VN Ren'Py Eternum [v0.8.6 Public] [Caribdis]

[joecarlton]

There is also a whole subforum for game recommendations. I'm happy to give you the name of some of my favorites if you want to DM me, or you can go check out that forum. I've also had reasonable luck looking up the games that other folks put in their signatures.

I appreciate it!
I might take you up on that!

 

[rta001]

ok so im right after the morgue dream, and my question who the hell choosed that song? from all the creepy songs they choosed the only one who can give you god dam ptsd in any scene

Dead Space used Twinkle Twinkle to similar chilling results, and I'd imagine where the inspiration came from.

 

[Toubib]

Just finished the yoga scene with Kai and Nancy. I was excited to see her change into a nympho MILF but then I see she has only three scenes in the gallery! Man...
Them scenes better be the best in the game istg

 

[e6mill]

I see she has only three scenes in the gallery! Man...
Them scenes better be the best in the game istg

Luna has only 2.

 

[Padorublad3]

Last meme,that render of Alex can be used as a great wallpaper tho Just needs a bit of upscaling and color correction

 

[maxthruster]

Just finished the yoga scene with Kai and Nancy. I was excited to see her change into a nympho MILF but then I see she has only three scenes in the gallery! Man...
Them scenes better be the best in the game istg

You won't be disappointed. They are some very quality scenes.

 

[LuckyRaven]

This is so good, I am mainly here for the story at this point. Can't wait for part 0.9.

 

[HeraldOfEras]

Just finished the yoga scene with Kai and Nancy. I was excited to see her change into a nympho MILF but then I see she has only three scenes in the gallery! Man...
Them scenes better be the best in the game istg

I'm not even a big Nancy fan and I remember at least one of her scenes being an easy top 5 in the whole game.

 

[Guy Who Commented OneTime]

I loved this game. But I do have a hot take. The recent 'season' seemed to be put together with much less thought toward any story arcs, tension, etc. More like a dumping ground to drop scenes between certain characters that ppl likely clamored for, but with little to no meaning or genuine feeling behind it. It's the first time that I felt a bit disappointed, because without the intrigue/build-up of chemistry guiding characters between each scene makes it feel like they went with quantity over quality. Ofc, It's still my favorite and I'm happy to wait as long as it takes for Caribdis to cook the next release.. I just feel crazy that I haven't seen ANYone mention this at all. Infact, not much constructive criticism whatsoever.

 

[Dorfnutter]

I loved this game. But I do have a hot take. The recent 'season' seemed to be put together with much less thought toward any story arcs, tension, etc. More like a dumping ground to drop scenes between certain characters that ppl likely clamored for, but with little to no meaning or genuine feeling behind it. It's the first time that I felt a bit disappointed, because without the intrigue/build-up of chemistry guiding characters between each scene makes it feel like they went with quantity over quality. Ofc, It's still my favorite and I'm happy to wait as long as it takes for Caribdis to cook the next release.. I just feel crazy that I haven't seen ANYone mention this at all. Infact, not much constructive criticism whatsoever.

I mean, you said it yourself: it's YOUR hot take on the matter, meaning it's not going to be an opinion shared by the majority (hence why little to no people are talking about it).

Also, from what I've gathered during the release of 0.8, the only major criticism some people have of the update was the Stanley Parable event, which they viewed as "filler content" that overstayed its welcome. To that, however, Cari pretty much disagreed.

 

[housekinokuni1974]

I loved this game. But I do have a hot take. The recent 'season' seemed to be put together with much less thought toward any story arcs, tension, etc. More like a dumping ground to drop scenes between certain characters that ppl likely clamored for, but with little to no meaning or genuine feeling behind it. It's the first time that I felt a bit disappointed, because without the intrigue/build-up of chemistry guiding characters between each scene makes it feel like they went with quantity over quality. Ofc, It's still my favorite and I'm happy to wait as long as it takes for Caribdis to cook the next release.. I just feel crazy that I haven't seen ANYone mention this at all. Infact, not much constructive criticism whatsoever.

youre alone on this man haha

 

[Tomoushie]

Theory from Discord server:

 

[KanyeT]

I loved this game. But I do have a hot take. The recent 'season' seemed to be put together with much less thought toward any story arcs, tension, etc. More like a dumping ground to drop scenes between certain characters that ppl likely clamored for, but with little to no meaning or genuine feeling behind it. It's the first time that I felt a bit disappointed, because without the intrigue/build-up of chemistry guiding characters between each scene makes it feel like they went with quantity over quality. Ofc, It's still my favorite and I'm happy to wait as long as it takes for Caribdis to cook the next release.. I just feel crazy that I haven't seen ANYone mention this at all. Infact, not much constructive criticism whatsoever.

Only Carib knows how the game/story is going to end, along with each arc. Maybe he has a plan that these scenes and things that happen will pay off eventually? We won't know until the game is over.

 

[Dorfnutter]

Theory from Discord server:

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Loop theory has been mentioned by some theorycrafters in and out of Discord. Can't say I'm convinced with the Matrix parallels though given that it's been foreshadowed (and now somewhat) established that Eternum is a supernatural plane of existence instead of a tech marvel and that the dead being trapped there is hinted as the result rather than the reason for its creation (like the Matrix is).

