VN Ren'Py Law School [Season 1] [MisterMaya]

[FRVN]

I've said it before, but the replayability of Season 1 just isn't there since we can see all content in a single playthrough. There's nothing to explore, except to see the dialogue of choices we haven't picked, only to notice it doesn't change a thing with how everything plays out.

I felt this when I tried to go back and do a second playthrough right after finishing my first. Once I realized that there was no functional difference between the two, I stopped playing.

 

[Quetzzz]

I agree but I'm more eclectic, I enjoy both a good complex branched AVN as a kinetic novel or mostly kinetic or something in between. In my signature you find AVNs with each of those haha, Law School isn't there because there is a limit of characters on the signatures lol my favorite games are more than those.

I can enjoy both as well; I just don't think Season 1 is advertised as a semi-kinetic novel.

A 3D adult visual novel where your choices shape relationships, rivalries, and a gripping story. Dive into drama, humor, mini-games, romance and a fully interactive social app in the journey of a young law student at Stocklinburg College.

 

[pitao]

I can enjoy both as well; I just don't think Season 1 is advertised as a semi-kinetic novel.

A 3D adult visual novel where your choices shape relationships, rivalries, and a gripping story. Dive into drama, humor, mini-games, romance and a fully interactive social app in the journey of a young law student at Stocklinburg College.

Most aren't (correctly advertised, I mean hehe). I barely payed attention to that because I already knew the developer from their previous work The Entrepreneur and knew what to expect in Law school.

What I noticed was a great improvement both in the visual category but specially the build up of the story, their first game the introduction seemed too abrupt into the plot events, what is normal when least experienced. Law School they took more care on the introduction of both the story, plot and characters and even in the exposition, that is good in a balanced amount. The Entrepreneur barely had exposition lol

 

[cxx]

And now I have to ask.. Is The Entrepreneur worth playing too?

yes despite it having flaws and no propre endings.

Aurora had to stop seeing MC.

bit difficult, same job, classmates, ...............

 

[pitao]

I felt this when I tried to go back and do a second playthrough right after finishing my first. Once I realized that there was no functional difference between the two, I stopped playing.

When I realized that season 2 would reflect the altruistic (my main playthrough), selfish and neutral path that I and others call the Schizo path lol, on my main playthrough went with most altruistic choices and the 2nd most selfish choices and a mix in the 3rd one neutral but always skipping already seen dialogues and scenes.

Thinking now I could of use URM and just change some variables near the end of season 1 to make the 3 playthrough saves but this way I saw all the very few and little variations, but they exist nonetheless.

 

[Quetzzz]

Most aren't (correctly advertised, I mean hehe). I barely payed attention to that because I already knew the developer from their previous work The Entrepreneur and knew what to expect in Law school.

Let's just say I'm a bit more annoyed when I'm paying for it.

What I noticed was a great improvement both in the visual category but specially the build up of the story, their first game the introduction seemed too abrupt into the plot events, what is normal when least experienced. Law School they took more care on the introduction of both the story, plot and characters and even in the exposition, that is good in a balanced amount. The Entrepreneur barely had exposition lol

You're right, I agree with this. Visually, Law School is a step up in all metrics. It's been too long since I played The Entrepreneur to remember specifics, but I do have a general recollection that I liked the game.

I am a bit concerned with the long-term plans for these characters. Many are very one-dimensional, only given the appearance of being interesting due to a mystery they have. Every character has a secret, and by the end of Season 1, we already know most and can guess the others. This isn't the same as character depth, and it risks that LIs we know the secret of are delegated to providers of sex scenes or plot convenience. I sincerely hope MisterMaya avoids falling into that trap; otherwise, he could've just made a college harem game instead.

When I realized that season 2 would reflect the altruistic (my main playthrough), selfish and neutral path that I and others call the Schizo path lol, on my main playthrough went with most altruistic choices and the 2nd most selfish choices and a mix in the 3rd one neutral but always skipping already seen dialogues and scenes.

