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Maybe Dev is setting up some sort of alien sabotage plot? Remember that this MC wasn't the first pick. Of course, that would only works if you keep players playing the game.
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It's a bit slow but I feel like MC is sizing up the relationship dynamics of the place, like if fucking one girl right away would lock him out of any chance with some others. Also trying to figure out WTF is happening with the two supernatural entities that just fucking disappeared, one of whom is haunting his dreams, the other missing people that are hinted at, and the sudden personality change of one of the characters, which I have solid theories on already. Also it picks up a bit on the fucking side towards the end. He's also extremely self-conscious and that aspect is pretty well written into the story. Not saying I don't think it could use a bit of picking up but I see the story for what it is.
Wait, what? I'm doing the photoshoot with Robyn and Samantha, and it's saying something about collecting masks.
Maybe I'm crazy, but this has been a completely story-driven visual novel, with absolutely no opportunity to find masks or whatever.
Maybe I'm crazy, but this has been a completely story-driven visual novel, with absolutely no opportunity to find masks or whatever.
I think they were going to put a minigame in the photoshoot, but decided against it at some point, and decided to give the scenes you would have gotten if you had won the scrapped minigame without changing the dialogue. You don't end up missing out on anything if that's what you're wondering.
I haven't played the last few versions, but in the last one that I did several months ago, there was a small mini game where the goal was to find a handful of masks within a couple of rooms. It seemed like that would be step one for a jumping off point into a more open world/sandbox type of experience, but to this point I don't know if the dev is progressing with that. I'm personally waiting to see if they do before playing again, because the heavy dialogue hallway VN is just too much for me.
I guess they removed all open world elements then, because I saw hints at a "free roam" mode that never materialized, and then the mask setup without a minigame included must mean they have gone in a different direction than initially envisioned. Not sure what's going on between that and removed content. Doesn't give confidence that they 100% know where they're going with this. I do like the story and all the overarching meta elements seem to be well laid out, even though I can hear the grating British accent by dint of the syntax that I know American/Canadian/Australian/New Zealander English speakers probably wouldn't use (merely a point of personal dislike of modern British English =P).
I'm not one who's picky about gameplay elements as long as they're a logical, player-friendly system and have some sort of cohesion but a lack of willingness to stick to a vision bothers me with any dev.
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A few releases back there was an open world, point-and-click hunt for masks that revealed an additional scene. It was nothing special. They also redid the confessional scene because there was a lot of blowback over seeing a flashback in which an LI was manipulated into a blowjob. The earliest versions of this game were made with Visual Novel Maker but subsequently moved to Ren'Py after repeated complaints about the original game engine. I think it's more about responding to complaints than not knowing where they are going.
Well, I've already said how I feel about the decision of removing that scene completely, as opposed to using a choice or skip option, especially as they've already had several points where you can choose one scene or another, why not keep both the original scene and the one they replaced it with, and offer the option to see one or the other?
The decision to switch engines is good, VN Maker is horrible in terms of its implementation, save system, and a few other issues I had with it that I can't remember, and Ren'Py is very easy to mod which is great for indie games especially. For example, in this game I made the text box transparent and changed the font color, and added a raised outline to increase readability. There are also tons of games where devs have buggy implementation, incorrectly call on a resource, have clunky systems, or strange label jumps that cause awkward sequencing of events that I fix on my own to make the game easier to get through. That's easy to do in Ren'Py and I just think it's a superior tool in many other ways.
If they choose to stick to a linear style or add either sandbox or "choice hub" which is effectively a text sandbox, I'm down, but they've already compromised on their storytelling, so who knows what else they're changing from the story as originally outlined, and that's more of what I'm getting at in terms of them knowing where they're going with this.
I've defended their storytelling in response to BadHero; I think the core is solid--it's just that people who think "beta male bad" whenever you don't have an MC dicking down anything he sees overlap with the type whose complaints probably prompted their initial storytelling change and I don't have the confidence that future releases will line up with whatever narrative they had planned when they set out to do this.
I noticed the "Pregnancy" tag is missing. This seems like the perfect story and setup for the overseers to witness pregnancy fetish stuff.
- Nov 24, 2019
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"...tries to complete his mission, given by the Overseers to bed a town full of women..."
MC is pretty gay if he thinks he can complete his mission by avoiding sex at almost every opportunity.
MC is pretty gay if he thinks he can complete his mission by avoiding sex at almost every opportunity.
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Version 0.15
Here is the latest update. Quite a bit of story in this one. No Mokori but I am planning something very large in that area in an update or wo.
It has around 230 new renders and sets up alot more of the first story arcs story and throws in a surprise as well.
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the women on the cover are stacked to the point of deformity. gross
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In for a Penny [v0.15] compressed
Original PC Size: 2.55 GB
Compressed PC Size: 532 MB:
Original PC Size: 2.55 GB
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