VN Ren'Py Price of Power [Ch.25] [Pandaman Games]

[cooldevo]

Damn ... I hate when I reach the end (kind of) of a game I like ...

Really enjoyed the whole story. Looking forward to the long epilogue ^_^

I'm hoping there'll be a bunch of choices to still be made, dependent on which path you take. And not just a cookie cutter ending with different images, but where each path has a different feel/ending. Not a, they built their house, they mediated trade, happily ever after thanks for coming out.

 

[Dark Prince 19]

Wanted to wish ya a happy new year '25 Pandaman, kinda writing a thank you note to all the Devs that made '24 memorable for me in terms of quality content and PoP certainly made the cut with its briiliant humor and presentation and of course handholding! So just wanted to appreciate that and greeting you a successful year ahead!

 

[mtc55deadhand]

I tried to install this on my cMP 5.1 running macOS Big Sur (24core, 64Gb ram, 2Tb nvme drive), question? after unzipping the game, I clicked on the "Price -Of-Power.app and got nothing, waited 5min also, should I move the "game" & the " lib" folders into the "Contents\Resources\autorun" like the other macOS games run on this site? any help from the community with this game would be kool.
I like what I have seen in the reviews, I don't want to be forced to play this thru Steam...

 

[e6mill]

I tried to install this on my cMP 5.1 running macOS Big Sur (24core, 64Gb ram, 2Tb nvme drive), question? after unzipping the game, I clicked on the "Price -Of-Power.app and got nothing, waited 5min also, should I move the "game" & the " lib" folders into the "Contents\Resources\autorun" like the other macOS games run on this site? any help from the community with this game would be kool.
I like what I have seen in the reviews, I don't want to be forced to play this thru Steam...

It worked for me leaving everything where it was. (Mavericks on intel tho...)

 

[Lucky_Spices]

I had problems finding this title because it's not tagged sci-fi.
Is that tag missing? What would be the correct tag to find dystopian titles like this?

 

[-CookieMonster666-]

I had problems finding this title because it's not tagged sci-fi.
Is that tag missing? What would be the correct tag to find dystopian titles like this?

You're correct. It should have the sci-fi tag. The AIs are heavily present and thus this has a consistent sci-fi theme. I've requested that the tag get added to the thread.

 

[RoadWulf]

Ok, so I'm just going to ask a question that's been bugging me for quite a while.

Does anyone else have a problem with how fake Maria's nipples are? I swear way back in the beginning, the first time you saw her topless, they didn't look like that. But at some point pandman changed them and to me they don't look real. They look like nipple shaped stickers that were applied to her breasts.

The complete absurdity of how they look throws me off every time there's a sex scene.

 

[Dark479]

I am running into this issue early in the game, I am assuming that the MC's set name is supposed to appear there? The MC's name appears properly on the slide before this, and the error persists for 2 more slides after this but then it returns to normal. I did un-rpa the game and installed the walkthrough mod...not sure if that is the cause of this or what but yeah.

 

[e6mill]

I am running into this issue early in the game, I am assuming that the MC's set name is supposed to appear there? The MC's name appears properly on the slide before this, and the error persists for 2 more slides after this but then it returns to normal. I did un-rpa the game and installed the walkthrough mod...not sure if that is the cause of this or what but yeah. View attachment 4417341

Expected behavior. You'll figure out why soon.

 

[Elduriel]

I am running into this issue early in the game, I am assuming that the MC's set name is supposed to appear there? The MC's name appears properly on the slide before this, and the error persists for 2 more slides after this but then it returns to normal. I did un-rpa the game and installed the walkthrough mod...not sure if that is the cause of this or what but yeah. View attachment 4417341

try reinstalling windows, solved it for me
joking, don't do that. It's by design

 

[TomamoNoku]

I hope the harem route has at least a scene of Ana talking to the MC about the harem. Considering that she is the only living relative, I think it would be interesting and fun to see what she thinks about this situation.

 

[MangoTree]

Can someone remind me what happened to emilia's village? something to do with the elder, can't remember more.

 

[e6mill]

Can someone remind me what happened to emilia's village? something to do with the elder, can't remember more.

The island village that got wiped out by the plague, or the remnant "village" that the raiders caught up to?

 

[cooldevo]

Can someone remind me what happened to emilia's village? something to do with the elder, can't remember more.

