VN Ren'Py Completed Acting Lessons [v1.0.2] [DrPinkCake]

[JohnnyBlazePT]

i just finished this game and tbh i dont know if i should do another run or shift + delete the game folder
i was already expecting the tragic events of the game because people are spoiling this game all the time on BaDIK thread but one thing is to read other is to play/see and... this game is fucking depressive! i'm not saying its a bad game because it isn't but damn, why so sad and depressive?
Liam's situation was "nice" to bring drama to the story and make MC do crazy stuff but the stalker was completely random and out of context and making a huge choice out of nowhere... i dont know... it felt cheap and poor writting like that cheap horror movies where the assassin is that guy that only had 10 seconds of screen time on the beginning of the movie
i dont know, im just ranting, i just finished the game and its too fresh on my mind, im still processing

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

i just finished this game and tbh i dont know if i should do another run or shift + delete the game folder
i was already expecting the tragic events of the game because people are spoiling this game all the time on BaDIK thread but one thing is to read other is to play/see and... this game is fucking depressive! i'm not saying its a bad game because it isn't but damn, why so sad and depressive?
Liam's situation was "nice" to bring drama to the story and make MC do crazy stuff but the stalker was completely random and out of context and making a huge choice out of nowhere... i dont know... it felt cheap and poor writting like that cheap horror movies where the assassin is that guy that only had 10 seconds of screen time on the beginning of the movie
i dont know, im just ranting, i just finished the game and its too fresh on my mind, im still processing

This game is rough the first few times you play it. I've been at this game for a couple of years almost now, and it still gets me tingly emotionally even after all this time, like it did a couple of weeks ago when I did a run. I don't know if you know, but my first time playing it, and leaving Melissa in the house, fucked me up for four days where I barely left my bed and was under the covers.

It's not easy at all to deal with on the first run.

 

[JohnnyBlazePT]

This game is rough the first few times you play it. I've been at this game for a couple of years almost now, and it still gets me tingly emotionally even after all this time, like it did a couple of weeks ago when I did a run. I don't know if you know, but my first time playing it, and leaving Melissa in the house, fucked me up for four days where I barely left my bed and was under the covers.

It's not easy at all to deal with on the first run.

its a rough game because it has a lot of shock value without a convincing reason, i mean, there is a stalker out of nowhere who burns our house with 2 people inside and nobody sees nothing, megan and melissa dont realize nothing and then you have to save one and let die another because reasons, because the plot needs it.
another thing this game also bothers me is the fact that is all the time saying that i'm a shit person because i fuck every girl on the game. "omg you fucked melissa while dating megan", "omg you fucked rena while dating megan and melissa", "omg you fucked ana to help megan's career"... geez, can i have some fun in the game or i have to feel guilty for every move i do in the game?
i think this game tries too much to be very moralist and right, to enjoy life and do the right thing for the persons you love but it ends being a game that upsets us, make us angry, sad, let down and with no will of playing again.


btw bro Mark, lately i havent seen you on badik thread
something happened?

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

its a rough game because it has a lot of shock value without a convincing reason, i mean, there is a stalker out of nowhere who burns our house with 2 people inside and nobody sees nothing, megan and melissa dont realize nothing and then you have to save one and let die another because reasons, because the plot needs it.
another thing this game also bothers me is the fact that is all the time saying that i'm a shit person because i fuck every girl on the game. "omg you fucked melissa while dating megan", "omg you fucked rena while dating megan and melissa", "omg you fucked ana to help megan's career"... geez, can i have some fun in the game or i have to feel guilty for every move i do in the game?
i think this game tries too much to be very moralist and right, to enjoy life and do the right thing for the persons you love but it ends being a game that upsets us, make us angry, sad, let down and with no will of playing again.


btw bro Mark, lately i havent seen you on badik thread
something happened?

Yeah, something happened with a comment, and I was figuring with said comment, and the fact that me waiting 5 more years for that game to be finished wasn't worth my time. I'd be 51-52 when it's done and it just got to the point in my head where I was like "fuck it" *shrug*

 

[JohnnyBlazePT]

Yeah, something happened with a comment, and I was figuring with said comment, and the fact that me waiting 5 more years for that game to be finished wasn't worth my time. I'd be 51-52 when it's done and it just got to the point in my head where I was like "fuck it" *shrug*

yeah, it sucks waiting so long for a game
besides that, i dont know what happened but the thread just went to shit with the fanboys

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

yeah, it sucks waiting so long for a game
besides that, i dont know what happened but the thread just went to shit with the fanboys

I found some games I never would've been able to play otherwise, mainly because of how much that game took up in space and my inevitable screenshot collection I would've built from it.

Went back to some older games and got some newer ones too, so I'm very happy to leave that game. I saw what I wanted to see in it, so I left it on a happy point.

