Ren'Py No Such Luck [v0.5] [CSkin Games]

[Pendrell]

Recently discovered this and was pleasantly surprised: a decent amount of content and a good range of LIs and paths to explore. I do think some of the variable thresholds/triggers to start some of the paths are on the unforgiving side though, and could do with another look by the dev.

Despite being interested in Shana, I somehow managed to completely miss the entry to her path during my first playthrough. I wasn't even presented with the choice to accept or reject her at the cinema event with Jasmine. I haven't looked at the code or the walkthrough, but as far as I can surmise from subsequent playthroughs where I made different choices, missing the entry to Shana's path came down to an incorrect answer to Jasmine's prompt about the cinema outing. Bizarrely I apparently needed to ask if "anyone else is coming". To me this is completely counter-intuitive because Jasmine has already said that Shana is coming as well, so to ask if anyone else is coming gives the impression that the MC is put off by the idea of only going with Jasmine and Shana. I'm also fairly sure I hit every other RP point with her before that.

There are also too many "freeroams" in the MC's dorm room, in my opinion, where the only choices are to answer some text messages and go to sleep. On playthroughs where you're not pursuing multiple girls at the same time this can sometimes give the impression of overly "empty" days where all the MC seems to do is get up check his phone and go to sleep again. As realistic as that might be as a college experience, it's perhaps not the precise type of realism the dev is going for. As the game develops it would be good to see text messages better integrated into the game, and if there aren't a number of additional activities to perform in the MC's dorm room, cutting the freeroam entirely would help with flow.

All in all though there is enough in this that's good to keep me interested in the next release.

 

[Ken Moreno]

Finished the current update very good loved molly's content in her path one thing I will say based on ep 5 ending and the fallout while realistic I much rather have the option for having the MC to decide which girl to pick similar to BaDIK I know actions have consequences and stuff but man I really can't imagine myself making so many solo path saves for each girl with the amount of messages and free roams that you have to go through and the number of love interests, so I will probably make one for Molly and maybe another two incase the start of the next episode does end up in a fallout that you cant choose or something but yea the rest that aren't my favorites I am manwhoring all the way don't think I have the patience to make so many individual saves.

I think either letting the player choose which girl to go for somewhere down the line would fix this or have an option to skip all the tedious stuff like free roams and phone stuff when replaying would be good that way making solo path saves would be easier to make since the game seems to not want the player to sleep around despite most girls are still not really gf or anything serious sort of testing the waters which I found a little weird of them getting mad but maybe that's just me idk.

 

[Skeltom]

What are you talking about?

Apart from the scene with your girlfriend at the start (and a flashback later), nothing is forced. Every girl is optional. You decide the path you want to play.

I know it's late, but the scene in the beginning can be avoided as well. If you get shitfaced it doesn't happen.

 

[Skeltom]

Okay, I'm lost. How the fuck do I get on Paisley's path and not Anna's path if the only way to get on her path is for Anna to win? And how do I agree to fuck her before that even happens? This code is... Something else. Any insights?

Edit: Okay, that needed a few more hoops I think. You can't be on Clara or Jens path and talk to Jason about it in the sandbox part. It seems Anna actually has to win? Who knows.

 

[godscoper]

Finished the current update very good loved molly's content in her path one thing I will say based on ep 5 ending and the fallout while realistic I much rather have the option for having the MC to decide which girl to pick similar to BaDIK I know actions have consequences and stuff but man I really can't imagine myself making so many solo path saves for each girl with the amount of messages and free roams that you have to go through and the number of love interests, so I will probably make one for Molly and maybe another two incase the start of the next episode does end up in a fallout that you cant choose or something but yea the rest that aren't my favorites I am manwhoring all the way don't think I have the patience to make so many individual saves.

I think either letting the player choose which girl to go for somewhere down the line would fix this or have an option to skip all the tedious stuff like free roams and phone stuff when replaying would be good that way making solo path saves would be easier to make since the game seems to not want the player to sleep around despite most girls are still not really gf or anything serious sort of testing the waters which I found a little weird of them getting mad but maybe that's just me idk.

Spoiler: I agree with multi saves can be tiring

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I tried it with so many interesting girls, and the story is decent enough. I'll decide; I'll wait for this game to be completed and come back.

 

[Ken Moreno]

Spoiler: I agree with multi saves can be tiring

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I tried it with so many interesting girls, and the story is decent enough. I'll decide; I'll wait for this game to be completed and come back.

I agree I wish there was some sort of harem mod for this game it is way too tedious to play through each girls path and replay all the free roams and phone stuff like at least give us the option to skip them or if you are chasing multiple girls then have MC decide which girl to chase that way at least you don't have to replay the beginning over and over and can just make saves from that branching point onwards.

I am also a bit shocked the game is punishing the player so soon when for most girls its been mostly just fooling around or nothing super serious or official especially with one of the friends of MC the one you let her borrow money like why would she be angry/disappointed in seeing the MC with another girl when she hasn't even bother to initiate something yet feels like the dev just wanted to force something of drama and fallout unless you stick to only 1 girl thought the whole game which feels lame in my opinion.

 

[Joan6969]

I agree I wish there was some sort of harem mod for this game it is way too tedious to play through each girls path and replay all the free roams and phone stuff like at least give us the option to skip them or if you are chasing multiple girls then have MC decide which girl to chase that way at least you don't have to replay the beginning over and over and can just make saves from that branching point onwards.

I am also a bit shocked the game is punishing the player so soon when for most girls its been mostly just fooling around or nothing super serious or official especially with one of the friends of MC the one you let her borrow money like why would she be angry/disappointed in seeing the MC with another girl when she hasn't even bother to initiate something yet feels like the dev just wanted to force something of drama and fallout unless you stick to only 1 girl thought the whole game which feels lame in my opinion.

I really like the game so it's not a big problem for me. And I do use a mod
and the skip button a lot{with a ton of saves} lol! But yeah I get what you're
saying. All I can is just be happy he's still making it. The Dev doesn't
have a lot of subs.

 

[Cskin Games]

I really like the game so it's not a big problem for me. And I do use a mod
and the skip button a lot{with a ton of saves} lol! But yeah I get what you're
saying. All I can is just be happy he's still making it. The Dev doesn't
have a lot of subs.

I really don't

I generally don't like mods, because - particularly ones which let you see multiple paths at once - it can totally destroy the narrative structure, and things stop making sense. You could end up seeing scenes in a row that were never intended to be seen together, and completely contradict each other in a way that is just confusing and nonsensical.

That said, I don't fight against mods too much because it's not worth the time/effort to do. That said, it's extremely likely a future update is going to totally break saves made with mods - not because I'm trying to break them, but because some changes I'm making to the code in the near future is likely going to cause that. So... be warned I guess.