Unity A Long Journey [v0.9.4] [Marvellous Lunatic]

[ILoveSucuk]

Shit I have just started and within the first Episode / Intro it is clear that

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I hate her already for being a lying and deceiving piece of shit. I hope we can get rid of her during the Game? Kick her into Space, letting her have an "Accident" or whatever. And then that bald Guy and his helpers too soon after.

You wrote a Character here you can only "extremely dislike" - well done I hope She is not essential to the Story. Or if She is, we are not forced to have something going on with her. Well, back to the Game...

 

[ILoveSucuk]

EDIT01: After finding the Devs Post with the Hint and advanced the time in the Game correctly, there was a Hint under "Hints". Either a Bug, it was not shown earlier when looked at it AKA I looked before the correct Scene Change or something else. Anyway: Thanks for putting hints in the Game. But for I still stand my overall Point of badly executed Point&Click Games for future Reference

Also thanks to alri - without his Reply I would probably not have looked at the Hints Menu again.
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First Free Roam Event and I am supposed to find Selene. But She is nowhere to be found. So now I have to advance time randomly at all these Places and hope She will be there.

Please let us know when and where we can find People we have already interacted with! So far this is a horribly executed "Point&Click" Game! This sucks badly. Renders and Scenes so far looks good, writing is on the better side of what I have seen so far.

But this "Click somewhere at a random Point in time and hope you are lucky" is annoying IMHO: I know some People are Masochists, but this is not me. This is just wasting everyones time and does nothing good for the Story at all. And it also adds absolutely nothing to the "Exploration Experience" as well. No offence. I hope you think about fixing this in future updates at least - if you find the time for it. Good Luck with the Game

 

[alri]

First Free Roam Event and I am supposed to find Selene. But She is nowhere to be found. So now I have to advance time randomly at all these Places and hope She will be there.

Please let us know when and where we can find People we have already interacted with! So far this is a horribly executed "Point&Click" Game! This sucks badly. Renders and Scenes so far looks good, writing is on the better side of what I have seen so far.

But this "Click somewhere at a random Point in time and hope you are lucky" is annoying IMHO: I know some People are Masochists, but this is not me. This is just wasting everyones time and does nothing good for the Story at all. And it also adds absolutely nothing to the "Exploration Experience" as well. No offence. I hope you think about fixing this in future updates at least - if you find the time for it. Good Luck with the Game

If you look at the smart watch thingy, it will have a hint option that tells you where to be and what to do in the free roams.

 

[ILoveSucuk]

If you look at the smart watch thingy, it will have a hint option that tells you where to be and what to do in the free roams.

Great - now that I found the Devs Post with the Hint and advanced the time correctly, it shows me the hint under "Hints". Well thanks anyway.

 

[The Senior Perv]

Shit I have just started and within the first Episode / Intro it is clear that

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I hate her already for being a lying and deceiving piece of shit. I hope we can get rid of her during the Game? Kick her into Space, letting her have an "Accident" or whatever. And then that bald Guy and his helpers too soon after.

You wrote a Character here you can only "extremely dislike" - well done I hope She is not essential to the Story. Or if She is, we are not forced to have something going on with her. Well, back to the Game...

Just finish the game before starting to hate a character, and maybe you will understand things aren't that simple.

 

[ILoveSucuk]

Just finish the game before starting to hate a character, and maybe you will understand things aren't that simple.

LOL you totally misunderstood:
I never said that there is nothing else to her Story - just that her Character is (so far) written in a way, that you can only despise her.

Same goes for the MC: He acts like a 12 year old, overly horny Sissy with no control over his hormones. Constantly whining and apologizing for things he has not done or has no control over. So far, the MC too often jumps over the very thin line between being a nice decent human being and being a wimp.

I hope the MC develops a backbone at some point and learn to talk back to the grown-ups

 

[whichone]

LOL you totally misunderstood:

No he didn't.
You said you had just finished the intro & hated her. You wanted to kick her into space. The dev has written a character you can only extremely dislike.

He replied that you should play more of the game, than just the intro, before forming an opinion as strong as that.
You might find out she has some justification, or understandable reasoning, for her actions.
Basically, don't jump to conclusions.

 

[ClockworkGnome]

To be fair, hating Selene once you know the truth is still entirely justified. But it's also justified that plenty of players will sympathize with her situation and forgive her for it. So it's actually well-done because there IS complexity to it. And there's still plenty we don't know yet.

 

[ILoveSucuk]

Marvellous Lunatic Please please please add an option to completely skip these boring and repetitive Mini Games! I dont care if we lose extras or anything. But please make them skippable! Thank you!

To be fair, hating Selene once you know the truth is still entirely justified. But it's also justified that plenty of players will sympathize with her situation and forgive her for it. So it's actually well-done because there IS complexity to it. And there's still plenty we don't know yet.

Exactly my thoughts. I absolutely agree!

Dude, you said you just played the intro and already wanted to kill Selene because something was fishy about her, so why are you saying that I "misunderstood"?

It's OK if you don't like Selene, but at least finish the game, try to understand each POV, and then you can say if you still like her or not. As I mentioned before, it's not as simple as it looks.

I read my post again. You are right - I should have written this a little bit more clearer by maybe adding i.e. an sarcasm tag or more emojis.

 

[The Senior Perv]

I read my post again. You are right - I should have written this a little bit more clearer by maybe adding i.e. an sarcasm tag or more emojis.

