VN Ren'Py Friends in Need [Ch.10 v0.71] [NeonGhosts]

[estrada777]

Well here it is, a gallery mod to replay scenes in the game

Compatible with: Friends in Need
Game version: 0.60c
Mod version: 0.60c.1

Spoiler: Changelog

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Installation: place all files into the game folder and overwrite

Spoiler: Unlocker

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I installed the gallery mod and then the unlocker and I get this during normal gameplay:

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/gallery/gallery_overrides.rpy", line 83, in script
    python:
  File "game/gallery/gallery_overrides.rpy", line 85, in <module>
    renpy.jump("ch3_after_bathroom", ignore_override = True)
TypeError: jump() got an unexpected keyword argument 'ignore_override'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/gallery/gallery_overrides.rpy", line 83, in script
    python:
  File "S:\renpy-8.1.3-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 1138, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "S:\renpy-8.1.3-sdk\renpy\python.py", line 1122, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/gallery/gallery_overrides.rpy", line 85, in <module>
    renpy.jump("ch3_after_bathroom", ignore_override = True)
TypeError: jump() got an unexpected keyword argument 'ignore_override'

Windows-10-10.0.22631 AMD64
Ren'Py 8.1.3.23091805
Friends in Need Ch9 v.0.60c 
Thu Jun 13 10:27:19 2024

 

[NeonGhosts]

This is one of those games where story is everything and you can't really make up your mind about it all until you finish it completely. I played a more good guy route as I didn't want to be a "money crazed putting my dick in anything that moves" guy right off the bat, and pretty much came out the other side with a set of blue balls. It seems more development is happening on whatever I missed.

Oh well, guess it'll be finished before the decade ends hopefully?

Off the top of my head, there are positive alignment/non-sleazy scenes for: Nicki, Ashe, Gabby, Risa, Brittani, and Mason.. If you want to be a little sleazy but not evil, there's also teasing content for Viola, Pepper, and Alex. Then the odd obscured nude from the likes of Madison, and bikini pics, etc. for other girls.

This is brought up every so often, and I think the dilemma people find themselves in is that, when you're dealing with a variety of women who all have issues that put them in need of your help, it feels like an innate power imbalance. Which doesn't always feel conducive to a Lawful Good playthrough. Add to that the fact I make every sex act a choice, and it can feel like I'm making the players push the girls into sex.

A good example if Gabby or Ashe's first scene, where the player is required to take the initiative by kissing Gabby, or stopping Ashe from leaving. I tried to make it pretty obvious that they're both into you, and you just have to initiate, buuuuut some people didn't see it that way.

So then I tried to make the girls come onto you, with the player having the choice to refuse - like Mason, Risa, and Brittani. But then people felt that, due to the high-intensity emotional situation they're all in, they still couldn't really consent to it.

So. It's a bit of a pickle.

You can refuse a 2nd time at her place too and then she replies "it's just sex daddy" and you can relent and agree to do it there. That works as an acknowledgement on her part imo, like Guy has already more than proven himself to her at that point, and now she fully wants to have sex with him then as Dessolos said. I think it's clear that Risa just doesn't take sex that seriously at all, it's very casual to her.. like a handshake or something lol.

Yeah, this was really the intent. As someone else said, certain choices to refuse sex lead her to not ask again. Some lead to her trying one more time, and getting shot down and then not asking again. But, not wanting to take advantage leads to her trying again.

I wouldn't say sex for Risa is like a handshake, but more like a fun activity she enjoys, and isn't overly sentimental about. I'd be tempted to label her as aromantic, to a degree. Sex is physical, and doesn't require love to be in the equation. Love is something she feels for people she cares about, irrespective of sex. But romantic love, and the way it intersects with sex, is a bit alien to her.

 

[Joshy92]

Off the top of my head, there are positive alignment/non-sleazy scenes for: Nicki, Ashe, Gabby, Risa, Brittani, and Mason.. If you want to be a little sleazy but not evil, there's also teasing content for Viola, Pepper, and Alex. Then the odd obscured nude from the likes of Madison, and bikini pics, etc. for other girls.

This is brought up every so often, and I think the dilemma people find themselves in is that, when you're dealing with a variety of women who all have issues that put them in need of your help, it feels like an innate power imbalance. Which doesn't always feel conducive to a Lawful Good playthrough. Add to that the fact I make every sex act a choice, and it can feel like I'm making the players push the girls into sex.

