afterlights
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I was just reading some posts here and maybe I don't have the full gist of what's going on, but...
I am an adamant hater of things like, "too much dialogue" and "too much narration", especially when it's poorly written. For me, an adult VN must have a balancing amount of story, progression, realistic dialogue, and...sexy time.
Light of My Life hits for me on all of those. It is what I consider among one of the best out there, and I'm not one to throw that out freely. Seriously, look at some of my posts complaining about dialogue and narration in other threads. I can't stand boring, unrealistic dialogue, especially when it's thrown in to "slow burn". I don't see that here.
Anyway, forgive me if I missed some deleted posts and I'm even touching on what was being discussed, but this one really has some awesome story telling and character development and it's a shame folks might want to skip through it.
I am an adamant hater of things like, "too much dialogue" and "too much narration", especially when it's poorly written. For me, an adult VN must have a balancing amount of story, progression, realistic dialogue, and...sexy time.
Light of My Life hits for me on all of those. It is what I consider among one of the best out there, and I'm not one to throw that out freely. Seriously, look at some of my posts complaining about dialogue and narration in other threads. I can't stand boring, unrealistic dialogue, especially when it's thrown in to "slow burn". I don't see that here.
Anyway, forgive me if I missed some deleted posts and I'm even touching on what was being discussed, but this one really has some awesome story telling and character development and it's a shame folks might want to skip through it.
Considering how things went last update I'm excited to see what happens between the MC and Macy. Or is it the younger "ward's" turn now
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Based on what's gone before, I'd say it's entirely up to Denise whose "turn" it is!
Just wanted to jump in with a complement. This game is beautifully designed. I love the exceptional character designs and their quirky personalities. Great work!
So you are trolling here? Let us enjoy our
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Spatenklopper
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That makes perfect sense.
I only took in Titanic for 194 minutes to see Leo drown.
Life is sometimes boring, you just have to know how to keep yourself busy, no matter how pointless it seems.
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You don't like this type of story, so go back to the jungle and study Confucius' story. To tell the truth, your opinion does not interest us.
The inevitable result of this being a one-person endeavor I'm afraid.
Reason most devs don't do it this way btw, is because it's also not the smartest move from a financial perspective: releases bring patron hikes, ergo more releases, more patron hikes.
It also clashes with the expectations players have developed from devs with more, well... sound business practices than mine.
And funnily enough, that expectation leads to quite a few accusations in my direction of being a greedy milker for putting out releases much less frequently than some others, which is kinda ironic.But I want to tell this story in these big installments and that means that there's effects like those you mentioned, and that's just the way the cookie crumbles.
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It is true that the further the updates are from each other, the more difficult it is to stay in the dynamics of the game, especially if in the meantime we are playing other games that are just as exciting. I often had to go back to the story at its beginnings to immerse myself in the scenario and hang up the new update to the previous ones. But it's not a waste of time, especially if the DEVs take the opportunity to rework the previous episodes. And then shit! If we're not happy, we go to the cinema or read a book ... or watch a porn movie.
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A good practice perhaps is to play the game again, at least from the beginning of the previous chapter. That way, you can remember where you left off and have feeling of "continuity" once the new chapter is released.
Anyway, I am not sure if this has been asked or requested naughtyroad , The gallery feature doesn't have text content. Would it be troublesome to include text so we can fully enjoy the completed scenes when we decide to revisit it?
Anyway, I am not sure if this has been asked or requested naughtyroad , The gallery feature doesn't have text content. Would it be troublesome to include text so we can fully enjoy the completed scenes when we decide to revisit it?
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And I think this is where people that have complaints about the development and release cadence should simply find another game to play.
Do I like the cadence? No.
Would I stay invested in the VN if it weren't this good? Absolutely not.
Is it fair and reasonable to constantly needle, pester, badger and insult naughty for doing it "his way" when he tells everyone what "his way" is? No, and I think it shows a distinct lack of social awareness to harangue naughty about LoML. I am ambivalent about 90% of the adult games that I have come across and I can't even begin to imagine wasting a millisecond arguing with the developer about it - I just move on. The handful of times that I haven't have been to provide solicited feedback on a technical issue or something similar, and not to try to wheedle the developer to make their project to be more the way that I want it.
Ask yourself this - how much of my finite, valuable, will-never-get-it-back time am I wasting harassing a guy writing a visual novel? I submit that, if the answer is anything greater than zero, you need to seriously reevaluate your quality of life.
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retardedusername
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Looking forward to the drop of the new version. Gonna devote a weekend and play it from the beginning again. Lotion ready
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Short aswer here:
https://f95zone.to/threads/light-of-my-life-ch-5-v0-6-1-naughty-road.29628/page-207#post-4415957
search gallery for deeper discussions.
GaboCAP
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Guys, guys, please keep this thread nice and clean. Let's go back to the topics that interest us the most. You know, trebuchets, bears... oh, and asses.
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Trebuchets launching bear asses, got it.
GaboCAP
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Or maybe BARE asses. A couple cute ones come to mind...
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It's OK to be interested only in the sex scenes. Healthy people enjoy sex. But the sexual event itself will be more fulfilling, more enjoyable if it comes in a package, containing arousing, sexual tension, complicity, teasing, and finally the mechanical part of sex, the tension release. That's the subtle distinction between an erotic movie and a pornographic movie. Both deal with sex, but the former creates the right atmosphere for the sex to happen naturally, while the latter just presents you with the sexual act.
Playing only the sexual part of a good erotic game like "Light of My Life", is a good experience but somewhat empty. It is not the complete, fulfilling experience one can get from that game. If you let yourself get involved in the story, you will understand the characters' motivations, why they are doing what they are doing, and when the sexual part happens it will be much more enjoyable than just a good sex scene!
For analogy it would be like for a football fan (soccer fan in the US) to discover that there would be a good football match on TV and he decided to watch it. He would have fun, since he enjoys football. But it would be a complete different experience if it was a match of the football team he supports, and he went to the stadium, and he felt the whole atmosphere of the event, and he knew the importance of that match for his team, if it wins it will qualify for the bigger continental competition the next season, or even win the championship. Both are just a football match, but you cannot compare the two experiences.