VN Ren'Py Lineage or Legacy [Ch.4 Act II] [Biting The Bullet]

[Niuul]

Well if you are taking questions there is one thing that has been kind of bugging me since I played this wonderful game for the first time and my theory probably makes little to no sense especially when you consider dev time. Since the MC is away for 2 months is it safe to assume most of the girls we met at the university are side girls? Cause to me living at home away from them feels like a mini reset of the relationships of a sort cause I cant think of a reason why they would visit us or we visit them before the 2 months considering exams are close.

Cause as of right now my theory is there is 2 sets of main girls depending on a decision we probably will make about our fathers company later. I would think that decision influences if we stay at home or go back to university and which set of main girls we would be able to peruse / be near. But that theory doesnt make sense to me when you consider the dev time I think. So it's something that been on my mind alot and bugging me. If it's something you dont want to answer cause it will be spoilers about future content I understand but figure id ask anyways.

Thanks for making this wonderful game it's in my top 10.

That's actually true. From a story standpoint, you interacted with the first set of introduced LI once or twice then disappear for 2 months. The only one you keep in contact with is Torrie, but even then it's twice so far. It's quite the reset to any relationship building since no real foundation was built in the first place.

But yeah, that's gonna be an annoying dev cycle if the story branches between a choice of university or home town. No one really knows each other well enough to consider traveling back and forth.

 

[Mipecio]

On the one hand, games like this (where there are real characters and even MALE characters who have their own arcs and love interests) are so rare in this genre it's ridiculous and it would only make the game better to have Alex be your 'back home bro', and frankly you're already going to fuck his mom....

Buuuuuut.... There is just something about Alex. Why the cute fem face on that tiny little body? If he is actually a she in disguise, splitting her open would be just the kind of semi fucked up but super duper hot content we've come to expect from this dev.

Plus Alex got some real nice booty too. Yeah.. I think he could actually be she but trans.

 

[jemmylyn]

On the one hand, games like this (where there are real characters and even MALE characters who have their own arcs and love interests) are so rare in this genre it's ridiculous and it would only make the game better to have Alex be your 'back home bro', and frankly you're already going to fuck his mom....

Buuuuuut.... There is just something about Alex. Why the cute fem face on that tiny little body? If he is actually a she in disguise, splitting her open would be just the kind of semi fucked up but super duper hot content we've come to expect from this dev.

I agree. The potential for the “gender disguise and reveal” storyline is so great that it would be a shame not to take advantage of it. I can say the same about Alex’s appearance, she is a very beautiful girl and her character goes very well with her appearance, there is something very special about her, that I rarely see in games. The options for building a super hot storyline with the girl Alex are huge. I would easily accept the idea of Alex being "just a bro" if his appearance wasn't so full of female beautifulness, it's too damn hot, too special.

"Just a bro" line is just a bro, just another common line, that appears in a bunch of games. I just look at Alex and this line simply doesn’t fit with the character in my head. Such a character deserves better, he/she is too good for such a simple, boring line.

 

[Acsuka]

Well, it seems that there is still a lot of speculation about Alex... Maybe we should ask the developer to make a beach scene and then we will see what Alex is wearing... Bikini or swimming trunks?

 

[BitingTheBullet]

Was talking to a friend earlier and he told me before the rework Alex used to have a beard and look like a guy. So if that is the case not a surprise. But yeah I was hoping Alex would be the childhood friend LI when you first see him in the prologue before I realized it was a dude.

Two different characters. Alex was introduced with the rework rather than pre-existing. I had his character designed sometime around Ch3A and was going to introduce him in Ch4 but saw a great opportunity to add a small scene in the opening for new players.

The other bearded character is Garrett, the professor. He had minimal changes to him.

 

[BitingTheBullet]

Out of a total of 400 votes combined from both questions, here are the poll results.

1. Natasha - 54
2. Eliza - 48
3. April - 47
4. Savannah - 44
5. Piper - 41
6. Linda - 40

Definitely surprised that Alejandra was a sleeper waifu for a lot of guys. And also that Lili was so low. Honestly expected them to be opposites.

For those who voted for the top 6, congrats!
For those who didn't, don't fret. I might use one of the girls as a side-piece/one-off fling.

After this poll, the Official list of Love Interests are as follows:

1. April
2. Costanza
3. Eliza
4. Fiona
5. Kaylee
6. Linda
7. Natasha
8. Piper
9. Savannah
10. Sylvia
11. Torrie

Now that the selection is clear, expect future content to be focused on these ladies and for those who are vary about development burden and what not, It's okay. I've got a good amount of time in these three months to put a tight plan together without it feeling forced.

 

[BitingTheBullet]

BitingTheBullet
Hey, I'm finding that the skip unseen text function, even when turned off, will still skip text about 50% of the time? It's acting weirdly inconsistent.

