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

[Heritor]

Really enjoyed the game so far, played through multiple routes. Enjoyed loads of them.

The route I would say is lacking is the one in which Kane is initially placed in K4 but gets promoted to K5 at the earliest opportunity, which is at the end of E5. This plays out very strangely. Pretty much no characters have any commentary on this shift, you just start playing the dom events as if it had always been. In fact, some characters refer to Kane's prior trip to Atlantis, which is a continuity error in this playthrough as you were never there earlier due to your K4 ranking. Alessandra approaches you at a pool in E6 to try to induct you into the secret sub path, but if you refuse she still turns up at your quarters during E7 as if you had accepted, which neccessitates a loss of any rank gained at the end of E6 to finally (?) refuse her. Either way this just seems to be a way to end up on a dom playthrough but without picking up relevant flags from the earlier episodes.

This particular route is a mess. It doesn't really work. If I were the devs I'd just remove the possibility for K4s to be promoted to K5 at the end of E5, particularly as I've read that there is a plan for K4s to reach K5 at the end of E8. However, I can understand them not wanting to go back and edit E1-E7.

 

[Silver_Crow117]

Hmmm, you called dear?

View attachment 4170355

Demon Olivia reigns supreme

Spoiler:

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

 

[Dark Quean Olivia]

Spoiler: Demon Olivia reigns supreme :sneaky:

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

His nose does hit all the right spots while sitting there, especially when he starts wriggling around due to a lack of breath!

 

[Silver_Crow117]

His nose does hit all the right spots while sitting there, especially when he starts wriggling around due to a lack of breath!

No words needed after all!

Spoiler: No breathing is required

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

 

[MagicMan753]

Really enjoyed the game so far, played through multiple routes. Enjoyed loads of them.

The route I would say is lacking is the one in which Kane is initially placed in K4 but gets promoted to K5 at the earliest opportunity, which is at the end of E5. This plays out very strangely. Pretty much no characters have any commentary on this shift, you just start playing the dom events as if it had always been. In fact, some characters refer to Kane's prior trip to Atlantis, which is a continuity error in this playthrough as you were never there earlier due to your K4 ranking. Alessandra approaches you at a pool in E6 to try to induct you into the secret sub path, but if you refuse she still turns up at your quarters during E7 as if you had accepted, which neccessitates a loss of any rank gained at the end of E6 to finally (?) refuse her. Either way this just seems to be a way to end up on a dom playthrough but without picking up relevant flags from the earlier episodes.

This particular route is a mess. It doesn't really work. If I were the devs I'd just remove the possibility for K4s to be promoted to K5 at the end of E5, particularly as I've read that there is a plan for K4s to reach K5 at the end of E8. However, I can understand them not wanting to go back and edit E1-E7.

Eventually Tess will put sesson 1(ep.1-7) on steam, she will probably be asking for changes and other typos and stuff when it does get closer. So you bring up some solid points, it might not all be fixed but when she asks for things beofee steam, I can bring up a couple of these points. Characters not reacting probably wouldn't be fixed, but things like turning down Alessa, and her shwoing up, or mentioning Atlantis. Can be changed. So we dhe does get closer to putting it on steam, I'll be sure ro mention a couple of these errors.

 

[Heritor]

Eventually Tess will put sesson 1(ep.1-7) on steam, she will probably be asking for changes and other typos and stuff when it does get closer. So you bring up some solid points, it might not all be fixed but when she asks for things beofee steam, I can bring up a couple of these points. Characters not reacting probably wouldn't be fixed, but things like turning down Alessa, and her shwoing up, or mentioning Atlantis. Can be changed. So we dhe does get closer to putting it on steam, I'll be sure ro mention a couple of these errors.

Cool, that makes a lot of sense.

 

[Silver_Crow117]

Tess,

“Part 2 will have a slightly longer sub path than dom path, and Part 3 will be slightly longer for the dom path than the sub side. The main reason for this is because they are in a sense two "separate realities" but still have some connective tissue. So some of the sub side scenes are going to be slightly tweaked (not most, just a few of them) and the dom side will see them too but with Jake/Zach rather than Kane being in any of those scene. But the dom side is slightly behind in the timeline in Part 2. (not much, but just a bit)”

“I am still going to shift to the dom path soon and try and close out the episode, but I wanted to make sure people understand my plan for Parts 2 and 3. Part 3 I am also going to split into faster releases because it is much easier from a narrative do to this specific update that way.”

Spoiler: Lean on me

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

 

[Maviarab]

Tess,

“Part 2 will have a slightly longer sub path than dom path, and Part 3 will be slightly longer for the dom path than the sub side. The main reason for this is because they are in a sense two "separate realities" but still have some connective tissue. So some of the sub side scenes are going to be slightly tweaked (not most, just a few of them) and the dom side will see them too but with Jake/Zach rather than Kane being in any of those scene. But the dom side is slightly behind in the timeline in Part 2. (not much, but just a bit)”

“I am still going to shift to the dom path soon and try and close out the episode, but I wanted to make sure people understand my plan for Parts 2 and 3. Part 3 I am also going to split into faster releases because it is much easier from a narrative do to this specific update that way.”

