Ren'Py Lessons in Love [v0.54.0] [Selebus]

[k1n5l4y3r]

This talk of purgatory made me remember Sisyphus hell, where he is forced to roll a boulder up a mountain just to have it roll down and having to restart over, and over.

 

[EpicVN]

I can't trigger Wither event. I can't call Kaori at night on a Saturday. I'm on day 689. I've done all happy events up to XIII "good boy", main event 'Glued to the sky', done all other missions.
The guide said that I need to do Rin event. I found that I missed "I died with you" bc I'm in badhomie route.
Could somebody help me.

 

[Bingoogus]

You know, above all else, and in spite of any issues i have with Selly, at least his choice in music for the game is good quality more than 90% of the time. I'm trying out yet another game found on this site, probably well over my thousandth by now and again the curse of cheap as fuck sounding low-fi music kicks in, with it's sterile 'connections' between its instruments, its percussion that sounds like some dude in his kitchen tapping on jars and plates with a butter knife, and the laziest, most cliche, lowest common denominator of beats.

I get that we all have our tastes such that there's no objectively good music in existence and that everyone's taste in music is completely shit in someone else's view, but in terms of actual objectivity, i just detest the low-fi music the majority of smut devs put in their games. If it at least had some quality, some actual blending of the synthetic instruments, some degree of real audible depth to the percussion and at least the occasional 2nd most cliche beat, i'd have no complaint to make and no reason to give props to Selly for what feels like a very low bar to pass... and yet...

 

[DeSkel15]

The game has felt like a Purgatory at several points throughout its runtime, and that technically would be neither dream nor simulation. That's why the suicidal characters like Makoto and Rin repeatedly find themselves in situations where they're driven to that point - they can't move on until they are able to resolve their problems without taking the easy way out, Miku and Ami likely died in their respective accidents and cannot move on until they've worked through their trauma, etc.

I can definitely see there being some "Can't move on"/"Can't be fixed" stuff going on.

Both Long Maya and Nao have implied that fixing Sensei seems to be a goal/ideal:

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and there's implications that Sensei isn't the only one facing stuff:

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So, this might all just be some deranged version of therapy.

 

[Crazynutso]

Akira almost certainly committed suicide at the beginning... but why? My personal theory is that Ami found out about Maya and Akira and freaked out, died, then Akira killed himself. Then Maya made a deal with God or god or dog and brought them back, but, of course, whenever those kinds of deals are made, it's never as nice as you hope for...

 

[Kagitane]

Hey guys, please remind me what the community had theories about Sensei's eyes from the flashbacks ?

 

[Wills747]

My Compressed unofficial Android port of Lessons in Love 0.33.0
Gestures etc included.
Added scrollable textbox
Alternative persistent saves/log location

**Special Instructions:**

Install apk.
Grant storage permissions on first run!
On first run you will get a prompt to copy the archive.rpa file to "documents/Wills747/lessons.in.love/game" folder.
(game will quit now)
Copy the archive.rpa file to the directory indicated in game.
Restart the game.
Keep in mind if your default install location is an actual SD card and slow speed this may slow the launch.

Also, keep the archive.rpa. I'll likely use it for future updates to minimise the apk size.

Other mods can be added to "documents/Wills747/lessons.in.love/game" folder as well
All my ports can use 0x52's URM mod, just drop the RPA file in the same folder

archive.rpa:
Mega

v0.33 APK:
Mega
You will still need the rpa from above zip if you haven't got it.

Updated my Android port to v0.33

 

[DeSkel15]

Akira almost certainly committed suicide at the beginning... but why? My personal theory is that Ami found out about Maya and Akira and freaked out, died, then Akira killed himself. Then Maya made a deal with God or god or dog and brought them back, but, of course, whenever those kinds of deals are made, it's never as nice as you hope for...

My personal theory at the moment, is that Sensei found out that Maya had been taking advantage of his memory to control him, and he winds up killing himself because of it once he remembers his past. Maya then prays at her shrine for any god to bring him back, and the god there answers. This is the result.

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[ContraBxss]

Here's translation for secret message written by shapeshifter girl
I couldn't find any here so I just did it for fun
The hexadecimal is under the decode if you want to try yourself

Spoiler: 0.33

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(Note the "0a" in the lines are not in the image, I just put them there since it makes the message cleaner since "0a" is just "begin new line" in hexadecimal)


Also also if anyone is somehow able to read her phone??? I've zoomed in and tried reading but nothing makes sense. I'm assuming it's another code with letters so a cipher is needed. I don't remember which cipher Selebus uses so if anyone could help tyvm

 

[barglenarglezous]

That is a cool idea, but I wonder if it will go to the extent of every character being dead or dying and having to come to terms with that. Though imo the one character that cannot be dead or die in the end is Maya, my hypothesis is that the True Ending will be about her continuing to live in the real world and shutting down the wishing well (or at least the Kumon Mi program running in it).

If Kumon-mi is a purgatory, I don't think every single character is dead. I think some of the characters are specifically PART of it, they're there to test, tempt, or otherwise challenge those sentenced to it. Nodoka, in particular, feels like she'd be part of that world, rather than someone being subjected to it.