Is it just me, or did you use two different models for Fiona...? It was particularly striking for me because one hairdo is used for a mid-30's character in Braindrop's WVM game.

Going through a skip playthrough, I checked out Eliza's path for kicking in the arcade door, but had 1/2 Strength, kept going down the branch after failing, and then got an error for the respect relationship choice.

It does rollback surprisingly cleanly, though.

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/chapters/chap3B/scripts/ch3p37.rpy", line 1222, in script
    $ MC_respect += 1 #Respect 41
  File "game/chapters/chap3B/scripts/ch3p37.rpy", line 1222, in <module>
    $ MC_respect += 1 #Respect 41
NameError: name 'MC_respect' is not defined

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/chapters/chap3B/scripts/ch3p37.rpy", line 1222, in script
    $ MC_respect += 1 #Respect 41
  File "renpy/ast.py", line 928, in execute
    renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store)
  File "renpy/python.py", line 2245, in py_exec_bytecode
    exec(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/chapters/chap3B/scripts/ch3p37.rpy", line 1222, in <module>
    $ MC_respect += 1 #Respect 41
NameError: name 'MC_respect' is not defined

Windows-10-10.0.19041
Ren'Py 7.4.11.2266
V.4.2.0
Sun Mar 17 17:13:15 2024

thanks for pointing it out. Definitely a mistake on my end. It's supposed to be MC_resp not MC_respect

I'm fairly sure that the persistent data got screwed up. I'm making fresh version for Windows and Mac.

Fiona's model was the exact same
Just heavier makeup around the eyes, glasses and different hairdo. It's like she's Clark Kent with glasses and Superman without em.

 

[BitingTheBullet]

I'm not 100% sure on this so take this with a grain of salt. But when I was speed running through the game picking asshole choices to get rude points to see the Piper scene. I saw one with Linda I missed so either I just picked the wrong dialogue or choices or she needs rude points as well.

I dont remember putting Linda behind any rude paths. You likely ran into an alternative route for her or something.

 

[Niuul]

Out of a total of 400 votes combined from both questions, here are the poll results.
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1. Natasha - 54
2. Eliza - 48
3. April - 47
4. Savannah - 44
5. Piper - 41
6. Linda - 40

Definitely surprised that Alejandra was a sleeper waifu for a lot of guys. And also that Lili was so low. Honestly expected them to be opposites.

For those who voted for the top 6, congrats!
For those who didn't, don't fret. I might use one of the girls as a side-piece/one-off fling.

After this poll, the Official list of Love Interests are as follows:

1. April
2. Costanza
3. Eliza
4. Fiona
5. Kaylee
6. Linda
7. Natasha
8. Piper
9. Savannah
10. Sylvia
11. Torrie

Now that the selection is clear, expect future content to be focused on these ladies and for those who are vary about development burden and what not, It's okay. I've got a good amount of time in these three months to put a tight plan together without it feeling forced.

Awww yeah. Fiona. Love me some red heads. Excited to see more Savannah as well after her rework.

 

[Aramintha]

I posted a review of the game over at reddit try to get more people to play this amazing AVN anyways here is the link incase anybody wants to read it

You must be registered to see the links

 

[akzz223]

Right under windows. I'll put the uncompressed version tomorrow once it's compiled.

Thank you!

 

[Aramintha]

Out of a total of 400 votes combined from both questions, here are the poll results.
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1. Natasha - 54
2. Eliza - 48
3. April - 47
4. Savannah - 44
5. Piper - 41
6. Linda - 40

Definitely surprised that Alejandra was a sleeper waifu for a lot of guys. And also that Lili was so low. Honestly expected them to be opposites.

For those who voted for the top 6, congrats!
For those who didn't, don't fret. I might use one of the girls as a side-piece/one-off fling.

After this poll, the Official list of Love Interests are as follows:

1. April
2. Costanza
3. Eliza
4. Fiona
5. Kaylee
6. Linda
7. Natasha
8. Piper
9. Savannah
10. Sylvia
11. Torrie

Now that the selection is clear, expect future content to be focused on these ladies and for those who are vary about development burden and what not, It's okay. I've got a good amount of time in these three months to put a tight plan together without it feeling forced.

I am so happy Piper and April both made it they are my favorites

 

[Ken Moreno]

I posted a review of the game over at reddit try to get more people to play this amazing AVN anyways here is the link incase anybody wants to read it

You must be registered to see the links

Thanks for sharing very good review

 

[Dessolos]

I'm just happy Eliza and April made it to the list the most after their introduction they quickly become ones of my new favorites. Sylvia still my favorite character but unsure if I will or wont peruse her as a LI probably will cause every interaction with her makes me like her that much more. While I wasn't worried about Fiona , Kylee or Costanza glad they are on the list.


