Others Arcana: Heat and Cold [S3. Ch.1-3] [HarDDeer]

[th3n]

Hey! First I wanna say I really like your game, the art is top notch and the dialogues are well written and funny. Now I have a silly question to ask: Shouldn't you add the NTR tag? Or at least the Voyeurism tag, Since we do spy on Eleona and Theon, hmmm... enjoying themselves. Now maybe the NTR tag isn't needed, as he don't technically steal Eleona from us, since she love Theon (I'll let you think about whether you add that one or not), but yeah, the voyeurism tag is definitely needed. And that's all I have to say for now! I'm very pleased with your game up to this point and I hope you'll be able to make it even better! Cheers!

Thank you mate! I love that this is a forum and we can see comments to ignore games like this.

 

[HarDDeer]

Thank you mate! I love that this is a forum and we can see comments to ignore games like this.

Games like what?
Yes, I also like that this is a forum. But I don't like misunderstandings, so let's clarify this small point:

-Eleona was not the main character's love interest, nor was he hers.
He (MC) literally met and had sex with Eleona in the middle of his sex journey, then had sex with three other different girls, and later ran into Eleona again (the event we’re currently discussing).
The first time they slept together, it wasn't out of any great love, but due to the plot circumstances, and both sides openly stated that it was an ONS.

- The MC, upon deciding to investigate the noise and peeking through the keyhole, saw her with someone else. He didn't experience any sexual feelings and merely commented sarcastically about it in a dialogue with the cat sitting nearby. There wasn’t anything even remotely resembling NTR. MC didn't grieve or suffer; instead, he joked and laughed.

- Each genre has its own unique characteristics and features. If the main character saw two people having sex, shrugged, and moved on because he didn't care and it wasn't his business, then it definitely can't be called NTR. You can ask fans of the genre to confirm. It was just a scene with side characters, nothing more.

 

[HarDDeer]

Well, since we're bringing back messages from 2021, then:

Is there any content with the cat lady? The one with the ponytail, whiskers and glasses, don't remember the name. Rightmost one in the banner on the 1st page. If not, is any planned?

Cat Lady will be in the new season, which will be released very soon.

 

[HarDDeer]

I've released a new season and chapter,
hooray!

 

[syllvia]

Just a heads-up dev, you prob already know but your game got shadowbanned along with damn near everything else NFSW on itch. The page is still up if you have the direct link but it's otherwise hidden. This whole situation sucks, i hope you can weather this alright.

 

[HarDDeer]

Just a heads-up dev, you prob already know but your game got shadowbanned along with damn near everything else NFSW on itch. The page is still up if you have the direct link but it's otherwise hidden. This whole situation sucks, i hope you can weather this alright.

It's sad. Thanks

 

[MilesKiyaAnny]

Hmmmmm this look nice I will try this later

 

[yoggyz]

If anyone has a gallery save for S2 and seasons, much appreciated.
Sadly i like the story and the scenes, but playing the game is tedious. Fights are boring, walking arround is a bit clunky and slow, need two hands and cant mass-skip some content that we do not feel interesting.

Dont want to sound rude tho, overall the game is nice but too slow while asking me to be proactive in it and with two hands.
If it was somehow a visual novel or a walkthrough played by someone else, would be way better in my opinion.
Good luck !

Encountered a glitch too if that can help, during the two fights i did with guard and then the snakes ( and just checked, it does it in the ch3 season2 when the mob swaps.) the icons were shaking all the fight if i did a swap. like really shaking, hard to click on the attack button.
And if i can give a few thing that would prolly help my experience, it'd be some zqsd setting instead of the qwerty, changing to eng keyboard in my pc is something i find boring when i do alt tab or so. Some "fast movement" thing and, if that's even possible, something that makes transition between areas or whatever faster, the feeling is incredible for the scenes and the fun story but it looks like i'm back in early 2000 with how slow the game is.

Apologise for the engrish, wish u the best!

 

[HarDDeer]

Dont want to sound rude tho, overall the game is nice but too slow while asking me to be proactive in it and with two hands.
If it was somehow a visual novel or a walkthrough played by someone else, would be way better in my opinion.
Good luck !

Encountered a glitch too if that can help, during the two fights i did with guard and then the snakes ( and just checked, it does it in the ch3 season2 when the mob swaps.) the icons were shaking all the fight if i did a swap. like really shaking, hard to click on the attack button.
And if i can give a few thing that would prolly help my experience, it'd be some zqsd setting instead of the qwerty, changing to eng keyboard in my pc is something i find boring when i do alt tab or so. Some "fast movement" thing and, if that's even possible, something that makes transition between areas or whatever faster, the feeling is incredible for the scenes and the fun story but it looks like i'm back in early 2000 with how slow the game is.

Apologise for the engrish, wish u the best!

Shaking. Hmm... I had this bug only on a very old laptop, and even then, before I cleaned up the game files. Then I couldn't reproduce it and haven't heard about it for 3.5 years. But apparently the problem wasn't completely solved, at least for some machines. Sometimes things happen randomly, it can be hard to predict.
Perhaps because of this movement is "slow", maybe the FPS in the game itself dropped for some reason. I'll try to find the bug, thanks for the information.

