VN Ren'Py Radiant [v0.6.3] [RK Studios]

[Dhoulcmagus]

Well, it's been pretty good so far. A few details, though:
- Not a big fan of the Glenn storyline. The main plot I believe should be troubling enough to add even more to it. I hope it stays as a very minor event.
- On the other hand, I think there should be more focus on the Natalie storyline (or her son's death). At the very least, on the more pure path. If you are on the bastard path, I guess you just wouldn't care at all. But if you're supposedly kind hearted, having taken someone else's life (even if you have no memories about it), and the atonement, should be a major deal on his character development.
Apart from that, I think this work is aiming high. I'll look forward to future updates.

 

[Squark ⚧❤️]

Well, it's been pretty good so far. A few details, though:
- Not a big fan of the Glenn storyline. The main plot I believe should be troubling enough to add even more to it. I hope it stays as a very minor event.
- On the other hand, I think there should be more focus on the Natalie storyline (or her son's death). At the very least, on the more pure path. If you are on the bastard path, I guess you just wouldn't care at all. But if you're supposedly kind hearted, having taken someone else's life (even if you have no memories about it), and the atonement, should be a major deal on his character development.
Apart from that, I think this work is aiming high. I'll look forward to future updates.

Next to nobody likes the Glenn storyline. RK Studios heard all about it and so started a plotline to have him removed from the game.
Natalie struck me initially as a kind of "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die." sort of character.
She might grow on me yet but right now... No. So much of her content right now seems forced.

 

[Dhoulcmagus]

Next to nobody likes the Glenn storyline. RK Studios heard all about it and so started a plotline to have him removed from the game.
Natalie struck me initially as a kind of "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die." sort of character.
She might grow on me yet but right now... No. So much of her content right now seems forced.

I mildly agree on the Natalie content. Due to the nature of the bond which ties her to the MC, any content regarding her should be very carefully threaded. In fact, even though she's my favorite model so far, I'd even consider avoiding any H content with her at all. Her presence in the story, though, I don't think is forced in any way. She deserves to be there since the very prologue.

 

[_13_]

If you are on the bastard path, I guess you just wouldn't care at all.

So... I haven't played the dark route. What is it intended to be? Is it this? You're a selfish bastard and do what you want? Is it domination? Is it corruption? What exactly is the intention for the playstyle and final outcome?

 

[jaw1986baby]

So... I haven't played the dark route. What is it intended to be? Is it this? You're a selfish bastard and do what you want? Is it domination? Is it corruption? What exactly is the intention for the playstyle and final outcome?

So my best guess:
Perversion like lust but gone to a darker level. So yes to domination, corruption, and violation for self-pleasure. Maybe not extreme violation but also the option to be motivated to dark actions by Sadism (optional choice on Dark path).

Again the Dev can correct me if I am off-base but as you know (as dev yourself) sometimes giving too many hints about content can spoil elements you do not want spoiled. So we may mostly have to keep with this to find out.

Sorry if that isn't helpful.

 

[SenPC]

Natalie struck me initially as a kind of "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father, prepare to die." sort of character.
She might grow on me yet but right now... No. So much of her content right now seems forced.

But we owe her a new son, so honor demands we give her one. Or several.

 

[dragonCockInPussy]

Can you fuck any of the daughters yet?

 

[Qixoni]

Can you fuck any of the daughters yet?

Not yet

 

[Journey95]

Just played this game. Overall I like it but I wish the dev would focus more on the 3 main girls. The side girls so far have been very uninteresting (brooke, vanessa and natalie), don't really care about their storylines. The daughters are the best part, all 3 are interesting, hot and unique

So far I have done only a lust playthrough. Is the dark one that different & worth it?

 

[Skode]

Just played this game. Overall I like it but I wish the dev would focus more on the 3 main girls. The side girls so far have been very uninteresting (brooke, vanessa and natalie), don't really care about their storylines. The daughters are the best part, all 3 are interesting, hot and unique

So far I have done only a lust playthrough. Is the dark one that different & worth it?

Its a balancing act - the devs know fine well which of the games girls the fans most want to see more and in particularly the why (naughty naughty). Never the less if they wanna create a nucleus of a decent story things take times so most devs wisely offer you some side totty to distract yourself so you aint waiting too long for the good stuff, it just wont be with the Triplets realistically anytime soon. The side girls have the potential to be great too but the devs are letting us down with the writing for them...

