VN Ren'Py Eternum [v0.8.5 Public] [Caribdis]

[SerHawkes]

I can not, for the life of me, give this latest chapter a 10/10. Nor even a 9 or 8 or 7 for that matter. At most, I'd give it a 6/10. And here is why.

Now, after such a discovery with our newest ability and well the life threating endevour we got ourselves in, YOU'D THINK that the MC would have SOME measure of self preservation. Esspecially after almost dying in the real world. Why risk potentially dying "in Eternum" without any means of a back up in case things go south no? NOPE!!! Lets keep on using this ability because it's cool and fancy and we get bring our gals into it for stuff, while RISKING THEIR LIFES AS WELL POTENTIALLY. It's as if we didn't even learn our damn lesson at all. Sure, talk needs to be had with the girls and we are starting to form up the harem arc (THANKS NANCY!) and we acknowledge we gotta do better for them but still? Let's put Nova at risk without thinking to have her log back in. Let's have Dalia run off in a server with a high murder rate. What could go wrong?

-sighs- While I will admit the lewd scenes were indeed stellar, OBVIOUSLY Alex's takes the cake again (with a side of bun in oven-FUCK YOU DOUBTERS!!!). Nancy and Nova was grand as hell, personally outta thank Maat for unlocking Longest of Shots Cuckchair arc. Dalia being a hair trigger is going to ruin our stamina in so many ways. And it was nice to see Little Annie's Villain Arc start. We're all fucked.

Comedy was solid, specially with the Stanley Parable. But again, the fact that we have this invinciblity complex despite almost dying all thanks to luck/fate/whatever bullshit factor, kinda annoys me and makes me wonder if we truly are retarded in that manner.

So again, despite the fun and funny times, while intrigue and interest and mystery grow, us being retarded and lacking self preservation kill me on this one. 6/10 final score for Chapter 8.

 

[sageproduct]

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I know, but this last chapter all of a sudden started addressing polyamory, moved heavily toward endgame progression (for the first time, many mysteries are solved without too many new ones), and the sex scenes are accelerating greatly. It's structurally not the same Eternum that 0.1-0.7 was, and more pornographic in tone of course. Kind of like in Once in a Lifetime when the Japan trip was the beginning of the end where things really started being a fuckfest

Even College Kings, for all its criticism and shitty reputation of just being a mindless fuckfest, has a "skip sex scenes" button. Up until this point in Eternum, the sex scenes haven't taken too much away, but this is the first update where I am starting to feel the wee bit of contrivance in setting up these scenarios where spontaneous sex can occur.

Sucks that this is just what comes with the genre. It's the fault of nobody but my own desires.

You finally feel now like you're playing a porno that happens to have a really good story, which does unfortunately detract from the immersion. Nothing will recapture the sheer wonder and magic of Eternum 0.1-0.4. But that's ok, irl nothing recaptures the wonder and magic of childhood.

I'll always love Eternum, but I do mourn the inevitable direction it has to turn now.

 

[sageproduct]

If Eternum were One Piece:

ET 0.1-0.3 would be like the East Blue Saga to Alabasta. Character-focused, adventure-focused, wide open limitless world where you make the best of friends you'll ever have. Epic resolutions to epic adventures. Stories about human emotions, and the struggle of human connections.

ET 0.4: Enies Lobby, since it's often called "peak One Piece". The heist in Eternum will remain as one of my most favorite experiences in all of gaming, ever. Just like in One Piece, it's kind of the arc that really feels like the stakes have SUDDENLY surged as our heroes challenge by far the biggest baddest element of the power structure up to this point. It's 100%, all-out, need to use every single resource at our disposal just to come out alive. The date with Annie is probably the most substantial one-on-one event we've had so far. It's probably the event that so far has felt the most like going on a lifechanging trip with your girlfriend and shit goes wrong.

ET 0.5: Skypiea and Thriller Bark arcs. Love'em or hate'em. Tons of crucial character development, extremely important arcs with a slower pace of "top-level" story progression.

