VN Ren'Py Cosy Cafe [v0.9] [Cosy Creator]

[Ka1tzer]

Man, this game is just great. Nothing over the top (at least so far), some great character dynamics.

The one reservation and actual critique I have is towards the beginning of the game, when the MC trusts Lucy a little too easily considering she's a total stranger at that beginning. But other than that, I think this has got to be my favorite MC in the site. Lucy and Victoria are prettygreat characters as well, and the more I see Sarah, the more I like her.

Props to Cosy for making such a great game. Whenever there's an update to it, I feel elated and as weird as it may be to say this about a porn game, I don't even care about the porn all that much here.

...but keep it coming nonetheless.

 

[Raswedj]

Hello Dev! i like this game and i hope i can see in future more from this girl with the white hair and blue eyes named annabelle i think. I like her^^

 

[Nezron]

0.6.1 update was very nice, I enjoyed the story progression and of course all the content with the girls. thanks again. peace.

 

[SlapE]

Loved the update dev, Sarah is just too damn cute, the stuff with her near the end was so damn wholesome. Well except for the part where her sister or parents potentially are the reason she had a stalker, that isn't very wholesome.

Also the party was, well... what we have come to expect from rich people parties. A few of the party guest chicks were really hot, it's a shame they're all stuck up snakes. Well they're side characters anyways so... oh well.

 

[Firaxius]

I love the new update, somehow I kinda expected this would have happened about the MC's revealing secret. Sarah is ofcourse still the sexiest cuty around, who would want her sisters are nuts. But i'm not sure they had anything to do with the stalker (after all Sarah isn't a threat to the sisters, she is the youngest and less valuable of their family), the photo we saw was about her sister with 2 friends, the stalker just walked past them, it not because the guy went the same school that he wasn't a creep back then already, so we'll see how that story ever turns out, but just like psycho killers, stalkers often start from an early age too and they always stalk someone they want and they can't get till it get to a degree they even would kill the one they stalk if they can't get it. Sadly there are many sick people in the world.

 

[Mommysbuttslut]

I think I agree with the MC that it was Sarah's parents who were behind the stalker. Remember what Alison keeps saying about founding families always trying to get information. I suspect they found out her daughter was hanging out with the last Fletcher and spawned up this stalker to get him close to them so they could force him to attend the party. They want to back him into a corner, get something on him so they can manipulate his vote so they can control the founding family council.

And yes, that Sarah scene was so friggin cute. Love breaking down the tsun.

 

[Bingoogus]

Man, the nonsense with the families stuff really highlights this little bugbear of mine when it comes to playing these kinds of games. See, just about all of them only give you the option to set your name in one format, no nicknames or full names, just the one name used in all situations. It makes sense, why would a dev magically think to account for such a thing if it would even matter, and often it doesn't, but then you have games like this one where the MC has a very tight knit group of characters around them, but also a bunch of very formal outsiders so when i name my character Edward, which is my go to name for male MC's due to its versatility, i end up with the tight knit group sounding overly formal, but if i go with Eddy, the very formal outsider group sound far too chummy when addressing him. I wish devs had some way to become aware of such a thing very early on in the development in their games, something as simple as 'name:Edward' 'nickname:Eddy' but it's just one of those things that only seem to be brought up once too much development has occurred for the dev to want to go back and add it in.

To be clear, i'm not dissing the dev here, this more of a comment on the meta of adult Renpy game design.

 

[Mommysbuttslut]

Man, the nonsense with the families stuff really highlights this little bugbear of mine when it comes to playing these kinds of games. See, just about all of them only give you the option to set your name in one format, no nicknames or full names, just the one name used in all situations. It makes sense, why would a dev magically think to account for such a thing if it would even matter, and often it doesn't, but then you have games like this one where the MC has a very tight knit group of characters around them, but also a bunch of very formal outsiders so when i name my character Edward, which is my go to name for male MC's due to its versatility, i end up with the tight knit group sounding overly formal, but if i go with Eddy, the very formal outsider group sound far too chummy when addressing him. I wish devs had some way to become aware of such a thing very early on in the development in their games, something as simple as 'name:Edward' 'nickname:Eddy' but it's just one of those things that only seem to be brought up once too much development has occurred for the dev to want to go back and add it in.

