VN Ren'Py Abandoned Glimpses of the Past [v0.4.0] [MrStarRaccoon]

[Tithann]

I'm just discovering the game and let me say... the girls are hot but the children are... what's the polite word?..ATROCIOUS!
Also the writing needs a lot more improving... but really a lot...
Also what age are the children supposed to be ? They have disproportionate bodies that kinda makes them look like they're ten-ish but judging by their face they should be around 40... They talk like adults written by a child who doesn't know how adults talk or like children written by an adult who forgot how children talk...
So yeah it looks like a big mess...
I'm gonna play a little bit more to see where the story goes, hoping it's not just flashbacks with atrocious kids but I don't think I'll be very impressed or interested in the long run.
It's sad because the girls are hot, damn it !

 

[Canto Forte]

IN this latest iteration ... this game shows us the terrible explanation for the disproportions in memories,
for the strange way to look at things, for the peculiar way MC gets hints from the past,
for his erratic at times behavior, for the small window of interactions he is engaged in,
for the babes and reason to flock him ...

Memories are hurtful and some are revelations, but more often than not, they put old stickers on
new gurls, on new attitudes, just limiting the range of emotions towards some chars based on past bias.

Open your mind and play this game.
Help Mc recover and churn the throbbing lust for new and beautiful babes with each day.

 

[Frank Rosario]

Here is the Italian translation of "Glimpses of the past" version "0.3.1".
This translation is "unofficial" and "made by a fan".

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Ecco la traduzione italiana di "Glimpses of the past" versione "0.3.1".
Questa traduzione "non è ufficiale" e "fatta da un fan".

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E se questa traduzione vi piace, non dimenticate di mettere un Like, sempre ben accetto!

 

[poideryui]

The story is bullshit but the pics and scenes are so hot

 

[lassoluh]

it just follows what alot of VNs are doing and just throwing in lesbian scenes for reasons, most VNs now have them and now its made me lose interest in both girls

I can relate, i know that most of VNs around have a lot of generic aspects like, the famous dead father, the only son who fucks the entire family, mc smooth face, mc with 20 inches dick and all that shit, it's normal they are cliche because they work and life goes on.

but if there is one thing that are cliche and generic af, is the bi LI that is friend with another LI. One of them are "shy and innocent"(not so innocent sometimes), and the other one is "wild and shameless" and keep hitting on her to get her out of her "shell". After some time this stuff become kinda annoying to see, its like a fucking deja vu. Seriously, i can almost count in my fingers the VNs that i read and doesn't have this.

 

[Canto Forte]

These work because there are always stories but never in your life about it supposedly happening IRL.
That is the spoof .. they kind of resemble the tell tale tales going around about conforting eachother ...
ONly those kind of straight down and dirty relations never go bam . muff diving and low and behold ...
friends with benefits ... when their confessed interest in their life is landing a man, not landing eachother.

I can relate, i know that most of VNs around have a lot of generic aspects like, the famous dead father, the only son who fucks the entire family, mc smooth face, mc with 20 inches dick and all that shit, it's normal they are cliche because they work and life goes on.

but if there is one thing that are cliche and generic af, is the bi LI that is friend with another LI. One of them are "shy and innocent"(not so innocent sometimes), and the other one is "wild and shameless" and keep hitting on her to get her out of her "shell". After some time this stuff become kinda annoying to see, its like a fucking deja vu. Seriously, i can almost count in my fingers the VNs that i read and doesn't have this.

So ... here we have another cliche ... the easy to bang gurl by the gurl and the ”oops I did it again” bang.

Usually .. Mc gets that kind of fun, gamers be aware of the shenanigans and surrealistic aspect of it.

Getting to see another do it, while the player admittedly should be the only magik mike in the game ..

That could be off putting ... only just because such deux ex makina fall in eachother”s arms should
be reserved for the player, the hero of the game, not the side track in some loose yourself knock off.

 

[lassoluh]

So ... here we have another cliche ... the easy to bang gurl by the gurl and the ”oops I did it again” bang.

Usually .. Mc gets that kind of fun, gamers be aware of the shenanigans and surrealistic aspect of it.

Getting to see another do it, while the player admittedly should be the only magik mike in the game ..

