VN Ren'Py Her Last Piece [Act 2 v1.1.024] [SpiceMerchants]

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justranked Some response on your 2-star review. It's relatively short, but certainly not bad for a first release, and it's certainly not 7-10 min short. I suspect you're running the initial 1.0 release (as offered in the OP here) that has a bug throwing you out (read from beginning of thread).

I believe this is pt1 of a 3-parter, where the other 2 parts will be slightly longer (I believe I read that in this thread earlier). So the final product won't be overly long I guess, but perhaps just good/fine enough.
 
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Bro, well, when I play the full version, then I'll give the full version a proper rating.
Right now I'm playing a short story, which I passed in 10 minutes without exaggeration. I read the dialog, I watched the scenes.

It should be mentioned here that any evaluation of a product is a subjective experience, even though we try to make it objective. A rating of 2/5 - I think that's not bad. One point for the visuals, one point for the story and music. The other 3 points - I have nowhere to get them when I've been watching the product for 10 minutes.

I'm not sure which version I played, to be honest, I downloaded it about 2 weeks ago.

And I'm not sure about the bug, after being thrown to the gallery, I loaded the save again “moving on” through the story. Opened the whole gallery.
 
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I thought about it and decided to add another comment on my assessment of the game.

I mean, well, it's nothing personal here - no hatin' on you, on the developer, on the publisher, nothing like that.
It's just my subjective assessment, which I'm trying to make objective.

For example, what game would I rate 5/5?
It's any game in the Bishoujo Mangekyou series.
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Why?
Because it has amazing visuals - created by a legendary artist (Happoubi Jin).
Stunning music, all action animation, Live 2D, flawless software code. And all this I watch not for 10 minutes (and not even 20-30 minutes), but at least 3-4 hours.
Not a bad story (not the best, but not bad), non-linear choices and all that.

And most importantly, the game didn't come out “in pieces” 10-20 mins each part - it came out all at once, so I was able to evaluate it correctly.

And compared to, for example, this masterpiece, which I would rate at 5/5 - a 2/5 rating is well, honestly, not bad, because 95% of games I would rate 0/5.
 
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You might want to take a look on this. Someone is portraying you and your team on itch.io, they are giving the game for free, so it's probably a virus.
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consentpapi said:
That's not a bug. It means the game ended and you have to restart. It doesn't have a long story so you can see all endings in a few playthroughs.
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No it's a bug, where every time a scene plays out, you get sent to the gallery and return sends you to the main menu.
 
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weezal said:
her dead husband maybe.

My own theory is that MC is either a reincarnation of the husband or him brought back to life (or who knows she's probably just crazy). Frankly I don't trust that MC recently entered the castle. I think he's been there for a long time in a cycle almost. Each time he dies he wakes back up in the cell and Arvenia tries again. Perhaps trying to recreate her husband in him. The carving in the rock could be from a previous cycle. Also when she describes her wedding night she says "we" possibly referring to MC. Or this could be meaningless. Also her reaction to MC after shaving, she acts stunned possibly seeing her husband in him again. Unrelated but she seems to have multiple personalities with differing goals. Or this could be a red herring and she just acting at not being a psycho.
Either way very intriguing characters.
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Interesting... Could well be something like that, would explain a few things.

Honestly the hubby stuff put me off though and I stopped playing there. Probably the biggest turn off for me is someone describing sex with their ex, just don't wanna hear that. Had enough of it in real life from dumb people who don't get basic dating etiquette. Don't need it in a dating sim with a mad evil witch queen as well.
 
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And I have one more question, in the dinner scene the hero says that he lost his parents at 6 years old, but in the answer options it says 10 years old?
 
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A new rival appears

Hello everyone,
We’re making great strides on Act 2; we’re currently doing a lot of work with the Live2D elements of the game as well as integrating a lot of the actual content.
This is both a fast and slow process simultaneously, it’s a lot of back and forth and tweaking things… Going back… Tweaking them again, rinse and repeat.
Anyway, we’re not here to bore you with the details and logistics of game design,
What we are here to do, is tease an exciting new character with her own agenda…
With all the chaos and drama of the player and Arvenia’s twisted romance, could she be a force to help bring about some peace and stability?
… Or is she going to throw fire and turn this hot oven into an inferno?


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We hope you guys have an amazing week!
As always, thank you all so much for your support of Her Last Piece!


Love,
-Spice Merchant Games
 
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13TOKENS said:
And I have one more question, in the dinner scene the hero says that he lost his parents at 6 years old, but in the answer options it says 10 years old?
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It's a mistake to be fixed.
 
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