Ren'Py Another Chance [v1.51] [TimeWizardStudios]
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Unofficial android version (1.44)
Tap map button to activate x-rays mode. Includes incest patch.
Gestures: (Simple symbols that you "draw" on your screen. Don't take your finger off the screen while doing it)
Up: Menu
Right: Skip
Left: Rollback
Left+Down+Right: Console (type 'exit' to close)
Down+Right+Up: Unlock gallery
Up+Diagonal_Down_Right+Up: Enable iNcest patch
Up+Diagonal_Down_Left+Up: Disable iNcest patch
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Tap map button to activate x-rays mode. Includes incest patch.
Gestures: (Simple symbols that you "draw" on your screen. Don't take your finger off the screen while doing it)
Up: Menu
Right: Skip
Left: Rollback
Left+Down+Right: Console (type 'exit' to close)
Down+Right+Up: Unlock gallery
Up+Diagonal_Down_Right+Up: Enable iNcest patch
Up+Diagonal_Down_Left+Up: Disable iNcest patch
I dunno if anyone needs to know this, but the command that's linked through OP as a gallery unlock command redefines a function in the game's script, making it practically impossible (or at least really difficult) to relock gallery replays if you wanted to for some reason. Because of that, I'd recommend this command instead:
This command just iterates through every replay that exists in the game and uses the game's built in function to unlock it, meaning it doesn't change the game's code at all. So, if you wanted to restart the game and reset your gallery for whatever reason, you'd still be able to (with this command):
PSA over.
Python:
list(map(unlock_replay, (replay[0] for replay in replays_by_order)))
Python:
list(map(lock_replay, (replay[0] for replay in replays_by_order)))
nothingreallymattress
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It's unlikely to need changes except after Flora- or Jo-focused updates, and sometimes not even then.
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Oh man, guess another update without Lindsey, next time then.
please, kate's pegging
One of the best updates ever, Mrs.L really the GOAT, it's a crime we had to wait for so long for anythign with her
SweetHug
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Items (v1.44):
- mc.add_item("fifth_note_from_mrsl", x)
- mc.add_item("fourth_note_from_mrsl", x)
- mc.add_item("fourth_note_to_mrsl", x)
- mc.add_item("message_box", x)
- mc.add_item("note_from_flora", x)
- mc.add_item("note_from_maxine", x)
- mc.add_item("note_from_maya", x)
- mc.add_item("note_from_mrsl", x)
- mc.add_item("note_to_mrsl", x)
- mc.add_item("second_note_from_maya", x)
- mc.add_item("second_note_from_mrsl", x)
- mc.add_item("second_note_to_mrsl", x)
- mc.add_item("shoebox", x)
- mc.add_item("third_note_from_mrsl", x)
- mc.add_item("third_note_to_mrsl", x)
Not looking for spoilers or anything, but is there an explanation for Jacklyn's "particular" speech patterns planned, or it is just her being weird for the sake of standing out/being rebellious? It's clear she's not totally unrelated to whatever the hell is going on, most things that make the MC go "wait, that wasn't like that/that person wasn't there/this never happened" seem to be tied to a deeper story, but it's unclear whether her talking like someone out of Planescape is a hint to it, or just random weirdness like the stuff with the beavers.
Either way, it's been really interesting so far (I just got to That Scene, holy fucking shit I didn't expect the game to go that route), and the characters are very well written with great foreshadowing (Isabelle's underlying instability and obsession with revenge was laid out so gradually that by the time you had to actively call her out, you could see the pattern of prior behavior). I particularly like the way the game kind of makes it clear that the MC's incel/fatalist attitudes are bullshit and his loserdom was because he never made any effort at self-improvement, even if some people like Kate would have sucked either way. So long as the mystery doesn't end up being a coma/dying dream or some DDLC-esque fourth-wall breaking thing, I'm loving this.
Either way, it's been really interesting so far (I just got to That Scene, holy fucking shit I didn't expect the game to go that route), and the characters are very well written with great foreshadowing (Isabelle's underlying instability and obsession with revenge was laid out so gradually that by the time you had to actively call her out, you could see the pattern of prior behavior). I particularly like the way the game kind of makes it clear that the MC's incel/fatalist attitudes are bullshit and his loserdom was because he never made any effort at self-improvement, even if some people like Kate would have sucked either way. So long as the mystery doesn't end up being a coma/dying dream or some DDLC-esque fourth-wall breaking thing, I'm loving this.
Tehemai
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I don't think think it makes this clear at all. The timelines are not identical and there is no real reason for MC to have instantaneously changed his personality so drastically when he was still coming to terms with the notion that the second chance was real. And even if were to assume that he did just turn his personality around overnight, it still wouldn't explain why almost everyone liked him so much on day 1. A bad rep would not be fixed in minutes after starting a school day.