That could be off putting ... only just because such deux ex makina fall in eachother”s arms should
be reserved for the player, the hero of the game, not the side track in some loose yourself knock off.

Yeah, those are one of the oldest cliche if we speak about any 18+ game/erotica/porn.

If i may say so, that Deus ex machina and script thing about MC, only happens for inexperienced or lazy writers, who don't know how to develop a story and know nothing about storytelling or the ones who are too lazy to work in those stuff, after all, write a good story it's pretty tough.

So they only make the MC be that character that don't need to do any effort to get laid or to make girls "fallen in love" with him, because is easy and much more pratical than develop a good and well done story(speaking about the lazy writers, the inexperienced ones doesn't include here).

 

[RandyPhoenix]

You make exculisive looking MC like all other ones with that hair and beard cut and now you are making refference to this? Wow...

 

[MrStarRaccoon]

You make exculisive looking MC like all other ones with that hair and beard cut and now you are making refference to this? Wow...

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I want to remind you that Lisa liked the MC's new haircut and Catalina liked the MC with long hair. I wanted to emphasize the different characters' personalities and tastes.

 

[RandyPhoenix]

I want to remind you that Lisa liked the MC's new haircut and Catalina liked the MC with long hair. I wanted to emphasize the different characters' personalities and tastes.

I dont like seeing same thing everywhere. We have lots of MC with that hair style. You were have pretty cool and exculisive MC. You should listen Catarina advice and dont give a any f*ck about thoose people who want make him same with all other MC's around here. Your MC was pretty enique and you just killed that exculisive look. Right now MC looks pretty funny and not cool at all and you know it aswell. Right now he is not matching with his character development and background, im not feeling like he is badass guy who beat all that guys outside of bar cuz he doesnt looks like it. I'm missing MC's old hair and beard lot... Whatever bro its your game make it another one of copy games and suit yourself. Just you need understand your MC apperance and story and his character not matches at all. You have lost that harmony you build perfect with his first look. You shouldt change his look like that its just truth you should saw already And still its your game, if you want absurd things like that no one can tell you ''You cant do that!'' but you are ruining this game with that path you are leading. And i just make this comment because of how ridiculus of this quete to you are making aganist yourself.

 

[MrStarRaccoon]

I dont like seeing same thing everywhere. We have lots of MC with that hair style. You were have pretty cool and exculisive MC. You should listen Catarina advice and dont give a any f*ck about thoose people who want make him same with all other MC's around here. Your MC was pretty enique and you just killed that exculisive look. Right now MC looks pretty funny and not cool at all and you know it aswell. Right now he is not matching with his character development and background, im not feeling like he is badass guy who beat all that guys outside of bar cuz he doesnt looks like it. I'm missing MC's old hair and beard lot... Whatever bro its your game make it another one of copy games and suit yourself. Just you need understand your MC apperance and story and his character not matches at all. You have lost that harmony you build perfect with his first look. You shouldt change his look like that its just truth you should saw already And still its your game, if you want absurd things like that no one can tell you ''You cant do that!'' but you are ruining this game with that path you are leading. And i just make this comment because of how ridiculus of this quete to you are making aganist yourself.

I understand that. This is my first novel. Unfortunately, I had no experience before and I listened to the wishes of the players and made many adjustments to the story. Now I understand that it's impossible to please everyone, and we all have different tastes.

 

[RandyPhoenix]

I understand that. This is my first novel. Unfortunately, I had no experience before and I listened to the wishes of the players and made many adjustments to the story. Now I understand that it's impossible to please everyone, and we all have different tastes.

You cant please everyone and you should guard your own MC's apperance who created by you. You should stick with his first look and if you realy want change his apperance you should do that with good story and character change. Right now its just forced detail we have and its doesnt make any sense with his old character build and story. Still its your game and i have said already suit yourself. Its your creation. If i was DEV i have listen whay my players told me and make changes who looks good to me but i wasnt try to make all of them wishes even with breaking my own game exculusive details. If you ask my opinion i would like to say you can do that hair and strugling MC character change (Who we saw with his step mom) for kind path and you chould leave his first hair for who have in cocky path players. With his old apperance beating 6 guy outside of bar could be more logical. And for example he could be kind and dont beat that guys, he could call cops or someting in kind path maybe? Yes its lots of work but it could be pretty good. Or maybe you can remake things little bit to make to match better? You can back his old hair, beard and character? I mean he was the badass guy who learn nearly everyting from his master, he is fearless but with his haircut out of blue he starts feeling like little boy before date with his step mom This changes are not accurate enough.