Oooh a feisty slut who gets off on seducing you in front of your date and fucking you in the bathroom on first meeting you? Yes please - more of that... no wait the devs did a complete 180 on her already (did i miss six or seven updates of character developement)

Ahhhh a hot foreign woman with an axe to grind at my door. Her plot should be actually more compelling than the other side girls combined given the emotional impact and has a valid reason for why the MC would want to keep her in his life as he seeks redemption slowly melting her ice queen and broken heart against all odds. Oh wait he already is it seems (i MUST have missed six or seven updates of character development because thats just ridiculous)

A younger bit of stuff has joined your office and has a crush? Is this one of those naive young women you can corrupt kind of girls? Oh it seems she is, she is! Oh hang on shes a single mom who is also a VIRGIN? C'mon now. I cant take any scenes with her seriously no more... thats just stupid. No qualms with a MILF to date but to pander to weak fappers hearts you just couldnt have her have a serious revelation instead of whatever the hell that was supposed to be. Shes instantly my leave fave now, a shame.

There is hopefully at least potential in the lunatic next door or maybe even the teen model but i think the devs buckled under the unfair pressures and demands from fans of the game to give them more and ASAP albeit its come at the expense of the slow and steady deeply emotional realistic writing which was arguably the best on site on that first update. The kind you can craft a career from to go with likes of Dr Pinkcake. Its eh, yeah, a shame in all honesty. I like the game but its not gonna live to its potential nor will its characters - the fact you dont like the side characters could also be attributed to too many being introduced in far too short a time. The pacing is a real issue, all of my above complaints could easily have not been a thing changing nothing if they only paced them better (well save virgin mom plotline, no saving that one lol)

 

[Journey95]

Its a balancing act - the devs know fine well which of the games girls the fans most want to see more and in particularly the why (naughty naughty). Never the less if they wanna create a nucleus of a decent story things take times so most devs wisely offer you some side totty to distract yourself so you aint waiting too long for the good stuff, it just wont be with the Triplets realistically anytime soon. The side girls have the potential to be great too but the devs are letting us down with the writing for them...

Oooh a feisty slut who gets off on seducing you in front of your date and fucking you in the bathroom on first meeting you? Yes please - more of that... no wait the devs did a complete 180 on her already (did i miss six or seven updates of character developement)

Ahhhh a hot foreign woman with an axe to grind at my door. Her plot should be actually more compelling than the other side girls combined given the emotional impact and has a valid reason for why the MC would want to keep her in his life as he seeks redemption slowly melting her ice queen and broken heart against all odds. Oh wait he already is it seems (i MUST have missed six or seven updates of character development because thats just ridiculous)

A younger bit of stuff has joined your office and has a crush? Is this one of those naive young women you can corrupt kind of girls? Oh it seems she is, she is! Oh hang on shes a single mom who is also a VIRGIN? C'mon now. I cant take any scenes with her seriously no more... thats just stupid. No qualms with a MILF to date but to pander to weak fappers hearts you just couldnt have her have a serious revelation instead of whatever the hell that was supposed to be. Shes instantly my leave fave now, a shame.

There is hopefully at least potential in the lunatic next door or maybe even the teen model but i think the devs buckled under the unfair pressures and demands from fans of the game to give them more and ASAP albeit its come at the expense of the slow and steady deeply emotional realistic writing which was arguably the best on site on that first update. The kind you can craft a career from to go with likes of Dr Pinkcake. Its eh, yeah, a shame in all honesty. I like the game but its not gonna live to its potential nor will its characters - the fact you dont like the side characters could also be attributed to too many being introduced in far too short a time. The pacing is a real issue, all of my above complaints could easily have not been a thing changing nothing if they only paced them better (well save virgin mom plotline, no saving that one lol)

Yeah I agree with your points. Side girls are needed but the dev is not putting much effort into their writing here, they seem like throwaway characters. Brooke is definitely the most boring, nothing really interesting going on here and her being a virgin is ridiculous.