A plague showed up in her village, and Emilia's mom (a herbalist?) tried to help the village. Her mom found the village elder defiling a corpse and tried to report it to the church. The Inquisitor's came down on her mom as a heretic, to protect the faith, and banished Emilia off the island for being somewhat aware of what had happened. She wasn't able to confirm everything until you get the book from the Inquisitor's headquarters.

Not 100%, but my rough paraphrased memory.

 

[e6mill]

A plague showed up in her village, and Emilia's mom (a herbalist?) tried to help the village. Her mom found the village elder defiling a corpse and tried to report it to the church. The Inquisitor's came down on her mom as a heretic, to protect the faith, and banished Emilia off the island for being somewhat aware of what had happened. She wasn't able to confirm everything until you get the book from the Inquisitor's headquarters.

Not 100%, but my rough paraphrased memory.

P sure the plague itself got her mom and it was Emila who found the churchman in flagrante deceased-o. (Later on, after she buried her mom.)

 

[MangoTree]

The island village that got wiped out by the plague, or the remnant "village" that the raiders caught up to?

Emilia's village on the island.

A plague showed up in her village, and Emilia's mom (a herbalist?) tried to help the village. Her mom found the village elder defiling a corpse and tried to report it to the church. The Inquisitor's came down on her mom as a heretic, to protect the faith, and banished Emilia off the island for being somewhat aware of what had happened. She wasn't able to confirm everything until you get the book from the Inquisitor's headquarters.

Not 100%, but my rough paraphrased memory.

Did the village elder cause the plague somehow? like contaminating a well or something. Because in chapter 24 the high ecclesiarch mentions that the village elder inadvertedly poisoned the village, i'm wondering how. Also i know its a long shot but do you happen to remember the chapter emelia talks about this?

 

[cooldevo]

P sure the plague itself got her mom and it was Emila who found the churchman in flagrante deceased-o. (Later on, after she buried her mom.)

Hmmm... that sounds familiar. She was banished because of what she figured out... I may have forgotten how her mom was involved. Been a while since I was that far back in the story, I can try and pull up the code to check.

Emilia's village on the island.

Did the village elder cause the plague somehow? like contaminating a well or something. Because in chapter 24 the high ecclesiarch mentions that the village elder inadvertedly poisoned the village, i'm wondering how. Also i know its a long shot but do you happen to remember the chapter emelia talks about this?

Yes, I believe it was the village Elder's fault, and it was *possibly* related to the dead bodies he enjoyed. The church covered it up to keep the leadership and Ecclesiarchy (spelling?) in power and unchallenged. Emilia found out about it, reported it, and was banished to keep things going as per their "normal". When you get to the Inquisitor's headquarters and find the book, she finds out a lot more info with the MC, and even confronts the leader when they get back to the capital who confirms it.

 

[balboa2151]

hey all...I think I'm on chapter 23 maybe...but that's not important...this game has some of the best dialogue and storyline out of the hundreds of games that I have played...hats off to the developer...I'm enjoying this game so much that I don't want it to end...this game is a must play

 

[Dark479]

So I'm near the beginning of chapter 10 and there is something that is troubling me a lot about the story to the point where I find the game more annoying than enjoyable. I find Legacy is a major problem...impossible to trust. For all we can tell(at least at that point in the story) he's making the whole thing about the fertility plague up or at least using the situation to start experimenting with spreading to other people. It made it exceedingly clear it is not above emotional manipulation, blackmail, or even death threats to get what it wants and we don't know what it really wants...at all. The MC and the primitive society with zero understanding of even basic technology or science are way out of their depth if they had to deal with a super advanced hostile AI and he doesn't see humans as any better than parasites. I really HATE how much this underlying narrative is dragging on in the background with practically zero real answers.

 

[Rehwyn]

So I'm near the beginning of chapter 10 and there is something that is troubling me a lot about the story to the point where I find the game more annoying than enjoyable. I find Legacy is a major problem...impossible to trust. For all we can tell(at least at that point in the story) he's making the whole thing about the fertility plague up or at least using the situation to start experimenting with spreading to other people. It made it exceedingly clear it is not above emotional manipulation, blackmail, or even death threats to get what it wants and we don't know what it really wants...at all. The MC and the primitive society with zero understanding of even basic technology or science are way out of their depth if they had to deal with a super advanced hostile AI and he doesn't see humans as any better than parasites. I really HATE how much this underlying narrative is dragging on in the background with practically zero real answers.

You're at Chapter 10 of 25. There's still a lot of information you have yet to learn. I'd withhold judgement for a while longer.