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Here's something I thought was very interesting: Sensei says a lot of gibberish when he is broken but I don't recall him being able to predict the future (Nodoka's theme was playing in this scene). There were also a lot of 4th wall breaks from Sensei in Chapter 1 but it slowly stopped. Now he only says this world was made for him. I wonder if all the 4th wall scenes should be taken seriously.
- Jul 18, 2023
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Hello friends. This game really hooked me and influenced me, and I decided to improve it... Improve it a lot... Remake)) For several months I have been developing a complete remake of this game on a completely different engine. I want to make the best version of this game. And today I would like to share with you, with the community, some of my developments. Teasers, if I may say so. It is very important for me to hear your opinion, your criticism, suggestions, ideas, whatever... I have a lot of ideas that I'm going to implement to improve your gaming experience. And if you like it, I will soon share all this with you. I hope you enjoy my work. P.S. Do not pay attention to inconsistencies in names, groups, avatars, content, dialogs. For now, it's just a design.
- Mar 11, 2019
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The best way to improve this damn grind fest of a game is.... make it kinetic. XD
- Jun 24, 2020
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I started to make a mod that played through all events in order, and even sorting through that was a fucking headache.
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Well, to break the grindy nature of the game increasing affection and lust gains to 5 or 10 per event would do fine, a hint system for the puzzles that shows what events have the answers is fine, and decreasing the headpat mark from 500 to around 100.
Maybe cut the luminescense of the colors in the text box a little, it kinda hurts the eyes especially if you read it with the lights off. I think more matte and solid colors are easier to read and don't hurt the eyes as much.
Including a translation for all the hexcode/japanese/binary and other coded stuff because this is a game not homework, what kind of player would be bored enough to try searching for it on google, especially the japanese script that you can't simply copy paste from the game. Maybe a toggle to translate so if the player wants to search for themselves instead of having it easilly acessible they can.
- Jul 18, 2023
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Thanks for your feedback!
As for the grind points, I plan to make a difficulty level. At an easier level, there will be less grinding. Everyone can customize this for themselves.
Hints will also be implemented this way. In the event tracker (shown in one of the screenshots), you can see the status of the event, all the conditions necessary for it to start or skip, and what needs to be done to start the event. It is also planned to introduce contextual hints. For example, when an event starts, the player will be warned that passing it at the moment will entail skipping some events in the future. Choice options in events will also be highlighted. The player will know what choice to make in order not to miss some events in the future. Decryption of codes is also in the plans. There will be a button on the dialog panel. It will appear when the encrypted text is on the screen. And of course, clues for puzzles. I agree that this is an extremely necessary thing. It should be clarified that this guide mod will be optional. If the player doesn't want hints, they can turn it off.
Regarding colors, I also see imperfections in my work. Yes, a dark theme is planned, but work with color will also continue. Thanks again for your detailed feedback, it means a lot to me!
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Nah I'd say this isn't Sensei having some protag powers that predict future or break causality. Sure Nodoka is someone quite unique, but I mostly think of these as Selly trying to be a smartass (which I don't mind for the most part); but often time I also think of these as "glitchy Kumon-mi not loading properly", which leads to Sensei temporarily thinking/saying/seeing things he wasn't supposed to until later.
One example that comes to mind is Torrential Downpour. Child of Man., where Sensei "predicts" Chika showing up at the ramen shop. Regardless, the seriousness of these moments for me just aren't there to really mean something.
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- Jan 27, 2020
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It looks very good, the interface of the game has always seemed very simple to me and I'm glad to see this.
I hope you don't give it up and good luck.
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Looks great so far! I agree with what others have said, that the best way to improve the game is to remove all the pointless grinding. I think a good way to do that is maybe just remove love/lust values and requirements altogether and show what we need to do to progress the story. I like what a bunch of other games on this site do, which is show a map of everywhere you can visit (instead of a few text boxes that say "mall", "shrine", "streets", etc.). You could visually show which characters are in each location that you can visit at any given time. And if a character has a new event, there can be some indication of that (like an exclamation point next to their picture on the map). That's the first thing I would do if I were remaking the game.
