VN Ren'Py A Wife's Life [v0.7.5] [Kerosine_NTR]

[Kerosine_NTR]

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Hello everyone,
In two days, our Platinum+ subscribers will get access to the new update. Just wanted to remind you. Here are the release dates for all subscription tiers:

Platinum+: 27/09/2024
Gold: 30/09/2024
Silver: 03/10/2024
Bronze: 05/10/2024
Copper: 07/10/2024
Public: 10/10/2024

We hope you’ll enjoy the new update. We look forward to receiving your feedback after the release.

Please don’t forget that your support means a lot to us and allows us to continue working on the game.

 

[Ajithvijay]

Hello everyone,
In two days, our Platinum+ subscribers will leak our new update. Just wanted to remind you. Here are the release dates for all subscription tiers:

Platinum+: 27/09/2024
Gold: 27/09/2024
Silver: 27/09/2024
Bronze: 27/09/2024
Copper: 27/09/2024
Public: 27/09/2024

We hope you’ll enjoy the new update. We look forward to receiving your backlash after the release.

 

[MIkedante]

Hello everyone,
In two days, our Platinum+ subscribers will leak our new update. Just wanted to remind you. Here are the release dates for all subscription tiers:

Platinum+: 27/09/2024
Gold: 27/09/2024
Silver: 27/09/2024
Bronze: 27/09/2024
Copper: 27/09/2024
Public: 27/09/2024

We hope you’ll enjoy the new update. We look forward to receiving your backlash after the release.

If you are here longer that 2 days, you must already know, that due to downgrading quality of game, all high tier leakers quit pledging, and update shows up here not soon than at tier silver or bronze.

 

[Rickster82]

I really wonder why anyone would pay 20+ €/dollars for this game? I'd rather wait until mid-October. Apart from that, the last update was more bad than good.

 

[huddlestonkeith33]

No I didn't think it was that bad

 

[huddlestonkeith33]

Now could it be better yes

 

[Silken the Rocket Girl]

I really wonder why anyone would pay 20+ €/dollars for this game? I'd rather wait until mid-October. Apart from that, the last update was more bad than good.

I'm gonna be honest. Do I think this game.. I hate calling these that. They aren't really games but
but that's beside the point. Would I suggest supporting it financially... I actually would. I've had several
stories I love go way off the tracks and explode in to shit. A Wife's Life has a good foundation for telling a good
story and hasn't yet imploded. It's getting there, for sure. And I know a lot of you feel it definitely has.
But the reality is, barring missing Jenaveve content, all of the foundational core choice mechanics are there.
They just need to be pathed, tweaked and marked with the points system that exists. It wouldn't take much
to center the main MC into something other than a total chode. And supporting the game financially is the best
way to get your voice seriously heard (I really hate saying that). The Copper and Bronze aren't that bad, and
no I am not being paid or affiliated with Kerosine_NTR. If I was I'd already be cheating on him with Le Stag and
d3sire Studio. And I have a feeling D3sire is cheating on everyone with Kerosine. Or trying to.

But yeah. I would actually say do the Cooper or Bronze tiers. At least for a bit.

 

[Spuul]

Plus he is a semi insecure jerk that wants her to stay at home while he does all
the "man stuff". Hence why she doesn't initially tell him about her job. That's the first bump in the road
most people have. The why didn't she just tell him? Because he didn't want her to have to do that as was
rather adamant about that. Plus it was at a place she knew he would not approve because of social biases.
Right or wrong of him to have. So she wasn't being a deceptive bitch, she was trying to ease the conflict she
knew it would cause.

Whether she was trying to be a deceptive bitch is debatable, but the result of this narrative decision isn't. The entire premise of his wife getting a job to help out, but then refusing to tell him where she works, is massively unrealistic and completely immersion breaking. It's the initial (and biggest) red flag that this game has serious writing issues, likely from someone who is an extreme introvert, or who has never been in an actual relationship with a woman (or anyone else for that matter).

