Ren'Py Abandoned A Robin's Flight [Chapter 2] [Aaron A. Aaronsen]

[Kripper10]

I'll be honest, I'll be holding out on reviewing this game in its entirety until at least Chapter 4. The game, as it is currently, isn't in a state to really review without it being negative. It's in a very early and rough state that reviewing it as it is now, would be unfair I feel. The game does have a lot of potential, with all the numerous potential side stories and endings that could spawn, that I feel it could be a top h-game for most seeking the BDSM side of porn games.

Obviously, as it stands at the moment, the game isn't in that area. The download size is huge, the combat system is messy and outright broken at times in how you're given all these unique merc units, but they all turn out useless as you find every battle with them a loss, so you end up going full melee to pull off an easy win every time. Chapter 1 started off on a real high note regarding the advisor corruption route, but then it drops hard in chapter 2 where it comes off as though the whole thing was rushed out the door. H-content alone is awesome in the first chapter, but becomes sparse in the second as, again, it feels rushed throughout.

This is why I said it's unfair to make a review here so early. It'll only really be negative as things stand. I'm hopeful the developer will add more to chapter 2 to make it feel less rushed, or, if not that, at the very least, add enough content in chapter 3 to warrant the rushed feeling we all get from the previous one. Cause, if the only high note is the first chapter, I can't see this game being able to make money if they're hoping to sell on Steam, DLsite, patreon (wouldn't even go this route given games current themes), or Subscribestar. I'd love to support the developer, but for now, I'd wait until we see some more intriguing story additions and kinky porn.

 

[Aaron A. Aaronsen]

This game is seemly really buggy. I found several scenes that had to be repeated or were buggy.

Also after you pick the dude as advisor, the exhaustion variables break and you can't raid anyone ever anymore.

Seemly on normal gameplay each day you reduce by "1" the exhaustion of each crew. But the when you sell slave to that advisor it reduces exhaustion by 10, allowing you to go into negative exhaustion.

It could been OP instead, but it jus breaks the game since you check everywhere if exhaustion is exactly 0, instead of just less than 1.+

Thanks, I should be able to fix that. Regarding the scenes: did you use an old save? which scenes?

There's a game breaking bug: you cannot build any buildings.
Clicking on one consumes the resources but leaves the number at 0.
I just captured the first countess and I cannot do the ritual because I cannot build the mushroom farm.

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In addition, building the mushroom farm does not work, you loose the building materials but you don't get the farm. At least not right away, it seems there's a delay ?

Edit: Tavern and Barracks upgrades don't seem to "take" after level 1. I pay the supplies, but they're still level 1

That is strange. I will have a look into that. Do you play on a standard PC? Nothing weird going on?

I can't see this game being able to make money if they're hoping to sell on Steam, DLsite, patreon (wouldn't even go this route given games current themes), or Subscribestar.

It is a completely non-profit project. I do not want to monetize the game. The game is developed in my free time. For fun. The scenes are not meant to have mainstream appeal.


Aaaaanyway. Time for an update. I finished a first draft of the map and am currently rendering the scenes for chapter 3.

Here you can see borea with its three great halls:
"Vargrhall" - the hall of the wolf
"Ysenhall" - the hall of iron
"Urmishall" - the hall of the dragon
Each great hall is surrounded by hamlets and villages, which are ruled by thanes. Thanes can call for a meeting in their great hall and have their peers vote about important decisions. At least that is how it has been. Now their powers have been gutted, as much of borean policy is decided outside of Borea. While Ysenhall prospered under these new conditions, the other two halls are not that happy.

Our protagonist is attempting to gain support from a thane of Vargrhall. She is meeting him during an arena competition, where the locals try to find the best in various disciplines - from axe throwing to staff fighting. Will she find a way to convince a proud Borean, who thinks very little of outsiders?

 

[boneredux]

I love this story/context so, so much. Amazing work!

 

[singularbox]

I'm looking forward to the continuation of the story, and your 3D art looks quite good, as usual. I'm still sceptical of the stuff I pointed out in my earlier post., though.

If you don't intend to downsize and/or simplify the combat system, do you have any plans to make the unit management easier to understand? I'll be honest with you; at the moment of writing I find them both, in their current state, a complete and utter pain.

EDIT: also, I really recommend that you look into how to compress the game's image files. If you keep running with the current file sizes, sooner or later it'll grow too big. 4 GB in and by itself is already pushing it, but when you add to the fact that it's currently the size of a v0.0.X game...then it's just outrageous.

 

[piromanek007]

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In addition, building the mushroom farm does not work, you loose the building materials but you don't get the farm. At least not right away, it seems there's a delay ?

Edit: Tavern and Barracks upgrades don't seem to "take" after level 1. I pay the supplies, but they're still level 1

For me it was the fact that I clicked on the upgrade before clicking through the dialog below. Finish her dialog, then select upgrade, then click through whatever she says after.

 

[estrada777]

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[lectiv]

Is work still happening on this game? It looked like chapter 3 was going to be soon, but then there was nothing.

 

[J2308]

Is work still happening on this game? It looked like chapter 3 was going to be soon, but then there was nothing.

There was a year long gap between Chapters 1 & 2, so until August passes I wouldn't get too worried. AAA doesn't seem to give progress reports regularly, just when there's something to update us on, but we'll probably have another 1-3 before the next chapter drops.

 

[Joe Steel]

Is work still happening on this game? It looked like chapter 3 was going to be soon, but then there was nothing.

The dev is just doing this as a hobby, in his spare time and when he feels like making a game, so it will be a long time between updates (he likes to provide quite meaty updates). Work is still ongoing for Chapter 3, as far as we know.

 

[SomeMisery]

I like how you can avoid most modern and toy looking restrainsts if you pick your slave as slavetrainer. I like period looking restraints more, and too many games that supposed to be in pseudo middle age are are full of modern plastic looking restraints and bondage toys. That usually takes away from atmosphere.

 

[Kamidju13]

Btw is there any news from athor recently?

 

[Aaron A. Aaronsen]

Btw is there any news from athor recently?

Sorry for the lack of news.

I am still working on it, but often my job gets in my way.

Rendering wise I am a bit stuck at a scene where I want to render a crowd. No idea how to best do that, without having to render for a billion years.

Coding wise I am working on some cool stuff. I hope I can show some of that next weekend.

 

[Joe Steel]

Let us know if you need help with playtesting or proofreading or whatever.

 

[Kripper10]

Looking forward to Chapter 3's release, as I do enjoy a good bondage-themed game. Not many out there. Many have the tag, but once you actually play the game, you find out that they actually have one or at most four scenes despite there being well over a hundred other scenes. So, there's a great deal of hope for this!

 

[Joe Steel]

Any status on Chapter 3 to report? Any help needed?

 

[Kamidju13]

Sorry for the lack of news.

I am still working on it, but often my job gets in my way.

Rendering wise I am a bit stuck at a scene where I want to render a crowd. No idea how to best do that, without having to render for a billion years.

Coding wise I am working on some cool stuff. I hope I can show some of that next weekend.

How about Neuronets? They can create simple img like crowd, and after that yu can render other parts of scene, sorry for my bad english...

 

[rapum]

I hope the dev is ok I've been really enjoying this game.

 

[heretic1]

At 4.37 GB and no "animated" tag, I'm guessing the images are still with 0 compression? Is this in the works at all, because I did not find dev's comment on it?

 

[Ryahn]

Cant find any sites that this dev uses. So using this thread as a basis. Marking as abandoned

 

[Z3rraHunt]

Cant find any sites that this dev uses. So using this thread as a basis. Marking as abandoned

Well we had a good run.