 

[ShinoSilviu]

Loop theory has been mentioned by some theorycrafters in and out of Discord. Can't say I'm convinced with the Matrix parallels though given that it's been foreshadowed (and now somewhat) established that Eternum is a supernatural plane of existence instead of a tech marvel and that the dead being trapped there is hinted as the result rather than the reason for its creation (like the Matrix is).

my theory is that what happening is similar to the solo leveling gates, basicaly other dimensions, and the npcs, or at least some them are real entities, my best hope is calipso realy being some kind of elf queen not just a glitched unfinished pandoras box

 

[Soubhagya_191]

I mean, you said it yourself: it's YOUR hot take on the matter, meaning it's not going to be an opinion shared by the majority (hence why little to no people are talking about it).

Also, from what I've gathered during the release of 0.8, the only major criticism some people have of the update was the Stanley Parable event, which they viewed as "filler content" that overstayed its welcome. To that, however, Cari pretty much disagreed.

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Oh that goblin who sort of hypnotized Orion on the pirate island. I loved that part it made Orion realize how important the girls are in his life and what it would feel like to lose them

 

[Capt_Kirk]

Also, from what I've gathered during the release of 0.8, the only major criticism some people have of the update was the Stanley Parable event, which they viewed as "filler content" that overstayed its welcome. To that, however, Cari pretty much disagreed.

for me the stanley parable was alright but the biggest letdown was the Mc explaining to Nancy that he almost die and that now he's capable of inter dimensional travel , just imagine all the heavy feelings and emotions that realization convey .
but instead that scene didn't have any kind of emotional pay off or heaviness and ended up feeling like the Mc just told a fart joke and Nancy answer was "wow that just happened" .
the only scene that gave us a little bit of that even thou was for comedic purposes , is when Nova realized that she was in eternum with her real body and that she could've die for real ....but that lasted like 2 frames .

 

[maxthruster]

Theory from Discord server:

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While it seems pretty clear there's a cycle being followed - Idriel's whole thing with the coin is about as subtle as a marching band in a library - I sincerely doubt that the events of Eternum are some kind of time loop.

First and foremost, we know that Eternum is not a computer program. That's kind of the whole in-universe twist: this thing everyone thought was a computer program is actually just the multiverse. It would be kind of dumb to then turn around and go "actually, it is a computer program, you're just part of it too!"

Now, that doesn't mean time loops are impossible; obviously magic exists in many planes of existence, so it's probably doable if you have enough arcane energy to just keep the multiverse going in a circle. Unlikely, but possible. What I struggle to see in that scenario is a motive; in the Matrix it was to patch out bugs while keeping human consciousnesses active so they could power machines, but what does the Founder(or whoever is causing it, if it's not him, but I'm going to assume he's the big bad for the sake of this post) gain from looping the universe? We just don't know right now.

The only motivations yet attributable to whoever is pulling the strings are the elimination of the xenomorphs, and the collection of the Gems of Doom. I have... doubts that wiping out the xenos is gonna be the main plot, given they weren't introduced until halfway through and have mostly been mindless killing machines. Also because, if whoever's doing this has an actual altruistic motive, I don't think they'd be so secretive about it.

So that leaves us with the Gems of Doom. I think that's the key. Someone in here suggested they work kind of like Dragon Balls, where after being used they scatter, and I think that's probably about accurate. Abstergo Ulysses obviously wants people to gather them but the promise of just handing over the company seems... far-fetched to say the least. Whether they outright grant wishes or just immense power to do a thing is hard to say right now. But they're almost certainly the key to whatever grand design is going on right now.

So back to the cycle. I don't think everything that's happened so far has happened before - not exactly, anyway. It seems likely that the Founder has done this before: set up shop in a world, give its denizens access to the multiverse, and trick them into hunting these stones for him. After he gets them, he presumably just offs them and does as he pleases. Whether things are going according to plan or not at this moment in time is hard to say.

We know that he's aware of Orion, that Ulysses keeps information to track people who collect Gems, and that they can measure a person's affinity with Eternum. All of this is to say that, as of right now, we're still playing his game by his rules. He's confident that we're not a problem yet. My guess is that Thanatos was playing outside those rules, and that's why he got got, but whatever happened he's still a thorn in the side of the Founder. Everyone who gathered the Gems in the past fell into the same trap, ultimately beaten by the Founder who then took power for himself to do... whatever it is he's doing. The plot is going to hinge on us doing the thing he doesn't want us to do, but until we know what the Gems are actually for we don't know what that thing is going to be.

As a final aside, I sincerely doubt the plot is going to come down to "save the world or save your girls, but not both." Not only would that be a huge downer ending for a romance game, at least as the default ending, but it just isn't Cari's style. Remember that OIALT told you late in the game that you'd only be able to take one girl with you after everything was over, but the canon ending was still the one where you just said "nah, fuck that." Even if a harsh choice is presented to us, there will absolutely be a way around it. It may require a sacrifice, in the same vein as Asmodeus, but I'm fairly confident we'll save the world and settle down with the girls to live happily ever after. That's just how it goes.

 

[Dorfnutter]

for me the stanley parable was alright but the biggest letdown was the Mc explaining to Nancy that he almost die and that now he's capable of inter dimensional travel , just imagine all the heavy feelings and emotions that realization convey .
but instead that scene didn't have any kind of emotional pay off or heaviness and ended up feeling like the Mc just told a fart joke and Nancy answer was "wow that just happened" .

Yeah, well...

 

[ciberma7865]

Yeah, well...

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