The second plot hole readers tend to miss, though not their fault it's the bad pacing, is that the wife is
trying her best to solve their intimacy issues. She loves having sex with her husband and before the move
they had a strong, passionate and fulfilling sex life. She wants that back. She confides this to her best friend
who in turn does the wrong thing and tries talking her in to cheating. Which she continues to refuse to do.
Even though the story is so fractured she is and she isn't. The one and only reality in A Wife's Life is she
is being sexually harassed and assaulted at work. Whether she is actually being forced to do things with his
boss is left up to a broken path system. So technically no. Unless the MC keeps fucking around. Literally.
If the MC fucks the bosses daughter, the boss warns him what the consequences will be. So if you do...
He will fuck your wife and ruin you. if you fuck your secretary and ignore you responsibilities, he will
blackmail and ruin you. But the pathing is broken and left unfinished. So what you get is the kinetic
baseline.

In my playthrough their sex is good, until suddenly it isn't. With the stress of opening up the new business location, I think they go without sex for a week, and the characters begin acting like this has been an ongoing issue to the point the idiot MC is going to the hospital to get "help" (Viagra?). It's jarring and unexpected. Likewise, I chose for the MC to not cheat with either the daughter or secretary, and yet the wife still cheats, and for some inexplicable reason, the daughter becomes hostile when previously she was polite.

The focus IS supposed to be on the wife and the husband's paranoia. But instead it's focused on making
the MC as unreal and stupid as possible. Meanwhile his wife is going through hell while he willingly ignores
it while spying on her for no other reason to masochistically drive himself (and the reader) insane.

I wouldn't say she's going through hell, especially considering she is spending time and smoking weed with men who are either trying to, or who are actually molesting her before the game gets to her and the MC having issues with their sex life. I'm pretty sure she's cheating before he gets the app to spy on her, and she admits it continued because she was being "blackmailed". Everybody is an idiot in this game, but I agree, no one is a bigger moron than the MC.

On the positive, it's absolutely amazing how this trash fire has gathered such a great group of people around it
here to discuss it together

Facts!

If the dev sees anything I hope it's that. They they have a potentially really good thing here if they just
stop, rethink, fix and adjust. Not because we say so. But because it's true. Don't just copy some other
bad story. Make a better one readers love. A Wife's Life still has that chance.

I'm not as optimistic as you are. This game has other huge plot holes like the MC somehow assuming his boss' debt because he failed to launch the new store successfully (this is not a real thing), finding out from Henry that he was intentionally sabotaged by his boss yet does nothing about it, then goes to his boss' barbeque, but doesn't bother to tell his wife about any of it. I know, I know, he's an idiot, but these and other narrative decisions are indicative of just more convoluted nonsense ahead. It feels like we're drifting farther away from any chance this game has to fulfill its promise and that's unfortunate. The interface is pretty good, the art/pics are excellent, and the premise is definitely one that I enjoy. I'm still rooting for this game, but unless we see big changes/fixes ahead, I won't be adding it to the list of games I support on Patreon/Subscribe Star.

 

[huddlestonkeith33]

I still think it would be a good idea for the dev when you start the game select which character you want to be and rename the title to my family life so at the beginning you could choose whether to be all over Laura Kendra sister or you can change the half of the antagonist

 

[konotadia]

I'm gonna be honest. Do I think this game.. I hate calling these that. They aren't really games but
but that's beside the point. Would I suggest supporting it financially... I actually would. I've had several
stories I love go way off the tracks and explode in to shit. A Wife's Life has a good foundation for telling a good
story and hasn't yet imploded. It's getting there, for sure. And I know a lot of you feel it definitely has.
But the reality is, barring missing Jenaveve content, all of the foundational core choice mechanics are there.
They just need to be pathed, tweaked and marked with the points system that exists. It wouldn't take much
to center the main MC into something other than a total chode. And supporting the game financially is the best
way to get your voice seriously heard (I really hate saying that). The Copper and Bronze aren't that bad, and
no I am not being paid or affiliated with Kerosine_NTR. If I was I'd already be cheating on him with Le Stag and
d3sire Studio. And I have a feeling D3sire is cheating on everyone with Kerosine. Or trying to.

But yeah. I would actually say do the Cooper or Bronze tiers. At least for a bit.

