VN Ren'Py Abandoned A.O.A. Academy [Ch.5 Gold] [TLGGAMES]

[Woolgrief]

Welp. Trying this game today after seing for a while and really didnt regret it. The story is good. The art and animation is good enough even while i play he compressed version for I cant download the real size. The image doesnt blur or get cracked that much and thats show how good is the real version. Tho, Im kinda surprised that Dev gonna give the epilogue already, I think this quite early ? But, all i can say right now, this game is worth waiting for. Thx for Dev to make this game.

 

[Havik79]

So other than either Jenny or Ash, are there any other girls who will not join you in a harem play.

 

[bannisterm]

For those who can't access Ch2, do this:

hit winkey+R to pull up "Run"
enter %appdata%
Open Renpy folder
Delete all contents under the AOA folder.
That should do it.
if not, delete AOA and re-extract.

that did it for me.

 

[1337Bob]

So other than either Jenny or Ash, are there any other girls who will not join you in a harem play.

I haven't read everything in this thread, or everything the dev has said, but at least within the game, Jenny absolutely seems down with some kind of harem, or if harem is too strong a word, sharing/throuple situation. She's trying to talk you up to Ash, she doesn't seem to mind you banging Jade in the changing room. She seems to want you to perform some "sexual healing" on all the girls she's helping. Rebecca in her last conversation seems to be hinting towards something similar.

Also, the harem tag is still there.

Though the game does seem to be pigeonholing players already, however.

 

[Havik79]

Really, and I just started a run-through ignoring Jenny, I thought if it comes to Jen or Ash I wanted Ash more.
My priority is Ash, Val, and uh, shit the actress chick seems hot, the rest, meh, no loss.

I know there is a harem tag, but from what I read it seemed like you would have to choose some girls.
I don't care about spoilers, I just don't want to waste time.

 

[Deleted member 3313072]

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Yeah from what I know they're a Christian band. Music is actually pretty good. I have several "Best of" album collections by Christian groups/artists and most of the music is pretty good.

 

[1337Bob]

Yeah from what I know they're a Christian band. Music is actually pretty good. I have several "Best of" album collections by Christian groups/artists and most of the music is pretty good.

lmao I wonder what they think of their music being used in adult VNs.

 

[Deleted member 3313072]

That's what I was wondering. It goes against everything they pretty much stand for. Obviously they had to get the license but still. To have a Christian band associated with a VN, it's like putting the Holy Bible next to a copy of LaVey's Satanic Bible.

But that's not a story for this thread. It's just, a very odd choice.

 

[abagel]

using mods, old saves...?
if so, dont use/load it...try a fresh install/game...
damn, im sounding like a proper bot...perhaps it would be good to have the one, just to answer to similar posts in numerous threads

Got it to work, but had to play from the beginning. They added in the Vicky scene so now it worked. Not too bad now but when we have 3+ chapters or so I'll want to know how to avoid this.

 

[Smarmint]

No frigging thank you. Vicky, Aurora, Elizabeth to me are wildcards, and not knowing where they stand, I'll avoid them if given the chance. Neutral/friendly responses only.

Really? You don't think Aurora, or even Elizabeth could be fun choices? Aurora seems pretty sweet and down-to-earth, though she gets understandably frustrated at not being taken seriously professionally.

I tend to go after everybody in these games, unless they are absolutely hideous (sometimes even then, haha), so playing AOA is a challenge. I completely agree with all the commenters that say that the points required to not miss major scenes is too strict. I think it is fine that TLGGames is trying to have multiple paths, without everything being totally open, so that choices matter, but for minor comments, or just talking to a particular character for a few minutes to lock you out of a major scene or two, is just bad game mechanics. Go with your vision of the game, but ultimately the game is supposed to be fun for the players. If you need a walkthrough, you didn't design your game well. I use them sometimes, but walkthroughs take 90% of the fun out of the game, in my opinion.

The pacing is way, way, (way), too fast for my taste. I mean you just meet 4 girls for the first time, and one is already giving you a blowjob, in the open, and the other three just stand around and watch? It has been awhile since I have been to college, but I doubt that times have changed that much. I am all about suspension of disbelief, but that stretches credibility too far.

