Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.42.0] [Selebus]

[QuestionTime]

I know it sounds obvious but the secret happy event in "A life of prizes" mentions giving you the cheater flag and it actually does too which is why my affection was wiped. Not really that much of a setback considering I can just use URM but I feel in the "puzzle solutions" it should be mentioned that it actually does give you the cheater flag so you can remove the cheater tag before affection gets removed if that matters to you.

Btw was the only way of finding the lotto number through checking variables in game/checking the guide? My guess is that if he tries to punish people with the cheater tag again he will likely check if that specific happy event has been triggered as a second layer to check if someone is a cheater in case they just disabled the cheater variable and nothing else. If that's the case does anyone know what the variable for that happy event being seen is so I can modify it to be unseen again? lol

Edit: I found the variable. It was just the same name as the event "lamb legs"

 

[Black Raven]

I know it sounds obvious but the secret happy event in "A life of prizes" mentions giving you the cheater flag and it actually does too which is why my affection was wiped. Not really that much of a setback considering I can just use URM but I feel in the "puzzle solutions" it should be mentioned that it actually does give you the cheater flag so you can remove the cheater tag before affection gets removed if that matters to you.

Btw was the only way of finding the lotto number through checking variables in game/checking the guide? My guess is that if he tries to punish people with the cheater tag again he will likely check if that specific happy event has been triggered as a second layer to check if someone is a cheater in case they just disabled the cheater variable and nothing else. If that's the case does anyone know what the variable for that happy event being seen is so I can modify it to be unseen again? lol

Seeing Lamb Legs only triggers the cheater flag if you missed the event where you get the lottery numbers.

 

[QuestionTime]

Seeing Lamb Legs only triggers the cheater flag if you missed the event where you get the lottery numbers.

How were you supposed to find that event? I feel like that should be mentioned in the "puzzles guide" lol

Edit: Correction ohhh so from what I've seen you need to be fucking Sara to get a specific happy event that gives you the lotto numbers. The event is called "goodboy" hence the name of the variable. So basically don't put the lotto numbers in A life of prizes, Win the Lottery because otherwise they think you're cheating and you most likely are but to be fair you could have just remembered the number from an alternate save.

 

[KnowNoHope]

I play the game on mute till a happy event now... replayed yasus event with singing when I read about it.
I enjoy it this way
Been doing it this way for... 15 updates now?
If there are any secrets in game shared through audio I missed them.
Only exception would be the street noises outside the school
All praise Mathew

 

[QuestionTime]

It is There is Nothing on crack, but the game doesn't tell you what scene the solution is in, so you're probably going to need to replay multiple scenes to find the answer.

That's cool. Under normal circumstances I'd have no problems doing it, but with me playing through the full game again once the rework is out, it just doesn't seem like something I want to be doing twice. And I WILL need to do it twice, because my memory is absolute garbage and I will forget the answers between now and then.

Honestly one of the biggest problems with the "puzzles" in this game is that half of them are just random facts or numbers in previous event scenes that he just expects you to remember. I feel that most people aren't going to remember little details like that especially factoring in the time between updates. Lessons in love has to be the first visual novel to ever include backtracking as an actual mechanic and it just comes off as unneccessary padding.

 

[Vizer007]

I play the game on mute till a happy event now... replayed yasus event with singing when I read about it.
I enjoy it this way
Been doing it this way for... 15 updates now?
If there are any secrets in game shared through audio I missed them.
Only exception would be the street noises outside the school
All praise Mathew

Why?
You dont have headphones?
Or listen to your own collection?
Never had to mute this game, except changing that banging sound, not really a fan of an early heart failure

 

[QuestionTime]

Ok i added the new reset answers to this:
Thank you Wardtnaci for the formating

You might want to clarify for the lottery win that if you haven't seen the "good boy" event which requires the fucking sara route and you put the lottery code in you get tagged as a cheater which resets your affection during the sixth reset. I mean Ami does say this but I figured it would have been mentioned in the guide if it were true.

 

[KnowNoHope]

Why?
You dont have headphones?
Or listen to your own collection?
Never had to mute this game, except changing that banging sound, not really a fan of an early heart failure

I mean I listen to my own stuff, only the game is on mute. and i could use headphones, but I normally only use that with my phone
this game at start up used to be blaringly loud. i mean I have volume at 10%, staart up the game, my apartment neighbor 2 doors down heard the start up music. its still rather loud but not as bad. so I eventually just got in the habit of starting the game muted, rather enjoyed it that way and now i keep doing it and unmute the game for happy events for the random chanting and background noises.

 

[ccxvidonaferens]

I mean I listen to my own stuff, only the game is on mute. and i could use headphones, but I normally only use that with my phone
this game at start up used to be blaringly loud. i mean I have volume at 10%, staart up the game, my apartment neighbor 2 doors down heard the start up music. its still rather loud but not as bad. so I eventually just got in the habit of starting the game muted, rather enjoyed it that way and now i keep doing it and unmute the game for happy events for the random chanting and background noises.

