Ren'Py Apartment #69 [v0.08] [Luxee]

[mightybored]

Why have a character kill themselves this early in the game if they're tied to this many plots? Might as well have either not included the character in the first place, or not have them involved in anything but their own stuff.

 

[Master of Puppets]

Why have a character kill themselves this early in the game if they're tied to this many plots? Might as well have either not included the character in the first place, or not have them involved in anything but their own stuff.

It's a baffling decision, normally devs go to great lengths to avoid unnecessary branching.

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

Why have a character kill themselves this early in the game if they're tied to this many plots? Might as well have either not included the character in the first place, or not have them involved in anything but their own stuff.

It was probably Luxee's solution to get rid of her for players who don't like her.

 

[DA22]

It was probably Luxee's solution to get rid of her for players who don't like her.

Could well be, but he might have made a bigger problem for himself as when would have added a friend path instead. I do not know his plans though, but guess in my opinion it could have been wiser if he first had developed other girls more and untangled them a bit from Nea if this was his plan. If he intends Nea to be close to family he has a problem anyway now, with very different branches.

Personally I do not dislike Nea, but did think that she feels too much as the main girl with to fast development compared to others, while there are others that have hardly had any real progress and story almost still has to start like Mom, Tess (that pool party still has to happen that was foreshadowed long ago ) , Heather, Yui and a few others. Will be harder now since their setup is still and feels at start and not even there really and they need work to setup while the one developed char is either gone and that should have quite an impact on MC and not a great one with at least some guilt quite natural or close to sex stage with her.

So either it will more or less become fully the Nea story or you have to put her on backburner for quite a while now as dev and develop everyone else first to same level now, which has its own disadvantages or go much faster with a few girls as originally intended and leave part of that setup out. Personally if I was the dev I would probably make the Nea death path a closed ending where MC moves away and tries to start a new life and just develop the other path further, still that problem of unbalanced is there even then.

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

Could well be, but he might have made a bigger problem for himself as when would have added a friend path instead. I do not know his plans though, but guess in my opinion it could have been wiser if he first had developed other girls more and untangled them a bit from Nea if this was his plan. If he intends Nea to be close to family he has a problem anyway now, with very different branches.

Personally I do not dislike Nea, but did think that she feels too much as the main girl with to fast development compared to others, while there are others that have hardly had any real progress and story almost still has to start like Mom, Tess (that pool party still has to happen that was foreshadowed long ago ) , Heather, Yui and a few others. Will be hard now since their setup is still not even there really and they need work to setup while the one developed char is either gone and that should have quite an impact on MC and not a great one with at least some guilt quite natural or close to sex stage.

I agree on the friend path option. For some reason, Nea was all or nothing; some chose all, some chose nothing (as I did when I did her run only one time when her suicide screen was posted here)

Normally I ignore/skip her, but for two or three girls' story to revolve around her I didn't like, and I'll continually whack her out as long as the option stays in the game, and if it does, I wonder how that changes things going forward once the PL update is done. The Nea character obviously felt bad enough or betrayed enough to take that kind of drastic option.

To me, Nea was the game's glory-hound; screen-time, story progress, and other girls' routes were dependent on hers. Not sad to see her go. I care more about the pool party and what could happen there than I do anything with Nea.

Don't know what kinds of things Luxee has planned after this with Nea going forward. How many branches will he have to re-write for those who made Nea do a "death from above?"

Curious to how it all turns out after the PL 1.1 update.

 

[Squark ⚧❤️]

For some reason I think Millie's angle is going to wrench my little black heart at some point.

 

[YogSothoth1982]

Could well be, but he might have made a bigger problem for himself as when would have added a friend path instead. I do not know his plans though, but guess in my opinion it could have been wiser if he first had developed other girls more and untangled them a bit from Nea if this was his plan. If he intends Nea to be close to family he has a problem anyway now, with very different branches.

Personally I do not dislike Nea, but did think that she feels too much as the main girl with to fast development compared to others, while there are others that have hardly had any real progress and story almost still has to start like Mom, Tess (that pool party still has to happen that was foreshadowed long ago ) , Heather, Yui and a few others. Will be harder now since their setup is still and feels at start and not even there really and they need work to setup while the one developed char is either gone and that should have quite an impact on MC and not a great one with at least some guilt quite natural or close to sex stage with her.

The dev, by killing Nea in such a drastic way, has increased his work considerably: All the scenes where Nea interacts with other LIs will have to be rewritten so that she is not there and they are coherent. In addition to the fact that it is logical that all the characters show some reaction to such a remarkable and traumatic event during their own stories.