"Dont want to sound rude tho"
You don't sound rude, everything is ok

 

[D3man813]

Just started playing this game today when i saw the List of Itch games that got shadow banned. I like it so far here`s hoping that we as a country can fight these people lobbying to ruin are fantasy game makers careers I hope F95 treats you well until we find a way to circumvent Master Card and Visa from royally fucking us over. Also do i need to play though season 1 and 2 to play 3? like do i need a cross save from each season? some games do that was just wondering

 

[HarDDeer]

Just started playing this game today when i saw the List of Itch games that got shadow banned. I like it so far here`s hoping that we as a country can fight these people lobbying to ruin are fantasy game makers careers I hope F95 treats you well until we find a way to circumvent Master Card and Visa from royally fucking us over. Also do i need to play though season 1 and 2 to play 3? like do i need a cross save from each season? some games do that was just wondering

Hi, thanks for your support!
No need to save between seasons. Moreover, within a season, each chapter is always unlocked, for convenience - if you started playing in one version of the game, and then continued in another. (so as not to replay everything again)

But to better understand what is happening in season 3, it is better, of course, to play 1 and 2 before that.
The "Stories" season is indirectly connected with the numbered seasons. You can play it separately (chapters 1,3,4 especially), but I would recommend playing it after season 2.

 

[HarDDeer]

Encountered a glitch too if that can help, during the two fights i did with guard and then the snakes ( and just checked, it does it in the ch3 season2 when the mob swaps.) the icons were shaking all the fight if i did a swap. like really shaking, hard to click on the attack button.

By the way, are you playing on a laptop?
There's a rare... I'm not sure if it's a game bug or just a Windows quirk on laptops. Sometimes it has the tendency to run certain applications and games on the regular processor instead of the video processor.
This "problem" can be solved with just a few clicks. Today, this happened to a Steam player on a laptop. And changing the settings completely solved the problem.
Here's how you can do it on Nvidia. The process is similar on AMD, just with a slightly different interface.

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[yoggyz]

By the way, are you playing on a laptop?
There's a rare... I'm not sure if it's a game bug or just a Windows quirk on laptops. Sometimes it has the tendency to run certain applications and games on the regular processor instead of the video processor.
This "problem" can be solved with just a few clicks. Today, this happened to a Steam player on a laptop. And changing the settings completely solved the problem.
Here's how you can do it on Nvidia. The process is similar on AMD, just with a slightly different interface.

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You must be registered to see the links

Actually playing on a PC with I7-13700k, RTX4070 16Go ram, on a SSD.
I checked nvidia performance cuz i had some problems with other games doing nasty laggy stuffs with my previous PC, but i apparently dont have a graphic chipset so it's allways picking the RTX.
I just redid the steps and i cant find anything to change towards nvidia. And there is another stuff lower than this one that i also did put to nvidia forced but without any other option.

 

[HarDDeer]

I just redid the steps and i cant find anything to change towards nvidia.

There is another way.
Although our Nvidia control panel interfaces are slightly different, it should still be located somewhere here.

 

[Mr Anonymous Or Not]

Games like what?
Yes, I also like that this is a forum. But I don't like misunderstandings, so let's clarify this small point:

-Eleona was not the main character's love interest, nor was he hers.
He (MC) literally met and had sex with Eleona in the middle of his sex journey, then had sex with three other different girls, and later ran into Eleona again (the event we’re currently discussing).
The first time they slept together, it wasn't out of any great love, but due to the plot circumstances, and both sides openly stated that it was an ONS.

- The MC, upon deciding to investigate the noise and peeking through the keyhole, saw her with someone else. He didn't experience any sexual feelings and merely commented sarcastically about it in a dialogue with the cat sitting nearby. There wasn’t anything even remotely resembling NTR. MC didn't grieve or suffer; instead, he joked and laughed.

- Each genre has its own unique characteristics and features. If the main character saw two people having sex, shrugged, and moved on because he didn't care and it wasn't his business, then it definitely can't be called NTR. You can ask fans of the genre to confirm. It was just a scene with side characters, nothing more.
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I don't know if this game is safe, with this excuse how many more girls will get surprise " voyeurism" scene?

 

[HarDDeer]

I don't know if this game is safe, with this excuse how many more girls will get surprise " voyeurism" scene?

If you mean how much this tag has weight in the game, then it practically does not. This is a single narrative situation for the development of the plot. Moreover, the girl who was "peeped" was not against it. (Therefore, even from the point of view of the new bans on voyeurism due to payment systems, there is no problem here)

 

[Qianke]

Voyeur scene is not ntr morons, the protagonist is not love interest, not every woman npc in the game is yours. Truly a way to objectify even imaginary girls. I wonder where you are from to think like that, nevermind I already know.

 

[Redds667]

Hey! First I wanna say I really like your game, the art is top notch and the dialogues are well written and funny. Now I have a silly question to ask: Shouldn't you add the NTR tag? Or at least the Voyeurism tag, Since we do spy on Eleona and Theon, hmmm... enjoying themselves. Now maybe the NTR tag isn't needed, as he don't technically steal Eleona from us, since she love Theon (I'll let you think about whether you add that one or not), but yeah, the voyeurism tag is definitely needed. And that's all I have to say for now! I'm very pleased with your game up to this point and I hope you'll be able to make it even better! Cheers!

Comments like this help me to avoid this types of games, thx, hate to have little surprises because certain tags are missing.

 

[jampfl]

If you mean how much this tag has weight in the game, then it practically does not. This is a single narrative situation for the development of the plot. Moreover, the girl who was "peeped" was not against it. (Therefore, even from the point of view of the new bans on voyeurism due to payment systems, there is no problem here)

Does this game have animated sex scenes or are there any plans to add them in the future?

 

[HarDDeer]

Comments like this help me to avoid this types of games, thx, hate to have little surprises because certain tags are missing.

Is this some kind of trolling and I don't get the joke?
All tags are correct.