When Season 2 hits Steam, you'll realize this was a waste of effort. Steam won't allow that players have to play Season 1 to play Season 2 fully. So a kind of character creator will need to be included. For Patreon, MM can do whatever he wants.

 

[pitao]

When Season 2 hits Steam, you'll realize this was a waste of effort. Steam won't allow that players have to play Season 1 to play Season 2 fully. So a kind of character creator will need to be included. For Patreon, MM can do whatever he wants.

I rarely play Steam Versions unless is those versions that leak here, and even in those I think there is always a choice to continue from the previous season but they have to include a new season character creator I guess, not sure because I simply don't have budget for AVN games so I take what F95 gives me. I like to believe that my signature and my private conversations with other members lead to some people buy games I enjoy, I simply can't.

My steam only plays MTG Arena and YGO masterduel lol and those are free, well I always wishlist my favorite AVNs including this one but can't buy.

 

[Chillout1984]

Yeah, of course, it's better to play things safe. I'm just a bit miffed that all these variables are there but hardly get used; I'm a sucker for choices having effects, even if it's merely a small change in dialogue later on.

I've said it before, but the replayability of Season 1 just isn't there since we can see all content in a single playthrough. There's nothing to explore, except to see the dialogue of choices we haven't picked, only to notice it doesn't change a thing with how everything plays out.
With Season 2's personality-exclusive LI, I expected Season 1 to prepare me better. LIs could have dialogue tailored to the MC's attitude to make clear that they don't like a partner with a certain behavior. We could still get to know them, but they'd be more guarded. Alternatively, mutually exclusive choices could've shaped the MC's attitude and pigeonholed him into the content that Season 2 would offer on that path.

I agree. Currently the only impact a couple of choices have is that you can miss some sex scenes, like who you go to when you can choose between Aurora, Taylor (you need to go to her to be able to have sex with her in the classroom) and Olive and that you need to have accepted Lana's first sex scene to be able to get her second.
Unfortunately currently there is no choice yet that has any visible impact on the story, but I'm pretty sure quite a few of those will have at least some impact in season 2 (like how you talk about Taylor to Samara for example). We will see, hopefully episode 4 will be released soon so we will finally see the impact of the chosen personality.

 

[Quetzzz]

We will see, hopefully episode 4 will be released soon so we will finally see the impact of the chosen personality.

Yeah... I truly hope it deserves the hype. I do want MM and this game to succeed, and looking at reviews on Steam, it has. What I'm worried about is that Season 2 will be 1 common path with alternating exclusive scenes based on the MC's attitude. If it's as simple as that, I'll just use a WT mod that enables all paths at the same time.

 

[Razrback16]

Yeah... I truly hope it deserves the hype. I do want MM and this game to succeed, and looking at reviews on Steam, it has. What I'm worried about is that Season 2 will be 1 common path with alternating exclusive scenes based on the MC's attitude. If it's as simple as that, I'll just use a WT mod that enables all paths at the same time.

Ya, not a huge fan of the personality system. Not looking forward to having to replay the game from the beginning just to get a Samara route.

 

[Chillout1984]

Ya, not a huge fan of the personality system. Not looking forward to having to replay the game from the beginning just to get a Samara route.

Tbh, currently it seems you only need to have 3 routes to get (almost) all possible LI's in the future seasons. As long as you stay around a score of 0 until close to the end game, you shouldn't really need to replay that much if you have a save at the point where you choose who you want to go to (and a lot of what you do have to replay can be skipped anyway because you read it already).

 

[Jafo]

