VN Ren'Py Completed City of Broken Dreamers [v1.15.0 Ch. 15] [PhillyGames]

[Mike Hunt TG]

Man, some people just can't enjoy anything without whining and bitching. This has been an amazing VN and I am sorry to see it end, but I have to say that it has been very satisfying. I would have read this if it was a book, but then again I love Cyberpunk. Neuromancer is my favorite book and while CoBD is no Neuromancer, it certainly is worthy to be placed in the same spectrum.

 

[Mike Hunt TG]

How stupid is it that the mc never even fights the red moon? Blah blah blah

Whereas the mc is a milquetoast protagonist who is also badly written. If I wasn't playing as the mc I wouldn't give a fuck about his character. Philly majorly dropped the ball to the point where it felt like he didn't really care about the story after a certain point and it was just a means to put more sex scenes in.

Some more nonsense....

I think that is the point - the MC is respected as a Ghost but is not all-powerful. Ever hear of Philip Marlowe? Mike Hammer? Sam Spade? A Ghost is more of a 21st Century PI than a superhero. The Red Moon is a superhero whose raison d'etre has passed on from the world. Henry is a retired superhero whose mission pulls him back into the world, but this is not a world of superheroes. It is a cyberpunk world of mercs and netrunners who are mere mortals with some amazing skills.

If the MC fought the Red Moon he would get his ass instantly handed to himself and probably killed. Then you would get a "Game Over" message and really be whining.

 

[RetroGuy]

If the MC fought the Red Moon he would get his ass instantly handed to himself and probably killed. Then you would get a "Game Over" message and really be whining.

Notice that there is some serious inconsistency about Red Moon power in the story.
At some moment he needs to be delayed and there is an option to choose so Venus would fight with him. Red Moon eventually wins with her but is severely bruised.

So he can beat any trained mercenary easily but he struggles with sex dolls

By the way it is a common problem in fantasy. Superman at one moment is able to stop a running train and a moment later cannot break a closed door.

 

[cxx]

Notice that there is some serious inconsistency about Red Moon power in the story.
At some moment he needs to be delayed and there is an option to choose so Venus would fight with him. Red Moon eventually wins with her but is severely bruised.

So he can beat any trained mercenary easily but he struggles with sex dolls

By the way it is a common problem in fantasy. Superman at one moment is able to stop a running train later and a moment later cannot break a closed door.

venus comes from same line as military bots.

 

[Echoesinthedarkness]

Venus can finish any male so its no surprise that red moon was cumpletely drained after battle with her

 

[cxx]

Venus can finish any male so its no surprise that red moon was cumpletely drained after battle with her

doubt she gave him a handsy.

 

[thethirdeye]

does anyone have all the wallpapers collection?

 

[LuciferPrometheus]

I think that is the point - the MC is respected as a Ghost but is not all-powerful. Ever hear of Philip Marlowe? Mike Hammer? Sam Spade? A Ghost is more of a 21st Century PI than a superhero. The Red Moon is a superhero whose raison d'etre has passed on from the world. Henry is a retired superhero whose mission pulls him back into the world, but this is not a world of superheroes. It is a cyberpunk world of mercs and netrunners who are mere mortals with some amazing skills.

If the MC fought the Red Moon he would get his ass instantly handed to himself and probably killed. Then you would get a "Game Over" message and really be whining.

Except when he fought Henry and would have killed him if not for Gloria? I wasn't talking about a head on fight. That'd be stupid. No I was talking about the mc using all his experience earned during his years as a ghost to fight the red moon unconventionally. It's nothing that one can't write.

Also, no one asked him to win. Maybe his goal is to delay him just long enough so that Gloria can get the procedure done. And for example, if you romance Gloria, then she stops in the middle of the whole thing and comes to his rescue right as the red moon is about to kill him. Or if you romance Victoria then right as the red moon is about to kill him, she shows him the tape of Meredith conspiring against the red moon. There are a million ways something like this could be done.

It makes sense that the protagonist of the story makes one last stand against the big bad op villain and wins the day through the power of friendship or some shit or makes the ultimate sacrifice, blows up everything, taking the villain with him or something like that. I am no literary genius but what we got is exponentially more shit than what I just came up with in 5 minutes. And Philly took like a year for that last update.

 

[RONIT1608]

I hope you guys enjoy this. Two months of work, and every penny I earned from DA, if you guys don't like it, I'll go get drunk or something.

let me check it out you good work!

 

[cxx]

let me check it out you good work!

last seen 3 years ago so doubt he sees that.

 

[McGclock]

Just finished the game, but I have to say that this is peak fiction. This game is the definition of "came for the porn, stayed for the plot"

 

[McGclock]

Btw is there an ending with Sonja?

 

[Fantabulous]

I just had no idea there were people who really appreciate the writing in these adult games.

I do value story over porn content in my reviews, unless the gameplay is too short to develop a proper story. A novella with top quality renders and animations but a crappy story (I can list plenty of examples) will get at most 3 stars from me. A great story with average renders and no animations can be luckier, but I'm not that delusional to expect everyone to have the same criteria.

My point is that if you can't write a proper story then why bother creating a novella in the first place? There's no shame in dropping all that CG into a drawer, archiving it and then sharing imagery only, I've found some great animations myself that way.

 

[cxx]

Btw is there an ending with Sonja?

no, philly said at start that no ending with wife (divorce wasn't finalized).

 

[bombo]

i searched here and looked into the wt to know exactly how many endings in the game but im a little confused
i understood that there should be 4 LI and 2 solo endings, but some people here says that there is some other endings or extra endings or even different outcomes from the same ending!
may i ask if someone has the patience to list how to get each one that this game has please?

 

[MartinKrpan]

I do agree and I share the same disappointment that there was no real ending here. Everything stayed opened like there will be a sequel. The story did dropped in a last few chapters and I did write that down as soon as there was a chapter in which we could fuck every girl without consequences. But this game is still far from giving it a 1*,2* or even 3* ratings. It may not be the best but it is one of the best, imo.

 

[anonymous736174]

So, I've finished the game, cool story overall, the complains I have is mostly the last chapter felt rushed story wise, the girls that did have implied feelins for the MC didn't felt bothered about him fucking tons of women, to be fair he could choose no to fuck plenty of women, it would be could to have a more emotional reactive characters towards our choices, a minor nitpick is the clothes of the women, like when they are going in some combat scenario they wear very sexy clothes instead of pick up clothes gears towards an action scenario, it really break my immersion seeing a woman wearing high heels during fucking combat, still the overall story was cool, hope the author and creator get the feedback for the next game, he can write nice story overall with some minor flaws here and there, nobody is perfect. Excited for the next project of his.

 

[Beduin123]

it really break my immersion seeing a woman wearing high heels during fucking combat,

True. The MC's wife even jumped from the second floor of a building in stiletto heels

 

[CGPUK]

Is there a sequel to this in the making?

 

[cxx]

Is there a sequel to this in the making?

no but game happening in same universe is in making/will be made but no news since this ended.