ET 0.6-0.7: Sabaody to through the timeskip. The characters' arcs are being increasingly tied with the high level powers that be, and we get more and more of a picture of the overall structure of the world.

End of 0.7 feels like the timeskip itself, as things fundamentally change afterward. Just like in One Piece, the protagonist has experienced something all on his own, that doesn't involve any of his friends that the whole story's been about so far, and comes back being different.

ET 0.8: Fishman Island/Punk Hazard, with end state resembling that of Dressrosa's conclusion. Many mysteries have been solved, there's no more "anything could happen" endless adventure feel anymore, you feel like you can see the rails that the story needs to proceed on now. Luffy's gonna take out the four emperors one by one and fight Blackbeard for the Rio Poneglyph. Orion's gonna get the gems of doom one by one and face off with Thanatos. The protagonist is known across the world and is steadily amassing popular support.

Yes, neither story has concluded, so we don't know for sure. But to a certain extent, we see some rails for the foreseeable future that the story can't really deviate from anymore, and we'll possibly have to sacrifice character development for plot progression. One Piece has DEFINITELY been guilty of this. Does anyone actually give a shit anymore when Zoro faces off with whichever next dude he's gonna slice up with a couple big swings? There can definitely be more stuff that happens after our current rail stuff (like Luffy's world after finding Raftel/fighting Blackbeard/fighting a huge war could definitely have more stuff unexpectedly tacked on at the end, and that's certainly possible with Eternum too - maybe there's much more to be done after getting all 10 Gems of Doom, or something happens that invalidates that objective entirely.

 

[cayseron]

Yes... the porn game where a man collects a harem of girls - several of which belong to the same family - is definitely going to get picked up by Netflix

game of thrones has midget porn, incest (literal incest, not step family stuff), cheating (Anti-NTR freaks, back me up here now ), child abuse, animal abuse, cannibalism, harem, rape, cherry popping, beastiality and many more absurd and fucked up stuff yet it was one of most popular shows on HBO...
No i am not saying eternum should be tv show or anything, just being devil advocate as always. Just because there is harem in eternum does not mean it cant be a tv show. also if someone with real power in any platform, be that netflix or even disney+ really likes the story they can turn it into pg version of eternum and make it a show

 

[MagnusTempestus6]

I know, but this last chapter all of a sudden started addressing polyamory, moved heavily toward endgame progression (for the first time, many mysteries are solved without too many new ones), and the sex scenes are accelerating greatly. It's structurally not the same Eternum that 0.1-0.7 was, and more pornographic in tone of course. Kind of like in Once in a Lifetime when the Japan trip was the beginning of the end where things really started being a fuckfest

It has been Caribdis' explicit goal to make the harem happen earlier than OiaLT, which kind of needs certain scenes to happen (minimum all solos and some extra), especially if he wants to squeeze in the most obvious threesomes and more into the remaining story. The number of total updates has gone down during development (from up to possibly 20 to now ~13). Seems plausible that Cari may have thought the entire thing becoming too stretched if he didn't pack it up tighter. So that's why we have more sex scenes and some more 'progression' in some regards as well as a bit 'sudden' push towards harem via Nancy.

In terms of mysteries I just disagree. Don't really know what you are talking about there. Mind elaborating on what you mean by that a bit?

 

[Bootyman92]

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I think you'll have your share of Alex somehow next update (maybe no sex though).

No sex? With ALEX?

Nympho, will take Orion's dick anyway she can get it, can go multiple rounds Alex?

 

[Bootyman92]

First one is Axel x Dalia scene in the western server. You tell Dalia she's free to engage with any person she wants and chooses her best friend's twin brother.

Second one is Jerry x Dalia in the desert server of the current update. Just tell Dalia Jerry's the better man and she gets both in a relationship and a wholesome lewd scene with her longtime admirer.

Won't you come outside for a moment? Let's talk...

 

[AiJesus]

Hey guys, can you help me? I just started playing it, and I've been loving it so far, but I'm dying to know if I can fuck Micaela at some point. I want it so bad.

 

[Opa Wants]

Hey guys, can you help me? I just started playing it, and I've been loving it so far, but I'm dying to know if I can fuck Micaela at some point. I want it so bad.

