Ren'Py A Wife's Phone [v0.4.9] [Bloody Ink]

[forceline0]

I really like this game, but I think the game would be so much more enjoyable if it was more like a kinetic(ish) visual novel-(just like in the prologue). The grind comes with a lot of bugs and conflicts between the characters storylines. Like blowing the boss like crazy and still talking with Jenna about "Not wanting to cheat the MC".
If the dev still want to keep the sandbox feature, he should put some kind of "Start quest" mechanic where he can lock some conflicting stories from playing together(and like this changing some lines to make more sense if some story was playd before others).

Overall I felt better with the first version than now...but still a very good idea. I hope the dev can make some sense from the chaos there.

Edit: And the UI is a lot better now, less clicks I think.

Edit2: Oh, and I think the game would benefit a lot from a "quest tracker" in the main screen.

 

[Papertrail013]

While a simple UI avoids confusion, a bit more information would be nice. Say in the Control app overview some mark that a target has a new message waiting, instead of having to go to the phone for each and every one. This does btw appear, but only after you visited the phone when you did not read all messages.

Having the ability to pause questlines does not give the stats value. I also did not mean going through the app to deactivate the boinking, I meant that in example if the mcs feminization is >= 10 then event 'plow the sons gf' can not happen (maybe even instead an event 'sons gf dresses mc up and plays with him' happens). This would give importance to the stats which so far I did not see in the game. Still went with hypno spam for all targets because I also did not know if the stats did not matter. So including mc I later had to skip through 6 (iirc) hypno messages every 3 days, not knowing if it was necessary or not. Was really happy when I reached end of content for the first characters and could stop checking them.

The slow story type corruption is ok. Would not change it, just add content in between those big events. At the end I only had wife events left over (bbc corruption, greg, boss, mike). If I had not gone with adding all characters, this would have happened far earlier. At that point, and due to me deactivating stories at end of content (no repeated events), there was almost nothing to do. A day almost always was: check own messages (if any), check her phone, check her messages (if any), work, work, skip time, skip time. Sure this might be because it was basically late game, but it made the world feel empty. Why not some stuff that happens during work, which the mc wants to tell his wife about. Heck even some ability for the mc to watch porn in the evening/night/at work (and maybe get caught, especially at work) would be nice. First thing of course should be far more times to use the camera, and not just the wifes but every targets.

But all this is just my opinion. I hope the dev has a plan in which they want to stear this game, it might become something great. But it needs some work.

Ok that makes sense but as far as the points go it didn't feel like a grind to me, just something to switch after a bit to cheating or something else. Maybe I'm just to used to rpgs, might've been brainwashed by PS1 FFs lol. I do see your points a little clearer tho.

 

[garmander]

I love the premise of the game and the writing is pretty realistic, which is a pretty important part of the game. I'm really not a fan of the day-night cycle the game has taken recently- it just feels like I'm mashing the skip time button to get to events now, and if that's the case... why even bother including them?

 

[naughtystriesplease]

Game is bugged for me: videos are not playing.

 

[Aza0000]

any idea how to get son into raget app after i choose sis?

 

[Cheyrou]

Unfortunately, the game was already broken before this update. I still cant understand why you change beautiful gameplay to stupid sandboxy shit. PLS FIX THE GAMEPLAY AND REVERT BACK TO V.1 GAMEPLAY

 

[Wacky Woohoo Pizza Man]

I like the idea of the game but playing the whole thing through the screen of a phone is a bit meh...
I think my biggest issue is when a "scene" happens you don't get to see, you sleep, next day you get a text telling you about it with images..damn shame.

 

[Botopa]

any idea how to get son into raget app after i choose sis?

While you can get your stepsis, christine and ms whateverhernamewas later during the game. You can only get your wifes sister, your son and yourself during the 'intro'. It might be possible to edit the variable to unlock them, but so far there is no intended way.

 

[meleaguance]

I'm not really the target demographic for this game (I prefer guys), but I kind enjoyed it up until you ended what I think was chapter 1 and the game became more open world. All of a sudden there was nothing to do and when I looked at the walkthrough things would say to continue this character's storyline wait 2 weeks, for this character's storyline wait 600 days. Crazy game design choice when things were fast pace before and I could easily skip through porn I didn't like.

 

[meleaguance]

also, the part I liked the best, flirting with guys on my wife's facebook, seemed to be just ditched. She found out about it and didn't really care and then it didn't appear to be ever mentioned again.

 

[Philwaring]

videos not playing for me either, is this a bug or am i missing something

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

I wanna know why you still get messages from that annoying thot jenna after blocking her on the second day

 

[johnreturns]

So far the sandbox just trades extra clicks through the day for the ability not to pursue certain storylines. I'm all for that. I'm hoping some of the storylines eventually start to affect each other. The stepsister is a hilarious send up of step-porn. And it's looking like she might be yandere, which would be an incredible twist.

This game seems like it has a very specific trajectory, so provoking someone out of stable and into unstable would be a crazy and fun route to the end. Insanely jealous lover murders your bully, rendering the debt moot? You have a talk with your sister in law and find out she's in a deeply troubled marriage and you're actually doing her a favor by hooking her up with someone better?

The predictable path should always be there, but I see real possibility for unexpected positive and positive-ish outcomes.

I'm also pleased with the self reflective psychology. The MC asks questions of himself about what he's feeling. Is he happy with something? It's a good sanity check for us to stop a route, and a surprisingly accurate bit of curiosity and angst.

 

[johnreturns]

I wanna know why you still get messages from that annoying thot jenna after blocking her on the second day

She's such a driver of the main plot that it's got to be temporary. Might be better to rewrite the blocking bit or add a line about unblocking her later since she's such a good friend of your wife.

 

[RottenPlum]

I've been playing this update for a long time and it seems anissa swinging path is locked and i can't trigger it, no introduction to that character at all in my playthrough. Any stat to increase for that to trigger or to choose some decision?

 

[DarkDaemonX]

It was kind of fun at the start, but really grindy later, I can't keep my dick hard long enough without anything stimulating happening for so long, the concept was nice, but I think it should've been used in combination with an actual VN, where you could swap POVs or be a fly on the wall in scenes we just don't get to see involving the other girls, but get teased with before it cuts off and we might just get a picture of it afterwards right now.

 

[CuriousWonder]

None of the story couldn't be done without the map and the rest of the busywork the dev has included to pad the length of the game.
The "debt" mechanic has zero effect on anything after it gets established. There's no consequences for not paying, and "paying" without enough money works in extending the timeline too.

Haven't played the newest version but if that really is the case about the whole debt mechanic then that doesn't kind of bug me since there's no point in having it if there's no threat in keeping up with it.

Like sure have that there if you're going to use it. Otherwise it's just bloat in the game size

 

[Pr0GamerJohnny]

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She's such a driver of the main plot that it's got to be temporary. Might be better to rewrite the blocking bit or add a line about unblocking her later since she's such a good friend of your wife.

Perhaps, but that probably speaks to a bigger issue with the game that I won't go into now.

 

[Dr-Pill]

People who complain about the plot twist being unrealistic need to take a closer look at the in-game map. It's Moscow. Instant corporate takeovers and billion-dollar debts are par for the course. If anything, it's the black people in positions of power that are incongruous. I guess Patrice Lumumba University beefed up its Economics department to be as monstrous as its students' BBCs.

 

[DarkDaemonX]

Also the gallery on the main menu is very incomplete.

Can't wait until the MC feminization branch gets a lot more content, next step would obviously be the list of tasks that's not developed yet, I wonder if a feminized MC would change other branches too.