VN Ren'Py Friends in Need [S1 v0.85c] [NeonGhosts]

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Amazing update.(y)(y)

Good Guy is pretty much a walking and talking good samaritan. Nice that he could not only give Viola a ride during a stormy night but also help her with her sleemo landlord, all that while Guy ponders about his situation growing up. Well maybe her situation will change enough so she can bring her mother to live in a better place.:)

And that had the nice side effect of making Ashe even more wet for him. Speaking of Ashe it kinda seems to me that she is the one doing the corruption on the good route: blowjob on a speeding car, incest play, anal plus a bit of spanking/choking. Also the fact they did it four times in one night (counting the shower fade do black scene). Kinky, i liked that change on roles. :love:

The explanation for her accent was funny and i enjoyed when she opened up about how most people see her just as a dumb bimbo who sleeps her way to the top. That leads to Guy likely going to end up becoming a movie producer to help both her and Brittani.
By the way, speaking of Brittani i don't get the bracelet story Guy mentioned. Is he thinking she stole it? Admit i was a bit sleepy when playing the game last night and may have missed something.:sleep:
 
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zeph19 said:
The scope of this game is starting to worry me a little. It's easily a top 3 game for me and even though Ashe was in the lower tier for me, I really enjoyed her storyline which Neon hoped would get more people in her camp. And it did.

But all in all, it feels like not much happened in the world of Friends in Need if you take the last update and this one and think about the time they consumed.

In the dark path, Nicki has left and seems to be gone for example. Resolving that, if Guy doesn't just go and get her for whatever reason, is worthy of a full update on its own.

It's very complicated to put into words, but I can't help but think that it's going to become insanely hard to write and code the game if you want to do every path justice. I'm sure I've also missed tons of scenes due to the nature of how you get to certain points: choose 1,2,2,1 and you get outcome a, choose 2,2,2,1 and you get b, 2,1,1,2 and you get c.. and so on.

I'm sure I'm just very demanding and obnoxious here, but I would've wished for a little more Viola and Risa content here to balance things out.

Maybe I'm worrying for nothing, but for some reason I'm kind of invested in this game not just for the great tits (Shoutout to Brittani and Risa here), but also the project itself, since I'm a big fan of how Neon presents himself in this forum.
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That’s fair, and I’m definitely aware of the issue. I spoke at length to my patrons about how this update had become kind of a problem child. Too many options, too many results, etc. I need to remember just because I can, doesn’t mean I should. :’D

But, by the end of this update, we’ve moved towards a more streamlined world. Dark Path Nicki and Viola are gone, whether MC knows it or not. Friend path Ashe is now firmly friend or on a romance path, so there won’t be any waffling back and forth.

But, next update I’m going to try testing out a simpler, more streamlined update. The big hurdle is going to be the opening scenes, since there’s a few planned:

Wake up in Nicki’s apartment: full love, full dark, and everything else

Wake up in the condo office, with Ashe sleeping upstairs or not

Wake up with Ashe, love path

Wake up with Ashe, drugged path

Wake up alone

But after that, it should be fairly streamlined: buy Mason glasses, visit Alex’s gym, run an errand with Risa, and go bail out Gabby’s dad. Might be a little light on sexual content, but I’ll see what I can do on that front.

Still, I totally get and appreciate the concern. This one really did get away from me, so I’m going to try to learn some lessons from it.
 
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NeonGhosts said:
That’s fair, and I’m definitely aware of the issue. I spoke at length to my patrons about how this update had become kind of a problem child. Too many options, too many results, etc. I need to remember just because I can, doesn’t mean I should. :’D

But, by the end of this update, we’ve moved towards a more streamlined world. Dark Path Nicki and Viola are gone, whether MC knows it or not. Friend path Ashe is now firmly friend or on a romance path, so there won’t be any waffling back and forth.

But, next update I’m going to try testing out a simpler, more streamlined update. The big hurdle is going to be the opening scenes, since there’s a few planned:

Wake up in Nicki’s apartment: full love, full dark, and everything else

Wake up in the condo office, with Ashe sleeping upstairs or not

Wake up with Ashe, love path

Wake up with Ashe, drugged path

Wake up alone

But after that, it should be fairly streamlined: buy Mason glasses, visit Alex’s gym, run an errand with Risa, and go bail out Gabby’s dad. Might be a little light on sexual content, but I’ll see what I can do on that front.

Still, I totally get and appreciate the concern. This one really did get away from me, so I’m going to try to learn some lessons from it.
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Converge all paths to harem with Gabby and Ashe, rest being optional and you're good :p
 
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SlLePER said:
Well here it is, a gallery mod to replay scenes in the game

Compatible with: Friends in Need
Game version: 0.4
Mod version: 0.4

Installation: place all files into the game folder and overwrite
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Great job brother, but many scenes are opaque (cannot be selected).
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sirpedro7 said:
Great job brother, but many scenes are opaque (cannot be selected).
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I mean it simply goes off of renpy.seen label. If you want to unlock them you can change it in gallery/gallery_python.rpy

Edit: Bad intro scene also has switched labels which I will fix in next release
 
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PHIL101-YYouPPHard said:
Taboo patch does enable incest (MC has one sister that hasn't appeared in the game yet except in pictures and flashbacks), but it also enables dark choices that are normally disabled. Nothing is ever forced and it will be extremely obvious what choices lead to darker content and which ones are just normal nice content. So, don't let that stop you from using patch unless you don't even like the option being there (you'll also miss out on incest though, keep in mind). You shouldn't try to patch an in-process game, though, to avoid bugs; start a fresh one if you want to use patch.
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Oh, thanks for letting me know, I have no problem with incest in games. :)(y)
 
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Well, good update per se. Unfortunately Ashe is really not interesting at all to me. She is not fun, and she is portraied as not fun, babblering about her crap all the time while you pretend to listen, vulgar, not charming, feels too easy, dense and shallow. Hot body, but that's it. Even sex feels like watching pornhub.

While i was happily surprised by the footjob by the consierge, i appreciated the sequenze with Viola, i was mildly interested in pepper cam carrer and disappointed there was no sex scene with Nicky.

So in the end, Ashe is boring, sorry. At least to me. And she feel like that GF you are with because she is good looking and she is an available hole, but half of the time you'd rather be anywhere else.
 
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It was fun doing the Bad Guy playthrough and having Ashe admit that she wanted to get fucked after telling her to go home. I think that only happens if she sees you help Viola and don't drug her, of course, even though she should suspect that you are just blackmailing Vi too. Especially after admitting to her that you want to exploit Brittini. It was almost as fun as refusing the footjob from Risa and telling her Guy just wasn't interested. No time for trust fund bitches he's looking for gals in need.
 
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It was fun doing the Bad Guy playthrough and having Ashe admit that she wanted to get fucked after telling her to go home. I think that only happens if she sees you help Viola and don't drug her, of course, even though she should suspect that you are just blackmailing Vi too. Especially after admitting to her that you want to exploit Brittini. It was almost as fun as refusing the footjob from Risa and telling her Guy just wasn't interested. No time for trust fund bitches he's looking for gals in need.
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Risa feels like she's one more fuck up from being cut off and becoming someone in need.
 
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