Yeah...NO! She's exclusive to Chang and Chang ONLY.

 

[Dorfnutter]

Hey guys, can you help me? I just started playing it, and I've been loving it so far, but I'm dying to know if I can fuck Micaela at some point. I want it so bad.

No, no you cannot.

 

[SASHA12319]

Guys, what do you think, maybe Alex is actually pregnant after all? I looked at two different photos and in one she looks sad, and in the other she looks embarrassed.

 

[AiJesus]

Yeah...NO! She's exclusive to Chang and Chang ONLY.

So sad.

 

[Opa Wants]

So sad.

Well I don't know about you, But a crushed pelvis and/or a crushed skull doesn't sound very romantic to me.

 

[AffreuxProlapse]

No sex? With ALEX?

Nympho, will take Orion's dick anyway she can get it, can go multiple rounds Alex?

I actually think that Dalia x Alex will happen next update. I said maybe.

 

[AffreuxProlapse]

Guys, what do you think, maybe Alex is actually pregnant after all? I looked at two different photos and in one she looks sad, and in the other she looks embarrassed.

Do you mean she truly wanted to see his reactions ? If she keeps the baby or not ?
And that she'll announce it later in a proper "setting" and/or after she made up her mind ?

 

[Opa Wants]

I'm still upset that Cari isn't allowed to simply just list this game on steam. It's incredibly unfair.
Especially considering how the market feels about Eternum. We deserve the opportunity to be allowed an avenue of direct support and product transmission outside of crowdfunding.

You can literally rip the entrails from a demon as they scream out in pain in DOOM, writhing and wriggling from your goresoaked hands, but the very second you show penis entering vagina it's a public morals issue and quite literally an affront to god.

And yet in the GOOD BOOK it says Go forth and Multiply, Morals Bah!

 

[SASHA12319]

Do you mean she truly wanted to see his reactions ? If she keeps the baby or not ?
And that she'll announce it later in a proper "setting" and/or after she made up her mind ?

Yes

 

[Deskitteh]

And yet in the GOOD BOOK it says Go forth and Multiply, Morals Bah!

Morals bah is right! And literature is fine. 50 shades of gray caught flak, but nothing like what we see just by existing. I'm going to leave it to everyone's imagination as to why written works aren't treated so harshly.

Oops, I deleted the comment by accident
Using your post to piggyback and repost. Sorry!

Original post:
I'm still upset that Cari isn't allowed to simply just list this game on steam. It's incredibly unfair.
Especially considering how the market feels about Eternum. We deserve the opportunity to be allowed an avenue of direct support and product transmission outside of crowdfunding.

You can literally rip the entrails from a demon as they scream out in pain in DOOM, writhing and wriggling from your goresoaked hands, but the very second you show penis entering vagina it's a public morals issue and quite literally an affront to god.

 

[Zegion101]

Guys, what do you think, maybe Alex is actually pregnant after all? I looked at two different photos and in one she looks sad, and in the other she looks embarrassed.

Nah, Alex is like the least likely one to let that happen at that point when they were more like fuck buddies and just took a big decision to live alone as well as considering her future as athlete. She was most likely at safe part of month considering she wanted that creampie and wanted to just mess with him here

 

[Zegion101]

Morals bah is right! And literature is fine. 50 shades of gray caught flak, but nothing like what we see just by existing. I'm going to leave it to everyone's imagination as to why written works aren't treated so harshly.

Oops, I deleted the comment by accident
Using your post to piggyback and repost. Sorry!

Original post:
I'm still upset that Cari isn't allowed to simply just list this game on steam. It's incredibly unfair.
Especially considering how the market feels about Eternum. We deserve the opportunity to be allowed an avenue of direct support and product transmission outside of crowdfunding.

You can literally rip the entrails from a demon as they scream out in pain in DOOM, writhing and wriggling from your goresoaked hands, but the very second you show penis entering vagina it's a public morals issue and quite literally an affront to god.

Pretty sure that's not the reason for no steam. It's using the Honey Select software that doesn't allow that