To be clear, i'm not dissing the dev here, this more of a comment on the meta of adult Renpy game design.

Counterpoint. I hate it when there's nicknames and my character says "I'm Big Dick, but my friends call me Big Dick."
If you're using a name as universal and hilarious as Big Dick then you kinda don't want to go by something else in any context and nicknames just ruin the dialogue if you don't.

 

[Hordragg]

My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred.

I feel like the above could easily be Sarah's motto, seeing how the update revealed her tsundere(ish) personality to be a defense mechanisms against the jests and ridicule she has come to expect; she's just trying to preemptively answer in kind. And while I really enjoyed prodding and teasing the little redhead till now, seeing how very vulnerable she became in the presence of her family makes this somewhat of a 'Lucy situation', as well. Helping the girls, be it by providing a stable home, or letting them have the kinky relationship they desire, or aiding them in one-uping their sister,… or telling them the truth about how very, very gorgeous they are *sigh* … This is the true selling point of this game for me. Well, also the uniforms. And the spanking. And I digress, so I'll be finishing the above quote like so:

In Sarah's name, let house Hamilton fall.

Also, seconding Raswedj's call for more Annabelle content; she's gorgeous, too.

 

[Bingoogus]

Counterpoint. I hate it when there's nicknames and my character says "I'm Big Dick, but my friends call me Big Dick."
If you're using a name as universal and hilarious as Big Dick then you kinda don't want to go by something else in any context and nicknames just ruin the dialogue if you don't.

Oh yeah, the nickname should be entirely optional, i can think of plenty of names that don't have functional nicknames and so that'd just be swapping problems with one set for problems with another set.

 

[Tiur]

Oh yeah, the nickname should be entirely optional, i can think of plenty of names that don't have functional nicknames and so that'd just be swapping problems with one set for problems with another set.

Atemsiel of Stormside has some code tucked into his game that defines a nickname if the entered name is one of a set of a bunch of names that have reasonable nicknames. If the entered name isn't one of those, the game just uses the normal name and the dialogue shifts so the characters aren't saying they're using nicknames. Pretty slick, IMO.

 

[Firaxius]

I think I agree with the MC that it was Sarah's parents who were behind the stalker. Remember what Alison keeps saying about founding families always trying to get information. I suspect they found out her daughter was hanging out with the last Fletcher and spawned up this stalker to get him close to them so they could force him to attend the party. They want to back him into a corner, get something on him so they can manipulate his vote so they can control the founding family council.

And yes, that Sarah scene was so friggin cute. Love breaking down the tsun.

I'm still not entirely convinced, Sarah was already in contact with the Fletcher, sending a stalker behind them wouldn't get them information, worse it would deliver their daughter into a trauma and give them even less information, If I wanted that information there other methods to gaining them, stalkers are the worst option and only turn out even worse then predicting, the same like parents who hire a kidnapper, letting them kidnap their only child in exchange for money to gain profit, happened in real and 99% of those cases turned out bad, kid was killed/raped and the kidnappers still ran off with the money, so no it surely not a good way to sending stalkers behind a person to gain information, hackers on the other hand would then be more valuable to do so.

 

[MrPles4nt]

Man, the nonsense with the families stuff really highlights this little bugbear of mine when it comes to playing these kinds of games. See, just about all of them only give you the option to set your name in one format, no nicknames or full names, just the one name used in all situations. It makes sense, why would a dev magically think to account for such a thing if it would even matter, and often it doesn't, but then you have games like this one where the MC has a very tight knit group of characters around them, but also a bunch of very formal outsiders so when i name my character Edward, which is my go to name for male MC's due to its versatility, i end up with the tight knit group sounding overly formal, but if i go with Eddy, the very formal outsider group sound far too chummy when addressing him. I wish devs had some way to become aware of such a thing very early on in the development in their games, something as simple as 'name:Edward' 'nickname:Eddy' but it's just one of those things that only seem to be brought up once too much development has occurred for the dev to want to go back and add it in.

To be clear, i'm not dissing the dev here, this more of a comment on the meta of adult Renpy game design.