 

[thermonex]

Wow, can't say I expected that for my first experience with the genre. Right into the deep end. But what a beautiful ride it was.

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I started playing yesterday night and initially wanted to take it slow, but I was hooked immediately. It feels like these characters have been with me longer than only this one day. But I feel like that's the mark of a good story.

Either way, I'm gonna have to collect myself for a while before I dare a replay of this game. I do feel like it would slightly diminish the impact of my first playthrough, so I really wanna sit on it and take it all in, especially because I really enjoyed the ending I got it. Might just have to jump into DrPinkCake's other work.

Megan best girl.

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

Wow, can't say I expected that for my first experience with the genre. Right into the deep end. But what a beautiful ride it was.

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I started playing yesterday night and initially wanted to take it slow, but I was hooked immediately. It feels like these characters have been with me longer than only this one day. But I feel like that's the mark of a good story.

Either way, I'm gonna have to collect myself for a while before I dare a replay of this game. I do feel like it would slightly diminish the impact of my first playthrough, so I really wanna sit on it and take it all in, especially because I really enjoyed the ending I got it. Might just have to jump into DrPinkCake's other work.

Megan best girl.

Let me respond as a player that's been at this game for about two years, as it was one of the first VNs I ever played; it still hurts from time to time. I went through this game a few weeks ago and as I always do, stayed loyal to Megan all the way through.

First time playing, and witnessing that scene, I barely was able to finish the game, and when I did, I spent the next four days in bed, under the covers, blubbering like a schoolboy whose favorite puppy died. It was one of the most heart-wrenching things I've ever had to deal with in life, and all of that from a game, something I never expected.

So the Megan run a few weeks ago, even after all this time, even after I more than know what to expect, still gave me the emotional tingles for a few minutes; the fire, telling Megan I love her, putting the ring on her finger, even the small wedding scene at the end. It still hits like a small truck from time to time. It might get easier to deal with, but it never goes away.

 

[Amazigh.Dz]

Hello guys, I'm searching for an android version with the walkthrough mod/Gallery unlocked, is that possible to found ?

 

[Rex01]

Where to get version 1.0.2 for android?
Unable to find it.

 

[zacic10]

this game and retrieving the past are connected?

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

this game and retrieving the past are connected?

They're set in the same universe as AL, yes. I don't know if DPC helped the dev of RtP in any way, but you definitely see cameos of AL characters in this game.

 

[IllusionA2]

I don't know if I am dead inside and just want to wank. I got this game from a porn torrent site under the "DP" tag, its the one tag I search for.

Not only was there no DP or group sex, when people said the game was sad and stuff, full of stories, I felt none of those. Melissa was supposed to be a crazy girl thats down in the dumps or possibly a drug abuser, and even then other than the first couple of interactions where she seems a bit off the walls, she became normal. The stalker came out of nowhere and the last couple of episodes was a pure mindfuck that just lost me. And even what sex scenes ARE in the game they're so minimal. I dont know how you peopel can call this a masterpiece or something worth crying over.

 

[packor]

I don't know about masterpiece, but you're crying right now =)

 

[IllusionA2]

I don't know about masterpiece, but you're crying right now =)

yes about how much time I've wasted.

 

[ATN Develop]

I don't know if I am dead inside and just want to wank. I got this game from a porn torrent site under the "DP" tag, its the one tag I search for.

Not only was there no DP or group sex, when people said the game was sad and stuff, full of stories, I felt none of those. Melissa was supposed to be a crazy girl thats down in the dumps or possibly a drug abuser, and even then other than the first couple of interactions where she seems a bit off the walls, she became normal. The stalker came out of nowhere and the last couple of episodes was a pure mindfuck that just lost me. And even what sex scenes ARE in the game they're so minimal. I dont know how you peopel can call this a masterpiece or something worth crying over.

 

[suikaarms]

I'm ready to play this, for the graet story!

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

I'm ready to play this, for the graet story!

If you're playing this for the first time, be ready for that infamous scene. I went through it again yesterday and it still stings after a couple of years and the emotions still hit.

 

[Deleted member 4113116]

Man, just finished the episode 6, feeling like shit so much, fuck...

 

[aura95]

Fuck me, what a rollercoaster this one...

After falling in love with DrPinkCake's writing in DIK I wanted to take a quick peek at Acting Lessons in the late evening yesterday.
But I got completely hooked and went down the whole (mostly) faithful Megan path until I reached the bitterswet end at 4:30 in the morning.

And damn, even after 20+ years of mostly story-focused gaming, not to mention consumption of countless books and movies, I'd be hard pressed to name even just half a dozen works that hit me as hard in the feelings as AL.
This one got the waterworks going on more than one occasion and for all the sad and happy reasons.

I have no doubt this experience will stay with me and be part of me for a long, long time to come.
As this game has actually something to say about life and love.

And contrary to what some have written, at least with the story I got out of it it's a message of hope...