And the fact that every woman you meet, practically immediately falls in love with the MC, for no reason at all except him existing (except for Ashley, which I understand due to their history) is moving into WVM territory, if you know what I mean. For me at least, it is a lot more fun, and drives me to keep playing, when the build-up is a lot slower. Start out as acquaintances, go out on a few dates or other events, and then have the characters warm up to the MC. Except for Ashley, because like I said, you both have a long history together, Rebecca is the only character that strikes me as having a realistic response to the MC. I with the others were more restrained.

 

[Deleted member 3313072]

Really? You don't think Aurora, or even Elizabeth could be fun choices? Aurora seems pretty sweet and down-to-earth, though she gets understandably frustrated at not being taken seriously professionally.

I tend to go after everybody in these games, unless they are absolutely hideous (sometimes even then, haha), so playing AOA is a challenge. I completely agree with all the commenters that say that the points required to not miss major scenes is too strict. I think it is fine that TLGGames is trying to have multiple paths, without everything being totally open, so that choices matter, but for minor comments, or just talking to a particular character for a few minutes to lock you out of a major scene or two, is just bad game mechanics. Go with your vision of the game, but ultimately the game is supposed to be fun for the players. If you need a walkthrough, you didn't design your game well. I use them sometimes, but walkthroughs take 90% of the fun out of the game, in my opinion.

The pacing is way, way, (way), too fast for my taste. I mean you just meet 4 girls for the first time, and one is already giving you a blowjob, in the open, and the other three just stand around and watch? It has been awhile since I have been to college, but I doubt that times have changed that much. I am all about suspension of disbelief, but that stretches credibility too far.

And the fact that every woman you meet, practically immediately falls in love with the MC, for no reason at all except him existing (except for Ashley, which I understand due to their history) is moving into WVM territory, if you know what I mean. For me at least, it is a lot more fun, and drives me to keep playing, when the build-up is a lot slower. Start out as acquaintances, go out on a few dates or other events, and then have the characters warm up to the MC. Except for Ashley, because like I said, you both have a long history together, Rebecca is the only character that strikes me as having a realistic response to the MC. I with the others were more restrained.

I'm the opposite definitely. Usually find one girl to lock on to (in all the games in my signature for sure) and I stick with them. Yeah some are slower paced, others not so much. But with this one. I like knowing, right off the bat, of who I'm focused on, makes it much more streamlined for me. Rebecca is downright adorable though, and like you said, especially out of Jenny's four, has a more realistic response.

That's why I'm going to hold off on this game for a while though, and not go chapter by chapter, update by update. Another game I just went through is only up to Chapter 4 now, and to me, that's enough for me to see where the LI story is for my targeted girl. I'll probably do that here. Wait 2 or 3 more chapters before I get back into the story. There should be more organic flow-through by that time.

 

[ShirouryuuAkihito]

What is the gold version?

 

[1337Bob]

Really? You don't think Aurora, or even Elizabeth could be fun choices? Aurora seems pretty sweet and down-to-earth, though she gets understandably frustrated at not being taken seriously professionally.

I tend to go after everybody in these games, unless they are absolutely hideous (sometimes even then, haha), so playing AOA is a challenge. I completely agree with all the commenters that say that the points required to not miss major scenes is too strict. I think it is fine that TLGGames is trying to have multiple paths, without everything being totally open, so that choices matter, but for minor comments, or just talking to a particular character for a few minutes to lock you out of a major scene or two, is just bad game mechanics. Go with your vision of the game, but ultimately the game is supposed to be fun for the players. If you need a walkthrough, you didn't design your game well. I use them sometimes, but walkthroughs take 90% of the fun out of the game, in my opinion.

The pacing is way, way, (way), too fast for my taste. I mean you just meet 4 girls for the first time, and one is already giving you a blowjob, in the open, and the other three just stand around and watch? It has been awhile since I have been to college, but I doubt that times have changed that much. I am all about suspension of disbelief, but that stretches credibility too far.

