VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [DrPinkCake]

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D2M3

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ProxyGist said:
I'll explain what I mean.
A good storyteller and a good writer are not always the same thing. A script is roughly speaking a story on the basis of which a game is created. And gameplay is the way the narrative is told.

If we take the script out of the game and read it, we will immediately realize how boring and poorly written it is. But we don't notice it because DPC is skillfully controlling the attention and manipulating the players. The game has good music, freeroams which are corridor mini-levels with elements of sandbox, good dialog, interesting characters, mini-games, there are elements of trade, player base where he rests between levels, elements of social interaction, high variability, replayability, etc. All of this allows us to overlook the obvious plot bloopers. If there weren't such long pauses between games, no one would pay so much attention to obvious plot errors like Maya's loan or Jill's picnic.

Narrative design, level design, world design, content design, etc. is done at a good level that keeps the player's attention for the maximum amount of time. But the scripting is pretty poorly written.

To illustrate, I'll give examples of games that have both a good story and a good narrative and games that have a good story but a bad narrative.

An example of a perfect balance is City of Broken Dreamers. An example of a good plot but poor storytelling is The Order of Genesis. It has an intricate and interesting plot, but boring characters and boring dialog.

You're right to point out that he can't link A to C. A problem I also mentioned a long time ago. DPC works according to a flowchart and working on this principle it is much easier to make a mistake than to work according to a ready written script. DPC is really a master of mise-en-scene (if you can apply this term to the game). He has an excellent written and staged scene of the meeting with Zoey, which allows you to feel a wide range of emotions. But in the same episode there is a weird storyline with Sage where MC feels guilty whether he fucked Jade or not.

The upshot is pretty simple. DPC needs to abandon the flowchart and come to a traditional way of writing. It will save him time and the plot will be more meaningful.
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This is pretty much Hideo Kojima's entire story schtick.
 
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ProxyGist

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While replaying the game I noticed that most of the girls in the game have already level 2, and only a small amount have level 1. The thing is that the level is unlocked for lewd scenes. And then I watched the final progress report.

8 2D-art pieces

My assumption is that in the next episode DPC will try to level up the number of levels in the 2d art store and my hypothesis is confirmed.

So.

2 Level of 2D art store

1)Camilla

2)Envy

3)Jade

4)Lily.

5)Melanie

6)Quinn

7)Riona

8)Sarah

9)Maya


1 Level of 2D art store

1)Sage

2)Josy

3)Cathy

4)Nora

5)Bella

6) Jill

7)Zoey

8)??


Yeah, there's one girl missing. And that girl would be Sally. She's gonna get first level 2D art.

Interesting that Riona, Camilla and Envy got their 2nd level for having a threesome.

So, it wouldn't be surprising if the threesome involved Zoey, Josy, or Sage and thus at least two of them got level 2 at once.
 
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Jisu Hwang

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Greetings, i've downloaded the torrent for this game since it's corrupted(already tried it with mega nopy etc). But can anyone please tell me how to change the language ?
thanks.

EDIT: i mean using english translation instead of russian.
 
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something123321

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Can anyone tell me what the situation is regarding fem/maledom in this game?

It doesn't seem like a particularly femdom-focused game at first glance, but it does have the femdom tag and no maledom tag to accompany it.
 
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