At least the 3 main girls are great so far but the writing for the side girls should improve if they keep getting focus

 

[Qixoni]

The the holydays with the triplets that is in the next update, will give almost complete focus on them, unless said holiday is very short

 

[Demiare]

Yeah I agree with your points. Side girls are needed but the dev is not putting much effort into their writing here, they seem like throwaway characters. Brooke is definitely the most boring, nothing really interesting going on here and her being a virgin is ridiculous.

Most of writing here is mediocre at best. For example those Grace dreams - you can't understand that you're dreaming during the dream. So either our MC is sitting on drugs and hallucinating instead of sleeping or devs are lazy.

But yean, side characters are seems to be simply fillers to delay development in "legal" way. Especially Brooke and Natalie - their arrival in same time with girls make zero sense. Same with Grace dreams - annoying fillers (especially sexy time as it's really creepy to dream about dead girl).

 

[Bossk]

I feel like a lot of people are missing the point of this game, I see complaints about not enough "fap" material or things taking to long to develop.

I mean there are literally hundreds of "fap" games on the site if thats all you want. From the way this is unfolding so far, this isnt one of them, the dev appears to be telling a slow burn meaningful story with some heart, yes its a game where you will eventually get to fuck your daughters etc, but thats not the primary focus from what it seems.

And complaining about the writing? Are people even reading the story? It has to be a case of "fanfic" snobbery or just skipping through till they see naked bodies and then reading that bit. Because if you are actively reading the story, especially not on the dark path, there is a lot of moments in it that have real feeling and emotion.

Maybe people complaining just have not experienced anything in their life like the losses many of the characters are dealing with (loss of a parent, lover, child etc) so they dont get it, but many times this game has gut punched me with the smallest bits of dialogue.

I think the "rating" system on this site gives people some kind of ridiculous notion they are some kind of expert storyteller whose singular opinion somehow is going to sway the dev to cater to their whims, when most of us couldn't produce half the game that many of the devs on this site do. I know I sure as shit couldn't.

Personally I love it when I find a game on this site that has the ability to become something more than just a "porn game". at the end of the day yes this is a game where a guy will end up fucking his 3 ridiculously pretty triplet daughters and various other equally hot women thanks to random quirks of fate that 99% of the time would ever encounter IRL (random waitress sex in the bathroom while on a date for example), some suspension of disbelief is needed. But the fact that in between those moments the dev is trying to tell a good story should not put people off the game, it should make them more interested in the content and make those ultimate goals more satisfying when everything wraps up and the MC and the girls have grown and developed beyond "here is a hot 3d model we will call "daughter" fucking another 3d model we will label as "daddy".

If you want a game where you just fap to a story about fucking family members then download one of the hundred sof "23 Sisters" type games out there. Or better yet write your own. Or hell just go watch porn.

 

[dolfe67]

I feel like a lot of people are missing the point of this game, I see complaints about not enough "fap" material or things taking to long to develop.

I mean there are literally hundreds of "fap" games on the site if thats all you want. From the way this is unfolding so far, this isnt one of them, the dev appears to be telling a slow burn meaningful story with some heart, yes its a game where you will eventually get to fuck your daughters etc, but thats not the primary focus from what it seems.

And complaining about the writing? Are people even reading the story? It has to be a case of "fanfic" snobbery or just skipping through till they see naked bodies and then reading that bit. Because if you are actively reading the story, especially not on the dark path, there is a lot of moments in it that have real feeling and emotion.

Maybe people complaining just have not experienced anything in their life like the losses many of the characters are dealing with (loss of a parent, lover, child etc) so they dont get it, but many times this game has gut punched me with the smallest bits of dialogue.

I think the "rating" system on this site gives people some kind of ridiculous notion they are some kind of expert storyteller whose singular opinion somehow is going to sway the dev to cater to their whims, when most of us couldn't produce half the game that many of the devs on this site do. I know I sure as shit couldn't.

Personally I love it when I find a game on this site that has the ability to become something more than just a "porn game". at the end of the day yes this is a game where a guy will end up fucking his 3 ridiculously pretty triplet daughters and various other equally hot women thanks to random quirks of fate that 99% of the time would ever encounter IRL (random waitress sex in the bathroom while on a date for example), some suspension of disbelief is needed. But the fact that in between those moments the dev is trying to tell a good story should not put people off the game, it should make them more interested in the content and make those ultimate goals more satisfying when everything wraps up and the MC and the girls have grown and developed beyond "here is a hot 3d model we will call "daughter" fucking another 3d model we will label as "daddy".