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion in the Patreon(or other) scene. If this was a full game I would happily pay for it. I f this was in early access and it was a one time purchase, I would happily pay for it. The idea of subbing to a patreon to pay >$10 a month? nah... tbh, even paying >$5 a month, nah. Paying you the same cost of a full game or more, for you to make 10 minutes of contnet per month? No thank you. If it's not a complete game, (and dare I say it, your first game) where do you get off charging money for it honestly? I do understand that It takes time and effort, but.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000+
... sorry, cat on keyboard... Point being, I'm not going to pay your wages, until you prove you are worthy of it, and even then its a stretch. I'm not going to pay $10/month for a game that may not even be completed, and even if it was, is not exactly gonna be AA quality. Even if this game was the next Sekiro, I wouldnt pay $10/month to play that, I would pay $40 once... not $400 over 10 months, it's just a bad business proposition...

 

[konotadia]

And I say that as a software dev professionally. I would never charge for anything I'm doing first time with no experience, but maybe thats just me

Edit: typos

 

[Spuul]

If you have sex with Katherine then yes. The MC IS cheating on his wife and deserves everything
Chris does to him. He was warned. He refused to listen. You can't say one spouse cheated simply because
she's a woman and absolve the MC cos he's a man. It doesn't work that way. Sexual harassment and assault
is not cheating. Having an affair with Katherine happens BEFORE things at the camp escalate.
Don't take it from me. Take it from my hubby who didn't cheat hahaha

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I don't understand this conditional line of thinking. In my playthrough, and what nafig keeps describing, is that there was no cheating on the MC's part. So now what's the excuse for the wife? Let's accept your premise that she was raped by Samuil (I'm not convinced)--she agrees to the terms of the blackmail. This means she agrees to cheat on her husband to conceal her rape? In what way does that absolve her of this new cheating? Likewise, Chris telling her that if she has sex with him, he won't fire the MC, is further cheating. The MC got a job as a newbie mechanic, not a multi-million-dollar Fortune 500 CEO position. If your wife cheats so that you don't lose your job at the AutoZone, uh, she needs to go, unless of course, you're into that.

Don't listen to nafig he's negative about everything but he still sticks around even tho he's said several times how he doesn't like the story

He's ( nafig ) actually right about this.

In my playthrough, the MC never cheats, yet the wife does repeatedly--she admits it to the MC. Just because you're being "blackmailed" over previous cheating doesn't make your capitulation somehow any less adulterous. She could have said no, but she didn't. If she believed she was raped, she could have gone to the police. Even if they'd do nothing as the game suggests, it would demonstrate to her husband the severity of what she was going through. She'd then have an excuse to immediately break her employment contract, with a nice fat civil lawsuit pending. Instead, she continued cheating so her husband wouldn't find out about her previous cheating. And, not only did she support the MC's mother working at the camp, she told her mother-in-law that she wasn't sure she wanted to leave even after admitting everything to her husband and promising she would quit.

Also, the MC warned her that they were potentially using drugs to lower women's inhibitions at the camp, and yet she tried them anyway. If a woman drinks, lowers her inhibitions, has sex with someone voluntarily, is that rape, particularly if the person she had sex with was likewise intoxicated? If a man drinks, lowers his inhibitions, has sex with someone voluntarily, is that rape, particularly if the person he had sex with was likewise intoxicated? I've had sex with people I probably wouldn't have otherwise because I was high and/or drunk. Had I been in a relationship, that would still be cheating. Substance abuse is actually a problem within the gay community for people who can't come to terms with their sexuality. They indulge with the intention to lower their inhibitions to allow themselves to commit acts they wouldn't otherwise. Then they tell themselves that they aren't gay, it was just the drugs or alcohol. I don't doubt that people of all types use this method to create excuses, justifications, etc. and the wife here might be no different. Only she's doing it to step out on her husband. It's hard to draw any other conclusion because it keeps happening even after the MC forgives her. What's crazy is for her to think that after she's admitted to cheating at the camp, and for cheating to keep the MC employed/get a better job (which incidentally, an argument could be made that this transaction provided her financial benefit thus justifying the 'whore' moniker) that the MC should be willing and eager to instantly make love to her again. That sort of betrayal, even if it could be forgiven, would take time to reconcile and the wife would have to be an idiot not to realize that.

