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which version are you playing? and new game or new game plus?
Something that really stuck out to me about the game is that the player feels very railroaded, there's not much optional content or diversions from the mainline.
And whenever the mainline featured content that suggested Sharing or anything else that received backlash, that content was simply removed from the entire game or defaced instead of turning it into an optional labeled route. It's worthwhile to divert content that's undesirable for some people, into routes that are desirable to others, while being completely avoidable for people who don't want to touch that stuff. The method I'm proposing creates a larger game.
Advocating for diverting instead of removing content, which is a net negative on the writing and hours spent on development, and eventually leads to total disinterest from the developer's end when you don't feel like you can write everything you want into the game. Visual Novels have always had diverging and optional routes (which can seamlessly meet back up with the mainline) and a variety of content reaches a larger audience of potential supporters.
I remember that votes were held for whether or not the story could be continued from the POV of different characters like the player character's son who could interact with the girls. The majority of people are always going to want sterilized MC-centric vanilla harem with a little spicy homage to netori on the side, there's no surprises there. But the people who want whatever you were going for are definitely here and there's room for optional routes, scenes, etc.
Compression and optimization is also highly important and helps you as the developer. Important characters can be separated into individual faceless pose sprites with a wide range of expressions stored in extremely small images overlaid over the pose sprites at runtime. This takes up less space, and it's also the industry standard for visual novels & highly supported by Ren'Py. Conventional compression methods should be considered first though, the filesize is very large and it's advisable to check what the major culprit files are, and see how the size of those files can be reduced from your end before they're shipped, which is a common process.
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ngl if the betrayal arc still here with vados betrayal as well and us losing most of all the Lis except one.. not going to waste my time.
i seem to recall the original had the mc and broly twins with the mc being the older, idk if you're keeping it but if you are. if they are twins that means the have the identical dna. so shouldn't that mean the mc is also a type-c as well, and since he has vados would he at least have enough control to at bare minimum act like dbz broly ?
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I don't want to say too much about this but the next update will actually answer this question!
I'm releasing the next update tomorrow (Today) after I wake up and fix the bugs.
Look-see
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Just looked through the RPA files. basically this remake is all the old pics plus 27 mediocre AI generated pics, and a few of the old pics ran through an AI animator, kinda crap.
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It's not old pics ran through A.I. My artist sketches the scene and fixes it with A.I. If the game isn't for you, you don't have to play it at all, I come here to get people's opinions on the storyline not see comments like this.
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So drawn pics ran through AI? Was it always like that when the game started with the AI replacement? Idk. to me, the old, drawn pics were just better.
Edit :May i ask what's the point of running pics through AI if you have them drawn in the first place?
Edit :May i ask what's the point of running pics through AI if you have them drawn in the first place?
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Oh btw, speaking of story, do you still have the part where a God Of Destruction tortures a Sapient flame by shitting on it? That's where I decided to take a break from this game.
Edit : Even if you made it clear you don't care, after playing again, I can already tell the AI images are straight downgrades from the past drawn pictures. You made characters blink, move and shit. But It's so inhumane the way it all feels. I cannot understand your decision. Only way it makes sense, is if you wanted to cut out the drawing alltogether and use AI for everything. I see no fixing , it looks generated by AI, through and through.
Though I'm only at the beginning. Maybe later down the line it looks better. The pictures on your patreon look decent.
Edit : Even if you made it clear you don't care, after playing again, I can already tell the AI images are straight downgrades from the past drawn pictures. You made characters blink, move and shit. But It's so inhumane the way it all feels. I cannot understand your decision. Only way it makes sense, is if you wanted to cut out the drawing alltogether and use AI for everything. I see no fixing , it looks generated by AI, through and through.
Though I'm only at the beginning. Maybe later down the line it looks better. The pictures on your patreon look decent.
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Which do you prefer out of these?
One of the biggest complaints I got years ago was that the characters didn't look like they were from dragon ball. We had to redraw android 18, 5 times before we got her perfect, and drawing costs a lot of money
Maybe it comes down to preferences, but I always value soul over soullessness. I do understand that money is an undeniable factor in this process. However, couldn't this issue be avoided if you received sketches regularly? That way you get to change things that don't look right before it gets too costly? I don't want to pretend that I understand how you work, But I did request art in the past, and i can garantee you that getting early sketches WILL save you having to tell the artist to draw it all over again.
I'm starting the story over again, so i'm very early, but I have a few gripeswith the story. hoping it will help you down the line.
The very first "mini arc" (the tuffle stuff) is SO childish. Oh my guy has 1 Trillion power. Yeah well, mine has 2 and is invisible and undetectable and takes no damage from energy or physical attacks. Come on. I know this hasn't changed since I last played and it does get better later. But it's a horrible way to start a story.
The story also could benefit from a slower pacing, like a visual novel does. you know, the "novel" part of it. Take it slow, write stuff, build the lore you want to build. But don't rush random things one after another.
You can help it by describing what a character does more vividly. It doesn't have to matter to the story ultimately, but it will greatly increase the pacing and enjoyability of the game.
From recollection, the MC also jumps straight from base from to UI. Jumping from the weakest forms to the most powerful one in the lore is a terrible decision. It undermines progress as a whole. Once again, taking things slower could be more benefitial and actually feel rewarding.
I may post more as I go through the game.
4 thought, instead of having us go through all these scenes and time building relationship with the girls and not to mention the adventures, just to loose all nut 18, since they technically didn't restore time properly because the mc interacts/bangs the queen, not to mention he erases a someone b4 their natural death date, and interacting with past beerus, also 18 teaching the other females and the other girls also messing around etc... so they actually altered altered the time line, so that can give you the excuse to say there's 2 of every girl, that way we can keep the girls and the others girls.
besides, the whole gohan spilling the beans doesn't make sense since krillin already knew what was happening and threatened to tell vegeta and goku, wouldn't he had said something, so wouldn't my idea would correct that? that way each girl could have a kid, it also didn't make sense that only 18 had kids and the girl's that weren't married like kale 21 pineapple etc..., stayed with the mc but didn't have kids after years had pass.
I'm confused, I'm stuck at the very start of that game the only thing I'm able to do is sleep, talk to the oracle fish, get blowjob from Vados and get a penis inspection how am I supposed to progress the story from here everything else says that it's not unlocked yet.
after you beat the invisible robot you need to go back to tuffle and click chat that will start the conversation with jaco and give you your next missions also if you click on the queen you'll get the chance to go on a date, 3 dates and she'll be your girlfriend.