VN Ren'Py Artemis [v0.5.1] [digi.B]

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jonnyd901

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Elhemeer said:
Okay, I'm replaying from the beginning ('cause I like to torture myself) and I came to the Equestrian Race scene and the music poofed. I haven't gone past it to see if it comes back, but I'm guessing this is another license pull situation? (I remember something about music changes and I THINK the first KinK music was different, but I'm surprised there's nothing here).

EDIT: Okay, ignore this post. I clearly forgot how the music in this scene worked.
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ename144 said:
I don't have multiple runthroughs for this game so I haven't delved too deeply into the options but I did play through the new update.

My snap judgement is that Chapter 4 was generally good, but also a somewhat frustrating experience. I like the girls (Cassie excepted, obviously) and I even like the lighthearted, sexy antics the MC gets up to with them. But I'm not really digging the story; the stakes are poorly defined, progress is very slow, and our villains seem ill-suited to the roll they've been placed in.

I'll keep the rest of my thoughts spoilered.
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tl;dr The update is good if you focus on the (non-villainous) characters and the visuals, but I can't take the main story seriously and the gameplay could use a little finetuning.
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I just want to commend you for a thorough and thoughtful review. Agreed on basically every point. I am still not really into Kindra as a LI and I do think digi is spreading himself a little thin with these many girls (instead of a sex scene with one of the main INK babes, we get... Meghan? Really? Who now seems to have her own little backstory too. Ugh. ) At the rate of this last update, it's going to take years for him to tell this story. Dunno, man. Would have been nice if the story picked up the pace a little.)
 
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BeingADikDik said:
The dev did a great job with render quality, sounds, and atmosphere in this update. Top-notch quality.

With so many LI-like characters, it's a shame that stand-ins are being used for lewd scenes. The waitress and the freshman girls are just paper-thin, so those lewd scenes really don't seem worthwhile from a narrative standpoint. The party could have been used to much better effect if the MC could get time with Naomi, Zelda, Paige, and Reina - i.e., main INK girls lagging behind Katy, June, and Zoe. The 7 main INK girls + Kindra + DK + Artemis + V + Scarlett(?) is way more than enough already!
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Mhm. If there's one main complaint I have, it's this one.
 
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Dr Huge Vee said:
Anyone working on Android version?
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I'm also interested in this. And not just because I prefer it but because this is quite a big install for a visual novel and mobile tends to have compression and mods built into the apk from the get go. On gamecax anyway. On here it tends to be vanilla.
 
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this game is fucking hilarious, played around with it today for the first time and easily in my top 5 games immediately. writing is spot on.
 
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ZzZzZiggy said:
I just want to commend you for a thorough and thoughtful review. Agreed on basically every point. I am still not really into Kindra as a LI and I do think digi is spreading himself a little thin with these many girls (instead of a sex scene with one of the main INK babes, we get... Meghan? Really? Who now seems to have her own little backstory too. Ugh. ) At the rate of this last update, it's going to take years for him to tell this story. Dunno, man. Would have been nice if the story picked up the pace a little.)
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I agree with this comment. This update does not progress the main story content that much, and given the update time from last update to this one, it will take very long time for this game to progress.

I'm still planning to play it but I'm lowering my excitement on it because it will take 3 years or more until the story gets going if the rate of update is 2 per year with this little main story content.

Things could change next update but digi.b focus seems like in creating extremely beautiful game with great backgrounds while as a player my focus is in experiencing the main story. This is gonna take a while.
 
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ename144 said:
I don't have multiple runthroughs for this game so I haven't delved too deeply into the options but I did play through the new update.

My snap judgement is that Chapter 4 was generally good, but also a somewhat frustrating experience. I like the girls (Cassie excepted, obviously) and I even like the lighthearted, sexy antics the MC gets up to with them. But I'm not really digging the story; the stakes are poorly defined, progress is very slow, and our villains seem ill-suited to the roll they've been placed in.

I'll keep the rest of my thoughts spoilered.


tl;dr The update is good if you focus on the (non-villainous) characters and the visuals, but I can't take the main story seriously and the gameplay could use a little finetuning.
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Very interesting and thorough review. I agree with you on the story & the villains: the story is inching forward at glacier (pre-global warming) speed, the Kindra slow burn is sooooo slow that I'm afraid the fire is slowly dying, Artemis stiil isn't an active part of the plot (let alone the main LI), the villains are both despicable and incompetent. And I have no idea where the game wants to go in the end. Is it going to be a meditiation on 'what constitutes life' with the AI aspect, is it going to become an action thriller (MC being good at fighting and shooting as well as fornicating), is it going to be a sorority sex farce cum (pun intended) business start-up sim...? It's just really out of focus.

With regards to the girls: I'm only interested in Kindra. No one else. At all. As in, I don't even read their dialogue anymore. Every second MC is forced to spend with someone besides her (except for the doc) is a wasted second IMO. I really dislike all the INK girls, both their looks and characters, and wish they were never part of the game to begin with. Why on earth was MC forced to
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Not that this shouldn't have been a part of the avn, but it should have been totally optional. I guess it's an opportunity to sneak in some pointless nudity in case MC (like I did) doesn't get up to shenanigans with anyone else...

On the other hand, there were so many moments where MC could have kissed Kindra or gotten intimate with her (without lewdness, necessarily) that were just ignored. And the
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discussion was not funny and took away the opportunity for some Kindra sexual acts which would have been exactly what that plotline needed at that point. MC keeps saying Kindra is like his little sister, but he's been given the option to perv on her from the very start (which I always took and she always noticed and she never minds), so that roadblock to love just feels fake. They were obviously very drawn to each other from chapter one, just let nature take its course! (I'm actually wondering now how the game can run fluently if you choose another LI than Kindra as it's all about her, you live with her, create enormous scientific breakthroughs with her, become part of her new company... where would anyone else fit in?)

With Cassandra, I just went all shouty at her and never got the hatefuck option. Wouldn't have taken it anyway (unless there were an option to throw up on Cass while doing it, she disgusts me). She was also made to be so despicable in the flashbacks, I just wish she would get hit by a truck and removed from the game forever. I really don't see the point of her being around anymore.

Finally: several scenes go on for too long. The toast scene, the Cassandra confrontation, several instances of Kindra's guilt or insecurity keep repeating the same beats, circle back on themselves... These scenes would have benefited from being much more concise, which would have reduced the enormous amount of renders and made them stronger dramatically.
 
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