L3z1l3

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I really liked Triangle, but felt it had a lot of wasted potential.
While I loved the throuple ending, dev could have created multiple paths based on in game decisions deciding who MC ended up with. MC could have ended up alone, with both girls leaving him, staying exclusively with her girlfriend, switching to the new girl, sharing his girlfriend with the new girl but without becoming a throuple and finally a throuple.

AKT, was an even bigger waste of potential. It felt like the Triangle warmed up and tossed into a medieval setting which didn't fit to it. The medieval setting could have given it a backstory but nothing really came from it.

This game at least is back to the present, I have no problem with it being slice of life but I hope dev will this time make the effort to explore the different possible relationships more deeply.
 

Smarmint

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Why didn't the dev call this "Quadrangle"? So far, it looks like a clone, with one extra character.

Come on Neverlucky. I have no problem with the sharing, strap-ons, etc, so many complain about in your games, but honestly, how about a little creativity for your third game. Even the model is the same. I hope at least there is a story this time.
 
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Avaron1974

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I really liked Triangle, but felt it had a lot of wasted potential.
While I loved the throuple ending, dev could have created multiple paths based on in game decisions deciding who MC ended up with. MC could have ended up alone, with both girls leaving him, staying exclusively with her girlfriend, switching to the new girl, sharing his girlfriend with the new girl but without becoming a throuple and finally a throuple.

AKT, was an even bigger waste of potential. It felt like the Triangle warmed up and tossed into a medieval setting which didn't fit to it. The medieval setting could have given it a backstory but nothing really came from it.

This game at least is back to the present, I have no problem with it being slice of life but I hope dev will this time make the effort to explore the different possible relationships more deeply.
It seems you missed the point to it.

It wasn't about potentially finding other routes it was specifically about their little triangle, that's why it's called Triangle.

Why didn't the dev call this "Quadrangle"? So far, it looks like a clone, with one extra character.

Come on Neverlucky. I have no problem with the sharing, strap-ons, etc, so many complain about in your games, but honestly, how about a little creativity for your third game. Even the model is the same. I hope at least there is a story this time.
The devs don't come here but even so, people know by now what kind of games they make and this isn't going to be any different.

It's still going to be a relatively drama free slice of life game because that's what they make and what they enjoy making.
 

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Another mediocre render game not that much of a step up and for 2022 its very mid. Of course the biggest crux are the trio reskin and another probably kinetic and tediously boring plot.
 
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KoGa3

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Made a Mod for the game, mostly I added ingame music and some more game settings
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Mod features:
- additional background music for the game, adapted to the scenes
- a music jukebox for playing the tracks manually
- MC renaming function
- additional game setting (change/adjust dialog text font, size, outlines, text background, game quick menu)
- a shortcut key for my Mod menu ("Shift" + "k")
- walkthrough hints (but not really needed for the game)

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Updated my Mod for the new game release v0.19 (should work for SE and Standard version)


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Installation: extract the Zip and put the image files into the folder .../game/images/
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Download "SE - images addon" (~80MB)



Some ingame pics of the Mod:
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Made a Mod for the game, mostly I added ingame music and some more game settings


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fauxplayer

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Man this dev has zero imagination and creativity. Same models. Same story beats. Same plot rehashed in a different dress in every one of his games. hard pass.
Everyone, real quick!! Close your eyes and imagine your favorite porn star. Got it? Eyes closed? Good!! Now open your eyes and say out loud "I wish there were fewer movies with my favorite porn star."

Cynical jokes aside, the repetitive models might have more to do with the patrons than the dev. Like... If I owned a lemonade stand and was making decent money making lemonade that a regular and reliable set of people enjoyed and visited often, why would I be like "SURPRISE! No more lemonade! I got tired of making that delicious thing that I know you all enjoy. So now I am selling Grapefruit Juice!! I hope you like it?"

Some devs are more risk-adverse than others, and it's hard to blame a person for a lack of creativity when they are consistently and reliably providing content that appeals to their fans. Sure, maybe this dev is the Thomas Kincaide of Ren'Py porn. At least no one comes to these threads complaining about milking or starting shit that gets the mods with an itchy trigger finger [winces and hopes that is true]
 

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Man this dev has zero imagination and creativity. Same models. Same story beats. Same plot rehashed in a different dress in every one of his games. hard pass.
second I saw the models and premise, I was like SKIP. bro make something else than you and your gf find a cute young girl to fuck. this is literally the third time this happens ...
 
