Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.53.0] [Selebus]

[Pedro4545454]

What kind of event/situation do you all hope DOESN'T happen during 2025? There's been a lot of discussion of what we hope to see, but what do we hope we don't see?

I hope we DON'T have sex with Noriko until the pure routes, the meme of her never getting this sex scene has to last longer!!

I hope we DON'T have H scenes with the mages in 2025, for me this has to be saved for the dark route, otherwise the dark route will be in my opinion with just repeated and fucked up things for 6 months.

 

[Moonflare]

I hope we DON'T get Maya back. That nu-Maya sticks around for a while and very slowly, over the course of several resets, awakens back to her old self. Getting her back too soon would feel less like story advancement and more like a fake-out.

I feel like, if we were to wait for a long time, then it would be even more heartbreaking for new maya to understand things bit by bit and get to be someone important to Akira, for then Maya Prime to be able to come back, but that would mean killing new maya - so you'd lose a maya either way. And it would create interesting discussions about previous erased parts of other people (unless they were all saved).

take the DeLorean to go to the future Marty

Spoiler: what are we waiting for?

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[barglenarglezous]

I feel like, if we were to wait for a long time, then it would be even more heartbreaking for new maya to understand things bit by bit and get to be someone important to Akira, for then Maya Prime to be able to come back, but that would mean killing new maya - so you'd lose a maya either way. And it would create interesting discussions about previous erased parts of other people (unless they were all saved).

Ideally, this would happen right after Sensei realizes he loves the nu-Maya, and thus becomes a proper damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't suffer puppet.

 

[Vizer007]

What I wouldn't give for bi-monthly releases again... bi-weekly? Every two weeks.

What kind of event/situation do you all hope DOESN'T happen during 2025? There's been a lot of discussion of what we hope to see, but what do we hope we don't see?

Personally, I hope there's less story based on Sara and Yuki. I feel like we've gotten our fill on them lately and it'd be nice to have more time spent on the girls in class. (But I do want more Wakana/Osako stuff to happen.)

The reason it was 2 times per month in the first place was for exposure (appearing on 1st page twice a month is bound to catch more people), so, yeah, no more of that.

 

[Antosha]

I feel like, if we were to wait for a long time, then it would be even more heartbreaking for new maya to understand things bit by bit and get to be someone important to Akira, for then Maya Prime to be able to come back, but that would mean killing new maya - so you'd lose a maya either way. And it would create interesting discussions about previous erased parts of other people (unless they were all saved).

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Your Prime Maya|Nu Maya scenario really makes my heart and head hurt — and sounds very on-brand for LiL.

 

[flacc2pit]

I feel like, if we were to wait for a long time, then it would be even more heartbreaking for new maya to understand things bit by bit and get to be someone important to Akira, for then Maya Prime to be able to come back, but that would mean killing new maya - so you'd lose a maya either way. And it would create interesting discussions about previous erased parts of other people (unless they were all saved).

I can't speak for everyone but I feel like Nu-Maya would have to do / say a whole lot for this to have the desired impact. Maya-Prime has too much narrative weight from the rest of the game. The story beats that would allow the potential loss of Nu-Maya to be comparable to OG Maya for both Sensei and the reader would make the overall story weaker imo. Nu-Maya would have to impact the understanding of the setting/lore or have dynamic and engaging character interactions to have a shot. I don't see it.

 

[SlidingSubject]

Nu-Maya would have to impact the understanding of the setting/lore or have dynamic and engaging character interactions to have a shot.

Either the fallout of the time displacement or, in the worst case, the Dark Route will work to develop nu-Maya into a character, because remember that she has a somewhat fresh perspective of what recently happened before the loop.

 

[Detective Dc345]

I hope we DON'T have sex with Noriko

WHAT?!

 

[Bingoogus]

If nu-Maya has to go for prime-Maya to return i am ok with it, but i hope what happens is she is simply subsumed into the greater Maya whole... i dunno if the moral philosophics of that is sturdy ground but i could live with that, just having her die seems wrong, she didn't ask to exist and she shouldn't be snuffed out to make room for another.

