VN Ren'Py Friends in Need [Mini-Sode: Blue Valentine] [NeonGhosts]

[soldano]

So you split it into two games? Good to know.

As I understand they are ways of calling it so people don't get confused. They are not two games.
That is, if Friends Indeed is in beta, it means that all the vanilla content of this update is included. On the other hand, if Friends in Need is in alpha, it means that content is missing from the Taboo Patch. It is understood? It's the same game, really.

 

[emirRR3V]

 

[Joshy92]

Ok everyone I have donned my armour

Time to become a knight in shining armour
These lovely ladies & Mason need protection & love
And they will get it no matter what.
And if Jamie or any dude tries to hurt them
well, they will unleash the raging beast I have hidden away

I will be paying very close attention to Brent especially.
You mess with my queen, you feel my wrath.

 

[Ottoeight]

As I understand they are ways of calling it so people don't get confused. They are not two games.
That is, if Friends Indeed is in beta, it means that all the vanilla content of this update is included. On the other hand, if Friends in Need is in alpha, it means that content is missing from the Taboo Patch. It is understood? It's the same game, really.

My mind is confused now.

 

[NeonGhosts]

Hey hey, I posted the Alpha/Beta builds over on my respective pages. Release schedule for the final version is as follows.

• $ 15 - 8/16
• $ 5 - 8/19
• $ 2 - 8/23
• Public - 8/26

My mind is confused now.

Friends Indeed has all the taboo content removed from the script itself, as well as the image folders. It's funded through Patreon.

Friends in Need is the classic version, which is still censored, but can be uncensored through use of a patch. It's funded through SubStar.

That's it!

 

[liazz577]

goddaym the model of britt

 

[robrize2169]

mc needs to hire a trainer to learn some fighting skills since he is building a harem of hot ladies who seem to all have shitty exes or stalkers..or hire Ashe's dad as a bodyguard..provided you haven't pissed him off...

 

[RC-1138 Boss]

Hiring bodyguards would go against his habit of trying to not attract much attention to himself.
But other than Nikki's stalker ex who else could be a danger? Doubt that we will see the thief who stole Mason's things and that young asshole (forgot his name) who was a racist/rapist and blackmailer was already dealth with.

 

[robrize2169]

yeah Jamie, the racist, rapist pos could be further dealt with by having mc fuck with his university applications so he ends up having to go to a shitty college. after all, he did sucker punch mc and that should have repercussions..

 

[cloudfw]

The latter, mostly. I hinted at this when they meet in the park, and MC can either be sweet to her, or degrade her in the open. Kinda trying to show that MC might, in knowing that Ashe is kinky, treat her like less than/a slut, while still pursuing a relationship with her. Basically forming a toxic relationship where she wants one thing, and he's more obsessed with pushing her further and further, and out of her comfort zone.

Though Ashe does expose some more kinks in this one.

I just wanted to thank you for the work you are putting into this.
Not only are you doing a "good" and a "dark" path, but even being on a "good" path there are still possibilities to be quite manipulative while not being a brute. This is something so rarely done, and I very much appreciate it, since if I am playing evil I always prefer the Palpatine way and such a thing is done so rarely.

 

[allanl9020142]

Path A - you make a crucial choice and it jumps to Path B. Path B can have similarities, but how the characters act around you can be very different. In this game, however, each character has 3 to 5 different paths. The plot unfolds roughly the same, but the interactions are different.

Hmm, see that's what I'm not getting. I get having at least 3 paths for each character: Evil, Asshole, Nice. I just don't know how to categorize the other ones or whether they'd be all that different from the main 3 paths.

 

[Bigboi42]

Oh hell yeah i gotta toss you a 5er for sure on the 19th, i been waiting patiently for this shit

 

[Deleted member 313508]

Your classifications are too simplistic. For instance if you look at the walkthrough, there are 5 classifications for Nikki:

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These are all considered separate routes. Some of the other characters only have 3 or 4 at this point. So if you want to think of routes as "good" or "evil", more than one of the above can fit into those categories.

 

[allanl9020142]

Your classifications are too simplistic. For instance if you look at the walkthrough, there are 5 classifications for Nikki:

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These are all considered separate routes. Some of the other characters only have 3 or 4 at this point. So if you want to think of routes as "good" or "evil", more than one of the above can fit into those categories.

Aaaah. I get it now. I was too hung up on the archetypes. That makes this game even more interesting now, it's more about the relationship to each character and not so much which "Guy" you're playing as. You're usually kind of stuck in whatever "archetype" you choose to play as in these kinds of VNs. Seems like choices actually matter vs just being sorted into a category then running on a railroad with the illusion of choices.

 

[Joshy92]

I'm glad Drew and the rest of you are starting to understand I'm a romantic dude

I don't just want to make love to these beautiful ladies bodies
I want to make love to their souls too

 

[Samuel Hidayat]

mc needs to hire a trainer to learn some fighting skills since he is building a harem of hot ladies who seem to all have shitty exes or stalkers..or hire Ashe's dad as a bodyguard..provided you haven't pissed him off...

Or, he could just buy guns and conceal carry all the time. I don't know about his city's policy on guns, but the rich usually can afford some leeways.

 

[Danv]

just wondering - is Friends Indeed even viable at all? by the sound of it it's more serious rework vs just censored version + patch and require additional time investment, and i can't imagine a lot of people would be getting it if normal FiN is available on SS anyway, just to get it on patreon? not like it's beloved platform these days
also - wouldn't censored FiN already comply with patreon policy?

 

[armond]

Or, he could just buy guns and conceal carry all the time. I don't know about his city's policy on guns, but the rich usually can afford some leeways.

The obviously correct answer, the question then becomes what would guy carry. A glock is to simple but I don't get the feeling he's a gun nut either, so he's not going to have a Beretta 93r either. Something unique but not too specialized.... maybe a usp because he saw misato use one in eva

 

[U330661]

just wondering - is Friends Indeed even viable at all? by the sound of it it's more serious rework vs just censored version + patch and require additional time investment, and i can't imagine a lot of people would be getting it if normal FiN is available on SS anyway, just to get it on patreon? not like it's beloved platform these days
also - wouldn't censored FiN already comply with patreon policy?

I think the point is that Patreon doesn’t like censored versions if they have references in their code.

iirc even having an uncensored version on another platform is enough to get banned from Patreon, they just don’t check that much.

 

[Samuel Hidayat]

The obviously correct answer, the question then becomes what would guy carry. A glock is to simple but I don't get the feeling he's a gun nut either, so he's not going to have a Beretta 93r either. Something unique but not too specialized.... maybe a usp because he saw misato use one in eva

I don't see Guy as a firearm afficionado, so he'll either buy the ol' reliable Glock or whatever fudd lore he believes in.