I'm more surprised about Natasha for me she was kind of mid for me. She is someone id go after before Piper and Torrie but everyone else before her haha. Tho I was kind a hoping June might of made it on the list was setting up to potentially be an
okay or fun storyline. As if I recall correctly she was wanting to keep things a secret from Fiona if you did date.

 

[Acsuka]

I was a bit surprised by the ranking of the girls... However, I am happy that the three girls I like are on the list. Costanza, who is a "bunny girl" and seems nice, is also MC's friend's sister, so the story will be even more interesting... Fiona, of course, because she is a red-haired and cheerful party type... Finally, the "secret favorite" Sylvia. I have very mixed feelings about her because she is "unfortunately" MC's little sister and I don't feel the "incest" is right in this game... However, I love her character because she is very cute, modest, beautiful and overall a very lovable girl...
I'm really looking forward to where this story goes and how the characters can connect with each other even more... Because I don't think the best LI is the girl who "gives herself in" first...

 

[BitingTheBullet]

I posted a review of the game over at reddit try to get more people to play this amazing AVN anyways here is the link incase anybody wants to read it

You must be registered to see the links

funny thing is they deleted the post I made to promote my game despite not overstepping any bounds.


Anyways thanks for doing this. I appreciate all comments, even the Mommy and Alex pitchfork guys.

 

[Aramintha]

funny thing is they deleted the post I made to promote my game despite not overstepping any bounds.
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Anyways thanks for doing this. I appreciate all comments, even the Mommy and Alex pitchfork guys.

Your game deserves more love so glad to do my part and see some people willing to try it out and I wonder why they deleted your post mods can be weird on reddit I guess also ignore the Alex and Mom pitchfork guys they are both unhinged on f95 and on reddit that doesnt change no matter where you go lol

 

[BitingTheBullet]

Your game deserves more love so glad to do my part and see some people willing to try it out and I wonder why they deleted your post mods can be weird on reddit I guess also ignore the Alex and Mom pitchfork guys they are both unhinged on f95 and on reddit that doesnt change no matter where you go lol

Who knows why. I didn't bother asking.
As for the Alex and mom crowd, I'm fine with it. I can 100% understand their frustrations from a reader/player perspective. There's a lot of things I wish the MC in my favorite manga did and sometimes I can get annoyed with the mangaka. Over the years though, I've been getting a deeper understanding at things I used to question. I guess the only difference being that I never cared enough to vocalize/comment it.

 

[BitingTheBullet]

Well if you are taking questions there is one thing that has been kind of bugging me since I played this wonderful game for the first time and my theory probably makes little to no sense especially when you consider dev time. Since the MC is away for 2 months is it safe to assume most of the girls we met at the university are side girls? Cause to me living at home away from them feels like a mini reset of the relationships of a sort cause I cant think of a reason why they would visit us or we visit them before the 2 months considering exams are close.

Cause as of right now my theory is there is 2 sets of main girls depending on a decision we probably will make about our fathers company later. I would think that decision influences if we stay at home or go back to university and which set of main girls we would be able to peruse / be near. But that theory doesnt make sense to me when you consider the dev time I think. So it's something that been on my mind alot and bugging me. If it's something you dont want to answer cause it will be spoilers about future content I understand but figure id ask anyways.

Thanks for making this wonderful game it's in my top 10.

The college girls aren't side pieces. They were set as LI way back in chapter 2.

Back when I started with old chapter 1, I was leaning towards splitting the game down the middle as you've mentioned. At the time I was a very, very gullible developer thinking I could do it with a goddamn GTX 760. I could barely load more than 2 characters yet I was a dreaming about super large crowds and wide open, detailed areas.

However, I'm changing the direction into try and incorporate both areas. I always intended to do multiple time-skips to show MCs progress into not just fitness but also education, maturity, discipline and physical appearance. This was set to take place over a 5 year period.

Now In Chapter 5, MC WILL head back to college, do his thing with the ladies, take his exams and meet up with his buddies.

Right now, the three morality stats have shown hints of coming out here and there but at the end of ch5 is when they'll (Lineage, Legacy and Descent) points come into full-play and have 3 separate paths.

I just hope my gullibleness hasn't evolved into naivete.

 

[Aramintha]

Who knows why. I didn't bother asking.
As for the Alex and mom crowd, I'm fine with it. I can 100% understand their frustrations from a reader/player perspective. There's a lot of things I wish the MC in my favorite manga did and sometimes I can get annoyed with the mangaka. Over the years though, I've been getting a deeper understanding at things I used to question. I guess the only difference being that I never cared enough to vocalize/comment it.

While I have my own biases for girls like Piper and such I am of the mind of respecting what the authors vision of things are I believe that letting devs and creators work on what they want and like brings out the best work they can create but thats my personal take on such things.

I do have to say I am very happy Piper made it to the main girls we need at least one wild type badgirl love interest for variety plus AVN need more black women they are too underrated and rare to find.