VN Ren'Py Completed Countryside ~ Alone with an older girl [1.15] [trc450]

hoobatooba

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So the painterly style is kind of nice, but I guess it completely balloons the size of the images (because there's so much detail and shading) so to cut back on the file size the jpeg quality was set to like... 5 out of 100? And then because the jpeging is dumb, it puts all that detail into the background and the characters are hideously jpeg artifacted and that's all I can see. If you want it fully appreciated, I think you should offer a higher quality option - who cares if it takes two gigs? Anyone who actually cares about DL sizes can get the artifacted version.
 

trc450

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Jun 28, 2023
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So the painterly style is kind of nice, but I guess it completely balloons the size of the images (because there's so much detail and shading) so to cut back on the file size the jpeg quality was set to like... 5 out of 100? And then because the jpeging is dumb, it puts all that detail into the background and the characters are hideously jpeg artifacted and that's all I can see. If you want it fully appreciated, I think you should offer a higher quality option - who cares if it takes two gigs? Anyone who actually cares about DL sizes can get the artifacted version.
Issue was more with upscaling, the images are using old low pixel 512x512 which is simply expanded which causes the artifacts due to low resolution(at 1080p). AI upscaling would kill the painting texture and not have the look. My own GPU VRAM / generation speed (even when generation left overnight) were the main limitations though I'm confident I could do it better next time, just not the same.
 
Oct 21, 2024
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Well, I finally got around to playing the game and I liked it for the most part. While an interesting experiment, I just don't think that the Dutch Impressionistic Art Style goes well with the Kawaii-style Hentai. For me, the backgrounds (as beautiful they are) just resulted in distracting from the story. The character designs were as good as any that I've seen in 2D, especially the chick. And that raises another issue- without names I found it difficult to really get involved in the story itself. It was like watching a movie as a viewer rather than participating in a game. Story-wise it was nice and simple without all the extra baggage that often comes with these games- all the school drama, the Mafia/cops, the angst, etc. (Only TWO characters? Whoever would have thunk?) But, I did find find that the fantasizing ended up rather confusing- at what point does the fantasy end and it becomes "REAL"? There was at least one spot where the action seemed to reverse and reset (sleep sex scene).

As I said, I did enjoy it and was left with an "Is that IT?", wanting MORE- which is the mark of a successful endeavor. Good Luck and I would like to see MORE of the cutey-pie!!! (Maybe in an expanded version/remake.)
 
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