VN Ren'Py JPDE2 - Adagio of Darkness [2.1] [JPDE]

Hiarus

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Now, for my own share of first thoughts (also, these have spoilers for Act 1)

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Now in terms of praise...

The moment to moment writing feels very snappy in a good way, I don't find myself getting bored or blanking out, even during the politics stuff even though I normally do in other stories.

The characters portraits are a huge improvement from the old game, I mean no disrespect to whoever did it for the first one, but this one is more...uniform? Yeah I guess that's the word, uniform.

I wish I could go more in depth on what I liked about the game, but I've always been better at complaining than praising, so I can't really go as in depth lol.
 
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Meinos Kaen

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Thanks for the replies... And I just realized that a few of your complaints will be addressed once you play the new public release in a few days :p
 
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Thechamel

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The game looks nice but I'm wondering, do I need to play the first game to understand what is going on in this one?
 
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Meinos Kaen said:
5) About the lack of deep introspection and David being pansexual, that is on purpose. Unlike the first game, where I was straddling a line between allowing the Player to self-insert or not, JPDE2 is very firmly the story of David di Kabegis. He's not a self-insert, he's a character with very defined characteristics. One of which is that, because of events, he's now much more emotionally closed off, and it would cause narrative dissonance if he's closed off to other characters but completely open to the player.
Another is his sexuality: David is pansexual, if you're straight and can't stomach that? Don't play the game.
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Making David his own character after giving basically 95% of choices to the player in JPDE1 is going to confuse people this early in your development and probably later on.

People will assume the lack of choices or failure to revisit choices from 1 are due to it being the early stage of development rather than you making an actual character who has their own internal logic. Combine that with the very different format of how the game plays (which isn't fully implemented yet) I wouldn't be surprised if you get more people who voice similar thoughts later.

Most people don't know what the game is going to be, I still don't either honestly and I played a slice of this game like 2 years ago.
 
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Hiarus

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Seems like the hangout system is broken, no matter what I do none of the bars progress, it was working fine on my first save but isn't in my new one

Also, completely unrelated...seems like this game is operating on the assumption the player did a good amount of the routes in the first one, given Blake and her semblance which only come up in her ending, and some other things, so I wonder if the remake of game 1 y'all are doing is gonna let you finish all the routes in one playthrough or something of the sort, to facilitate the 1 to 2 transition
 
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Hiarus said:
Seems like the hangout system is broken, no matter what I do none of the bars progress, it was working fine on my first save but isn't in my new one

Also, completely unrelated...seems like this game is operating on the assumption the player did a good amount of the routes in the first one, given Blake and her semblance which only come up in her ending, and some other things, so I wonder if the remake of game 1 y'all are doing is gonna let you finish all the routes in one playthrough or something of the sort, to facilitate the 1 to 2 transition
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I'm gonna need more information about the first point, because that can be because of a lot of things and I need to re-create the bug first to see what's going on.

For the latter: no. It's going to be more flexible but you're not gonna be able to do all routes in one playthrough. You're not gonna need to restart from the beginning each time, I want to say, but no.
 
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Meinos Kaen said:
I'm gonna need more information about the first point, because that can be because of a lot of things and I need to re-create the bug first to see what's going on.

For the latter: no. It's going to be more flexible but you're not gonna be able to do all routes in one playthrough. You're not gonna need to restart from the beginning each time, I want to say, but no.
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No matter what I try these bars are perpetually stuck in their initial state, not just for these three characters either, every character is; it was working fine on my first save however, and I tried a shitton of stat + characters combination so I don't think it was me getting the stats needed wrong either
 
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