A good example if Gabby or Ashe's first scene, where the player is required to take the initiative by kissing Gabby, or stopping Ashe from leaving. I tried to make it pretty obvious that they're both into you, and you just have to initiate, buuuuut some people didn't see it that way.

So then I tried to make the girls come onto you, with the player having the choice to refuse - like Mason, Risa, and Brittani. But then people felt that, due to the high-intensity emotional situation they're all in, they still couldn't really consent to it.

So. It's a bit of a pickle.



Yeah, this was really the intent. As someone else said, certain choices to refuse sex lead her to not ask again. Some lead to her trying one more time, and getting shot down and then not asking again. But, not wanting to take advantage leads to her trying again.

I wouldn't say sex for Risa is like a handshake, but more like a fun activity she enjoys, and isn't overly sentimental about. I'd be tempted to label her as aromantic, to a degree. Sex is physical, and doesn't require love to be in the equation. Love is something she feels for people she cares about, irrespective of sex. But romantic love, and the way it intersects with sex, is a bit alien to her.

That part about Risa sounds really interesting. I'm the opposite of Risa I'm very sentimental so let's see if I can show her a new way of looking at sex.

Even though it was only a blowjob I still felt like I took advantage of Mason at the start but now I know he likes it I feel better.

And I like how he got angry at the auto correct that thing always annoys me lol.

 

[SlLePER]

I installed the gallery mod and then the unlocker and I get this during normal gameplay:

Did you also copy the renpy folder as well? The mod needs changes to Renpy source without which it won't work.

 

[Kulman]

So I took a pretty big break, sometime last year, waiting for Gabby update, that should have come early 2024 (estimated back then). So have we gotten gabby content, or is it still pretty sparse? Especially on the path where you are a dick to her.

 

[Dessolos]

So I took a pretty big break, sometime last year, waiting for Gabby update, that should have come early 2024 (estimated back then). So have we gotten gabby content, or is it still pretty sparse? Especially on the path where you are a dick to her.

I think the next one is going to have Gabby if I recall correctly. It was going to be in the recent update but I think I saw a post saying decided to cut it out and put it in the next because of thinking might be not able to hit or deadline or some scenes ended up being bigger than he anticipated something like that.

 

[sagerock820]

No, no Gabby in awhile.

 

[NeonGhosts]

I think the next one is going to have Gabby if I recall correctly. It was going to be in the recent update but I think I saw a post saying decided to cut it out and put it in the next because of thinking might be not able to hit or deadline or some scenes ended up being bigger than he anticipated something like that.

Yeah, I have a bad habit of grossly underestimating how much work is going to go into an update..

Originally, Chapter 8, 9, and 10 were all supposed to be one update.

So, you'd wake up at Nicki's, your place with Ashe/alone, or in the office with Risa. Then you'd go to the convenience store and meet Brittani/Isabella, only to be pestered by influencers Blizzy and Cutiedoll. Then you'd return home and Risa would ask you for a ride, at which point you'd meet Lucien, Cherry, and Markus. After that, you'd bring Risa home, visit Alex, take Mason shopping, and finally bail out Gabby's dad, alongside Madison and Gabby.

Seemed simple enough! But, once I get into an update and it starts to hit 1k renders, I tend to go, "Alright, I need to find a jumping off point, here."

 

[Joshy92]

Yeah, I have a bad habit of grossly underestimating how much work is going to go into an update..

Originally, Chapter 8, 9, and 10 were all supposed to be one update.

So, you'd wake up at Nicki's, your place with Ashe/alone, or in the office with Risa. Then you'd go to the convenience store and meet Brittani/Isabella, only to be pestered by influencers Blizzy and Cutiedoll. Then you'd return home and Risa would ask you for a ride, at which point you'd meet Lucien, Cherry, and Markus. After that, you'd bring Risa home, visit Alex, take Mason shopping, and finally bail out Gabby's dad, alongside Madison and Gabby.

Seemed simple enough! But, once I get into an update and it starts to hit 1k renders, I tend to go, "Alright, I need to find a jumping off point, here."

I have to say bro one of my favourite things about the game is the broader plot of having money and helping people. Other games have tried similar things but haven't pulled it off like this imo. And the name of the game fits the story perfectly.

And I don't have to bang all the girls if I don't want to which is great.

 

[Deleted member 313508]

I have to say bro one of my favourite things about the game is the broader plot of having money and helping people. Other games have tried similar things but haven't pulled it off like this imo. And the name of the game fits the story perfectly.