Inputted nicknames would be cool, I might actually add this to the project I'm working on lol

 

[Mommysbuttslut]

I'm still not entirely convinced, Sarah was already in contact with the Fletcher, sending a stalker behind them wouldn't get them information, worse it would deliver their daughter into a trauma and give them even less information, If I wanted that information there other methods to gaining them, stalkers are the worst option and only turn out even worse then predicting, the same like parents who hire a kidnapper, letting them kidnap their only child in exchange for money to gain profit, happened in real and 99% of those cases turned out bad, kid was killed/raped and the kidnappers still ran off with the money, so no it surely not a good way to sending stalkers behind a person to gain information, hackers on the other hand would then be more valuable to do so.

They didn't sick the stalker on Sarah to get more information. They did it to lure the MC to their house where they were able to finagle some political clout and also put him on the backfoot. Everyone else thinks he's soon to be engaged with Sarah which means they have more leverage to influence anyone who doesn't want to be on their bad side when they control a majority vote while also putting him in a socially and politically compromised position where he's less likely to resist their whims. The same reason that everyone at the party started throwing their daughters at his feet.
Going by how the stalker's disappeared since I suspect it was a rather calculated risk. Dude's probably either face down in a cold ditch or moved far out of county where they're keeping an eye on him. He might've not even been a creepy stalker like Sarah assumed and instead a creepy PI on her parents payroll.

 

[Firaxius]

They didn't sick the stalker on Sarah to get more information. They did it to lure the MC to their house where they were able to finagle some political clout and also put him on the backfoot. Everyone else thinks he's soon to be engaged with Sarah which means they have more leverage to influence anyone who doesn't want to be on their bad side when they control a majority vote while also putting him in a socially and politically compromised position where he's less likely to resist their whims. The same reason that everyone at the party started throwing their daughters at his feet.
Going by how the stalker's disappeared since I suspect it was a rather calculated risk. Dude's probably either face down in a cold ditch or moved far out of county where they're keeping an eye on him. He might've not even been a creepy stalker like Sarah assumed and instead a creepy PI on her parents payroll.

Then they should have told one of their oldest daughters and let her try seduce him, that way they had more power, Sarah will never be valuable enough in the other founders their eyes to have some leverage with Fletcher. To be honest i still see way to many flaws, and Sarah was already telling him about their asking him to come over before that, if they kept nagging her long enough she would eventualy asked him to come too. Well maybe i'm just overthinking to much, but I would done it differently if I wanted that to happen, I would never risk my relatives in risky positions to achieve my goals.

 

[Mommysbuttslut]

Then they should have told one of their oldest daughters and let her try seduce him, that way they had more power, Sarah will never be valuable enough in the other founders their eyes to have some leverage with Fletcher. To be honest i still see way to many flaws, and Sarah was already telling him about their asking him to come over before that, if they kept nagging her long enough she would eventualy asked him to come too. Well maybe i'm just overthinking to much, but I would done it differently if I wanted that to happen, I would never risk my relatives in risky positions to achieve my goals.

The fact that she isn't valuable to them justifies them using her as bait to drag him in. Remember her dad also offered to marry him off to one of his other daughters. The girl he marries isn't important to them as long as it's one of theirs. For that it just means they're recouping some of what they'd consider to be Sarah's lost potential.

 

[Firaxius]

The fact that she isn't valuable to them justifies them using her as bait to drag him in. Remember her dad also offered to marry him off to one of his other daughters. The girl he marries isn't important to them as long as it's one of theirs. For that it just means they're recouping some of what they'd consider to be Sarah's lost potential.

We shall see how it turns out, geussing and making assumptions doesn't solve anything only facts does, but at this stage it still all we got, assumptions they behind it from MC vision.

 

[Cosy Creator]

Hello Dev! i like this game and i hope i can see in future more from this girl with the white hair and blue eyes named annabelle i think. I like her^^

Yeah I've had that request quite a few times at this point. She was only planned to be a side character like the other party guests, but I liked her too so she got that little tripping scene, and now I've written another one for her in 0.7, so she may become a real LI given time, though she'll probably have to wait for some of the others to get their turn in the spotlight first.

 

[Hanny2000]

 

[Bingoogus]

One thing i forgot to pull out of the game folder before i binned in (no reason to hold onto it since there are no update patches yet) was a screen shot of the Lucy sewing room fuck. I really liked how you went to extra effort of putting something into her model that made her pussy look like it was gripping the MC's dick on the slide out, not a detail i've ever seen added to HS models before, i'm a pretty big fan of lips-that-grip.