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Everyone, real quick!! Close your eyes and imagine your favorite porn star. Got it? Eyes closed? Good!! Now open your eyes and say out loud "I wish there were fewer movies with my favorite porn star."

Cynical jokes aside, the repetitive models might have more to do with the patrons than the dev. Like... If I owned a lemonade stand and was making decent money making lemonade that a regular and reliable set of people enjoyed and visited often, why would I be like "SURPRISE! No more lemonade! I got tired of making that delicious thing that I know you all enjoy. So now I am selling Grapefruit Juice!! I hope you like it?"

Some devs are more risk-adverse than others, and it's hard to blame a person for a lack of creativity when they are consistently and reliably providing content that appeals to their fans. Sure, maybe this dev is the Thomas Kincaide of Ren'Py porn. At least no one comes to these threads complaining about milking or starting shit that gets the mods with an itchy trigger finger [winces and hopes that is true]
I agree entirely with the underlying sentiment in what you are saying.

Maybe, as he's the one doing all the work, this guy just likes writing his stories the way HE likes to write them.

Maybe he's not in it for the money and he doesn't have much money so he employs the same actors through whom to tell his stories.

Maybe he's not interested in acquiring a nomination for Nobel Prize for S**erature from the Koo* A*d University Academics in here.

Maybe, considering this is his third outing in a similar vein, he's going to continue producing the same kind of stuff and that he clearly doesn't give a rat's ass what anybody says or thinks apart from perhaps others who actually share his enjoyment of what he produces.

Maybe people who seem to derive some satisfaction or even perhaps enjoyment from denigrating his efforts and his achievements would do better to just accept this, show some intelligence, find some common decency and go away and leave him the hell alone.
 

MissFortune

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You'd think a dev working with Daz as long as Neverlucky has that the renders would actually grow in quality and lighting, but it looks like he just set it in neutral after getting to a decent level and is just coasting.
 

jamdan

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He's using the same model again?

First, she moved in with her friends and gave birth to a baby. Then she traveled to the middle ages, giving birth again. And now she is back in modern times, and will eventually give birth again.

Maybe she is a time traveler. Or maybe she's gotten pregnant so many times that half the world is Jenny clones. Seems possible.

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But seriously, I hope he thought out the plot better this time around. It'll be a slice of life game, but that doesn't mean it should be boring, mundane and repetitive over the last half of the story. More like Triangle, less like A Knights Tale.
 
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You'd think a dev working with Daz as long as Neverlucky has that the renders would actually grow in quality and lighting, but it looks like he just set it in neutral after getting to a decent level and is just coasting.
Yes, but just because someone else can or might do something, doesn't mean he/she should be required, expected to or even, must do. Then when he decides, as is his right, not to, he should not effectively be labelled and referred in terms of someone who's somehow failing or failed in a duty to those who have no palpable personal interest or stake in the outcome of what he produces anyway. It's none of their business. After all this time as you point out, no-one except perhaps whatever patrons he has gathered around him, is going to change or dissuade him from doing what he loves in the way he loves doing it and why should anyone be arrogant enough expect him to?

If people don't like what he's doing then go away and leave him alone. They've no right to badmouth and dismiss him, because what he's doing doesn't meet their standard or ideal. It's arrogant and unmerited and comes from many who can only, or perhaps just prefer to, sit back and criticise those who are working hard trying to at least create something they truly love and enjoy for themselves and for anyone else who finds enjoyment in what they do themselves.

That, to me, is judgment and, in my opinion, judgment is solely the province of peers, mentors and actual investors of themselves in the creation, not those who have no actual involvement whatsoever and therefore no credible basis on which to decide its value, other than their own ignorant (of the processes involved in creation, production and delivery) and wholly irrelevant idea of what it shouldn't be.

Opinion is one thing, judgment is totally different and many cannot or even if they do, refuse to, see any need for them to be applied fairly, decently and respectfully, as distinctly appropriate.
 

MissFortune

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Yes, but just because someone else can or might do something, doesn't mean he/she should be required, expected to or even, must do. Then when he decides, as is his right, not to, he should not effectively be labelled and referred in terms of someone who's somehow failing or failed in a duty to those who have no palpable personal interest or stake in the outcome of what he produces anyway. It's none of their business. After all this time as you point out, no-one except perhaps whatever patrons he has gathered around him, is going to change or dissuade him from doing what he loves in the way he loves doing it and why should anyone be arrogant enough expect him to?
In nearly five years with Daz, his renders haven't improved in the slightest. They're flat, dim, and even worse, he's repeatedly using the same models. I fully stand behind the view that you have no right calling yourself a creative if you aren't pursuing improvement constantly, because as any artist in any medium can state, you can always improve. If you don't, you're just coasting. That's all I said, and if you look at all three of his projects, it's not an opinion. It's basically irrefutable. When you start doing lazy shit like reusing characters, making the same game over and over, and showing little improvement, you better bet people are going to call you out on it.