Yeah I know what you mean. The audio balance seems so uneven at times. I get that the jump scares from certain sounds are an integral part of the game design but some cues vary wildly in volume for what appears to be no real reason. Or at least they do to my ears.

 

[Renhi]

Haven't played for many updated. Has MC finally gotten with Rin?

 

[Bingoogus]

Haven't played for many updated. Has MC finally gotten with Rin?

Only anal sex so far.

 

[DeSkel15]

Haven't played for many updated. Has MC finally gotten with Rin?

No. However a threesome with Rin and Chika was teased, and Rin should be prominent in the next update.

Only anal sex so far.

I effin wish. This game needs more anal sex, besides black out forced anal. Hoping Noriko will become a butt slut.

 

[KnowNoHope]

anyone else find imani's backstory so far really weird and out of place considering everyone else's?
immigrant from africa, and one of the poorest countries in west africa too. and was able to get into a country like japan that pretty much hates immigrants, especially poor non-asian ones.
tsunyo being part egyptian? kind of threw me off but nothing stops people from leaving japan and bringing a new spouse back with them.
Imani has burn scars, behaves like an american teenager/college student, very out spoken. personality just doesnt seem to mesh with her cultural background at all.

 

[k1n5l4y3r]

You might want to clarify for the lottery win that if you haven't seen the "good boy" event which requires the fucking sara route and you put the lottery code in you get tagged as a cheater which resets your affection during the sixth reset. I mean Ami does say this but I figured it would have been mentioned in the guide if it were true.

Thanks for the info, I added it to the guide.

 

[DeSkel15]

anyone else find imani's backstory so far really weird and out of place considering everyone else's?
immigrant from africa, and one of the poorest countries in west africa too. and was able to get into a country like japan that pretty much hates immigrants, especially poor non-asian ones.
tsunyo being part egyptian? kind of threw me off but nothing stops people from leaving japan and bringing a new spouse back with them.
Imani has burn scars, behaves like an american teenager/college student, very out spoken. personality just doesnt seem to mesh with her cultural background at all.

I think Imani's character is about feeling out of place. (Ironically Imani can even mean "Belief' or "Faith")

Technically, tho, she's mixed, so I think she's biologically half Japanese, and she also had to give up her other citizenship, so now she's 100% Japanese legally. The burn scars also might be because of racism for all we know, and her personality reminds me of someone partially delirious, as if they are trying to distract themselves 24/7 to avoid getting depressed (like most Americans, tbh), which is probably a coping mechanism for her.

Overall, her manic personality seems natural based off what little we know of her, to me, and her background doesn't seem to be that big of a deal to her, hence her saying she's from Wales or Alabama before.

 

[Axismundi]

Honestly one of the biggest problems with the "puzzles" in this game is that half of them are just random facts or numbers in previous event scenes that he just expects you to remember. I feel that most people aren't going to remember little details like that especially factoring in the time between updates. Lessons in love has to be the first visual novel to ever include backtracking as an actual mechanic and it just comes off as unneccessary padding.

True, but he's doing all this in Renpy. It's a bear-bones engine, even for visual novels. If you want puzzles that aren't just typing stuff in, he'd have to port the entire game over to a new system like Unity or something. I'm sure he's doing the best that he can with the tools at his disposal.

 

[k1n5l4y3r]

True, but he's doing all this in Renpy. It's a bear-bones engine, even for visual novels. If you want puzzles that aren't just typing stuff in, he'd have to port the entire game over to a new system like Unity or something. I'm sure he's doing the best that he can with the tools at his disposal.

Not really, he can do other types of puzzles in renpy if he wants, it all depends on the effort he is willing to spend on a puzzle, see Being a DIK for example, it's also a renpy game, but it has a turn based combat game, mouse maze, basketball hoop, tennis, pancake flipping, mansion repair planner and party planner complete with perks, and from the preview of next episode it will also have a beer pong mini game. The system is not an excuse for the barebone puzzles.

 

[randosle]

I play the game on mute till a happy event now... replayed yasus event with singing when I read about it.

I've found the most degenerate thing on this site. You, mi amigo, need a personal tag.

 

[derekthered56]

Not really, he can do other types of puzzles in renpy if he wants, it all depends on the effort he is willing to spend on a puzzle, see Being a DIK for example, it's also a renpy game, but it has a turn based combat game, mouse maze, basketball hoop, tennis, pancake flipping, mansion repair planner and party planner complete with perks, and from the preview of next episode it will also have a beer pong mini game. The system is not an excuse for the barebone puzzles.

Does this game really need puzzles at all? Akira needing to solve non-riddles to open his front door is the least engrossing part of this game.

 

[hario1225]

Good Uncle Route seems to bring the best out of Ami's 'yandere' personality. I wonder if it entails what kind of person Sekai was. Well, Ami was certainly not a shotacon and more like the opposite.