Darkdevil66

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By her being an official LI in the game. If she was just a non-serious side girl she would not have been elevated to LI much earlier in the game's development.
She has been elevated to LI statut due to her popularity but objectively speaking, Philly has never treated her like one. That's a shame because it's established she always had a crush on the MC and she could have played a way bigger role in the story by the mere fact of being Meredith's daughter. There was something in EP3 ( probably her most intimate and meaningful episode with the MC ) but after that she was just written as a booty call. She made sporadic appearances but their relationship has never evolved beyond fun sex sessions. I'd have love a more meaningful relationship as well but we take what we can get. :(
 

Razrback16

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She has been elevated to LI statut due to her popularity but objectively speaking, Philly has never treated her like one. That's a shame because it's established she always had a crush on the MC and she could have played a way bigger role in the story by the mere fact of being Meredith's daughter. There was something in EP3 ( probably her most intimate and meaningful episode with the MC ) but after that she was just written as a booty call. She made sporadic appearances but their relationship has never evolved beyond fun sex sessions. I'd have love a more meaningful relationship as well but we take what we can get. :(
Yep I agree completely. The writing has been pretty subpar with her. I'll be curious to see what he does. If he doesn't write a solo ending for her then I'm not sure why he ever elevated her back in the day as it will ultimately just look like he baited and switched people who wanted her as an LI and I'd like to believe he wouldn't do that to his customers. We'll see how things end up.
 

crimsons

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came here for the futa tag, how much futa content there is?
Just the VR scene which came out when the game came out years ago. No new content since and probably never will be more content given the pretext of that scene itself. That or unless there's something more that I'm not aware of, otherwise yeah that's it if you're strictly here for that considering it's only makes up like less than 50mb for a otherwise 13 gigs worth of content in its uncompressed form.
 

AlienEDM

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Nobody can blame you for thinking that coz that's truth.:cautious: As a big fan of Philly's art and his 2 games (DA and COBD), I'm also really disappointed with how the story unfolded in the last few chapters, especially with the sex scenes that seem repetitive, and most of them even plain boring, like some users said... not even Shanlon's scenes have that 'it' factor to spice things up anymore IMO. Victoria and Shanlon (for those players who play her route) are supposed to be the most experienced and perverted, kinky, open-minded, whatever you wanna call them, women in the whole game, but their scenes got boring pretty easily, since there's not much new stuff to see, not even on Vic's spellbound path.

About the story... sadly, things don't look so good. Either Philly doesn't know how to continue it coz he suffers from writer's block or got burned out after working on so much stuff for the game and those rewards for his high tier supporters. There were a lot of things you mentioned in your post with which I fully agree, and it's really disappointing to see the big potential the game had till Book 2 was released being wasted in every new update. I find it kinda funny that I expected to see the MC and his group already infiltrating Baynard and do some damage, given how Ch12 ended, but instead we got another delay for the next chapter and more sex scenes that seem out of place. Personal opinion.

I sincerely hope I'm wrong on this, but I'm not so optimistic about seeing a good, satisfying and logical ending after all those recent fuckups.:unsure::cautious:
I agree with you. I am also a big fan of Philly's games and I am also disappointed how the story of City of Broken Dreamers is unfolding in the current two last chapters.

COBD is current kind of a brazilian novel, with plots that never unfold until the final chapter. :LOL: :LOL: Just kidding!

But serious, I think the plot of COBD could be have more "elaborated", with branches for diferent routes, depending on the MC's choices. I mean, the "depraved" path, for example, is supposely to be the more kinky and "bad' route path, but it is the same as if you choose be in romance path with any girl.

As you say, the sex scenes are becoming repetitive and not even Shanlon sex scenes are that kinky anymore. About possible threesome between MC, Shanlon and Victoria, I feel that will happen but just as an ending bonus scene, I think.

And just to close my reply, I do have some ideas to create some interesting scenes if I would be the script guy of the game.
 

LuciferPrometheus

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Yep I agree completely. The writing has been pretty subpar with her. I'll be curious to see what he does. If he doesn't write a solo ending for her then I'm not sure why he ever elevated her back in the day as it will ultimately just look like he baited and switched people who wanted her as an LI and I'd like to believe he wouldn't do that to his customers. We'll see how things end up.
There's only so many romances you can shoehorn into the plot. For a good few chapters I've felt like the cast is way too big now and it kinda takes away from the ,"us against the world" plot element. Obviously that's just my opinion.
 

Razrback16

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For those who want to known which is the new music in City of Broken Dreamers at the end of Chapter 13. Here you go. And you are welcome:
Ya I downloaded that the same night I played the game - very good song.

