Can anyone seriously forget that?
Also, will the entire game happen in this forest, or will we at some point transition to another forest?
Ren'Py Divine Dawn [v0.33] [Cryswar]
Also, will the entire game happen in this forest, or will we at some point transition to another forest?
Got some plains and mountains to deal with next, will be in other locales for a while
Mostly wondering because there's a bunch of fluff text that assumes the presence of trees when you go meet other characters in camp. I do assume the camp will still be made up of tents.
But, I suppose that is mostly the "meeting" part, so on closer inspection it should be doable to seperate and have the actual texts make sense.
Edit: That is actually a relevant point. We now have access to the city, after all.
So far, every progress in the story only ever added something, not took an option away. But if we are to ever move, I assume we will not be in the same space. Though it wouldn't surprise me much either if you found an explanation for that, too. ^^
But, I suppose that is mostly the "meeting" part, so on closer inspection it should be doable to seperate and have the actual texts make sense.
Edit: That is actually a relevant point. We now have access to the city, after all.
So far, every progress in the story only ever added something, not took an option away. But if we are to ever move, I assume we will not be in the same space. Though it wouldn't surprise me much either if you found an explanation for that, too. ^^
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So the idea is that each camp scene happens at a specific point in time. Scenes that you unlock post-Deepwoods make many references to Deepwoods content and could not be viewed beforehand. Similar for location. Pre-deepwoods stuff 100% canonically happened in that forest. Future scenes will be in other locations.
The actual camp background is swappable, but I don't have a good way to make sure it's accurate to scene timing yet, that will need work before I get too crazy with things.
On a more meta level, I feel like it would have been smarter to have a single, coherent location for a base (think CoC with the camp) and easier on me to boot, but we're a little late for that, and it wouldn't really fit this game's plot. If I do a game 2, I would definitely keep that in mind though.
I assume a lot of things can be edited after you're a lot further in to make it sort of fit.
Including having a colour filter for past interactions or smth or a "check what actually happened before" option.
It'd just be weird informed decisions by the player are then pre-dated to a time when that information wasn't available.
After all, we learn about characters with each new interaction. Thus, our opinions of them will naturally change, assuming we do talk to them.
F.Ex., I at some point formed the opinion that Sarah was kind of creeping me out.
If, after some trust interaction 10 play-ours down the line (so probably around 2026), I revise this decision, the game might now have to assume that that happened way earlier than it did.
Meanwhile, "go to the city with X" can very easily be postdated. Or maybe there's just more than one city on the continent.
Just to mention it's probably prudent that numbered interactions with characters don't have too many mentions of trees.
Edit: of course, just like in nearly every other RPG, it is perfectly acceptable to have things happen in a specific time and space, and if players don't want to, then they either miss them, or you do a PnP GM style "oh, btw, last week this also happened" move, on the understanding that the player buys flexibility with a bit of continuity. You do you!
Including having a colour filter for past interactions or smth or a "check what actually happened before" option.
It'd just be weird informed decisions by the player are then pre-dated to a time when that information wasn't available.
After all, we learn about characters with each new interaction. Thus, our opinions of them will naturally change, assuming we do talk to them.
F.Ex., I at some point formed the opinion that Sarah was kind of creeping me out.
If, after some trust interaction 10 play-ours down the line (so probably around 2026), I revise this decision, the game might now have to assume that that happened way earlier than it did.
Meanwhile, "go to the city with X" can very easily be postdated. Or maybe there's just more than one city on the continent.
Just to mention it's probably prudent that numbered interactions with characters don't have too many mentions of trees.
Edit: of course, just like in nearly every other RPG, it is perfectly acceptable to have things happen in a specific time and space, and if players don't want to, then they either miss them, or you do a PnP GM style "oh, btw, last week this also happened" move, on the understanding that the player buys flexibility with a bit of continuity. You do you!
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It's strongly implied that she wasn't the one who did anything to the Elder, hobs did not start this clusterfuck (humans did), and it's made pretty clear that she doesn't want to kill humans or deal with a war, just keep the... notoriously awful Hieroneiden from genociding them again. That's why hobs are mostly hidden in the depths of the forest now, they were run out and nearly genocided by Hieroneiden before.
