Ren'Py Lust Theory [v0.6.0] [Inceton Games]

[Nemo56]

What you need to do is to stop focusing on one storyline and just play the rest. It will unlock sooner or later.
The game 'seems' to be sandbox, but is really more adventure like. And the hints are not always completely accurate, since - as you mentioned - sometimes the preconditions are not always clear.
But there is no known progress bug, unless you modified the games somehow and that causes it.

 

[housekinokuni1974]

been ages i havent played this one ive dropped it beginning of season2, i remember a little disappointment with the new voice over and therefore my strong desire to see some real action with jessica pretty much vanish and i never relaunch it, At that time i even bought the steam version ive loved s1 this much so maybe i'll continue someday but between ofc i discover pleny other good games deserving my attention

 

[MerlinUSA]

OK, I seem to be stuck in Season 2. I've gotten all characters except Jessica to the point where their hints say I have to complete a "special event" in order to proceed. But, Jessica's Hint just has me repeating the same thing over, and over again, with no end in sight. I think I've tried all of the available options, but it just won't move on. I'm attaching a screen cap to show the hint I'm getting for her.

 

[Kaftan]

anyone knows how to solve Rachel talk with Tom and MC ?
im kinda getting stuck or all the time Tom is winning
season 3

 

[nutka]

anyone knows how to solve Rachel talk with Tom and MC ?
im kinda getting stuck or all the time Tom is winning

what is the questlog telling you to do? … you know you re living in a time loop? Are you doing the exact same thing over and over again and expecting different results?

 

[Kaftan]

what is the questlog telling you to do?

the review ends with statement that MC can come once again using his superpower - and once rollback of the day applies the review is once again the same

anyway I started the new game - it seems somehow bug occured, right now i made a progress

 

[nutka]

right now i made a progress

I'm glad, you could resolve it by yourself. I can only remember I solved this on the 2nd try. It's long time ago so I don't remember the details. Something with looking inside Tom's file and something about Amy being independent on a leash so that she is not too independent.

 

[CLanky]

Are there any rape scenes in S2 or S3? Asking because of the tag.

 

[Nemo56]

Spoiler: rape scene

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[Penfold Mole]

What you need to do is to stop focusing on one storyline and just play the rest. It will unlock sooner or later.
The game 'seems' to be sandbox, but is really more adventure like. And the hints are not always completely accurate, since - as you mentioned - sometimes the preconditions are not always clear.
But there is no known progress bug, unless you modified the games somehow and that causes it.

The game is really a VN or often more like a KN, because although it has loads of freeroams, often the only way to progress is to follow one single very restricted path. Visit one place out of the correct sequence and the story order flies out the window or you might even get stuck and locked out of progress. The same goes for you if you intentionally try to avoid some of the events. Pretty much all events in this game are meant to be played, all paths to be followed

In season 2 there was one occasion where the player had multiple places on the map unlocked, so he could visit all of them, with at least two places where the story would progress, but only one of them the correct one.

The first time I made a wrong choice and the story progress went out of order, the characters (Sophie in particular) started talking about things that never happened. Then I actually changed the script myself in a way that locked out the wrong path - just to make sure that it's possible and rather easy to achieve. That particular logical bug was never fixed by Inceton and I'm pretty sure that later on other similar bugs were introduced, so I stopped paying attention to them, just tried to follow the intended path.

By following each update you're less likely to get stuck, but if you try to start a season from the beginning without knowing the order each event was added to the game, you are likely to get stuck somewhere, miss something or play the story out of order.

 

[Nemo56]

As I said, very much adventure like The classic ones work just like this - just with less hints and usually combined with inventory handling, but that became less popular during the last years. The only "item" I can think about in S1 is the bottle of wine you need to buy and that's not even handled as item.
You need to figure out what to do and do it to prorgrss in the story. Sometimes you need to do several things and only then unlock the next step.

 

[Penfold Mole]

As I said, very much adventure like The classic ones work just like this - just with less hints and usually combined with inventory handling, but that became less popular during the last years. The only "item" I can think about in S1 is the bottle of wine you need to buy and that's not even handled as item.
You need to figure out what to do and do it to prorgrss in the story. Sometimes you need to do several things and only then unlock the next step.