And I don't have to bang all the girls if I don't want to which is great.

You're a very sick and deranged individual...

 

[Joshy92]

You're a very sick and deranged individual...

Would you believe your not the first person to tell me that.
I was meaning if we are on the good guy path btw. I don't know what it would be called if it only had dark paths.

 

[armond]

Would you believe your not the first person to tell me that.
I was meaning if we are on the good guy path btw. I don't know what it would be called if it only had dark paths.

To me, you're perfect

 

[Deleted member 313508]

Would you believe your not the first person to tell me that.
I was meaning if we are on the good guy path btw. I don't know what it would be called if it only had dark paths.

Don't ever change, man. You be you.

 

[Joshy92]

Guys I think I know how to check what size ring finger Mason is. I'll wait until his asleep and quietly measure then.
And what do I need to know his ring size for you might ask? Well it's a secret.

 

[CamSolusar]

I've really enjoyed this game, and I get going for the darker corruption paths sometimes, but oof. Watching the video of the girls being raped in this one was really just painful. Even on my "dark" playthrough I could never help with something like that. Hope we don't have to watch that kind of thing again without a choice.

 

[sagerock820]

I've really enjoyed this game, and I get going for the darker corruption paths sometimes, but oof. Watching the video of the girls being raped in this one was really just painful. Even on my "dark" playthrough I could never help with something like that. Hope we don't have to watch that kind of thing again without a choice.

Neon has already confirmed that it should have been optional. I believe he will fix it in a future release.

 

[PHIL101-YYouPPHard]

Guys I think I know how to check what size ring finger Mason is. I'll wait until his asleep and quietly measure then.
And what do I need to know his ring size for you might ask? Well it's a secret.

Another way, if you're afraid of waking him, is to find a way to get his finger up your bum; that's the easy part imo. The hard part is you have to have a lot of prostate exams before your asshole figures out it's a natural meter for ring size.

 

[joaodasdesgracas]

Another really good chapter from Neon. Quite dark though, and I do feel that the 'Cherry' part was too much on the nose, but I enjoyed it in the worldbuilding way. If what I read here is true, making the gangrape scene optional would be for the best. Once again, NeonGhost delivers a very good mirror of the lower and shittier parts of society, the mix between self justification, actual justification, shitty reasoning, selfishnes and others strike home.

Regarding criticisms, I'd do some adjustments to the MC X Rhodenbarr dialogue, so it'd feel more natural. Rhodenbarr comes in with a speech, like a stock character going to say his bit. There are people that speak in speeches, but this feels very stiff and unnatural compared to how well everything else in this game flows. I'd need to rewatch the scene to give more precise feedback though.

Risa is certainly my least favorite, but I like her a lot still. I just want more of the others lol. If I'm not remembering wrong, the next chapter should feature my favorite girls all together, Viola, Britanni with an 'i' and Gabby. Should be fuuuuuun. Also, Pepper is really growing on me. Twins... that, I did not expect.

 

[Maevos]

I don't exactly remember what Cherry looks like, it's been a few days since I played the update, but I remember asking myself "Wait a hot minute, is that motherfucking Pepper?"

Is she?

 

[Ragnar]

Another really good chapter from Neon. Quite dark though, and I do feel that the 'Cherry' part was too much on the nose, but I enjoyed it in the worldbuilding way. If what I read here is true, making the gangrape scene optional would be for the best. Once again, NeonGhost delivers a very good mirror of the lower and shittier parts of society, the mix between self justification, actual justification, shitty reasoning, selfishnes and others strike home.

Regarding criticisms, I'd do some adjustments to the MC X Rhodenbarr dialogue, so it'd feel more natural. Rhodenbarr comes in with a speech, like a stock character going to say his bit. There are people that speak in speeches, but this feels very stiff and unnatural compared to how well everything else in this game flows. I'd need to rewatch the scene to give more precise feedback though.

Risa is certainly my least favorite, but I like her a lot still. I just want more of the others lol. If I'm not remembering wrong, the next chapter should feature my favorite girls all together, Viola, Britanni with an 'i' and Gabby. Should be fuuuuuun. Also, Pepper is really growing on me. Twins... that, I did not expect.

In defense of the Rothschild dude. He's been through that routine before.
- His daughter is a troublemaker.
- He wants to keep her under strict control.
- She appears with Guy at home.
- They go to her room.
- Past experiences say they're taking drugs, fucking or both.
So telling the "new" dude to stay away from your daughter is normal in that scenario.