times is part of what I and others have complained about with the game. Slice-of-life can be great if done well, but that means providing enough variation in day-to-day happenings that they don't get boring. Practically nobody wants actual repetitive gameplay, no matter how much it's supposed to reflect just an average day in the life of the characters. Even IRL during the lockdowns of the past couple years, I haven't ever had that many days in a row with literally no change.

I'm still enjoying the game, mind you, but it can get a bit rough to go through a lot in a single sitting. Honestly, NeverLucky would probably be even more successful if he improved this type of thing. As is, he's just under US$1K / month, which isn't bad for having started in 2018 or so (with his previous game, Triangle). Still, I feel like if he improved dialogue and activities a bit more, he could easily be up to US$2.5K+ monthly. I find it a bit of a shame. But he models well (my personal favorite is Lydia), does so-so for the few animation efforts he's made, and comes up with interesting concepts for his games.

The funny part is that towards the end of the current build, there are two huge time skips basically back-to-back. If he's OK doing that sort of thing, I don't see why he feels the need to spend so many days showing the same monotonous breakfast-training-dinner-game-sex loop.

For real, even in slice of life, you have to focus on what's meaningfully different from one day to the next. Literally no one cares about what every breakfast is. Like, if one time they're trying out wombat tongue soup or something special, sure, go ahead and show it, but Jesus, man.

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

The funny part is that towards the end of the current build, there are two huge time skips basically back-to-back. If he's OK doing that sort of thing, I don't see why he feels the need to spend so many days showing the same monotonous breakfast-training-dinner-game-sex loop.

For real, even in slice of life, you have to focus on what's meaningfully different from one day to the next. Literally no one cares about what every breakfast is. Like, if one time they're trying out wombat tongue soup or something special, sure, go ahead and show it, but Jesus, man.

Yep. I honestly think he probably had a high-end idea of where he wanted to take things, but as the game went on he got lost in the weeds. There are important events in the kingdom and the MC's household, for sure, but those are few and far between. Triangle felt much more focused . . . although it's not a SoL game, either. At least his Patreon discusses his next game somewhat, so this one probably won't go a whole lot longer, I wouldn't think.

 

[cxx]

At least his Patreon discusses his next game somewhat, so this one probably won't go a whole lot longer, I wouldn't think.

i think 0.40 is likely.

 

[Willy1975]

*Muah*

 

[Malika1234]

Love this VN.. not sure why rating it so low..

 

[GetOutOfMyLab]

Love this VN.. not sure why rating it so low..

Stick around this thread long enough and you'll see why.

 

[Twelvemonkey]

Love this VN.. not sure why rating it so low..

Cause it's the most boring VN you've ever played!

 

[Malika1234]

Cause it's the most boring VN you've ever played!

Yeah it is a little slow but still good though.. i like the fact that wife gets to play too! and slow progress/build up of all of their relationships with each other... but i do wish story would move faster and was a little more exciting. also more outfits lol

 

[muschi26]

Love this VN.. not sure why rating it so low..

Either you have inhuman patience, or you're so enamoured with life itself that every moment, no matter how dull, manages to captivate you nonetheless. In any case, I envy you.

 

[Twelvemonkey]

Yeah it is a little slow but still good though.. i like the fact that wife gets to play too! and slow progress/build up of all of their relationships with each other... but i do wish story would move faster and was a little more exciting. also more outfits lol

There is a difference between a slow burn story and a repeatedly doing the exact same thing over and over again. I don't mind a slow burn game but this is not it.

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

Stick around this thread long enough and you'll see why.

Well, stick around long enough and you'll fall asleep . . . and forget why you started playing in the first place. Although it's nice that Neverlucky has been getting a bit better with varying activities. Time skips help some as well.

 

[Irgendwie Irgendwo]

Yeah it is a little slow but still good though..

Slow's "good" though. A German youth detective story audio play comes to mind: "We even took a rest. A snail that we passed three miles ago was in front of us again."

 

[cxx]

Cause it's the most boring VN you've ever played!

well not most boring.

 

[DonStark]

I like the game but damn i'm missing sometime some lingerie, the MC is the lord and her wife don't have sexy lingerie ? ... Damn that will be so epic to see the wife in some stockings.

When you play the game sinds the beginning you can see that the scene is always the same ( the girl is full nude and it's never change, same position, same place ... like why not a scene in the dinning room or other place of the castle ? no it's always in the bed and i understand that for the wife because she's pregnant but he also fuck 2 others girls so why we don't see sometime some wild sex ? )

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

I like the game but damn i'm missing sometime some lingerie, the MC is the lord and her wife don't have sexy lingerie ? ... Damn that will be so epic to see the wife in some stockings.

When you play the game sinds the beginning you can see that the scene is always the same ( the girl is full nude and it's never change, same position, same place ... like why not a scene in the dinning room or other place of the castle ? no it's always in the bed and i understand that for the wife because she's pregnant but he also fuck 2 others girls so why we don't see sometime some wild sex ? )

Because Neverlucky apparently doesn't have a lot of motivation to vary things in the game. I and others have mentioned this in the thread several times, but just the sheer lack of general activities — 90% of the game is: wake up, bath time, eat breakfast, paperwork or sword practice during the day, eat dinner, sex with one of the three girls — is so limited that I'm not at all surprised that lewd activities haven't gotten much variety either.

 

[cxx]

I like the game but damn i'm missing sometime some lingerie, the MC is the lord and her wife don't have sexy lingerie ? ... Damn that will be so epic to see the wife in some stockings.

well he is lord but doesn't mean that he can spend money on luxury things (like was seen when orphanage needed more money it was taken from elsewhere) and what cookiemonster said.

 

[DonStark]

well he is lord but doesn't mean that he can spend money on luxury things (like was seen when orphanage needed more money it was taken from elsewhere) and what cookiemonster said.

yeah i understand but i'm not asking for a new lingerie dressing room ... one set of nice stockings + lingerie is not a lot

 

[gam2000]

yeah i understand but i'm not asking for a new lingerie dressing room ... one set of nice stockings + lingerie is not a lot

Well, it was the Middle Ages and all...

 

[Malika1234]

thats why the strapon was wooden and smaller than MC so he wouldnt be offended lol