Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.44.0] [Selebus]

[hario1225]

Oh no, I'm scared because Bluejay and TTH are mild compared to the deranged shit that "darker" could imply. But still I trust Sel's writing and will follow LiL until it ends.

Pretty sure Sel would milk the life out of LIL before it even ends so I don't think it would end soon.

Plus the fact that he added "care packages".

 

[Pervyfox]

I am definitely curious whether the "True ending" will be considered a Happy ending or more of a somber acceptable ending.

True ending is gonna be "Akira breaks free of the cycle, opens his eyes, *splat* oh yeah he jumped at the beginning of the game"

 

[Pervyfox]

And Ayane's post-abstinence scene. It was so hyped up to end in nothing, god damn it

The requests for that were *chef's kiss* though.

Spoiler: Mayane

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[KnowNoHope]

Why do I remember this menu?!?! Is this what people called false memory?!?!

Now I can look at the old and the current menu in parallel, the one we have now seems to be more onto "Sensei's first impression of this girl" aside from just being his students. If not, at least a certain part of this girl that is most memorable or most different from other girls to him; this probably ties to the fact that he is spawned into Kumon-mi.

But I like the idea of changing portraits from time to time when appropriate to subtly reflect character status or progression (I think this would be most applicable when certain girls go unreachable due to story reasons, girls like Rin, Molly, or Noriko)

some examples that come to mind:

Spoiler: Makoto after bluejay

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Spoiler: Ayane after joining roof squad

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Spoiler: Nodoka after finding what's buried underneath

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Spoiler: Molly after Halloween

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Spoiler: Noriko after that FUCKING event

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Spoiler: Ami becomes more...Ami

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But this kind of attention to details probably won't ever happen as it's hard to notice, it might contain spoilers, and it needs to be changed back and forth constantly.

one thing to add

Spoiler: noriko before that FUCKING event

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[Pervyfox]

I'm still amazed I originally downloaded this game looking for porn and now i'm emotionally invested. It's like Teaching Feeling all over again.

learned your Lesson in Love, eh?

 

[Pervyfox]

one thing to add

Spoiler: noriko before that FUCKING event

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the 'secretly' part is of particular importance

 

[KnowNoHope]

the 'secretly' part is of particular importance

hey it is a secret, no one was in the closet right...

 

[dantarium]

Since we reached the topic of endings. IIRC there will be individual endings for the girls before the TRUE ending

Will we have to play the game 36 different times just to get this ending?

 

[Riolol]

Since we reached the topic of endings. IIRC there will be individual endings for the girls before the TRUE ending

Will we have to play the game 36 different times just to get this ending?

No, I think you have to play through the harem phase and the dark phase and then 36 odd "purity routes" before you unlock the true ending. You won't have to play the whole game 36 times (I believe)
The Kaori purity route will probably be my headcanon ending anyway.

 

[barglenarglezous]

Since we reached the topic of endings. IIRC there will be individual endings for the girls before the TRUE ending

Will we have to play the game 36 different times just to get this ending?

Unless his plan has changed, when the "purity routes" begin, you'll pick one of the girls available (they'll be added in a somewhat random order), play through her story to the end, and once you end her route, you're sent back to the decision point to pick the next girl.

 

[FireCazador]

If Sel bites the dust before finishing though

Damn just think about it, suddenly he have an accident and all of us get blueballed cause we will never know how he would end it... At this point i probably will watch it until the end whatever he do. Like he could mess up the story or some characters and probably i will keep reading through all the shit (and 5yo 300iq chinese boy level puzzles), but if he stop updating it will be like "Fuck me, for one decent story..."

 

[Bingoogus]

Like i said before, i am low key nervous about the future of the story, apprehensive that any change to the dynamic i've gotten used to turning into something i struggle with, i know we've been told for along while how the different phases will go but i just fear i'll lose interest in the game either because it just goes weird or if it get's so grimdark it becomes almost comical, there's a reason why i don't enjoy horror films and it's because they all just come across as ridiculous to me.

 

[JelF547]

and 5yo 300iq chinese boy level puzzles

Just imagine that Selebus have learned how to code and stoped to spoil puzzle answers in game code. What a wondrefull world it would be

 

[FireCazador]

Will we have to play the game 36 different times just to get this ending?

Just imagine having to play a +50h visual novel 36 times xddd (i hope that we can save and load to change the endings decisions, even tho is the most probably case to happen)

Spoiler: Me after the 2nd run

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[fdsasdf_p]

By the way, it's quiet easy to mod them because since chapter 2 this states are controled by single flag. And I already know all "Broken" girls conditions from first chapter including hard to notice Miku breakdown between "Nightvision" and "You and Me and the Night"

I can make this mod if you are interested. If you are even willing to participate, we can create chat here

Nah I am good but kudos to your enthusiasm!

 

[JelF547]

Just imagine having to play a +50h visual novel 36 times xddd (i hope that we can save and load to change the endings decisions, even tho is the most probably case to happen)

I am playing since December and it is already my 4th full walkthrough without skips. I also made a lot (possibly already 36) boring walkthroughs in order to beat my best speedrun result

 

[Axismundi]

Like i said before, i am low key nervous about the future of the story, apprehensive that any change to the dynamic i've gotten used to turning into something i struggle with, i know we've been told for along while how the different phases will go but i just fear i'll lose interest in the game either because it just goes weird or if it get's so grimdark it becomes almost comical, there's a reason why i don't enjoy horror films and it's because they all just come across as ridiculous to me.

Sel will definitely have to balance the dark route really well. He can't just have it be constant torture and sodomization, or it'll lose all impact very quickly. While things will definitely get heavier, I don't think the flow will change too much when the dark route starts. We'll still have some downtime and probably even some comedy. (Though probably much less so than what we have right now.)

 

[JelF547]

I have feeling that Sel would use "something so good that it worths surviving the darkness" style. More like story about suffering and character development, than story about scariness and horrible things. However, with complete genre shift anounced, I obviously can not be sure about this

 

[DeSkel15]

True ending is gonna be "Akira breaks free of the cycle, opens his eyes, *splat* oh yeah he jumped at the beginning of the game"

Definitely one of the lamest endings possible. Hoping for more of a god mode Sensei ending where Kumon-mi turns out to be all that's left of Earth, so Sensei just keeps the resets going indefinitely, resetting himself and everyone else over and over in order to not get bored.

Or maybe, Maya sacrifices Sensei along with everyone else to escape, then finds out she's pregnant. The End. Idk. I'm sure it'll be interesting.

 

[DeSkel15]

but i just fear i'll lose interest in the game either because it just goes weird or if it get's so grimdark it becomes almost comical, there's a reason why i don't enjoy horror films and it's because they all just come across as ridiculous to me.

Same. The idea of Psycho Ami already seems ridiculous to me, hence the nickname, but I'm hoping for more of a mindfuck than slasher film, when the actual darkness kicks in.