alex2011

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Just played the new update, damn, i feel really bad for Maya, looks like she is broken inside.

The event with Sara on Bar, that's just sad to think about it, she love to run that place, but thinks will never be the same again, there is only pain.

The event on the hotspring are hilarious, meet with another 5000 years old wizard. Another event on that place is having sex with alien Chika.

Yuki, no wonder sensei feel intimidated with her at first, but deep inside, she love Yumi.

Yumi love ice cream, i wonder did the ice cream love her back?
They're all broken inside in some way, some just haven't shown how yet.

I have two UI suggestions:

1) The multiple choice dialogs are visually unpleasant to read on black backgrounds (on weekends midday and evening). I suggest adding a neutral (seasonal) background image.

2) In the main girls and side girls windows I suggest adding two subtle small indicators on the overview. Maybe a small exclamation mark to indicate an unread message/pic and something else to indicate unfinished events.
Not much can be done about the background, it's winter, it snows in Japan in winter, and snow is sometimes blindingly white. There are actually a few environmental conditions associated with being blinded by snow IRL because of this. Don't worry, it will change again when it comes time to change seasons and the snow melts. There are already indicators for unfinished events and messages. If the message has not been read, the phone on the girl's page will have an exclamation point. Unfinished events are marked both in number and in color. Unfinished events will remain grey and will not be counted in the total count on the girl's page, meaning that there will be at least one less in the number of events cleared out of total events count on the page.

I have to say that Where the Sidewalk Ends was one of my favorite things to read when I was a wee youngin'.

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Friendly Passerby: "Hey buddy, looks like you took a nasty trip there, you okay? Lemme help you out real quick, and you'll be right as rain. So uh, what happened there?"

Person that isn't Sensei: "I just wanted to see what it was like to crater into the ground, so I found somewhere I could hit terminal velocity."

FP: "Well buddy, watch out, because you might land on someone, and then there'd be two bodies needing theri bones pushed back in."

PtiS: "I'll be sure to give people a heads-up before I hit the ground."

*both laugh hysterically*
The writing in that event was incredible, yes, some of it was quoted, but the quotes fit so well with the situation.

So, I'm fairly confused on the backread. Is the event that's locked out of Maya's route from being a good uncle a good or a bad event? I want to make the best choices for Maya
You must have stayed away from Ami. Being good is sometimes punished as if you were bad.

Several times playing this game I have desperately, *desperately*, wanted to take control of Sensei, and make him say or do something I did not have the option for (or had no options to do anything at all at the time, which is even more common). This recent update had so many of them. I hope very much that somewhere at the end of the game, in the eons it will take us to get to the "true end" that somehow, somehow, all the girls end up with good happy lives, because they all damn well deserve it as far as I can tell.
I'm not sure about happy, but the true end would have the possibility of giving them better lives than any other ending would. It's how Denpa games work, always negative except rarely in the true end and sometimes even then even if there is improvement in that end.

just realized, that the psychological element in this game made it feel like Doki doki literature club.

Hopefully it doesn't end the same way.
It might, it might not, but one thing is certain, we are far too early to even theorize how it will end.

Well, I just choked on my own spit from laughter after "Uptown Girl". Sensei just calling Niki like that almost literally killed me. I can't wait until the next Niki event to see her reaction firsthand.

The rest of the update was quite a mix between heartwarming and foreboding, though. You can definitely see the signs of this whole "route" crashing in tears, but with it picking up speed as it does now, it's at least going to be spectacular. Nice to see Sensei getting closer to problems and mysteries of the world in general and Maya in particular, too, even if he is rapidly losing control over himself.

The plot between Noriko and Maya thickens, and I get the feeling the latter was really hurt by it. I wonder if Niki couldn't be a more neutral source of information about the past, though. Maya doesn't seem to have so adverse a reaction to her, and you would think that supposedly girlfriend would know more about whaterver happened.
I could see the pain in her eyes and I think Noriko might be the reason the resets are even happening. I think that scene where Maya is all happy and jerking old Sensei off is very real and that old Sensei was punished by Noriko with a bungee jump without the cord off the roof of the building at the beginning. That's where my current theory of how this all started stands, Maya had a relationship, miss psycho got jealous, old Sensei denied her when she tried to get some, so she made sure Maya couldn't have some either.

I sure hope that Niki will act as some sort of anchor for Noriko, Maya and also Sensei but given the kind of game we are playing and what sadistic person Sel is.... Not a chance.

