VN Ren'Py Karlsson's Gambit [v0.8.2B Final] [Grym Gudinna Games]

[FDMuser]

Hello Tess, your game is a unique masterpiece.
I'm only criticizing her because you asked for it.
I haven't played to the end of the episode yet, so far I've only found a couple of things at the beginning of the game that I would change.
1. I didn’t attach a screenshot, but you will understand what I mean, at the beginning of the game there is a menu of 5 choices, Kane answers Olivia’s question ( location - abandoned ruins ) who would he save, this menu is too pulled up to the top, I would center his.
2. I will attach screenshots, I think they have a problem with rendering, very strong overexposure, because of this Kiyomi looks like a cut and pasted 2D drawing in a 3D render. And Olivia seemed to be photographed unsuccessfully, forgetting to turn off the flash (only her red eyes are enough).
And yes, I'm sure that you know this without me, just a reminder - bright and harsh light is sometimes very good, for example, if you make "perfect" shots like on fashion shoots, for example,
But in 90% of cases, diffused light will look better. Thank you. And good luck!

 

[FDMuser]

Guys, I want to leave my personal opinion about the leaked links, I personally think that the more people who play the test version as early as possible, the better for the game in the long run (the main thing is that the players, especially those who do not pay Tess for patreon, left their reviews, this is at least some kind of compensation.)
But the final version should not be merged, paid subscribers should receive it faster than those who do not pay Tess on Patreon. Draining links to the final version, I personally condemn.
You see, of course, I judge by myself, but if I like the game and I have the opportunity and desire to support the developer with money, I will do it anyway.
And, it seems to me, the main bonuses on patreon are not early access to test builds of the game, the main bonus is unique renders and voting for them (and these renders are not leaked here, and they are right, this is unique content). You can also interact with Tess as a patron, and perhaps if you're a generous patron, you can have a bit of an impact on the game itself. Well, early access to the final builds of the game.
Everything said is just my personal opinion, you certainly don't have to agree with me, thank you.

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

yea those wondering the mod wont come out till a few day after the last version of this game. You try to use that mod and you're playing yourself.

But yea that test mod is likely not a good thing to play unles you know what you're doing gamewise. WIll likely fuck up your saves and maybe even your game in general

 

[Lermo]

1. I hope those aren't official links again, because that negatively affects patreons&dev, which sucks (seriously, reupload stuff, folks. It's better for all of us. The dev can nuke the links, if you want to look at it from a purely selfish PoV)
2. I hope we won't see the "why does this unfinished test release, which officially was announced to be an unfinished test release, and will probably have bugs, have bugs!?!?" ... "discourse"... again that we've had the last few times alpha or beta versions were leaked.

she will see the stuff here anyway. so yeah she will be annoyed about the thought of a buggy version being played by everything anyway. it cant be helped. people know what they are getting themselves into

 

[Ianuda]

Can someone explain to me why people like this game at all? My main gripe was always the Olivia parts - playing as a female domme is just weird, it effectively ruins the entire experience for me. And when the story came to the reunion of the protagonist and Olivia, it turns into nonsense, playing with dolls.

Apparently, to make choices, one has to install guides? It's something I have zero clue as to how, and even why bother.

And it feels like the patches which take a year to release amount to like 20 min of gameplay. Barely any progress to the story.

Sorry for being harsh, but it's a free forum which I can't be banned from for such (unlike Discord lmao), so I thought why not share my view.

 

[Don Sucio]

Can someone explain to me why people like this game at all? My main gripe was always the Olivia parts - playing as a female domme is just weird, it effectively ruins the entire experience for me. And when the story came to the reunion of the protagonist and Olivia, it turns into nonsense, playing with dolls.

Apparently, to make choices, one has to install guides? It's something I have zero clue as to how, and even why bother.

And it feels like the patches which take a year to release amount to like 20 min of gameplay. Barely any progress to the story.

Sorry for being harsh, but it's a free forum which I can't be banned from for such (unlike Discord lmao), so I thought why not share my view.

For some people (like me) it´s very nice and exciting play as Olivia, i haven´t got an argument about this, it´s just like that.

About the guides for the choices, it´s not necessary at all to install guides, i never have installed any guides, for any games, so i don´t know why are you saying that this is necessary, this guides are for people that want a simple resume about your choices for know which choices you need to take for your perfect final.

The duration of the actualizations unfortunately are short in all games here, always took more time to do it that plays... but that is something normal in the entire video game industry.

I respect your opinion and I'm sorry that your review is banned in discord.

 

[Ianuda]

I respect your opinion and I'm sorry that your review is banned in discord.

Thanks for the response, but just to clarify, I never engaged in this Discord, I just know Discord culture which promotes toxic positivity to a great degree.

 

[SpeakSoftly]

Can someone explain to me why people like this game at all? My main gripe was always the Olivia parts - playing as a female domme is just weird, it effectively ruins the entire experience for me. And when the story came to the reunion of the protagonist and Olivia, it turns into nonsense, playing with dolls.

Personally I'd prefer it if the game only had Olivia as the MC.

 

[Iceglitch]

OH HELL YA!

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[Iceglitch]

Can anyone post a link to the new version?

 

[Canto Forte]

This game is made by someone calling themselves - The sadist - for a very particular reason:
This game features horror to the extreme degree of the scale we see in Spartacus, Nero,
Westworld, Saw - this is glory for the sadistic killing and maming and dehumanizing.
That many perspectives of all the opressors, that wider the array of sadistic acts get featured.