Spoiler: Lean on me

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

I think this was always going to be the case somewhat. While scenes and render count for both are pretty even we have long been discussing exactly what DomKane will be doing and just how that will be shown, where as I think we are were/all pretty much agreed on what SubKanes content will be like as he is actually 'in' the show while DomKane is just helping 'run' it.

All that aside, common in many VN's, lot of bitching at the moment in the ORS thread for its latest update. The problem with an 'episodic' VN like these is when waiting, one can be a little disapppointed there is a lack of narrative on a certain path etc while, when complete, it will flow much better and no one will ever notice any perceived gaps in content/story arcs as it will be a full story played in one go and have a much smoother experiance.

Eiether way, looking forward to the start of the game show proper!

 

[PickerLewd]

Eiether way, looking forward to the start of the game show proper!

I haven't played my Dom Kane path on K8 for two months now. IIRC, was there a path where you completely quit the game show and therefore didn't see any of that content (thousands of renders)?

 

[MagicMan753]

I haven't played my Dom Kane path on K8 for two months now. IIRC, was there a path where you completely quit the game show and therefore didn't see any of that content (thousands of renders)?

Yeah you can choose to not participate in the game show, not too much missed in part 1, will probably miss much more in part 2 and 3.

Also if you don't do game show, you get a scene with one of my 2 personal favs, Veronica. Exclusive to turning game show down.

 

[Maviarab]

I haven't played my Dom Kane path on K8 for two months now. IIRC, was there a path where you completely quit the game show and therefore didn't see any of that content (thousands of renders)?

That is correct. I have that on one of my saves purely to see how Tess handles it (does that Kane do much at all, does it affect future interactions with people etc etc as it is 'flagged') but Tess has explicitly stated that doing that you will miss a lot of Part 2.

 

[Don Sucio]

Tess,

Part 3 I am also going to split into faster releases because it is much easier from a narrative do to this specific update that way.”

This means part 3 is going to release divided in other two parts or just she is going to start releasing updates quickly. Is just my english, i´m confused

 

[Silver_Crow117]

This means part 3 is going to release divided in other two parts or just she is going to start releasing updates quickly. Is just my english, i´m confused

It means Miss Tess will upload part 3 in increments. So instead of waiting for the whole part it’ll be splint into even smaller parts where there more content over time then just waiting for the whole part!

Its kinda like instead of waiting to eat a whole pizza at once, your eating slices instead because their coming out faster!

 

[MilesEdgeworth]

she's already split chapters into parts now she's splitting parts of chapters int parts? this is starting to get insanely complicated

 

[Maviarab]

she's already split chapters into parts now she's splitting parts of chapters int parts? this is starting to get insanely complicated

Yeah, seems uneccessary to me...7 months for an update this size is fine to me. I'd just carry on as is for me, prefer to have a good meaty update than little bite sized things where barely any route gets content or only one path gets content. All swings and roundabouts really isn't it, both have pros and cons.

 

[Silver_Crow117]

Yeah, seems uneccessary to me...7 months for an update this size is fine to me. I'd just carry on as is for me, prefer to have a good meaty update than little bite sized things where barely any route gets content or only one path gets content. All swings and roundabouts really isn't it, both have pros and cons.

Key words, “much easier from a narrative do to this specific update that way” so We see specifically how that works for this specifically for part 3

 

[Don Sucio]

It means Miss Tess will upload part 3 in increments. So instead of waiting for the whole part it’ll be splint into even smaller parts where there more content over time then just waiting for the whole part!

Its kinda like instead of waiting to eat a whole pizza at once, your eating slices instead because their coming out faster!

Oh thanks... I don´t like how it sounds

I´m a "one update release" man, i don´t have many problems now because this parts are usually big, but i´m not sure how big are going to be the parts of the actual parts.

Anyway, we will see how good or bad it is.

 

[Sharpshooter890]

she's already split chapters into parts now she's splitting parts of chapters int parts? this is starting to get insanely complicated

Oh thanks... I don´t like how it sounds

I´m a "one update release" man, i don´t have many problems now because this parts are usually big, but i´m not sure how big are going to be the parts of the actual parts.

Anyway, we will see how good or bad it is.

Reminds me of 'Pimp my Ride':

 

[Igetby]

Yeah, seems uneccessary to me...7 months for an update this size is fine to me. I'd just carry on as is for me, prefer to have a good meaty update than little bite sized things where barely any route gets content or only one path gets content. All swings and roundabouts really isn't it, both have pros and cons.

I actually agree here also. The people who do monthly updates that can be finished in 10 minutes dont seem near as enjoyable.

 

[DarkFire VNs]

I am playing the game along with Sancho mod and it was correct for the most part.
But at some point Sancho note said that K7 is possible with junkoromance route open & good4+ by the end of the episode 4 or 5 (don't remember exactly). I met the criteria but still there was no promotion. I also use URM so i know that k7 can be achieved by that point but why didn't it work?
Also URM's search function doesn't work and game just gets stuck for the android port by DA. That Never happened before in any VN.