And the fact that every woman you meet, practically immediately falls in love with the MC, for no reason at all except him existing (except for Ashley, which I understand due to their history) is moving into WVM territory, if you know what I mean. For me at least, it is a lot more fun, and drives me to keep playing, when the build-up is a lot slower. Start out as acquaintances, go out on a few dates or other events, and then have the characters warm up to the MC. Except for Ashley, because like I said, you both have a long history together, Rebecca is the only character that strikes me as having a realistic response to the MC. I with the others were more restrained.

I both agree and disagree. On one hand, you're right, the "relationships" are progressing extremely (too) quickly, you literally only know most of the characters for three days. Additionally, most of the love interests are, for lack of a better term, emotionally stunted, and have had emotional trauma that (should) make the difficult to be emotionally involved with someone, including MC.

On the other hand, the premise of the game and the way it unfolds is such that it makes sense why all the love interests would fall in love with MC. Jenny specifically picks you because you look like her childhood friend, and you're a "safe" farmboy. It makes sense why she would fall madly love with you. It's also heavily implied that Jenny wants you emotionally "help out" the other girls in the house, and has orchestrated the situation as such. Jade is a former child prostitute, it makes sense why she finds sex so casual, she's desensitized. But it also makes sense why she's falling in love with MC, as he may be the only man in her life whose shown interest for not just sex. Valery's backstory is still a bit vague, but the information you do get out of her is that you're one of the few people who has given a shit about her. Aurora is a Hollywood-ish actor, who probably hasn't had a genuine friend, and see MC as her first opportunity for one. Elizabeth has some unresolved issue as well, it's also not out of the realm of possibility that Jenny set her up as the teacher so MC can work his sexual magic on her too. Ashley is obvious as you say, and Sung-Ji and Rebecca are more reserved. So yeah there's reasonably good explanations for why the characters act the way the do.

The pacing is still indeed an issue, though honestly currently I'm more worried about how much the game wants to lock you into certain paths already. You miss huge chunks on dialogue and backstory at the game forces you into one love interest (gym/pool, jen/ash date, trip on bus, changing room etc) they all lock you out of talking to the other love interests. Interestingly in the script there's a variable for each path, but there's also an AshHarem variable that you only get if you go down Ash's path but you've also gone down Val, Rebecca or Jade paths.

 

[cakoplays123]

Is there any discord for fans where TLG informs us about game announcements?

 

[Razrback16]

Tho, Im kinda surprised that Dev gonna give the epilogue already, I think this quite early ?

No worries, the christmas / epilogue bit is not canon.

I haven't read everything in this thread, or everything the dev has said, but at least within the game, Jenny absolutely seems down with some kind of harem, or if harem is too strong a word, sharing/throuple situation. She's trying to talk you up to Ash, she doesn't seem to mind you banging Jade in the changing room. She seems to want you to perform some "sexual healing" on all the girls she's helping. Rebecca in her last conversation seems to be hinting towards something similar.

Also, the harem tag is still there.

Though the game does seem to be pigeonholing players already, however.

I'm hoping the game just lets us also have solo paths with some of the girls.

If you need a walkthrough, you didn't design your game well. I use them sometimes, but walkthroughs take 90% of the fun out of the game, in my opinion.

Absolutely. And that's basically where we're at with some of these paths. Have to make sure you get everything exact or you miss on some big chunks of content, some of it REALLY good, too, but it completely kills the immersion if you have to get out your trusty pdf to make sure you don't miss a choice, lol.

 

[Havik79]

What is fucked is picking all the right choices, then finding out for example, after choosing to hang out with Ash, you miss out on going to the pool.

 

[neverthy]

What's up with so much branching out and missing out on a lot of content when you choose different choices? I suppose this game took inspiration from Being A Dik but so far it is very inferior version of it with those routes.

 

[Deleted member 624752]

Hi, if I'm starting Ch2, do I still need the Gold Version patch?

 

[Abhai]

Hi, if I'm starting Ch2, do I still need the Gold Version patch?

You dont need it at all. It only adds few bonus renders, and 1-2 small scenes to previous chapter.

 

[neverthy]

What is fucked is picking all the right choices, then finding out for example, after choosing to hang out with Ash, you miss out on going to the pool.

Yeah, at some point in game it might become too messy to manage relationships if it continues this way.