Oh wait, I almost forgot, everybody in this game is a moron....


eta: nafig's name for clarity

 

[Spuul]

A hypocritical creature, pretending to be a "wife", voluntarily, without drugs and coercion, betrays her husband. She voluntarily, without doubts and regrets, but with joy and pleasure fucks with emigrants and her husband's boss. She voluntarily comes home from work every evening and kisses her husband with lips from which emigrants' sperm still drips and does it with pleasure. With these lips, every day, she LIES to her husband about her love. She voluntarily ruins her husband's life, she doesn't give a shit about him, for a hypocritical creature it is more important to maintain the fake status of "wife" and the false imitation of family relations.

She DESERVES the crap she's drowning in and doesn't deserve any help from her husband. He shouldn't save her, he should throw her out of his life, grab some popcorn and watch the hypocritical creature drown in her own shit.
My ideal ending. In the immigrant camp there is a bed, the "wife" is tied to it with her legs behind her head. All the immigrants fuck this traitor in all holes without stopping, Autumn and MC's mother, with the help of various tools, also fuck her. The husband forgot about the hypocritical creature who betrayed him and lives a normal life. This is the reward she deserved.

Um, I want to play THIS game!!!

 

[Spuul]

From my perspective, all Samuel has done since the beginning is manipulate, lie, threaten and finally blackmail. I'm pretty sure he even tried being nice somewhere in between. As fucked up as the scripts are, who's to say those photos weren't taken after he threatened her the first time? Clearly she doesn't approve of what happened. Until we see her thoughts for ourselves, it's always going to be speculation.

Some of you are almost starting to sound like the idiot husband. Learning she was raped and then thinking, "Well, maybe she enjoyed it?. B-B-But, wouldn't that still be cheating?." HAHA!

It absolutely would be, if she did it again. And she does.

As for Samuil, he's probably the best character of the game. He's honest about his intentions with the wife, the MC, and the MC's mom. He told the wife what he wanted. He told her that smoking would relax her and make her feel better, reduce her anxiety. He gave the wife a choice and she chose him. With all the simpletons in this game, Samuil stands out as a decently written character. He's a villain, sure, but I'm rooting for him to 'win'!

 

[Spuul]

It is difficult to talk to a person who has no family. But I will try again. A woman is a reflection of her man.
She is beautiful if you are beautiful in relation to her. Look at your woman and understand who you are. I did not want to, but I will give you one episode from my life. We began to quarrel more often, I lost hope and thought that soon we would get divorced, but then I decided to act. After all, I got the most beautiful woman of all on earth.
I began to shower her with flowers, kisses and compliments. I gave her gifts and lived for her. I talked in public only about her. You will not believe it - she blossomed. I did not even know that she could love THIS way.
And I realized one thing: a woman is a reflection of a man. If you love her madly, she will become this madness.

What the fuck is happening....

 

[konotadia]

He told her that smoking would relax her and make her feel better, reduce her anxiety. He gave the wife a choice and she chose him.

Yes, he did do that. He then sexually assaulted her. Just because she agreed to have a smoke, doesn't mean she agreed to anything else. Or in your world does having a drink with someone mean fucking them in the ass is the next logical, and acceptable step? And who cares what they say about it, they agreed to have a drink so fuck em, they knew what they were getting into.

 

[huddlestonkeith33]

Dave today boys and girls 5.5 comes out

 

[Alea iacta est]

Yes, he did do that. He then sexually assaulted her. Just because she agreed to have a smoke, doesn't mean she agreed to anything else. Or in your world does having a drink with someone mean fucking them in the ass is the next logical, and acceptable step? And who cares what they say about it, they agreed to have a drink so fuck em, they knew what they were getting into.

Rape it is ok mate.

Don't listen mainstream media that state rape it is a bad thing.

Women love those robust attentions

 

[huddlestonkeith33]

Rape it is ok mate.

Don't listen mainstream media that state rape it is a bad thing.

Women love those robust attentions

So you into bdsm

 

[konotadia]

Rape it is ok mate.

Don't listen mainstream media that state rape it is a bad thing.

Women love those robust attentions

Believe it or not I'm actually fine with it being rape. It is after all fantasy not reality. Con non-con is even a thing I'm into (from the victim perspective at least.)

What I'm bothered by is people not calling it what it is, blaming the wife and calling her a whore when it's demonstrably not true. It's arguably not even true with the boss story line, as while she certainly has a lot more agency so it's questionable, its still blackmail.

Either way I need to stop coming on here out of mind drunk and ranting... lol