Unless the intention is not to reconstruct the scenes where Nea should appear, to have those who have chosen the option without romance lose those scenes and continue the rest of the game as if Nea was still there. I sincerely believe that this option would be a complete mistake.

Personally if I was the dev I would probably make the Nea death path a closed ending where MC moves away and tries to start a new life and just develop the other path further, still that problem of unbalanced is there even then.

If the Dev does that, then I'm already finish the game.

In any case, taking into account that after the jump there is a scene of Nea where, more or less, the MC says (instead of seeing the scene) "Ops. I didn't remember what happened, it's a shame" (not literal words), I think that this option isn't in his mind

 

[Squark ⚧❤️]

I'd have much preferred if she weren't tied to most of everyone else.
It would have made much more sense if she were only a factor in Heather's, her own and whatever we're going to do to her father.

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

I'd have much preferred if she weren't tied to most of everyone else.
It would have made much more sense if she were only a factor in Heather's, her own and whatever we're going to do to her father.

Bingo! Couldn't have said it better. Maybe the PL update will be a good thing in the long run and it will allow Luxee to figure out what he's doing for those who wanted to fling her off the roof. I'm assuming if you ignore/skip her, you don't have that choice.

 

[styggtuff12]

i don't get why we have to have death, abuse, suicide etc in the game, who wants to sit here jerking off and then BAM suicide

 

[Deleted member 4298851]

i don't get why we have to have death, abuse, suicide etc in the game, who wants to sit here jerking off and then BAM suicide

It's no different than a certain fire in a certain game. We had the discussion a couple of months ago about the plight of trans people IRL with high suicide rates, and not feeling loved or liked they belonged.

Lux is just bringing that here. Plenty of things on the net for you to enjoy if you just want that without a story.

 

[AchedCroissant]

She just best girl with his 40 years old boyfriend

 

[bobby newport 123]

A small update on their site - PL update targeting February, so hopefully it won't be too long after that!

 

[JoeTheMC84]

Really enjoy this game, I like all the characters and can't wait for more of this.

As a note, I like Nea, but now I hope that Nea can take a bit of a back seat since we've gotten to what feels like a good (or bad if you're heartless) climax (so to speak) with that story. I feel like now Nea just needs to maintain the relationship and getting Nea to be okay with being part of a harem. So, two or three more Nea beats in the next update wouldn't be out of order, but hopefully we have much more with all the other girls now to balance it out before getting to much more Nea as cool as the character is.

 

[Badjourasmix]

Really enjoy this game, I like all the characters and can't wait for more of this.

As a note, I like Nea, but now I hope that Nea can take a bit of a back seat since we've gotten to what feels like a good (or bad if you're heartless) climax (so to speak) with that story. I feel like now Nea just needs to maintain the relationship and getting Nea to be okay with being part of a harem. So, two or three more Nea beats in the next update wouldn't be out of order, but hopefully we have much more with all the other girls now to balance it out before getting to much more Nea as cool as the character is.

I agree, I love Nea so if we get more updates focused on her I won't be mad, but the other characters really need some attention.

 

[Riverburn]

What do you guys think about the Jamie's story arc? the fact that she seems to intent on pairing up the girls with the MC?

Personally I love it. It's crazy of course, as no sane person would ever do that. But It's funny, tongue in cheek and a nice change from the usual VN

 

[JoeTheMC84]

What do you guys think about the Jamie's story arc? the fact that she seems to intent on pairing up the girls with the MC?

Personally I love it. It's crazy of course, as no sane person would ever do that. But It's funny, tongue in cheek and a nice change from the usual VN

I think you hit it right, it's so not what you normally see in these types of games and I'm looking forward to seeing it get expanded on.

 

[mightybored]

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[zotac]

Any idea when's the next update?

 

[DA22]

What do you guys think about the Jamie's story arc? the fact that she seems to intent on pairing up the girls with the MC?

Personally I love it. It's crazy of course, as no sane person would ever do that. But It's funny, tongue in cheek and a nice change from the usual VN

Yeah it is another take as usual and that is one of the reasons it is such a pity it has been so snowed under with the Nea storyline and has hardly had any development at all. It is one of the things I was interested in how that story would develop at start of game, but basically we are no further on that path and how she intends to manipulate MC. With how Eveline line has gone, she may well not be needed in first place anymore since little sis is already doing the corrupting needed on MC.