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

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misfolk

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Dorfnutter said:
As opposed to OIAL where the SoA was just infodumped at the very last part of 0.1 and the update ends with the MC opening the door to his father's basement. There wasn't any establishing connection to his dad and SoA other than a circumstantial event that may not even be connected to SoA, while 90% of the update was about the MC's daily life and being introduced as a failing college student who's trying to get his shit together. You can basically cut that and start at the latter parts of the update and nothing of value would've been lost.

Eternum 0.1 was mainly set-up, but you didn't have to wait until 0.2 to get to the actual VRMMO and to understand that the main story revolves around the entire thing. Even the mysterious supernatural shenanigans and rival BBEG (coughThanatoscough) were already thrown in while in OIAL you don't even meet the bad guys nor witness the supernatural shit until 0.2 (and even the latter never really factored into the story until the very end where the idea was basically MC dreams of demons because he himself is part demon).
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It would be weird if Cari's second game had worse writing than his debut. You can see the quality of writing improve even within Eternum, from 0.1 to 0.8.
 
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misfolk said:
It would be weird if Cari's second game had worse writing than his debut. You can see the quality of writing improve even within Eternum, from 0.1 to 0.8.
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Hence the point of my posts being that Eternum's writing and pacing and incorporation of the metaplot to the background fluff making everything feel connected are a massive improvement and (most importantly) the result of feedback towards OIAL's writing and pacing flaws where there's a miniscule amount of plot and intrigue and ridiculous amounts of pointless fluff (though I suppose that could be squarely blamed on the fact that OIAL does not have a general outline to begin with, resulting in the VN being guided mainly by Cari's starting idea and him just making things up as he went).
 
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mike12013 said:
Im a sucker for the whole "hard exterior, soft interior" character
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Same what i also like about her is the fact she isn't one of the ones who stay mean to hide her feelings. The minute she shes ur cool not talking to her to get closer to her family or just looking to fuck. She opens up to you pretty easily
 
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VaderExMachina said:
December 19th, 2024. Public Release on January 14th, 2025.
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Damn.. the next one would take months to come...
Any recommendations for eternum like games? Ive played once in a lifetime after finishing eternum and it didn't disappoint me.. so anything with well written story?
 
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dashhops said:
Damn.. the next one would take months to come...
Any recommendations for eternum like games? Ive played once in a lifetime after finishing eternum and it didn't disappoint me.. so anything with well written story?
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Somebody was asking this only yesterday or the day before, and I suggested Tales from the Unending Void.
 
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misfolk said:
The introduction to the VR game is a bit too long, but the pacing gets much better. However, if you really don't care for the whole metaverse aspect of the story, then the game is not for you. It's like asking you to appreciate Back to the Future if you don't enjoy time travel.
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Actually I don't much like VR stories, and was very reluctant with Eternum at first. And I still came to love the game. So it might be interesting even to people who don't usually like VR stories, like myself.
 
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Finuee said:
Actually I don't much like VR stories, and was very reluctant with Eternum at first. And I still came to love the game. So it might be interesting even to people who don't usually like VR stories, like myself.
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Yeah, same. Generally I feel like anything that uses VR or dreams or anything "make believe" puts up another layer for me that makes it even harder to get into a game. If it isn't even real for the character, it is even less "real" for me.
 
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Takkatakka said:
Yeah, same. Generally I feel like anything that uses VR or dreams or anything "make believe" puts up another layer for me that makes it even harder to get into a game. If it isn't even real for the character, it is even less "real" for me.
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That's exactly how I feel about it, too. Fortunately, Eternum did manage to avoid that problem for me, though.
 
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