Law School Episode 4 - Progress update #18

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Zojuist



I wish I could be Connor right now.
Anyway, last week was pretty damn good. I wrapped up the stills as planned, even after sneaking in an extra three animations somewhere along the way. I was going to start on the transition animations next, but I realized they are not sparking much interest for me at the moment, so I decided to move ahead to post work instead.
The Facegram posts and transition animations would probably take around four to five days of work, and since my render rigs are already full for a few weeks, there is not much point in working on them right now.
So yesterday I dove into coding. I wanted to rebuild the episode from scratch, and that is exactly what I did. The main menu is already looking great, with more additions planned as I continue. Its animation is currently rendering, and I am really happy with how it looks so far. It should be finished sometime tomorrow, so I will have to wait until then to see it in motion.
This week will mostly be focused on coding the game and starting post work on the images. Today’s first task is coding the path selection option. If you played Season 1, your saves will carry over, and the import feature is already implemented. If you have not played it, you will be able to pick a path and start with a default save by answering a few questions. This is necessary for Steam, so I figured I might as well implement it now. Season 1 is already a big game, and this will help some of you avoid the frustration of losing your saves like I did a few months ago.
Here are the numbers so far:
Static renders: 3,064
Animations: 70
Story content: 44 scenes written (37,206 words)
These numbers will change slightly because some renders will not make the final cut, and because I haven't coded the messages system as well. It's a new feature, but if before you had the Facegram events, now you will have random times where you have a conversation with someone. Those are part of the story as well, they just translate to better realisam since the characters have phones and they communicate with them.
Still, this gives you a good idea of the scope for the fourth episode. It is bigger than I expected when I started development four months ago, but it is what it is.
No time to rest now. We are in the final stretch. I already went to bed extremely late last night working on the game, and I know the next two to three weeks will be more of the same. That's how it is with post work. But I am loving it, and I cannot wait to deliver this episode.
I am heading back to work now, and in the meantime, I wish you all a great week.
MisterPostWork

 

[shanksyou]

Can't wait for the Miri Miri!

 

[Eraser11]

Seems like we are getting really close. I can't wait for more Elsa. It would be great to see her on main menu screen.. she's only hidden in the WT unfortunately.

 

[MagicMan753]

Seems like we are getting really close. I can't wait for more Elsa. It would be great to see her on main menu screen.. she's only hidden in the WT unfortunately.

As an Elsa fan myself, I would temper your expectations, cause I don't feel like this is going to the best epsiode for her. Since we didn't get expelled, she is probably going to push us away and try to keep things professional this episode.

But hopefully its not too long of a hold out, and she comes around the following episode, getting something lewd then. But would love to be proven wrong.

 

[Eraser11]

As an Elsa fan myself, I would temper your expectations, cause I don't feel like this is going to the best epsiode for her. Since we didn't get expelled, she is probably going to push us away and try to keep things professional this episode.

But hopefully its not too long of a hold out, and she comes around the following episode, getting something lewd then. But would love to be proven wrong.

I agree with you, I just wanna see the follow-up to all that happened. I certainly don't expect any lewd action for her. It makes sense for her to try and push MC away again but she can't erase what they did and that she does like him. So if anything, I expect MC to be persistent and Elsa trying to fight it.

 

[Chillout1984]

I agree with you, I just wanna see the follow-up to all that happened. I certainly don't expect any lewd action for her. It makes sense for her to try and push MC away again but she can't erase what they did and that she does like him. So if anything, I expect MC to be persistent and Elsa trying to fight it.

And it's reasonable to think that will happen, especially considering the preview we got a couple of months ago:

 

[King Cule]

I spend 1 Hour playing and didn't see any sex scene, except the dream with the judge.
how many sex scenes in this game?

 

[Dessolos]

I spend 1 Hour playing and didn't see any sex scene, except the dream with the judge.
how many sex scenes in this game?

off memory

2 with Aurora , 1 from Elsa 1 or 2 sex scenes from Lana ( Kind of forget cause of the hair change) 1 with Miranda , 1 BJ from a side girl , a BJ from Taylor .

Non spoiler version 5 - 6 full on sex scenes , 2 oral scenes

 

[King Cule]

off memory

2 with Aurora , 1 from Elsa 1 or 2 sex scenes from Lana ( Kind of forget cause of the hair change) 1 with Miranda , 1 BJ from a side girl , a BJ from Taylor .

Non spoiler version 5 - 6 full on sex scenes , 2 oral scenes

A whole season with 4 Ep and got just 6 sex scenes?!
I mean the game is good in story and good looking girls, but I would play it later cuz it's not my priority in my list
thanks anyway