You want to talk evil, 80% of Hieroneiden's history makes anything Mara did look like kiddie pool shit, and the Sword end is pretty much MC extending that imperialistic and brutal mindset to yet another weaker group, same as countless Hieroneidan leaders and 'heroes' did before him - all in the name of 'peace'.
In the end, both Mara and the MC are willing to shed blood to enforce peace, regardless of which ending you pick, but the Sword ending is far more murderous than anything Mara planned to do. It's not meant to be a moral justification or anything to aspire to, just a brutal - but effective - way to end an insurrection and finish the genocide your forefathers started long ago.
Seconding. Having to grind through yet another bloody novel after each dialogue reply got really annoying really fast. Doesn't help that those walls of text are mostly unrelated to lore, instead describing in a great detail the same mental disability all of the party members (including MC) seem to be suffering from. Ended up repeatedly skipping past the actually important parts because of this.
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it's actually very simple; once it's your turn, you select an ability to use, then select which enemy or enemies to use it on.
I have to say, I'm surprised by the high quality of the writing. I do wish there was more "specialized" content for Aspasia (my favorite) considering her unique features. Aside from that, the only real criticism I can say is that I think that Celica is introduced in a way that makes the player (in my opinion) not like her. Without going into all the details, she kind of just pops up after the player is told that there was some form of history between the three friends. To me, it made it pretty easy to just ignore her, but that's an affront to the game since its written so well.
Aside from that, unsure if I'm blind or not but I have not been able to disperse the ability points my allies have built up from leveling. Aside from their growth stats, I have a few of them sitting on over 5 points that I thought I read was supposed to be distributable by the player (might not be implemented yet or I'm blind?). Maybe in the future, you could incorporate unique loss scenes if you engage in a sex battle with your companions based on the position you lost in. Would be cool to see.
All in all, this game is a solid 4.5/5 in my book and I'll likely be joining the patreon and seeing what else you cook up in the near future. Nice job.
Aside from that, unsure if I'm blind or not but I have not been able to disperse the ability points my allies have built up from leveling. Aside from their growth stats, I have a few of them sitting on over 5 points that I thought I read was supposed to be distributable by the player (might not be implemented yet or I'm blind?). Maybe in the future, you could incorporate unique loss scenes if you engage in a sex battle with your companions based on the position you lost in. Would be cool to see.
All in all, this game is a solid 4.5/5 in my book and I'll likely be joining the patreon and seeing what else you cook up in the near future. Nice job.
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Hi, love the look of the art style from the screenshots. And the combat and stats system looks really nice. I don't know if anyone has asked yet but is there any chance you will add the option to play as a female in the future? I know that can be a lot of work in these types of games but it would be awesome to be able to play as my gender.
Nope no chance. Sam whas originally supposed to be either Male or Female where you could have a good Bro but Cryswar realized that the difference between a Male and Female friend are so big that it would make enterily two different games. He also realized that having multiple different flavour dialogs about what you personally would like is also very hard to write so no, no chooseable gender as the story is enterily written from the point of a male character, so much that the character is becomming less like a self insert and more like the genuine own existence like for example Asterisk from Evenicle
Complete honesty here, yeah? I would love to do that, it was in my original plans for the game, but I learned the hard way that I can't even keep up with one MC and the existing characters. Sam had a gender choice and that basically stifled both versions until I cut male Sam, and now FSam has a good variety of content and one of the best romance scenes in the game with her Badon date.
This is my first project, and I definitely shot for the stars a bit too hard, still trying to figure out what I can actually do and what should hit the cutting board. To really do a female MC justice, a lot of scenes would have to change to account for their lived experiences, and of course CGs don't exactly work the same for both genders, so it's just not something I can commit to in good faith.
Agreed with all of this, and thank you for responding to Xheris before I got to it. I like the idea of having gender choices, but doing them justice is more than an amateur like me can really pull off. Astaroth has become very much his own character over time as well, much of it not gender-unique, but some of it is, so it would add even more complexity to getting it right.
Not sure what's up with that but thanks for the report, I'll look into it!
Yeah, sadly. It'll doubtless pick up when the next update hits sometime this month.
In my defense, I see no reason to speak here when I can just chat on Discord, where I spend more time anyway.
