VN Ren'Py Eternum [v0.7.5 Public] [Caribdis]

[DisMel]

Does the main character ever become less of a pussy? He's so passive and is the classic "nice guy". It's difficult to deal with. And the amount of dialogue and exposition is getting ridiculous. I'm no brainlet but slogging through the excessive dialogue is painfully boring. Also I've been playing this PORN game for a few hours now and the only thing explicitly sexual was the prostitute when you get to the game in the game and the creepy shower peeping thing. I've been doing all the choices perfectly as well due to the multi mod. I just met the psycho bitch that threatens to kill you. Does it get better or is it like this the whole way?

what are you on about? he consistently shit talks and have gotten into fights with the stereotypical privileged, asshole rich kid. not going into spoilers, but when the people he cares for get in trouble he steps up and does what he can, which results in him pulling off badass shit usually. hes a nice guy sure, but hes definitely not passive and most certainly not a pussy lol

if this amount of dialogue and exposition is excessive to you, then that is really concerning. if you want a mindless sex game that doesnt give a shit about story elements, then this isnt for you dude

 

[Chronos Alpha-Omega]

I would say that based on what you've said, no, from your perspective it won't get "better." If you already find the game "boring" I can tell you that you will probably just get more and more bored by it. This is a game that is heavy on story and character development, as well as humor and intrigue, with sex scenes in it from time to time. It's a true example of an Adult Visual Novel, as opposed to a fap a minute porn game that are a dime a dozen on the site.

Also, the MC is a good guy, not a nice guy. Nice guys are pathetic weak neckbeards who are, often, secretly assholes acting nice to get something. White Knights and the like. Good guys are actually functional adult human beings who just aren't assholes because they don't want to be and treat people with respect and are good humored and well adjusted. If you see the MC as a "pussy" or "nice guy" it makes me wonder if you even read any of the story at all... and if you are calling Nova a "psycho bitch," then yeah, this game probably isn't for you...

The main character acts similarly to the blue main character guy from Taffy Tale, idk if you've every played that but he's basically very stuttery especially when it comes to nearly all his interactions with girls. It's just cringy. He's usually very passive in his relationships with the women and it's usually that they're coming onto him because they all suddenly want to get with him for him being a "good guy". Just being an actual nice/good guy isn't enough irl. It's literally the bare minimum and it doesn't make a person even slightly interesting. That's how I see this main character as far as I've seen. But this is just imo. I'm sure people are enjoying the game. The scenes are animated well and the characters 3d renders are of a very high quality. I've played through to the when greek era server part. I'm not sure how far that is through the game. It is slightly better since there's less exposition and the mc gets less passive as the srory progresses. Id still say it has a slow burn tho. I feels to me like it's trying to do a lot of things at once and missing out in quality due to that. Like the "horror" sequence for example. I guess it gives the dev a lot of freedom with what they can make the game about tho so I seem the benefit from their pov.

And on the writing standpoint. Most of it falls flat to me; the jokes are very hit or miss and the story relies on a lot of unveiled exposition and has a substantial amount of unnecessary text that doesn't add to anything to the story. It could do with some trimming and editing to tighten it up imo. Oh and I have warmed up to Nova after the bad intro of her threatening to kill you. If that means anything.

 

[Chronos Alpha-Omega]

The type making that kind of statement is the incel that can't even get a woman to look at him, so he imagines himself taking every woman in every game by force so he can pretend to be a man. Pathetic.

wtf I never even suggested anything like that

 

[Idontplay]

Does the main character ever become less of a pussy? He's so passive and is the classic "nice guy". It's difficult to deal with. And the amount of dialogue and exposition is getting ridiculous. I'm no brainlet but slogging through the excessive dialogue is painfully boring. Also I've been playing this PORN game for a few hours now and the only thing explicitly sexual was the prostitute when you get to the game in the game and the creepy shower peeping thing. I've been doing all the choices perfectly as well due to the multi mod. I just met the psycho bitch that threatens to kill you. Does it get better or is it like this the whole way?