 

[Apollo259]

Personally, I hope there's less story based on Sara and Yuki. I feel like we've gotten our fill on them lately and it'd be nice to have more time spent on the girls in class. (But I do want more Wakana/Osako stuff to happen.)

Unfortunately for your based on this line it seems like we might be getting more Yuki stuff relatively soon.

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[fdsasdf_p]

What kind of event/situation do you all hope DOESN'T happen during 2025? There's been a lot of discussion of what we hope to see, but what do we hope we don't see?

Another return of the Good Kids. Please just go back to Canada.

 

[SlidingSubject]

Another return of the Good Kids. Please just go back to Canada.

The instrumentals were pretty good, tho. Maybe the changing season makes them want to preserve their voices, so everything is instrumental from now on.

 

[Detective Dc345]

Another return of the Good Kids. Please just go back to Canada.

Woaahhh calm down Otoha

 

[shmurfer]

What I wouldn't give for bi-monthly releases again... bi-weekly? Every two weeks.

What kind of event/situation do you all hope DOESN'T happen during 2025? There's been a lot of discussion of what we hope to see, but what do we hope we don't see?

Personally, I hope there's less story based on Sara and Yuki. I feel like we've gotten our fill on them lately and it'd be nice to have more time spent on the girls in class. (But I do want more Wakana/Osako stuff to happen.)

I'm just hoping the idea blueballing stops soon (with exception of Chika since the joke might be the same, but the "rabies" is giving us new stuff to work with like her telling Yumi to have sex with us.)

For me that includes Wizard content (at least after Tsukasa's choice, even though I have thoughts on something 'godly' happening with Chinami), the Noriko being cucked joke, Maya sex being kept off screen. The fact that a majority of girls are being sexed by sensei yet a bunch of them don't know it's a harem yet. Probably a bunch more I'm forgetting about.

Maybe I just want the boat to be rocked after a year of no reset.

 

[Moonflare]

I can't speak for everyone but I feel like Nu-Maya would have to do / say a whole lot for this to have the desired impact. Maya-Prime has too much narrative weight from the rest of the game. The story beats that would allow the potential loss of Nu-Maya to be comparable to OG Maya for both Sensei and the reader would make the overall story weaker imo. Nu-Maya would have to impact the understanding of the setting/lore or have dynamic and engaging character interactions to have a shot. I don't see it.

I don't mean that they could ever become equals, but new maya is maya, in the sense that everything before the resets is shared by both of them. If Akira learned of his past with maya through new maya, he'd associate new maya with the "original maya" (they're both the original one).

That could help making him parting with new maya painful as well, even though maya prime would be more treasured.

 

[flacc2pit]

Thanks for clarifying. Nu Maya definitely has a lot of potential, emotionally and metaphysically. I enjoy whenever Sensei has to struggle with the same struggles Maya Prime went through. As far as I remember, we haven't really learned too much about the other Senseis in loops before the start of the game (who were decisively not Akira, if Maya Prime was to be believed). Though not a perfect 1 to 1 mirror, learning exactly how Maya Prime processed the other Senseis "resetting"/changing personalities would not only inform how Akira may grapple with the process of losing Nu Maya, but also enable another opportunity to depict Akira struggling with the same bs that Maya Prime dealt with, potentially demonstrating the latter's strength juxtaposed with the former's weakness, leading to Sensei further deifying Maya Prime.

The "new" Sensei we see with Ayane in the final event of the update cracks a joke that, on first read, doesn't seem like the style of humor Akria tends to lean into. It would be interesting if this Sensei is "not Akira," as Maya Prime described dealing with in pre Chapter 1 loops.

 

[JelF547]

Another return of the Good Kids. Please just go back to Canada.

I actually liked good kid in the 0.44. I think I need help

 

[{Jeizaguretokanteishi01}]

this must be one of the most posted on game threads if not the most posted on and i dont know why the game is just ok at being a ero game but it is a good game in terms of story so... i guess it makes sense

 

[shmurfer]

this must be one of the most posted on game threads if not the most posted on and i dont know why the game is just ok at being a ero game but it is a good game in terms of story so... i guess it makes sense

This game makes our hearts erect.

 

[LessonsInDissonance]

I actually liked good kid in the 0.44. I think I need help

What it is that keeps me from letting you goooooooooo,
I don't even know