 

[thorin0815]

A wise <cough> man once sang:

"It doesn't matter how you wear your hair
It's what inside your head." - Billy Milano (S.O.D.)

 

[Abhai]

I understand that. This is my first novel. Unfortunately, I had no experience before and I listened to the wishes of the players and made many adjustments to the story. Now I understand that it's impossible to please everyone, and we all have different tastes.

trying to please everyone is a road to inevitable disaster...particularly if you are developing a porn game
please, do stick to your plans/ideas, and do tell your intended story as best as you are able to.
and if you can, try and treat this whole process as a hobby/side thing, not a profession youre doing for living.
you can have a great game (as you do have here), and can be not recognized/supported, and you can have a crap game with a lot of support...thats just the way things are around the globe unfortunately.

 

[Bailz]

i dont get people problem with the MC hair, i prefer the short hair to the hipster hair he had, i really dont like guys with long hair

 

[Maviarab]

i dont get people problem with the MC hair, i prefer the short hair to the hipster hair he had, i really dont like guys with long hair

*hides his hair*

I think the problem is not with the hair itself, but why he now has said short hair.

 

[Bailz]

*hides his hair*

I think the problem is not with the hair itself, but why he now has said short hair.

just say its because short hair is better for fighting thats a good enough reason

 

[Maviarab]

just say its because short hair is better for fighting thats a good enough reason

LMAO...oh man I love ya...well..not a lot I can say to that (but we all know the real why and that is the issue).

 

[MRG101]

I understand that. This is my first novel. Unfortunately, I had no experience before and I listened to the wishes of the players and made many adjustments to the story. Now I understand that it's impossible to please everyone, and we all have different tastes.

There is a difference between trying to please everyone (which never works) and sticking to your guns, while still being polite and respectful to both camps. I applaud you for doing so. It´s a rare trait now a days.

 

[Holy Bacchus]

I'm like 99% sure there was a v0.3.0 PDF guide for this game but can't find it but maybe someone got an updated v0.3.1 PDF guide?!

There was, but perhaps IAmAB is just going to stick with the walkthrough mod from now on.

Nothing against gurls as players (particularly as there are few of them fairly fierce around here), yet, i do hope this excursion into "girls life" will be just that, one time thing, and that MrStarRaccoon has no plans to transform this into multiple protagonists game.
Or does he

I don't see Lana as or becoming a 2nd protagonist, I think we're just getting to decide if we want her as a LI or not. Maybe these moments could determine if we get both Lana and Amanda, and that's all we're controlling here. Or perhaps we're not so much controlling Lana and her story, but we're guiding the MC's story via certain actions of Lana's.

it just follows what alot of VNs are doing and just throwing in lesbian scenes for reasons, most VNs now have them and now its made me lose interest in both girls

Honestly, I'm still interested in both even though I'm having them embrace the lesbian stuff. I was more interested in Lana when I played the previous version, but Amanda somehow got way hotter in this update (maybe because she looks like a more sexually adventurous version of Jill from BaDIK) and now I kind of like the idea of getting both of them together.

The other thing is that that I feel like this optional lesbianism is kind of serving a point. Amanda's clearly bitter about men and is already into lesbian stuff and now Lana is feeling similarly jilted, so perhaps the point of this is to get the 2 of them into a relationship by showing their reasoning for doing so. I would also presume that this will have some implications with regards to the MC, since you'd expect all things to somehow relate back to them, so perhaps this is a side story that will run parallel to the main story for a while until it links back to the main story, and/or it will lead to a potential threesome relationship. Either way, I'm sure there will be a point to it and I'm curious to see what that will be.

I want to remind you that Lisa liked the MC's new haircut and Catalina liked the MC with long hair. I wanted to emphasize the different characters' personalities and tastes.

And I think that's good, just like how being more Cocky endears the MC to some people but not others, and the same goes for being more Kindly. Certain characters will like certain things about the MC and it does show that these people like and value different things which gives them more individuality.

BTW, when I went back through the game to make some new saves at certain points, there were 3 lines that came up as Russian when they should have been in English.