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[Nightangle]

OH HELL YA!

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[NukaCola]

Enjoy!

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Both link are dead

 

[Nanorh]

1. I hope those aren't official links again, because that negatively affects patreons&dev, which sucks (seriously, reupload stuff, folks. It's better for all of us. The dev can nuke the links, if you want to look at it from a purely selfish PoV)
2. I hope we won't see the "why does this unfinished test release, which officially was announced to be an unfinished test release, and will probably have bugs, have bugs!?!?" ... "discourse"... again that we've had the last few times alpha or beta versions were leaked.

Sadly, they were the official links. But I can see why someone wouldn't want to re-upload a roughly 14 GBs file - most hosting platforms don't allow such huge file uploads for free, and even if they do, it is still a hassle in regards to bandwidth and connection speed. Hopefully as future episodes become standalone, their sizes won't be as big, and our lovely pirates will be fine with re-uploading them.

 

[Nightangle]

Both link are dead

Early bird catches the worm

 

[Iceglitch]

Early bird catches the worm

I saw the post with the links as soon as it was uploaded, but 14 Gb is not so easy to download at such a low speed. At 70%, an error occurred and the link became invalid.

 

[Stan5851]

Both link are dead

That's good news.

Sadly, they were the official links.
But I can see why someone wouldn't want to re-upload a roughly 14 GBs file - most hosting platforms don't allow such huge file uploads for free, and even if they do, it is still a hassle in regards to bandwidth and connection speed. Hopefully as future episodes become standalone, their sizes won't be as big, and our lovely pirates will be fine with re-uploading them.

And speaking of piracy and large amounts of uploadable files - who stopped this person from making a multi-volume archive, dividing it into 3-4 parts? Or maybe someone prevented the guys from rpdl from making a torrent that completely eliminates the need to use file storage? That's right, no one interfered.

It's just that whoever uploaded the game spat on the ephemeral honor of a pirate and took the easiest but disgusting route - giving an official link to the game, which only hurt Tess, because she complained not long ago about having problems when uploading the game archive to cloud storage, encountering technical problems due to file size. The result of all this is simple - instead of doing players a favor, the uploader only distracted Tess from completing the final version, simply stealing her time that she would have to spend re-uploading the game archieve to cloud storage. (Then again, there's no guarantee that another lazy smartass won't show up thinking that giving a direct link is the right thing to do.)

At least, that's how I see the situation. So it's a good thing those links have been removed. Waiting for the full final version of Ch7 without bugs.

P.S. And test alpha version 0.7 on f95 if anyone needs (imho), it's only Sancho1969, author of Multi-Mod (Sancho Mod). Maybe it will allow him to reduce the total time of mod adaptation for Ch7 (final ver).

 

[drdiver3]

This game is made by someone calling themselves - The sadist - for a very particular reason:
This game features horror to the extreme degree of the scale we see in Spartacus, Nero,
Westworld, Saw - this is glory for the sadistic killing and maming and dehumanizing.
That many perspectives of all the opressors, that wider the array of sadistic acts get featured.

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Nobody made you play this game. Some other people happen to enjoy it. Do those people tell you you're wrong for enjoying the games you do?

I happen to find City of Broken Dreamers (which apparently you like) really mediocre, but I don't go on threads there and tell people they are categorically wrong for enjoying it.

 

[Nanorh]

And speaking of piracy and large amounts of uploadable files - who stopped this person from making a multi-volume archive, dividing it into 3-4 parts? Or maybe someone prevented the guys from rpdl from making a torrent that completely eliminates the need to use file storage? That's right, no one interfered.

It's just that whoever uploaded the game spat on the ephemeral honor of a pirate and took the easiest but disgusting route - giving an official link to the game, which only hurt Tess, because she complained not long ago about having problems when uploading the game archive to cloud storage, encountering technical problems due to file size. The result of all this is simple - instead of doing players a favor, the uploader only distracted Tess from completing the final version, simply stealing her time that she would have to spend re-uploading the game archieve to cloud storage. (Then again, there's no guarantee that another lazy smartass won't show up thinking that giving a direct link is the right thing to do.)

At least, that's how I see the situation. So it's a good thing those links have been removed. Waiting for the full final version of Ch7 without bugs.

P.S. And test alpha version 0.7 on f95 if anyone needs (imho), it's only @Sancho1969, author of Multi-Mod (Sancho Mod). Maybe it will allow him to reduce the total time of mod adaptation for Ch7 (final ver).

Just for the record, I do fully agree with you, but I must remind you of the context in which we are having this discussion. We are on a "piracy" website, where discussions of "ethics" and "qualms" may not be particularly productive. If I remember correctly, this situation has happened before with the previous update of the game, and in tons of other games too, I am sure. But despite the endless objections, official links were repeatedly leaked. It's as though all those objections were falling on deaf ears.

Creating a multi-volume archive may be a decent solution, but then again, we are operating in an environment where decency may not be the primary concern. Blame as much as you want - I highly doubt that would shake them.

And if we want to be realistic, it’s more than likely that those who leaked the links were aware of the potential consequences, but chose to do so anyway for their own reasons, be it the "ease" of leaking or the mere hatred for "paywalls".

And while I must admit that I have downloaded the game from the leaked links, as I’m sure many others have, I have chosen not to upload it out of respect for Tess and her work. (and because I can't bother making multiple partitions and then uploading them individually, or even making a torrent. <: )

 

[луна]

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