Adventure games I've played in the past would usually indicate somehow that you've chosen a wrong path. Likely with a large "GAME OVER" message

In games where you could step out of the map and fall out of the world or step through the walls meant to be solid and skip a part or get stuck without an option to turn back and choose a different path were considered to be bugged.

I'm not talking about the indie games I've played since I joined F95. I'm talking about all the adventure games way-way back, would they be in 3D (like Unreal series, for example) or even older, text-based adventures where you could go N, E, S, W, pick up stuff and "fight" trolls. Getting stuck without an option to turn back or getting killed has always been considered a bug.
At least in games where you could get killed and got stuck somewhere, you might of had an option to "commit suicide" to get unstuck.

As a programmer, you have to be able to see all the possibilities and code your product to be resistant to wrongful inputs. These games are definitely not.

 

[ZenoMod]

As a programmer, you have to be able to see all the possibilities and code your product to be resistant to wrongful inputs. These games are definitely not.

Visiting active places in an order which is different from the order they were added is hardly considerable a "wrongful input".

It's a bug.

Either you foresee all the possible paths and code different dialogues consequently (which is a hell both in programming and in storytelling), OR you only unlock the places in the correct order.

And in the latest case the "sandbox" is just an illusion. It all boils down to a multiple choiche based VN with a series of forced clicks to move around on the map in the only possible order.

 

[Nemo56]

Adventure games I've played in the past would usually indicate somehow that you've chosen a wrong path. Likely with a large "GAME OVER" message

In games where you could step out of the map and fall out of the world or step through the walls meant to be solid and skip a part or get stuck without an option to turn back and choose a different path were considered to be bugged.

I'm not talking about the indie games I've played since I joined F95. I'm talking about all the adventure games way-way back, would they be in 3D (like Unreal series, for example) or even older, text-based adventures where you could go N, E, S, W, pick up stuff and "fight" trolls. Getting stuck without an option to turn back or getting killed has always been considered a bug.
At least in games where you could get killed and got stuck somewhere, you might of had an option to "commit suicide" to get unstuck.

As a programmer, you have to be able to see all the possibilities and code your product to be resistant to wrongful inputs. These games are definitely not.

Haven't seen a "Game Over" message since Monkey Island Before that you could indeed die, but LucasArts put an end to that.

ps: Unreal is not an adventure. The term "adventure" is not about the game sending someone on an adventure, but about games with similar gameplay mechanics as in the game called "Adventure". I do consider "fight troll" games RPGs usually
Your mention of text adventures is correct (my first AIF games were infact text adventures, and damn ... you **could** end up dead in "Moist"), but dying has been abandoned for a long time by now.

Sadly it still happens once in a while that designers don't notice dead ends. And yes, I consider that to be a bug. I don't think there are dead ends here. you just can't progress until you did something else first.

 

[Penfold Mole]

I can not claim that there are dead ends in any of the 3 seasons of this game, but there are multiple places to mess up continuity of the story line where the dialog stops making sense if you visit places in a wrong time of day or in wrong order.

 

[Nemo56]

Don't play commercial adventures then Happens in the newest ones as well.

Yesterday, I played one: MC was standing before a trashcan:

Right Click: "XYZ's comb is in there."
Left Click: "The trashcan is empty."
Right Click: "XYZ's comb is in there."
Left Click: "The trashcan is empty."

And in another one I get hints for actions that I already performed.
Stuff like this can be annoying and should not happen, but it happens to every dev.

And I think it's safe to say that the guys at Inceton are not even half as experienced at scripting and planning as the guys in professional developer studios.
(where I have to admit that also the two studios for the examples I just mentioned are rather new to the business).

 

[NIAmyEMOgirl]

is there finally a content for Alice?

 

[Nemo56]

Plenty. She's the center of the story.
If you mean intimate encounters ... no

 

[CJAM2002]

Brief 0.5.1 review. Only took me a good couple weeks to finally write about it.

Spoiler: Stuff

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[CARlSON911]

How will MC bring all the girls together into a single harem by endgame. Will the individual girls' stories slowly integrate together until we have a single through line as Alice works on fixing her machine thing?

The author did not specify "harem" in the list of genres. So we may not see a harem ending. Keep this in mind so you don't get too upset later.