VN Ren'Py A Shot in the Dark [Ch.4] [ViM Studios]

[BaasB]

Nope..I'm done with restarting over and over again.

WARNING!!! SAVES WILL BE BROKEN THIS UPDATE! Opening old saves will introduce bugs. Please plan to start a new game or use the Entry Points feature to avoid opening old saves.

 

[SonsOfLiberty]

Nope..I'm done with restarting over and over again.

WARNING!!! SAVES WILL BE BROKEN THIS UPDATE! Opening old saves will introduce bugs. Please plan to start a new game or use the Entry Points feature to avoid opening old saves.

Bob said they haven't changed the Ren'Py version yet, I haven't got it yet, but I own it on both Itch.io and Steam (free Steam key), so I'm wondering if the Ren'Py and save breaking change is coming with the official update coming in April.

 

[Hakdar]

Whats the point of releasing the game early if you just gonna break the saves? Ther is zero point playing a broken ass game to start with then. Learn how you code and fix your shit

 

[Jack Townsend]

What choices do I have to make so that the hostage doesn't get beaten up by the kidnapper?

 

[Niuul]

What choices do I have to make so that the hostage doesn't get beaten up by the kidnapper?

Happens regardless I believe. The only thing you can change in that regard is who gets taken.

 

[xtr3mx7]

Even though it is an interesting one, I think I'll wait until it still completed because the dev keeps changing renpy version that screw old saves.

 

[TurhaanKoitatte]

Somehow I couldn't find any real motivation for this game and towards the end all I could do was press ctrl. Just a lot of fucking text which made this a really tiring journey. Then there's fucking Paloma. Is she stupid or something when she can't understand the word NO. In the police car she asked me all kinds of shit probably 10 times and couldn't understand the word NO. Always another question and again NO INTEREST. So the bitch goes on and on and on. Fuck you bitch.

 

[Abhai]

Somehow I couldn't find any real motivation for this game and towards the end all I could do was press ctrl. Just a lot of fucking text which made this a really tiring journey. Then there's fucking Paloma. Is she stupid or something when she can't understand the word NO. In the police car she asked me all kinds of shit probably 10 times and couldn't understand the word NO. Always another question and again NO INTEREST. So the bitch goes on and on and on. Fuck you bitch.

yeah, better go to GH or WVM...wtf are you doing here in the first place?

 

[cab18+]

The game has updated multiple times and changed since then. The mod is obsolete.

Regardless, i would like to have a cheat mod if possible....

 

[Hadley]

One of my favorite Games currently.

 

[TheOneWhoTrolls]

Even though it is an interesting one, I think I'll wait until it still completed because the dev keeps changing renpy version that screw old saves.

They have Entry Points on the main menu screen so you can jump to new content if you want.

 

[Cgt35]

This game has only one bad thing and it is too much question. Just make less question "except importants" it will be so much better experience to all players.

Good luck with the game.

 

[Jack Townsend]

Happens regardless I believe. The only thing you can change in that regard is who gets taken.

According to the PDF walkthrough, there are two achievements related to this. "Unharmed Damsel" where the hostage is kidnapped but unharmed. And "Beaten Damsel" where the hostage is taken and then beaten. It seems to depend on whether or not you kissed Natalie, either at the party or later on at her dorm room.

 

[Niuul]

According to the PDF walkthrough, there are two achievements related to this. "Unharmed Damsel" where the hostage is kidnapped but unharmed. And "Beaten Damsel" where the hostage is taken and then beaten. It seems to depend on whether or not you kissed Natalie, either at the party or later on at her dorm room.

The more you know. Guess someone really hates the twins. The more you interact with them (or their counterpart) the more they get hurt.