There's only so many romances you can shoehorn into the plot. For a good few chapters I've felt like the cast is way too big now and it kinda takes away from the ,"us against the world" plot element. Obviously that's just my opinion.
I think there was plenty of room for her, personally, but as you said, it's just our individual opinions on things. With Ch13 she still ended up there working with them to help out with Ellen's show, so clearly Philly was willing to involve her, but I think the way he's gone about handling her in the overarching plot could have been done far better.
 

moskyx

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It's sad to see the game that was once meant to set a new high for the genre to become an above-average glorified porn flick. There's no point anymore in arguing about what could've been done better in terms of story, characters and relationships' development (and ename144 would do it a thousand times better than me anyway). Now I just want Philly to put CoBD out of its misery as soon as possible and, maybe, try to get a proper game plan designed from start to end for his next project -and stick to it. Or just get some better consultants. Something. It's just too much wasted potential right here. Oh well
 

Bueno

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As much as I appreciate this game I think it's time to close up this story. This update felt like just a vignette of sex scenes, probably some of the highest quality ones you can find in adult games but given the immense narrative quality we've come to expect from Philly games this almost feels like a waste. I'm excited to see what the Dev can do next with a completely new IP.
 

lMaDBoBl

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anyone got chapter 12 update only link? gofile or gdrive

Edit: nevermind found it thanks
 
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Shuls01

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By her being an official LI in the game. If she was just a non-serious side girl she would not have been elevated to LI much earlier in the game's development.

And no, the scene with Abby doesn't make a lick of sense. When Philly gave the player options earlier in the game on whether to do things with Abby, that was the indication that she was not a mandatory part of Chandra's romance route since the player could already opt out of Abby and still do things with Chandra solo. There should have been an option here to opt out of Abby but still do things with Chandra, particularly if the player had opted out of Abby at previous points in the game.
I'm pretty sure the only main LI's at this point are the ones we were able to chose in the previous chapter which would be Katie, Victoria, Ellen and Gloria.
 
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Kellermann

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As much as I appreciate this game I think it's time to close up this story. This update felt like just a vignette of sex scenes, probably some of the highest quality ones you can find in adult games but given the immense narrative quality we've come to expect from Philly games this almost feels like a waste. I'm excited to see what the Dev can do next with a completely new IP.
Haven't played newest yet, so can't commet on the disappointment people are feeling, but regarding the new IP, I have said before I hoped for something out of this world (literally and figuratively) or at least a different time period. I was sad to learn the next one will be in same setting. As much as I enjoy cyberpunk settings, I prefer when a dev completely switches genres after completing a project. If for no other reason then to refresh the mind and take chances on new things instead of remaining stale with the old.
The DA to CoBD was a slight change, but both still have that noir feel (classic film noir vs tech noir). I would vote for sci-fi or historical or maybe a horror.
 

Razrback16

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I'm pretty sure the only main LI's at this point are the ones we were able to chose in the previous chapter which would be Katie, Victoria, Ellen and Gloria.
If you see them in the Info tab, they are considered main LIs. This is what people were talking about in the thread earlier regarding Philly deciding to elevate Chandra way back around Ch3 when the game was being developed. She was originally supposed to be a side girl only (like Shanlon, Sasha, etc.) but she was so popular with the community that he elevated her to an official LI, which is why her points are tracked in the tab, etc. As some others noted there were some LIs in Depraved Awakening that got endings but were somewhat uncertain up until that point - this could be the case with Chandra, but really, who knows, time will tell.
 

jamdan

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This game has been losing my interest for a while so I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but I don't care to play the final update now. The story has become 2nd to the sex scenes. Which is very disappointing of one of the biggest (and still best) devs out there.

I believe Philly has a writer (or at least used to?) but he probably needs to plan the story better in his next game. This one got lost in the woods along the way.
 

Juri my Waifu

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BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION

VERSION 1.13.1(PC)
*** UPDATED POST DATE: 2023-FEBRUARY-26***

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(Portuguese)

Estou deixando aqui disponível uma versão PARCIALMENTE traduzida de The City Of Broken Dreamers. Esta é uma versão utilizável e funcional, com a maioria dos scripts traduzidos, mas com alguns erros de gramática(feitos por programas de tradução, não manualmente). Alguns erros de tradução também existem nos scripts, devidos as correções das versões anteriores do jogo feitas por Philly Games. Eu estou ciente destes erros e tenho a intenção de resolvê-los.

Esteja ciente de que esta é uma versão de tradução para aqueles que estão usando a minha tradução, possam continuar jogando o capítulo 13. Esta tradução está traduzida apenas até o capítulo 12, sendo que o capítulo 13 está em inglês e eu ainda estou trabalhando isso...

Para instalar a minha tradução é bem simples. Basta baixar os três pacotes, extrair(winrar ira extrair os três pacotes automaticamente) e enviar a pasta "game" de ambos para o diretório BrokenDreamers 1.13. Eu tive que dividir a tradução em três pacotes devido as limitações de armazenamento do F95 Zone.

Divirta-se!

PS: Se encontrarem qualquer problema relacionado a tradução, me avisem para que eu possa corrigir!

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I am making available here a PARTIALLY translated version of The City Of Broken Dreamers. This is a useful and working version, with most of the scripts translated, but with some grammar mistakes (made by translation programs, not manually). Some translation errors also exist in the scripts, due to corrections from previous versions of the game made by Philly Games. I am aware of these errors and intend to resolve them.

Be aware that this is a translation version so those who are using my translation can continue playing chapter 13. This translation is only translated up to chapter 12, and chapter 13 is in English and I'm still working on it ...

To install my translation is very simple. Just download the three packages, extract (winrar will extract the three packages automatically) and send the "game" folder of both to the BrokenDreamers 1.13 directory. I had to split the translation into three packages due to F95 Zone's storage limitation.

Have fun!

PS: If you find any problems related to the translation, let me know so I can fix it!
Se eu baixar a tradução e utilizar um mod de walkthrough, vai bugar?
 
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