It'd be one thing if it was hardware related, but seeing as he's making nearly $800/month, he'd have enough to buy a high-end GPU in a month or two, maybe more if some of that money goes toward bills.

If people don't like what he's doing then go away and leave him alone. They've no right to badmouth and dismiss him, because what he's doing doesn't meet their standard or ideal. It's arrogant and unmerited and comes from many who can only, or perhaps just prefer to, sit back and criticise those who are working hard trying to at least create something they truly love and enjoy for themselves and for anyone else who finds enjoyment in what they do themselves.
When you put your material out in the public, you leave yourself open to criticism. When you start doing the same shit over and over, people have the right to criticize you. It's simple criticism. I said that from the perspective of a developer, so I'm not sitting back and blindly criticizing from some imaginary pedestal. I know just how hard it is to make a VN/game, but why waste all of that work being on autopilot with your render quality? He's already fairly popular, so why not attract more people with improved render quality?

That, to me, is judgment and, in my opinion, judgment is solely the province of peers, mentors and actual investors of themselves in the creation, not those who have no actual involvement whatsoever and therefore no credible basis on which to decide its value, other than their own ignorant (of the processes involved in creation, production and delivery) and wholly irrelevant idea of what it shouldn't be.
Yeah, it is judgement. Because a lot of people put in the work to constantly improve, and it's straight distasteful to those supporting your work to just stay the same. I know exactly what kind of effort it takes, the process in which it's done, and I simply know that not improving in any meaningful way in five years of using the same program is nothing more than being lazy - and lazy means it's by choice. I simply find it not to be a good look.

Opinion is one thing, judgment is totally different and many cannot or even if they do, refuse to, see any need for them to be applied fairly, decently and respectfully, as distinctly appropriate.
I actually think I was pretty nice about what I said. Could've just as easily gone "HuRr DuRR! tRaSH tIeR rENdERz Go buRR!!!!1!11!"
 

code991

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Well this looks interesting. I liked Triangle and even if this more of the same im fine with it.

Ill be keeping an eye out for this and play it once it gets more updates under its belt.
 
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I had a 'crashed and burned' moment playing, "A Knight's Tale". But, I survived and I am willing to give this game a chance. :) We shall see what we shall see!
 

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I wasn't a fan of The Knights Tale, buy its really far too soon to write this off. Triangle was a great little VN, concise and sweet. Hopefully he sticks closer to that.
 
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Cathy? :WaitWhat:

I think even the dev is getting himself confused with these identical models lol
I really dislike this style of show AND tell narration. We can already see that the MC is changing his clothes because this is a visual medium. Imagine going to a movie and seeing subtitles telling you that the character is currently walking down the street or eating lunch. I think it's a big contributor to why everyone says his stories are boring.

Then again, if you removed the "we now see the MC and his girlfriend eating dinner" style narration there would be almost no text whatsoever.

I really liked Triangle, but felt it had a lot of wasted potential.
While I loved the throuple ending, dev could have created multiple paths based on in game decisions deciding who MC ended up with. MC could have ended up alone, with both girls leaving him, staying exclusively with her girlfriend, switching to the new girl, sharing his girlfriend with the new girl but without becoming a throuple and finally a throuple.

AKT, was an even bigger waste of potential. It felt like the Triangle warmed up and tossed into a medieval setting which didn't fit to it. The medieval setting could have given it a backstory but nothing really came from it.

This game at least is back to the present, I have no problem with it being slice of life but I hope dev will this time make the effort to explore the different possible relationships more deeply.
I don't even remember what the plot of Triangle was (if there even was one), but AKT at least had some halfhearted stabs at some intrigue when the MC goes to court, only to have that plot line almost immediately fly out the window for some more "the MC and DAZ model #2 are currently riding a horse, as you can clearly see by the render that is being displayed on your monitor" (did that plot with IIRC the king being maybe murdered or something ever return to the story? I quit playing a few updates before the final release).

You can make slice of life not mind-numbingly boring.

One good thing I will say about the dev is that he releases regular updates and actually finishes his games. Devs that abandon multiple games or do the whole remake thing (which almost always leads to abandonment or milking) seem to be increasingly common.
 
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