 

[SilentSevenStar]

Nice~

 

[fh321]

Played this for the first time, some thoughts:
(didn't want to leave an actual review as I skipped quite a lot of dialogue, and it feels unfair to give a bad rating when I chose not to read 1/3 - 1/2 the plot)

- The graphics/animations are stellar. Like, some of the best 3DCG i've seen in a Ren'py game. It's definitely got a 'wow' factor, visually. Very, very impressive. 10/10

- Characters: too many. I get it, I get it, porn games want variety, but if you're investing this much time into a game with this many choices, it's impossible to give a shit about this many characters. Not to mention, they are all hot/stacked. It's like a bunch of perfect women with almost identical bodies wearing different wigs. Zero variety. Where are the skinny women? The fat women? The old women? The MILF characters all look like they should be attending class alongside the MC, not professors/parents. 4/10

- The choices: I can't believe I'm saying this, given how I've never actually made this complaint, but christ there are so many choices that seem so pointless. If there were characters that I cared about, I would appreciate having so many options, but with 30 different women, and 7-8 choices per encounter with each of them, it spirals into a complete mess. The devs take great pains to (i think) try and make this 'replayable', what with all the 'save now!' messages, but... Look, in 4 chapters, there were several dozen branch-moments, which is just too intimidating to seriously consider giving a replay to find out what I missed. And since all the women look alike, and none of them have personalities that are notable, I don't even have any interest in a gallery section. 2/10

- Final thoughts: This game, with the quality of its visuals, could have been an extremely hot AVN. Or, with the mechanics and the attempt at story-telling, could have been a compelling mystery, like Ripples or Shale Hill Secrets. Unfortunately, it seems like the devs tried to do both and ended up failing altogether. Maybe someday I'll try again and actually try and sit through more of the dialogue when there is more content. I wouldn't judge anyone for liking this game, it's slick and feels professionally made. But it didn't engage my mind or my sex drive. Just.... bland and vanilla. 5/10, bog-standard porn.

 

[krypareslam]

I stumbled over this game today and I have to say that it is one of the best that I've seen thus far. Beautiful renders, relatively (within the AVN-universe) believeable characters and real tradeoffs. Go for one girl? You can't get another. Which makes the game more immersive. 4,5/5.

 

[Krytax123]

I like most part of this avn but the romance development and the mc could be way better imo. "Elly" is kinda the only one where it feels somewhat justified that shes falling for him? Maybe the shy sister too but never this fast ...

And while i really dislike boy'ish/shy/awkward mcs in general, somehow the mc in this avn still stands out on the unlikeable-scale. How is it even possible to lack this much confidence while all the girls adore you, the way he talked to his dad made me cringe like fuck, he has to be at least somewhat autistic or am i wrong?

Its like he combines the two avn-stereotypes of male mc being a shy and akward boy yet at the same time being an blackout brute alpha macho lmao, and i hate both of these tropes.

At this point i wouldnt even exclude that hes himself the one who captured the girl, hes such a awkward psycho, i cant stand him at all. And i dont mind mcs with trauma in general, i like Nika form SG for example who gets a lot of hate but its so hard to relate to the mc in this avn at all which makes the whole experience feel a bit nonsensical/disconnected.

 

[eki6859]

Somehow I couldn't find any real motivation for this game and towards the end all I could do was press ctrl. Just a lot of fucking text which made this a really tiring journey. Then there's fucking Paloma. Is she stupid or something when she can't understand the word NO. In the police car she asked me all kinds of shit probably 10 times and couldn't understand the word NO. Always another question and again NO INTEREST. So the bitch goes on and on and on. Fuck you bitch.

Sad... she is THE babe of this game. fucking Paloma

 

[fishbrain]

NGL the stopping point for the update actually made me say "oh come on!" out loud. Too many games lately have had cliffhanger endings to their updates which we won't get any resolution for for another 6 months lol.

By now you know it's coming though, that at least makes it a little easier. lol

What choices do I have to make so that the hostage doesn't get beaten up by the kidnapper?

Happens regardless I believe. The only thing you can change in that regard is who gets taken.

According to the PDF walkthrough, there are two achievements related to this. "Unharmed Damsel" where the hostage is kidnapped but unharmed. And "Beaten Damsel" where the hostage is taken and then beaten. It seems to depend on whether or not you kissed Natalie, either at the party or later on at her dorm room.

I just ran through a few different plays. The one thing I did that stopped the victim from getting beaten was not going to the party with Kevon but having Elly join me, then not abandoning her for Soph and Nat. A little too obvious who the kidnapper is at that point? Are we going to find the victim in the basement? That would justify the cliffhanger.

If you are getting this game for "incest" you will be sorely disappointed.

Not necessarily, true lovers of incest understand it takes time building anticipation to make the payoff more erotic and worthwhile. Her just jumping on his dick in the first update would be boring, plus Aunt Ashley is the hottest character in the game "that isn't ruined by femdom".