If the "psycho-bitch" is Nova (the red haired girl with a patch on her left eye) I think to understand: you are in a very early stage of the game.
Yes, there will be more sex scenes: the one with the prostitute you have mentioned, but also the ones with Amie, with Nova, with Amie's mother and some lewd scenes as well (actually I think at least one of them should happen before the "psycho-bitch scene") and the main character (Orion) will be able to act in a more badass way. But unfortunately the "real life" dialogues aren't the Caribdis' strengt: he is very good to integrate the horror/supernatural elements in his games, but (at least in my humble opinion) he isn't as much good to manage the "slice of life" parts. He has improved a lot from his first game (Once in a life time), but from my point of view this is still his weak point.
Anyway I would suggest you to play until the end of the 0.3 update and then decide if continue or not, but remember this: this is a story driven game "spiced" with some porn elements, not a porn driven game tied up with some kind of story.

 

[Dunner]

wtf I never even suggested anything like that

Well, people that experienced the whole story (aka version) will misunderstand what you mean if you don't put it well enough or don't make it clear that you didn't yet finish the build (a very important detail).

EX: When you say "Does the main character ever become less of a pussy?" and people that already finished the current build and know that said character goes and fights the NR.1 player in a game where you die and you go back to lvl 1, stands up to the degenerate wannabe Bezos that can snap his fingers and boom you're whole family is out of a job and the spawn of said degenerate that's making your everyday life hard for you because "FU lick my boots" will now believe that you finished the build, saw all of this and you're still not pleased. Thus you'll create a big "WTF is this guy talking about" moment weather you intended to offend or asked a genuine question.

Here's my reply to your original comment in a TL;DR style:
You can view the game as a combination of manga/anime genres with the main ones being comedic, horror/mystery and romance with some "gory" (depending on how you define gore) action in between.
It won't have realistic relationships (it's a harem game) or hard hitting lessons about the human condition. At times it does go into realistic scenarios, like domestic abuse, that are built with a serious tone but most of the game is comedic and it goes into said serious mode when the story requires it.
You do still need to build a relationship with the girls to bone them so by the end there will be plenty of sex but sex isn't the main focus of the game, the story is. So if the story doesn't appeal to you then that'll only continue to annoy you unless it starts appealing to your taste a bit further down the line.

Let me say this: you're entitled to your opinion and your experience is what matters at the end of the day but that applies to us as well thus there will be conflicting ideas on what the story does and doesn't do well.
With all of that said let's not forget that we're all people on the internet at the end of the day. Let's try to come to an understanding or agree to disagree since IRL is shitty enough as it is.

 

[Idontplay]

Actually he has written: "I just met the psycho bitch that threatens to kill you", so it was pretty clear (at least for me) he hasn't still finished the game.
The only thing I am not sure to understand is if he doesn't like the dialogues, because he thinks they aren't good or because he is searching for a game with a lot of sex scenes and very few dialogues.

 

[Dunner]

Actually he has written: "I just met the psycho bitch that threatens to kill you", so it was pretty clear (at least for me) he hasn't still finished the game.
The only thing I am not sure to understand is if he doesn't like the dialogues, because he thinks they aren't good or because he is searching for a game with a lot of sex scenes and very few dialogues.

The root of the problem is that not everyone reads carefully so there's a high chance to glance over the sentence or misunderstand the sentence as a simple insult towards the character. Looking at the replies it's pretty obvious him being at an early stage didn't cross people's minds.

Now, this shouldn't sound like I dislike that he complained but in my humble opinion one should finish a game before criticizing certain aspects since the problems they criticize might already be solved. Obviously if people find a problem that just makes proceeding annoying/unbearable then yeah I understand but it's obviously not the case here. This is why I believe this whole thing happened because of a misunderstanding.

When it comes to the dialogue problem it might be both really. Perhaps the dialogue isn't really on his liking (it is very comedic and lighthearted most times) and now he looks forward to the sex scenes but the game is story driven thus he has to read the dialogue to get to the scenes. If he indeed came here just to look at the spicy scenes and doesn't care about the story then he'll obviously be disappointed.

 

[JoeTheMC84]

Actually he has written: "I just met the psycho bitch that threatens to kill you", so it was pretty clear (at least for me) he hasn't still finished the game.
The only thing I am not sure to understand is if he doesn't like the dialogues, because he thinks they aren't good or because he is searching for a game with a lot of sex scenes and very few dialogues.

The root of the problem is that not everyone reads carefully so there's a high chance to glance over the sentence or misunderstand the sentence as a simple insult towards the character. Looking at the replies it's pretty obvious him being at an early stage didn't cross people's minds.