On the first day, there's a lot of dialogue with him confused as to why everyone's so much nicer than in his first childhood. Maybe I'm reading too much into it but it gave me the opposite impression. It seems like something else shifted in the timelines that made it much easier for him to socialize with everyone. And it is because everyone is so approachable this time that he slowly changes his preconceived notions and attitude over the course of the game. Whereas the first time, everyone but the janitor treated him like dirt. Which is why he resented everyone enough to become an incel. And why the powers that be thought a second chance in an alternate reality could fix his life.
Mind you, if he was such an inexplicably irredeemable prick to otherwise good people the first time around it would probably be odd for the janitor to be nice to him. If anything, it would be the other way around. The janitor would hate him but he would have some group of jerk friends that reinforced his behavior. Moreover, the whole plot kinda wouldn't make much sense as giving him a second chance without first giving him some kind of corrective intervention would probably just make him worse than the first time. What with all that extra resentment and baggage from his future self.
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CuriousKiyo
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I think it's just a way to make her dialogue unique. A lot of characters have a certain way of speaking to make them stand out, Jacklyn as you mentioned, there's Maxine's weirdness, Maya's sarcasm, Isabelle's British inflections, and the more subtle ones form the other characters. That's one of the things I really like about this game, a lot of amateur vns have the characters speak in a very homogeneous way for 80% of the dialogue, so much so you could replace a line said by one character and put it in another and nothing would change, but here every line is filled with personality.
For real. Isabelle is one of the best written characters in the whole WEG sphere, and she only gets better as we see how differently she acts depending on if she has the upper hand in a situation or not. I don't even particularly care for her as a love interest, I'm just invested in her arc.
Fair enough to a point, but even with the alternate timelines and obvious changes like Ms. L's wardrobe/personality shift, I kind of chalked at least some of that up to something of a self-serving memory. He believes that everyone spat on him, but people generally aren't that monolithic. Some people were probably just as vile as he claims (Kate and her posse in particular), maybe the people he most wanted attention from rejected him, but literally everyone but the janitor? More likely he was so busy wallowing in pity and resentment that he didn't notice the people who did try to reach out. Besides, much is also made of the fact that he never made any effort to study and physical exertion was anathema to him, his own mother and sister are shocked when he's not a complete asshole and pervert, incidental text like inspecting a trophy cabinet has him sour-grapes-dismissing success as being genetic (even when the case is full of his sister's trophies), it took a literal cosmic reboot for him to work on starting over, and he was convinced his life was over in his mid-20s. Hell, when we see a partial shot of him in CGs, he's even not nearly as bad-looking as he claims. All of it comes together to suggest that maybe his prior status wasn't as cut-and-dried, and that a lot of his woes were self-inflicted.
Let's wait and see on that one. Name of the game aside, I'm still not 100% on what's going on here. Is it a second chance? There's a lot more going on than a simple reboot, especially with the timeline changes. There are seemingly at least three-four outside entities running around (the person texting you, Ms. L, whoever Ms. L is talking to if they're not the phone person, and Mer if they're neither the phone person nor the person Ms. L is talking to), and maybe more than that depending on what the deal is with the entirely new people. Based on the conversations between Ms. L and her counterpart about Ms. L putting her thumb on the scale, it feels less like a second chance, more like a test or bet, like they're trying to see what you'll do. Easy answer so far seems to be that Ms. L is trying to lead you into temptation, her counterpart is (seemingly) more benevolent, the texting person is benevolent, and Mer... Yeah, fuck Mer. The question is, who's running the game? I might need to go back and do Maxine's route. I doubt her answers will make any sense if she finds them, but at least she's asking questions.
It's wild how you can look back and see how clear her issues were from the beginning.
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CuriousKiyo
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This seems like the most correct choice. All we know of the first time are the MC recounting what happened, but we do see a clearer picture of the past at the end of season 1, granted, this is also a memory he purposefully misremembers at times, but he also comments on things that did happen which he forgot. For one, it's not that everyone was an asshole to him all the time, some people he just never bothered to talk to. Lindsey, for instance, he just never even tried interacting with since she seemed so above him, and the one time he did talk to her they had a friendly conversation.
In this scene we also have him admitting to being an asshole on purpose, like finding his own mother crying in the bathroom, feeling insecure about herself and him just making fun of her. So he wasn't just a lazy, perverted good for nothing, but also a dick.
We can also see a stark difference between Flora here in school and what we are told happens later in life, though it's impossible to tell how much of Flora is the MC's wishful thinking, we know they were at least on friendly enough terms to work together. It's only after school that she convinces Jo to write him out of her will. Flora in specific is an interesting case since there are small hints which make me inclined to believe she already loved or lusted after her brother for a while before, later losing her feelings as he grew older and more pathetic.
So I see this:
As him still holding onto the notions that everyone was an asshole, when he was the one at fault for either bad behavior or, in Lindsey's case, not even trying.
Man, it's gonna be so sad if the game gets abandoned after I spent so much time thinking about the plot of a WEG I heard about through
submarine13
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