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

[SlapE]

FYI, I'm gonna upload the full 'teaser' builds on their respective platforms, before noon today. So, no applying patches and junk. I was just dead tired last night, and couldn't wait for another 10 GB of stuff to upload.



I totally get that (based on the new chapter) but a lot of these girls aren't intended to really be longterm love interests, or anything like that. They're just background flavor.

Like, in the newest chapter, we see three new girls.

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That's not to say none of these girls will have sex scenes, mind. That's just not the primary function.

I kind of fucked up when I was planning things -- originally, the plan was to get Gabby's dad out of jail at the end of update four. Now, he's finally getting out with the next proper update. That's kind of arbitrarily tied me to being stuck inside of a one-week period, during which I didn't want to have MC just bumping into the same people over and over again, or rapidly escalating relationships in the space of a few days.

Pretty soon I'll be freed of that constraint, and able to do a lot more, "Wow, it's been a week since I saw Pepper, let's go see her.." type of updates.

That's one cute convenience store worker, can't wait to meet her despite her not being a love interest. Interested to see what she will think of guy if/when she finds out he owns the place she's working at. (Kind of how when Pepper found out)

Of course I'm always excited to see more Nicki, so I'm glad we get to spend time with her this update.

 

[NeonGhosts]

how do I enable dark patch in the new update, as soon as I use the one given in the 'taboo content patches' the game simply shows error and crashes?

Are you downloading from SubStar or Patreon? Patreon’s files are incompatible.

 

[throatloverjj]

Are you downloading from SubStar or Patreon? Patreon’s files are incompatible.

It was from patreon. should i join discord ?

 

[Joshy92]

All these girls
Don't they realize I'm already spoken for?

 

[KingKraven]

Honestly, I can't wait for the day when I can hold Mason's hand look into those beautiful eyes and say, 'I love you.'
I'm already imagining our honeymoon.

More like:
"Bitch, c'mere! I'm gonna go balls deep in ya!" I mean, you said it. Time to own it.

 

[Joshy92]

More like:
"Bitch, c'mere! I'm gonna go balls deep in ya!" I mean, you said it. Time to own it.

Bro I would never use such foul language when romancing my soulmate
Mason will get nothing but love from me.

And if I did tell Mason I want to be balls deep
I would say it in a gentlemanly way.

 

[NeonGhosts]

It was from patreon. should i join discord ?

Yes, and link your Discord/Patreon so you can access all the channels.

 

[KingKraven]

I can't wait to be balls deep in Mason.

Bro I would never use such foul language when romancing my soulmate
Mason will get nothing but love from me.

And if I did tell Mason I want to be balls deep
I would say it in a gentlemanly way.

Really? Explain that shit above then? Your. Words. Bro.

 

[Machete]

Really? Explain that shit above then? Your. Words. Bro.

Someting in the line of:
"i shall make a true woman of you, my dear.."
"Bbb... but... I'm a man, you j... jerk!"
"Oh, my! What an embarassing mistake i made. Unforgiveable! And so ball-deep in the butt it is, deal lad!"

 

[KingKraven]

Someting in the line of:
"i shall make a true woman of you, my dear.."
"Bbb... but... I'm a man, you j... jerk!"
"Oh, my! What an embarassing mistake i made. Unforgiveable! And so ball-deep in the butt it is, deal lad!"

Sounds like a party to me!

 

[Joshy92]

Trust me guys I can make anything sound romantic like this for example
'Mason honey can I lick your butthole it's just so tempting and looks delicious'

Of course, it wouldn't be complete without handholding & stroking his sexy hair.

 

[KingKraven]

Of course, it wouldn't be complete without handholding & stroking his sexy hair.

Careful with the pronouns in here. I think I remember a mod warning us to not mention them, under threat of a thread ban.

 

[Ultralazuli]

so i think i tried a much older version of this, but i think the narrative and visuals changed a lot from what i played before, to now. of particular note, nikki looks significantly different from the store, from her attempt to seduce you for the money, to when you meet her later on. the most recent incarnation of her is way hotter, almost night n day, and whoever that guy was that she was modeling for definitely has an artistic vision. that's not to say he's not a scumfuck cockholster, but at least he knows beauty.

that said, the only right decision when she asks for money, is to hinge the money on her dumping brent. she doesn't have to get with protag-kun, but it was obvious then that he was a complete and utter fuckboi who wanted to get into a gang. she could do way better.

other than that, it's a fairly enjoyable ride; most of the women are decently attractive with some standouts, the sex scenes are well done, the narrative fairly compelling. 2 things come to mind.

1. the scene with mason feels......wrong, on a few levels. i'm still gathering my thoughts on that whole debacle, and i've seen it from all the angles. but i don't think I like it.

2. there seems to be something brewing with brent, but there doesn't seem to really be any sort of....fall? often narratives will rise and fall in both tension, as well as success of the protagonist, but there doesn't really seem to be any sort of difficulty that he has, aside from choosing to do the right or wrong thing. maybe there are some choices that could have led to that, but if there are, i either haven't seenm them, or they haven't been developed yet. i'm curious to see if there will be any sort of fall from grace for our 'hero' regardless of whether he made the ethically or morally good choice(s). shit happens in life, and most of it is bad news.

