VN Ren'Py Karlsson's Gambit [v0.8.31 FinalA2] [Grym Gudinna Games]

[Stan5851]

On lighter note, Dev can pull any gigantic for sub path if necessary or unnecessary . But for dom path we all know.

Well, to be honest, she even apologized for it, and for the Dom side Tess promised to do a big pool of renders too, something on the order of 60. And recently (thanks PL for sharing the devlog), she initiated a vote/poll for all patrons on how she should handle these survey renders in the future and whether she should spend her time on such things slowing down game development or devote all her time solely to rendering for the game. So this seems reasonable enough in my opinion. I wonder which option the patrons will vote for.

 

[Stan5851]

There are now 16 endings. How many do you guys think Dom Kane will get, because I believe Dom gets 2, maybe 3, with the rest being on the Sub side

Dover, to be honest, I wouldn't be too pessimistic. Yes, we won't have the Celeste content and the ending with Kiyomi, however, with a certain probability, Doms will get another LI "from the sub side".

Of course, we'll have to wait until Tess is done with character optimization and stuff, but overall, I think it won't be too bad, and the number of endings (with the possibility of different outcomes) for both sides will be roughly comparable, given that the World States and factions, have long been established and spelled out, as well as the main pool of possible Dom LI 's. But, again, we have to wait for Tess to post a devlog with a full LI 's breakdown, so I'm not ready to confirm or deny anything yet.

 

[DoverDad]

Dover, to be honest, I wouldn't be too pessimistic. Yes, we won't have the Celeste content and the ending with Kiyomi, however, with a certain probability, Doms will get another LI "from the sub side".

Of course, we'll have to wait until Tess is done with character optimization and stuff, but overall, I think it won't be too bad, and the number of endings (with the possibility of different outcomes) for both sides will be roughly comparable, given that the World States and factions, have long been established and spelled out, as well as the main pool of possible Dom LI 's. But, again, we have to wait for Tess to post a devlog with a full LI 's breakdown, so I'm not ready to confirm or deny anything yet.

One thing I liked about Karlsson's Gambit was that you could be good or evil. Now, it just turned into another goody-goody Mc story that I'm slowly losing interest in. Yes, I know there's a sub side, but I don't play that route.

 

[akki_sky]

One thing I liked about Karlsson's Gambit was that you could be good or evil. Now, it just turned into another goody-goody Mc story that I'm slowly losing interest in. Yes, I know there's a sub side, but I don't play that route.

Yes that's what I was also excited about playing different good and evil paths. But now it's just good path and kill one person with Juliatte in every update to call Kane evil, tha't it. Kane will never have fun like Olivia having in sub path which I don't play either.

 

[Stan5851]

It's really more just "low rank" and "high rank" Kane. But even high rank Kane has to tiptoe around.

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[The_Man_With_No_Name]

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Elena discribed Dom path in the intro something like "Be assertive in your position but don't be impetuous and forget your rank."

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That's what she's hoping for if the last log is anything to go by.

 

[DoverDad]

People who subscribe to Tess Patron and Don't usss Discord who on the dom side are going to be piss when they realise more stuff been axed form Dom Route or did Tess post anything on paton about cutting more stuff from dom side

 

[The_Man_With_No_Name]

or did Tess post anything on paton about cutting more stuff from dom side

I only see patreon updates on the 5th and 12th and 18th. The discord post was on the 6th so probably not.

 

[Negan22]

Wouldn't this backfire on her? If we take her claim about harassment true (which btw isn't true, it's her own decision). Even if some of those harassers leave, there could be more because the remaining ones aren't satisfied with the pruned Dom path either but they are being hopeful, just because it's not too for from what they really want and so they can be pushy about it. You can already see people complaining here, I don't know what will happen after her next announcement or when players will witness the annexation of the Dom routes in game itself.

 

[kinkyshin]

So far, Primary Impact for Dom side - Celeste, Angelica on Dom side, extensive Branches will be pruned… “Generally the more evil on dom side the path, the more I will be carefully looking at it.”

What, Angelica too? She's not even evil...

 

[Silver_Crow117]

What, Angelica too? She's not even evil...

I think it’s just dom side generally idk

 

[DoverDad]

I think it’s just dom side generally idk

Stan is going to lose it if that true

 

[akki_sky]

It was Celest and Kiyomi. Never heard anything about angelica. I'm already pissed because kiyomi is axed, just when training with her about to start and possible romance.

Most importantly I started playing this because of evil path. There are many others VN with good romance, corruption and what not. Celest - Alessandra evilness is what other VN's don't have. So dev just axed uniqueness of her VN.

 

[Maviarab]

It’s Celeste, Angelica, Kiyomi

So Tess is breaking her promises once again then? Got it. Guess Angelica going back to being a secondary T2 romance?

 

[akki_sky]

It’s Celeste, Angelica, Kiyomi

So Kane was not going to become leader of faction B. Now Kiyomi and Angelica were main romance option on faction D, That means faction D ending also most probably scrapped. Only Faction A and C remaining now. Let's see how much time it takes to cut next faction.

I can almost guess excuses like, it was too much work with different branches, it was affecting my mental and physical health so i decided to cut down few endings.

In the end it will be miracle if dom path even gets one ending.

 

[drdiver3]

I only see patreon updates on the 5th and 12th and 18th. The discord post was on the 6th so probably not.

I'd think she posted to Patreon first on the 5th, then duplicated that post a day later on discord, but I'm not in either so idk.

 

[Maviarab]

T2 probably, but don’t quote me on it since I didn’t ask Not sure Which character is coming from the sub side to Dom side, and vice versa With a Dom character going to sub side… I know Angelica is getting another route on the sub side (she already had one) so yeah

She probably doing it to spite Stan and I....

 

[Stan5851]

She probably doing it to spite Stan and I....

This game can be played by two people. I lowered my rating of the game from 5 stars to 2, adding to my old review the reason for this decision.

 

[Stan5851]

When I first Played this game and had the pleasure to know about the dev, I knew right then and there that she wouldn't be able to please her Dom fans, but I thought it would be because she wouldn't be able to provide really good Dom paths but I didn't has any idea that she would start scrapping the Dom paths altogether instead of giving the promised Dom paths but a lot tamer than the Femdom paths as I imagined, but in any case I wasn't wrong after all, she proved my expectations and more.

Well, if by proved expectations you mean a vindictive and insecure woman who can't find a way out of the simplest of situations and is always looking for the most unfortunate and bad solutions, like ridiculous revenge on the Dom players by cutting some of the Dom content, then my expectations were completely met too and she didn't fail, lol.

 

[SlowGoesSlow]

It's hard to stay interested in a game that keeps cutting content on your preferred routes. At least on the Dom side the game has felt like it's been waffling around since the gameshow arc started to happen.