If you want a game where you just fap to a story about fucking family members then download one of the hundred sof "23 Sisters" type games out there. Or better yet write your own. Or hell just go watch porn.

We don't have to be a writer to criticize them. Even though the premise is a little bit silly (triplets after only one shot), I was expecting something more after the v0.1; but in the end it's just porn parody with a few emotional moments. The waitress that want to bang you just by seeing you even though you're on a date is pure porn trope. A virgin mother, seriously ? The cop's subplot is ridiculous, it's just a joke. And the mother of the guy you killed is falling in love with you after only a few words exchanged. Do you really cope with loss like that ?

The emotional moments are very well done though, but the rest is too silly to take it seriously, it's not even funny. But it's just my opinion. I'll continue to play it but now I expect nothing more than regular porn.

 

[Cartageno]

We don't have to be a writer to criticize them. Even though the premise is a little bit silly (triplets after only one shot), I was expecting something more after the v0.1; but in the end it's just porn parody with a few emotional moments. The waitress that want to bang you just by seeing you even though you're on a date is pure porn trope. A virgin mother, seriously ? The cop's subplot is ridiculous, it's just a joke. And the mother of the guy you killed is falling in love with you after only a few words exchanged. Do you really cope with loss like that ?

The emotional moments are very well done though, but the rest is too silly to take it seriously, it's not even funny. But it's just my opinion. I'll continue to play it but now I expect nothing more than regular porn.

I agree with the letdown after 0.1 and to me - who likes a slow burn - it doesn't feel like one. A slow burn would be spending time with the LIs, slowly getting closer to them, maybe something happens and I'll be thrown back a few steps. It is not being sidetracked by some squirrel in the park or by some other girl suddenly appearing and jumping me.

However, I do not get the "silly premise": the number of tries to my information has no influence whatsoever on the odds of multiple births. Yes, one-shot pregnancies are not too common, identical triplets are rare indeed - but it will happen to somebody somewhere.

 

[thatsthespiritboys]

Is the dev team still just dammed and alorth?

 

[BionicMan [FR]]

Is the dev team still just dammed and alorth?

Alorth has been training some help. As far as I remember, the new member of the team has mostly worked on the patreon renders so far, but it is promising to say the least that he/she is ramping up and will help in the future to release the episodes faster

 

[Mason_james]

Just updated from chapter 2 to 3. All of my saves from 2 wont continue to 3 and just say ive reached the ending of the current game. Is there a fix for my saves or do i have to restart completely? ive been doing a pure of all 3 paths so that'll take a long time if no fix

 

[thatsthespiritboys]

Alorth has been training some help. As far as I remember, the new member of the team has mostly worked on the patreon renders so far, but it is promising to say the least that he/she is ramping up and will help in the future to release the episodes faster

What a fucking joke! Patreon goal for expanding team was reached back in Nov 2020, 9 months have passed and they still haven't found anyone.
Alorth has never been a problem. He's working on his own game, creating animations for perverteer and also creating scenes for radiant, both high profile games. Now I learn that he's also training someone on top of all the other work that he does and that's really commendable. He has always delivered on time for all projects and continues to do so with the same quality that is expected of him.
Dammed on the other hand is borderline scamming people. Releasing mediocre updates in regards to both size and quality (last update had around 1000 renders including animations) with an update cycle of 7+ months. There's devs out there who have more animation renders than the last updates total renders for a 4 month update cycle that are earning a fraction of what he does.
Choosing to cut corners by training another artist (which is being done by alorth) instead of hiring someone experienced. And all that the new member is contributing right now is making shitty wallpapers and renders that I can make on my average workstation and is most likely not getting paid to do so.
Remember the time he asked for volunteers to make a game trailer for free when he was earning 6000$ a month just on patreon?
Or the fact that he literally hasn't stopped his patreon billing for polarity for over 18 months when he was clearly completely working on radiant most presumably. He's earning an extra 2500$ for doing absolutely nothing. And he won't stop his patreon billing for radiant when he's working on polarity either.
He knew he landed on the jackpot the moment he first rendered those triplets. People don't give two shits about the value they receive anymore. At this stage, each render in this game is worth more than what good devs earn in a whole month for much better games