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You make a good point about the actual final. Here is to a good polish and bit more in 1.0
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Not that it much matters, but a word or two about endings.
This is the second AVN in the past couple of days that ended with a whimper. I realize many will give a proverbial pat on the back to the devs for finishing the game, given that so many AVNs are prematurely abandoned. Still, that should be no excuse to ignore a rule in art production that is almost sacrosanct.
Before I got into video production many years ago I was a photographer. To be a commercial photographer attempting to sell one's talent and body of work, one had to have a portfolio. There were two rules in creating a portfolio: 1. The first picture in the portfolio was the second best of the entire collection. 2. The last picture of the portfolio was the best picture. This same general rule applies to other art forms such as movie-making or writing. The last impression one has is usually the most important and we can all think of many movies, books, etc wherein the ending left us speechless, in awe, moved.
It's no surprise that the developer's of most AVNs, especially ones who create harem-dominate games, are not attuned to these rules and are found lacking at building tension and creating climactic endings. But what a waste to seemingly not even try to get to first base with an ending.
To put it more crudely...someone sat on a whoopee cushion.
This is the second AVN in the past couple of days that ended with a whimper. I realize many will give a proverbial pat on the back to the devs for finishing the game, given that so many AVNs are prematurely abandoned. Still, that should be no excuse to ignore a rule in art production that is almost sacrosanct.
Before I got into video production many years ago I was a photographer. To be a commercial photographer attempting to sell one's talent and body of work, one had to have a portfolio. There were two rules in creating a portfolio: 1. The first picture in the portfolio was the second best of the entire collection. 2. The last picture of the portfolio was the best picture. This same general rule applies to other art forms such as movie-making or writing. The last impression one has is usually the most important and we can all think of many movies, books, etc wherein the ending left us speechless, in awe, moved.
It's no surprise that the developer's of most AVNs, especially ones who create harem-dominate games, are not attuned to these rules and are found lacking at building tension and creating climactic endings. But what a waste to seemingly not even try to get to first base with an ending.
To put it more crudely...someone sat on a whoopee cushion.
what was the other AVN that ended in a whimper for you? I don't really follow all of the releases, just a handful that interest me.
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Ah, that is from 'SuperWriter' iirc, honestly the endings in all his games are that bad/lackluster.
But yeah, pretty much as you said before, a good ending is just as important as the rest of the game/story. The journey can be as epic as it gets, but if you fuck up the ending it ruins the story, taking ME3 as a good example.
Maybe i missed something but I'm disappointed with Natasha's ending or rather lack of ending.
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She ran off with Boris. They started a Moose and Squirrel sanctuary.
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This game took too long. All the time and effort I spent on the last updates would have been better spent making better endings.
You know only us old fucks are going to catch that reference...
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There is no conflict between these two mods, because the walkthrough mod integrate it.
But for now, it's not updated, you just have to wait...
Any chance we could get an ipatch that doesn't crash the Steam version? I liked this game so much I bought it but the patch that's here only works for the "free" version.
So which version is provided in this thread? Steam one with updated visuals or the Patreon one?
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In this case you also have to point out how long the dev drew out this game, it was update after update just treading water and after doing that for about two years or so, to then let the game end with a whimper, that's honestly pretty weak sauce.
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wong ic-patch then.
maybe updated ic-patch works whenever it comes.
patreon unless pack has steam-folder.