VN Ren'Py Radiant [v0.7.1] [RK Studios]

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SkandalouZ

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Clemency said:
Not because of content. Does it really count as active if it is a thousand pages of these *gestures around wildly*.

Funny you put Desert Stalker there. I will not speak for the games I have not played, but Desert Stalker does contrast with what I consider Radiant's best writing: the protagonists' inner thoughts. The fuckwad I play as in Desert Stalker will never introspect in his entire life as much as the MC of Radiant did when he received the triplets and was hesitating with his advances, justifying his thoughts, and generally doing a pretty good job at staring temptation in the face. I suppose people already play games like the Desert Stalker protagonist mindset of fuck everything with holes, no hesitation, no consent required.

But that's what I like being explored: hesitations, justifications, anticipation, and honestly the way the MC of Radiant tried to creep logic his way into sounding sane. The way he anticipated the struggles and heavy grief of the triplets, and managed to do a surface level acceptable impression of a caring empathetic father facsimile was the most fun part of this VN for me. Their roadtrip to visit Gracie and process through all their grief all the while trying to hold his creep thoughts in locked me into this game. I wish the game managed to keep it up, but it didn't. Too many characters, too slow an update time which incentivizes sidelining the story to get to the fucking, and that eats into character development and the MC's descent.

A proper taboo story requires the slow breakdown of barriers, inching ever closer to the fall. It requires some introspection of each step they took to get there.

This place needs some Butlerian Jihad. Too many people think LLMs can write decent and not be a repetition of phrases.
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enfuego

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NewSeal said:
I think most of the playerbase shares the sentiment. Incest game devs love doing this where they make it the main premise of the game but spend huge portions of the story on side characters no one really cares for. Like are you seriously gonna tell me somebody plays this game for the mother whose son MC killed, or his blonde secretary, or Jade?

Side characters should not have entire updates/chapters dedicated to them.
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Yeah most incest devs love to water down the liquor in a sense to pad out the game.

Don't ever let one of them tell you it's necessary though, just look at other games.

Light of My Life: laser focused on the two daughters, only introduces side girls as comedic relief from the heavier themes of the main plot and as a way to enhance the story of the daughters, has NEVER made them the focus of any update.
 
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Badjourasmix said:
We are already in January and it seems like the update will not come out this month either. I would love if someone would ask him directly if he still plans on releasing 3 updates this year.
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Where were we at the last update chart, that thing with the hearts, I searched for it but the last one I found was in October and was still 4 hearts to fill, is there a new one?
 
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WraithShadow75 said:
I hate to ask, but since there are so many pages in this thread, can anyone tell me which one has the most current WT link? I appreciate it in advance!
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If you are talking about the wt mod, then the one in the OP is up to date. If you are talking about the pdf, that hasn't been updated in like 2 years.
 
Jaga Telesin

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Discrepancy said:
Where were we at the last update chart, that thing with the hearts, I searched for it but the last one I found was in October and was still 4 hearts to fill, is there a new one?
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Badjourasmix said:
I think there is a more recent one with only 2 hearts left but I could be wrong.
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Latest update: Liberals stabbed those hearts to retaliate against SirD's tweets. SirD has started talks with Greenland so the Orange Man can buy it more quickly, essentially solving all of SirD's development problems in one fell swoop. In the meantime, SirD has to start over on the update, and his talks with Greenland further delay everything. After the break - water appears to be wet.
 
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4.30 star(s) 310 Votes