VN Ren'Py Blurring the Walls [v0.5.27] [Torimiata]

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Fyo

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Writing is good. Impressed with characterization. For example, Terrace subtly defending MC by deflecting from his story, showing that he's a real friend. Great art too. A real remake... Never thought I'd see the day.
 

Pr0GamerJohnny

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So it's not bad, the frequent animated backgrounds are a nice touch....everything plays very nicely...

but......

months and months and months?? It's basically the same game - as someone pointed out earlier, the graphics were never the highlight here - while Ayumi looks good, it's still fundamentally an ai cartoon game. Plus, when it was originally out it stood alone as one of the few decent ai nts games. So much time has elapsed now it has more competition by way of MNGF, MRL, SoA, Port Haven, College of Mysteria; most of these with equal or better visual fidelity. It'll still attract the anime-lovers more than those other titles, but if it doesn't pick up the pace it risks being left behind as more and more ai titles come up with more frequent updates.
 

Kekekerkek

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So it's not bad, the frequent animated backgrounds are a nice touch....everything plays very nicely...

but......

months and months and months?? It's basically the same game - as someone pointed out earlier, the graphics were never the highlight here - while Ayumi looks good, it's still fundamentally an ai cartoon game. Plus, when it was originally out it stood alone as one of the few decent ai nts games. So much time has elapsed now it has more competition by way of MNGF, MRL, SoA, Port Haven, College of Mysteria; most of these with equal or better visual fidelity. It'll still attract the anime-lovers more than those other titles, but if it doesn't pick up the pace it risks being left behind as more and more ai titles come up with more frequent updates.
100% right
 

DrThundercock

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but......
I think he's done pretty great, technically. Whether it was the best decision is irrelevant to argue about but little pieces of animation and those 2.5D bits do give it more life, and the scenes are much more immersive than before.

I've never paid a penny for a porn game so there's no shilling or sunk cost coping for me but, classic Tori deadlines aside, it was clearly laid out as being a small chunk releasing now to stagger the rest of it out. We'll see how that actually goes but I've got faith in the guy. He needs those dollars after all.
 
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NTR Sommelier

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I'm not gonna attack the new artstyle because it does looks nice, but I'll question how much it is needed. I understand redoing the images but with the whole pseudo 3d stuff he did it can only mean that development going forward will be EVEN SLOWER.
 

Pr0GamerJohnny

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I think he's done pretty great, technically. Whether it was the best decision is irrelevant to argue about but little pieces of animation and those 2.5D bits do give it more life, and the scenes are much more immersive than before.

I've never paid a penny for a porn game so there's no shilling or sunk cost coping for me but, classic Tori deadlines aside, it was clearly laid out as being a small chunk releasing now to stagger the rest of it out. We'll see how that actually goes but I've got faith in the guy. He needs those dollars after all.
I won't dispute from a technical aspect; it's improved - but I think people need to stop looking at it contextually and evaluate it honestly in a vacuum. If you had no idea of this game's history, and played it side by side with one of the other new ai titles i mentioned, most people would probably be like "shrug, they're both decent". Where things will get dicey is in a month or two from now when this is still rehashing the build-up story, and those others have moved on to full-on progression.
 
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