Ah yes, the sarcasm card... the best excuse to evade saying you were wrong in your opinion because you don't have the balls to admit it... anyway, I have read worse than yours.

 

[ILoveSucuk]

Mate, there's no need to make 3 posts in a row. Just use the Edit function, bottom left of your post & combine them into one.

Right forgot about that. My fault. Combined them into one

 

[OnlyFriend]

where is the secret "is there something stashed outside my cryo chamber?"

honestly i hate it the most when something secret is so hard to come by !
especially the secret is not shaped like a photo or something,
dev should consider about this
poor my eyes then...

 

[ClockworkGnome]

where is the secret "is there something stashed outside my cryo chamber?"

From your cryo chamber (69), go out into the connecting hallway. There's a panel on the wall on the left side of the screen you have to click on.

honestly i hate it the most when something secret is so hard to come by !
especially the secret is not shaped like a photo or something,
dev should consider about this
poor my eyes then...

Honestly, that's the main problem I had with some of the secrets. Some are kind of obvious (ie, they're props that it makes sense to look at or click on), but others are literally just blank patches that you only realize are what you're looking for when you mouse over them and they light up (and some of them are relatively small and thus easy to miss). It's the worst pixel hunt tendencies of old point-and-click adventure games come back to haunt us.

I think the worst for me was the pool and the canteen.

 

[whichone]

I think the worst for me was the pool and the canteen.

The ones I struggled with, were the ones in the Observatory & the Club.
You can't see the observatory one light up, because it's hidden inside a light.

 

[rspkers]

Finished the demo. I'm liking it so far. Selene still comes off as abrasive and off-putting in her attitude towards the MC as a person. Overall a bratty, rude, and cold character. Sure, she begins to warm up, and given her history it's somewhat understandable why she acts the way she does. She is obviously able to be empathized with in her reasons for you know what as she did what she had to do given the cards she was dealt. It's easy to write a character that the player hates. Now make me love her and I'm sold.

I'm not particularly liking the minigames at all. Some of them are infuriating at worst, and tedious at best. A way to skip them would be fantastic. That said, they're not a dealbreaker and could always be improved upon in the future.

Navigation is quite rough. Making most locations identical with a different colour set of seats does little to give you an idea of where the fuck you are. There's many clickable areas that are obscured by the navigation window pane where a tiny sliver is interactable as a result. Making the interaction highlight button a toggle would be appreciated as everything looks the same. I think navigation will need a good overhaul, or at least some visual polish. Proper theming for the locations would be very helpful. It's an early game, so I'll hold judgement on this aspect for now.

Animations are well done and visually appealing. I was hoping for more interaction with characters outside the typical finisher options for when you cum, mostly because you can see that the dev has the talent to do it. The intro animation was great. It's refreshing to see some proper effort put into fluff like that.

Definitely keeping an eye on this one as the story is interesting, the girls seem to be attractive (they're in cryo, so who knows), and there's actual depth here. I'm hoping the other girls however are a little more palatable in the personality department.

Nice job dev, looking forward to more.

 

[Xumeey]

Need help with the secret "Maybe there's not just food stashed."

Edit: NVM found it.

Mind sharing it?

 

[Tulrek]

Mind sharing it?

In the canteen, a piece of wall at the Bottom top.

 

[Xumeey]

In the canteen, a piece of wall at the Bottom top.

nvm, I found it. Thanks.

 

[Morgan42]

nvm, I found it. Thanks.

For future people its around the top right of the room

 

[IamKhronos]

Thanks, I really appreciate it.

Regarding the inconsistency, that shouldn't happen. Those lines should be different if the "taboo" language was selected:
Regular:

        "line_888": "Uhm. Yeah, with a college professor and her two daughters, who are friends of mine.",
        "line_889": "You are traveling with your professor? How does that fit together?",
        "line_890": "I've known them for a long time, and I was friends with her daughters since we were young. And actually, the professor helped me get a place on the ship.",
        "line_891": "One of the worst things about waking up like this is not being able to talk to them. But I'd never wish them to be stuck in the same shitty situation as we are.",
        "line_892": "Tell me something about that professor of yours.",
        "line_893": "...Uhmm... Okay... Where to start...",
        "line_894": "... She's great. A really lovely person. Ever since I can remember she always made me feel welcome when I came over to spend time with her daughters.",

Taboo (replaces only specified lines):

        "line_888": "Uhm. With my mother and two sisters.",
        "line_889": "Your whole family is traveling together? What about your Dad?",
        "line_890": "We... don't have a good relationship with him. He's still back on earth, decided to stay behind with his mistress. I... don't really want to talk about him.",
        "line_892": "Tell me something about your mom.",
        "line_894": "... She's great. A really loving and caring mother. And she's got a such a happy personality, always lots of fun to be with.",

The only I could think of what happened that you played the regular version of dialogue, changed the language and rolled back and reading the dialogue. While rollback to 'old rendered' text will be loaded again, not the corresponding 'new' line. You have to rollback passed this lines and advance the dialogue again. In this case the line should be rendered with the correct line of the selected language and character configuration. If that was not the case and there are still problems would you be so kind to message me in private with the exact steps to reproduce your observation?

There is still an error somewhere in the text. in my case both game/vis and char config are on tabboo settings. the conversation goes as follow