 

[saerav]

Akira almost certainly committed suicide at the beginning... but why? My personal theory is that Ami found out about Maya and Akira and freaked out, died, then Akira killed himself. Then Maya made a deal with God or god or dog and brought them back, but, of course, whenever those kinds of deals are made, it's never as nice as you hope for...

My theory is that it wasn't exactly suicide in the traditional terms; it was a bout of hallucinations during which Sensei just stepped off the roof believing he could fly.

 

[DeSkel15]

If Kumon-mi is a purgatory, I don't think every single character is dead. I think some of the characters are specifically PART of it, they're there to test, tempt, or otherwise challenge those sentenced to it. Nodoka, in particular, feels like she'd be part of that world, rather than someone being subjected to it.

I can definitely see this applying to Kirin. Ignoring how she was intended to be a side character originally, Yasu has more or less said she only exists when she needs to:

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I wouldn't be surprised if this applies to most characters.

I'm thinking "seeing shit" is the biggest hint at a character being "real", though.

 

[saerav]

ngl this should be the banner for this game

 

[Angra Shadow]

My personal theory at the moment, is that Sensei found out that Maya had been taking advantage of his memory to control him, and he winds up killing himself because of it once he remembers his past. Maya then prays at her shrine for any god to bring him back, and the god there answers. This is the result.

Tbh I don't know how I would feel if the story is going in the direction of "Maya abused/manipulated Sensei", my theory has always been that Sensei replicated the abuse and grooming he received from Sekai with Maya and when he eventually realized how much he damaged her life (and possibly some other things like stillbirth being involved) he decided to "undo it all".

Imo it would be very questionable if Sel portrayed a case of a man in his 20s having a relationship with a wizard age girl as anything but Sensei being the abuser.

 

[DalXD]

Pc compressed version v 0 -33?

 

[DeSkel15]

Tbh I don't know how I would feel if the story is going in the direction of "Maya abused/manipulated Sensei", my theory has always been that Sensei replicated the abuse and grooming he received from Sekai with Maya and when he eventually realized how much he damaged her life (and possibly some other things like stillbirth being involved) he decided to "undo it all".

Imo it would be very questionable if Sel portrayed a case of a man in his 20s having a relationship with a wizard age girl as anything but Sensei being the abuser.

This is a questionable game, and I think that ship has already sailed:

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Maya has always seemed like she was the one in control:

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and presumably is the one who started the relationship:

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Ironically, Sensei also seems like he was too pathetic at the time to even be an abuser:

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It's still fucked up, but the worst thing he seemed to do to Maya is not reject her, and maybe kill himself.

 

[worthlesspeon]

Imo it would be very questionable if Sel portrayed a case of a man in his 20s having a relationship with a wizard age girl as anything but Sensei being the abuser.

I mean this game has always been extremely questionable. Most of us would probably lose our jobs if it came to light that we play this. Sel himself has also demonstrated some very questionable views (outright stating he felt teenagers are better looking than adults etc).

The game has more or less outright stated that Maya is the one who initiated. Now obviously an adult should always reject a child. But Sensei being as broken as he is perhaps literally wasn't able to. It's a vaguely interesting concept where the child is the actual abuser, and certainly one you can't discuss even in a fictional context in civilized society.

 

[Mori Enjoyer]

I can't trigger Wither event. I can't call Kaori at night on a Saturday. I'm on day 689. I've done all happy events up to XIII "good boy", main event 'Glued to the sky', done all other missions.
The guide said that I need to do Rin event. I found that I missed "I died with you" bc I'm in badhomie route.
Could somebody help me.

Rin/Futaba Event during Saturday/weekend morning at the Koi Cafe
If you were a Bad Homie w/ Rin then the event "I Died With You" would've been replaced/crossed out. Good Homie best route :100:

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[Bingoogus]

I mean this game has always been extremely questionable. Most of us would probably lose our jobs if it came to light that we play this. Sel himself has also demonstrated some very questionable views (outright stating he felt teenagers are better looking than adults etc).

The game has more or less outright stated that Maya is the one who initiated. Now obviously an adult should always reject a child. But Sensei being as broken as he is perhaps literally wasn't able to. It's a vaguely interesting concept where the child is the actual abuser, and certainly one you can't discuss even in a fictional context in civilized society.

It's a tough subject, biologically we're primed to be attracted to girls around 15, for so many reasons, but i'd like to assume most of us here recognise a distinct separation between what our dicks tell us is right and what our brains say is right just as i'd like to assume we understand the difference between fiction and reality. I wouldn't enjoy any of this story if it were real, it's completely fucked up, which makes great fiction, but super gross reality. It's a pity though that the current societal gestalt can't tolerate this subject even in fiction but it is what it is and i like that i at least have this little hang out where the subject is actually discussable, in as far as staying on the topic of the game is concerned.

 

[akselx]

It's a tough subject, biologically we're primed to be attracted to girls around 15,

I don't know if that's accurate, unless use age as a proxy for other things, that are actuall points of attractions for males. Mainly secondary sex characteristics, smoother skin, "cute" facial proportions (that disappear as we age).