Now, this shouldn't sound like I dislike that he complained but in my humble opinion one should finish a game before criticizing certain aspects since the problems they criticize might already be solved. Obviously if people find a problem that just makes proceeding annoying/unbearable then yeah I understand but it's obviously not the case here. This is why I believe this whole thing happened because of a misunderstanding.

When it comes to the dialogue problem it might be both really. Perhaps the dialogue isn't really on his liking (it is very comedic and lighthearted most times) and now he looks forward to the sex scenes but the game is story driven thus he has to read the dialogue to get to the scenes. If he indeed came here just to look at the spicy scenes and doesn't care about the story then he'll obviously be disappointed.

My first thought when I read "psycho bitch that threatens to kill you" was that he was at the Egyptian temple scene.

But then I pieced together he was referring to Nova and assumed he was early on with such strong feelings. Or that he was a little further on and still didn't like Nova's humor which is a good benchmark for liking the humor in genral for the game. Either way, it seemed to me that the game wouldn't be to the fella's liking.

 

[The unseen]

Sneak Peak v0.4 :

 

[You-San]

If there is a Eternum card sources for HS2/AI I would appriciated if someone can give me the sauce...for now i made an Annie's card because i really like this character and u can use it if u like.

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[Dorfnutter]

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What's the deal with the glitches and the visions?

What did you mean when you said "this time, it'll be the right one?"

Why are excommunications actually killing people in the real world?

What's the deal with those Praetorians back at Ogygia preventing us from getting a weapon that you said we should try to get to help us in the quest for the gems?

I NEED ANSWERS, LADY.

 

[Idontplay]

The answer is inside us, but unfortunately it is always the wrong one.

 

[Dorfnutter]

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Also, based from this pic I'm guessing Nova lucked out in some straw draw and got the "we-recently-got-hitched-and-are-on-our-honeymoon" cover story with Orion.

Annie probably in shambles atm.

 

[Dunner]

What's the deal with the glitches and the visions?

What did you mean when you said "this time, it'll be the right one?"

Why are excommunications actually killing people in the real world?

What's the deal with those Praetorians back at Ogygia preventing us from getting a weapon that you said we should try to get to help us in the quest for the gems?

I NEED ANSWERS, LADY.

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She'll be like:

Then leave without elaborating further

 

[andresblinky]

Sneak Peak v0.4 : View attachment 1834092

 

[mbs123a]

unigine game such a nice story. i dig a MC like this with a unknown past and special powers. make my hair rise xD.
love the story with a bit of joke/memes in. super solid and i was afriad game would be 2-4 houers long only but i played it for a solid 6-10 houers. enjoying it.

 

[Machete]

Would you believe that there is no good fan art of it? The actual screenshots look like a brown smudge. Lady of Pain had to suffice.

I do, only a few screen captures from the game, but not that bad overall.

Despite being an all time masterpiece very few people played it i fear.

 

[Machete]

out of curiosity, how would you compare him to Stabby Mike?

Honestly i wouldn't. They are very different characters and have different roles. They share being a comic reliefe and the 'power' of popping out of nowhere just in any place. But so does Chang. And Chang is far more similar to Stabby. They both are support character, not side characters. They both act as deus ex machina providing close to superhuman abilities to move the plot foreward. So far Stabby is a bona fide super hero, he really seems to be able to do just anything and overpower just anyone, while chang... well, the story has still a long way to go, we'll see what happens.

About Chop Chop, i can't see him being more then what he already is. A recurring joke. He makes me think more of anything else of the elevator joke in The Orville. But again, long story, we will see.

 

[HogRocket]

Honestly i wouldn't. They are very different characters and have different roles. They share being a comic reliefe and the 'power' of popping out of nowhere just in any place. But so does Chang. And Chang is far more similar to Stabby. They both are support character, not side characters. They both act as deus ex machina providing close to superhuman abilities to move the plot foreward. So far Stabby is a bona fide super hero, he really seems to be able to do just anything and overpower just anyone, while chang... well, the story has still a long way to go, we'll see what happens.

About Chop Chop, i can't see him being more then what he already is. A recurring joke. He makes me think more of anything else of the elevator joke in The Orville. But again, long story, we will see.

You'd better watch out trash talking Chop-Chop, he might sell you something that doesn't work.........

 

[bacienvu88]

About Chop Chop, i can't see him being more then what he already is. A recurring joke. He makes me think more of anything else of the elevator joke in The Orville. But again, long story, we will see.

I hope the pet will have a crucial role in the heist.