Ren'Py Power Vacuum [Ch. 12 Official] [What? Why? Games]

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Llamamann

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Hielo said:
its because its a sandbox, i hate this kind of games too, if it was a VN it will probably one of my fav games, i still play it because i like the writing, the renders and the characters but yeah it can be very repetitive
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if this is a sandbox its about 3 grains deep. its a VN. All the premise of a sandbox and open world disappears after the first chapter (i think?). Then its becomes a VN where you just need to click characters at certain times to get the scenes, with a help screen to tell you which to do next. the narrative is linear so it cant let you view things out of order. its very straight forward
 
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Hielo said:
its because its a sandbox, i hate this kind of games too, if it was a VN it will probably one of my fav games, i still play it because i like the writing, the renders and the characters but yeah it can be very repetitive
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I honestly prefer sandboxs to VN. They can be annoying from time to time depending on the game but they usually give a lot more freedom when it comes to pursuing LI and actually feel more like an actual game. VNs often force you to sit through scenes involving characters you don't care about just to get to ones you do. Most issues I have with sandboxes come from grind that the dev choose to put into the game usually feels like the only point is to prevent you from progressing to quickly. And I assume the reason why most people on this site seem to dislike sandbox is because they are blaming bad mechanics on sandbox itself, even though not all sandboxes have grind. Having said that I wouldn't really consider this to be sandbox. The only thing sandbox about this is that you can choose which order to see some of the scenes, but the game is still pretty linear. It takes more than being able to move around a house to be sandbox to me. Especially, since again there is a set order to a lot of the events.


This is basically a VN with some freeroam, but no real benefit to actually doing so.
 
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Man this game is really good but has some terrible comedic time, i mean the comedy is fun but sometimes i'm in the middle of a boner, like enjoying the fap material, some funny dialogue kicks in and i start laughing, and then boom, boner no more
7.5/10 for killing my boners
 
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Re-playing some of the prior chapters, and re-playing 11, I gotta say I enjoy this shit every time. Like I know people hate the MC starts as a bitch trope, but it hits well with how much more well rounded the other primary characters are (alot of the newer girls a bit less so, they seem to be near or where sterling starts at when living in the fucked up context of a life in this game). Plus doing the replay chapter to chapter in a quicker sense, does show the change and scale of how Sterling is (is clumsy, or stupidly lets Hunter somehow when is the given logic in a bad end scene. This then changes to Hunter literally having to do more subversive and crazy shit, or else risk sterling actually killing him, which Hunter has died in 2 bad ends at this point).

It also gave me an appreciation of the what if's (not a big fan of all of them but I've appreciated they've become more than just extended scenes of bad ends from the primary game), but makes it apparent regardless of what said it feels like the creator wants to do more creative things, or just other stories in general.
 
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Hey Dev, just letting you know that the Rebecca scene isn't in the gallery. IDK if that was intentional or not, but if not I just wanted to let you know.
 
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Apologies to ask this question, but I can't find the answer. I've downloaded the mandatory patch. It says to drag it into the main power vacuum install folder. Do I actually drag it to the game folder? Or do I drag it to the main folder but replace the file in the destination? (both files are named game).
 
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KittyMeh said:
Apologies to ask this question, but I can't find the answer. I've downloaded the mandatory patch. It says to drag it into the main power vacuum install folder. Do I actually drag it to the game folder? Or do I drag it to the main folder but replace the file in the destination? (both files are named game).
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The game's directory has a folder called "game". The archive containing the patch has a folder called "game".

You do only one of two things.
1 - Drag the "game" folder from the file you downloaded and extracted, and past it in the game's main folder (where you run the game from).
2 - Go into the "game" folder containing the actual patch file(s) and move them over to the game's "game" folder.
 
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"Main game will never have NTR"

*gets cucked by dog*

Something doesn't add up here.

Wait, is dog MC now? this Netori?
 
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Here I'd like to talk about something that kind of bothered me in this chapter is the amount of negativity and agression there was. It feels like 2 thirds of the scenes we saw were the girls either screaming at each other, or doing some fucked up sht or being super depressed by something and then just having some quick sex to blow steam. The threesome between sterling brenna and catherine was like that, so was the sex with the clerk, so was the sex with Amber, so were the scenes with Lucia (who keeps saying she doesn't want to see the MC's face). I'm like bruh, aren't we supposed to relax here ? . Its strange cause at the end of the day its a porn game and sex should make people happy. I hope next chapter will be a bit more light (
also please Hunter's final solution was really fucked up, for me that was too far, just kill sterling at this point no need to torture him that much. Next update just do plenty of Drew seducing all the girls and everything will be fine. )
 
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Chieflenafan said:
Here I'd like to talk about something that kind of bothered me in this chapter is the amount of negativity and agression there was. It feels like 2 thirds of the scenes we saw were the girls either screaming at each other, or doing some fucked up sht or being super depressed by something and then just having some quick sex to blow steam. The threesome between sterling brenna and catherine was like that, so was the sex with the clerk, so was the sex with Amber, so were the scenes with Lucia (who keeps saying she doesn't want to see the MC's face). I'm like bruh, aren't we supposed to relax here ? . Its strange cause at the end of the day its a porn game and sex should make people happy. I hope next chapter will be a bit more light (
also please Hunter's final solution was really fucked up, for me that was too far, just kill sterling at this point no need to torture him that much. Next update just do plenty of Drew seducing all the girls and everything will be fine. )
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I know it's supposed to be a fantasy, but even so I think everyone suddenly having happy sex is a little unrealistic. I've played games like that and I usually find them quite boring. The conflict between characters makes this story interesting, and sets up more satisfying moments when the conflict is resolved.

On the other hand, we seem to be quickly reaching a point where everyone knows that they're all fucking, so there may be less conflict between them pretty soon, and more happy sex.
 
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Kellermann

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Brenna anc Catherine always had some anger management issues, but I do agree with you. It would be nice to have a few scenes where they aren't raging maniacs during lewd scenes (or regular scenes for that matter). Ophelia scenes were quite good though so at least people got some fan service there.
I am not as interested in the rest of the cast so I fast forwarded through most of the other girls' scenes.
 
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