A couple other things I might change are to let major decisions be actual choices the player makes, instead of the order in which we do events (like good/bad homie, yumi knows, let ayane be taken advantage of by kirin, etc.). And also either dramatically improving puzzles or removing them entirely, especially since they only exist in the first place to "gatekeep people who don't want to put in the work" according to selebus. Also probably remove all of selebus' fourth-wall-break rants.
In a perfect world, I would dramatically reimagine all the happy scenes as well, to make them less frequent, shorter, and actually scary instead of tedious. But we don't really know enough about the nature of the happy scenes to know what's important and what isn't so that makes it hard.
Idk if you saw, but if you want to change any details and need new images, TheLastCrusade posted all the Koikatsu character cards so it shouldn't be difficult do.
As far as the UI designs you've posted, I LOVE the music player and texting screens. I'm not a huge fan of the glowing pink text in the text box. I love the way the contacts look, but honestly I would go with a grid because I hate having to scroll down to find the girl I'm looking for every time in the base game. I love that Uta's journal is in the game. A lot of the UI looks over-cluttred and 2(23) is definitely the worst offender. I'm not really sure that progress-filling-up-circle-ui-element-thing looks good anywhere you have it. When you have 3 of them in 2(11) they look too big and close together, but when you only have one of them in 2(12) it feels like there is a lot of empty space. When they are neon green and red it looks weirdly jarring. I'm obviously nitpicking at this point, but I would personally find different/better progress bars and also don't be afraid to make elements bigger and take up more space so they don't clutter the screen. Even with what you have now though, its a HUGE ui improvement over the base game.
I've always thought this game would REALLY benefit from a remake. The writing is so good, but its held back by such terrible game design. I'm really excited to see where this goes!
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honestly i agree, this game is great but sometime i think its concept is limited by what renpy has to offer. also there are some improvements that would make it better by a mile, and I'm not talking about talking what exists and trying to polish it, but trying to add new things.
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i would agree with some of the things said so far, and if you dont mind i would like to tell you of 2 things i think could be good
one would, for example, that thing about telling weather skipping things would block you out of others. Maybe put a small warning in some events ( like the event Schrodinger idk how to spell it) about possible consequences to doing them before certain others (beach event)
i also agree with the idea of like, slightly highlighting important information about the fure, like the skulls in mayas room, the answers for lamb legs or the name of that president for tsuneyos question
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First off: this work of yours, amazing. I'll give you a 11 out of 10 as-is already
- For implementing hints, lazy people such as myself really like having exclamation mark right next to location/call/invite buttons once the requirements are fulfilled so I don't have to tap on and off guide or menu for checking (but I don't know if working UI outside of phone menu is a direction you are going)
- For warning potential missing events, I personally don't mind reading a text box if rearranging icons becomes too visually overwhelming to deliver the intended message, especially when the current ways to miss events already have some varieties.
Maybe putting a special icon next to those "potentially point of no return" events followed by short descriptions? So players can have second thoughts when progressing, or even before proceeding to such event.
Especially those events that seemingly don't have immediate consequences such as those Lock Events at the start of a chain (including the chain that makes Makoto unavailable for later stats grinding even after the chain finishes), certain decisions (choosing Miku during 2nd war for example), and the infamous yumiknows flag.
- Location seems nice, especially when trying to grind stats more efficiently. But since location pattern is mostly fixed, I think it'd be cool to know girls' phone call availability by just looking at the character icon (maybe with an extra green dot, or just online on the side). Saying this is because I remember myself desperately trying to call Tsubasa to get affection to 5 while not really knowing exactly when she is available.
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- Speaking of calls, is it possible to make a contact menu with call and invite right next to the photo so it saves an extra click? (god I am so lazy)
Sorry if I sound like asking you to stuff the entire wiki into a menu; what you have here is so sophisticated and aesthetic, something after my own heart!
Also, it'd a little hilarious if you keep Sensei's battery always at low because it happened far too often LOL
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Found Tsuneyo's father IRL.
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A more fancier, aesthetically pleasing, and compact version of the game does sound nearly irresistible. It definitely looks good and isn't just some derivative mess I'd expect. If this is a passion project of yours then it seems extremely worthwhile for other fans as well. Perhaps even Sel would be interested in it. I mean, I would be, if someone came along wanting to make my game prettier.
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Of course, Sel can surely only react positively to this... right? *Ominous music starts playing*
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Sel reading this thread:
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