Truth be told, I absolutely love the update and especially I love Noriko since her introduction (maybe even surpassing Maya who I know is sacrificing a lot just to protect Sensei).
But Noriko will be the absolutely adorable, cute and highly interesting cause for everything to start burning down. And she'll do it with an irresistible smile...
I sure do hope that Sel doesn't hurt or worse kill Maya in the process (the new poster of her does give me terrible vibes, the bed resembles a coffin and that is not exactly reassuring) but if anyone assumed that this story will have a happy ending (anytime soon), they have not been paying attention.

It sure will be a hell of a ride though. Also a ride to hell, I guess, but it will be very enjoyable to witness. And terrifying. Mostly just terrifying actually...


Why am I loving this game so much again?!
She clearly isn't being an anchor now since Noriko is still going at least partial psycho at times, need I remind you of the invite over event where she's supposed to get away while Ami distracts Maya, but instead tries to get some of player Sensei? That was most definitely one of her psychotic episodes albeit a minor one.

Wise men once said...
"Come for the porn, don't stay for the plot...especially this game's..."
Wise men are sometimes wrong. :p

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What janitors? This is a Japanese school. Not only are 99% of all men conscripted into the space war, but it is common practice in Japan to have the students handle janitorial duties as a way to teach responsibility.

The only issue I have with this is when there's text that goes by so fast that even repeating it multiple times I can't figure out what it's saying beyond a word or two, damnit!
Read it one word at a time per repeat, that's what I do and then I can read the whole sentence by putting them in order in my head.

Selebus, a bit of thought about menus.
Can you make it so when you go into Main Girl (Side Girl too) and choose a girl, we can go to the next or previous girl in that menu ( just some arrows, if you click on the arrow pointing right - you will go from Chika to Yumi and so on)
Now that would be useful, instead of us having to go all the way back out or go back to the girl list for the character set we are looking at. I often go through specifically the characters I found have events that update and they are often separated by at least two other girls on the list. I often forget where they are on the list as I am still getting used to the UI of this tracker, so it not only takes me several minutes to find the next girl that has events, but it also requires I back out of the girl's page to go to the next.
 

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Does anyone know how to stall those seizure inducing scenes like the new yumi ones (.15)? Or could give me the contents via a spoiler?

What i could read so far was
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Does anyone know how to stall those seizure inducing scenes like the new yumi ones (.15)? Or could give me the contents via a spoiler?

What i could read so far was
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The code and assets for this game are uncompressed/obfuscated, so you could just go into the game's files and look for the images in question's names then find them in the images folder. This is a little harder if you don't know how the game handles its code or if you can't read ren'py code in the first place.

A good suggestion is to check the "Xevents.rpy" (where X is the character in question's name) file or the "dormX.rpy" file where X is 1 (iirc, either that or nothing) for first floor dorms and 2 for second floor dorms. Open the file in question with notepad and search for the last line displayed (or a substring of it) and then use that to find the image names.
 
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The code and assets for this game are uncompressed/obfuscated, so you could just go into the game's files and look for the images in question's names then find them in the images folder. This is a little harder if you don't know how the game handles its code or if you can't read ren'py code in the first place.

A good suggestion is to check the "Xevents.rpy" (where X is the character in question's name) file or the "dormX.rpy" file where X is 1 (iirc, either that or nothing) for first floor dorms and 2 for second floor dorms. Open the file in question with notepad and search for the last line displayed (or a substring of it) and then use that to find the image names.
Ok thank you so far. As im a programmer myself i could do things like that with ease. But im lazy as fuck :) . So naturally im going the least annoying way possible. Which would be trying to halt the scene or someone telling me what was in there.
But i appreciate that you told me how i could do this myself in the end.
 
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Another brilliant update in part 2, thank you Selebus. I finished off with Nodoka and got yet more "Delirium" flashbacks for my effort. That scene was so well done and I think I'm already starting to understand her issue. She doesn't have some mental illness issue, but hers is instead external. Because she is a literal genius, a prodigy, she feels pressured to excel in everything she does lest she disappoint those who she feels pressured to gain the acknowledgement of. That poor girl is running herself ragged to get that acknowledgement and it really shows in her final scene, where she is high on caffeine and obviously hasn't slept for days nor looked at her own condition via a mirror.
 

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The only issue I have with this is when there's text that goes by so fast that even repeating it multiple times I can't figure out what it's saying beyond a word or two, damnit!
You can download some free screenrecording apps like quicktime player, and screen record. After that, in slow increments play the recording and pause when necessary. That's how I look at those texts :)
 
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