 

[SlapE]

Careful with the pronouns in here. I think I remember a mod warning us to not mention them, under threat of a thread ban.

That's not what the mod was saying, he said it's okay to believe what you believe and use the pronoun you want, but to not argue about it here. So basically don't go after someone for using whichever pronoun, or arguing about all the politics around it in general.

 

[KingKraven]

That's the what the mod was saying, he said it's okay to believe what you believe and use the pronoun you want, but to not argue about it here. So basically don't go after someone for using whichever pronoun, or arguing about all the politics around it in general.

Yeah, well, you know how people are though when they don't agree. They facepalm and/or start shit. I think it's just best to avoid it altogether.

 

[NeonGhosts]

FYI: I've updated

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, so now you can just download the game with the update teaser applied.

Changelog:
400+ new images
5 new animations
Erotic content with Nicki and Ashe.

 

[Joshy92]

We can never have enough erotic content with Nicki.
That girl is an angel.

 

[GokutheG]

so i think i tried a much older version of this, but i think the narrative and visuals changed a lot from what i played before, to now. of particular note, nikki looks significantly different from the store, from her attempt to seduce you for the money, to when you meet her later on. the most recent incarnation of her is way hotter, almost night n day, and whoever that guy was that she was modeling for definitely has an artistic vision. that's not to say he's not a scumfuck cockholster, but at least he knows beauty.

that said, the only right decision when she asks for money, is to hinge the money on her dumping brent. she doesn't have to get with protag-kun, but it was obvious then that he was a complete and utter fuckboi who wanted to get into a gang. she could do way better.

other than that, it's a fairly enjoyable ride; most of the women are decently attractive with some standouts, the sex scenes are well done, the narrative fairly compelling. 2 things come to mind.

1. the scene with mason feels......wrong, on a few levels. i'm still gathering my thoughts on that whole debacle, and i've seen it from all the angles. but i don't think I like it.

2. there seems to be something brewing with brent, but there doesn't seem to really be any sort of....fall? often narratives will rise and fall in both tension, as well as success of the protagonist, but there doesn't really seem to be any sort of difficulty that he has, aside from choosing to do the right or wrong thing. maybe there are some choices that could have led to that, but if there are, i either haven't seenm them, or they haven't been developed yet. i'm curious to see if there will be any sort of fall from grace for our 'hero' regardless of whether he made the ethically or morally good choice(s). shit happens in life, and most of it is bad news.

That's one of the reasons why I hope the remake will rework the mc to just having strong feelings of friendship instead of unrequited love because it would tie into giving her the money without sex and he can suggest that she dumps Brent without it coming off as because he wants her.

Now I could see how this could cause some story problems down the line if she breakup with him in the first chapter and I think I have a solution. We know that after she stays with Brent he forges her signature to take out loans and that leads to her ordeal with the photographer. So what if when she breaks up with him it turns out that the money was only enough to cover the debt in his name and since she's dumping him he won't use the proceeds from his (totally successful) crypto schemes to pay her debt since he feels its no longer his problem. This would make it even more blatant how much of a pos he is.

I can totally see Brent and/or Jamie trying to come up with a plan to go after mc because they believe he wronged them somehow. Like they try to tarnish the charity's name and certain choices can help or hurt their case. Like if you attack the homeless guy who was bothering Mason they can use the video of that incident as proof(but the full vid shows mc was protecting himself and Mason). They can also say the charity is just used for the mc to sleep with desperate girls.

I think I may know what you may be picking up from Mason's story so far that made you uncomfortable.

 

[Erotica Biblion]

The new chapter is extremely branchy, more than I expected really. That's not a bad thing, just an interesting contrast to how with many games your paths boil down to "do it or miss out".

 

[NeonGhosts]

The new chapter is extremely branchy, more than I expected really. That's not a bad thing, just an interesting contrast to how with many games your paths boil down to "do it or miss out".

I have mixed feelings about it, tbh. I was motivated to do it, because I felt like it's not something I see done a lot and I'd gotten a few reviews along the lines of, "There's the illusion of choice, but it's all linear. :< " So, I wanted to do at least one update where there were some radical divergences in what the player sees.

Buuuut, it kinda reduced the overall length of the average playthrough. Between all five possible openings, there's like 400 images. Nicki's path is like.. 175 of those? So, if you go to Nicki's apartment in the last update, your playthrough will feel longer. If you don't, it'll feel a good bit shorter. Also, it was kind of a pain in the ass to unify all the paths.

I'm sure I'll do something similar again, but keep it to two possibilities, instead of five.

And yeah, I've never liked the way a lot of AVNs are like: Here's your choice, fuck her or don't. I try to even make the friendship/no sex paths interesting in their own right. Gabby's friendship one is a fun example. On her love path, she's angry at you for what she sees as you infantilizing her. On the corruption/dark path she's worried about how you'll exploit your hold on her, to varying degrees. But, on her friend route she's basically like, "Hey, it wasn't cool that you hid this from me," but MC explains (reasonably!) that he's known her less than a week, and didn't think it was his place to meddle in her family dynamic.