VN Ren'Py Completed Retrieving The Past [S3 E.6 & Epilogue] [MrKnobb]

[Eerie Entity]

It's not always about how far you are in the game, KMM, as there will be plenty of others who will be like you, trying it for the first time. There are some fun surprises and, obviously, some suspenseful ones. We're just erring on the side of caution, not calling anyone out.

Hope you find the later developments entertaining.

yep i guess i was right

more then likely i will i mean me and my brother @Eerie Entity have similar tastes

Yeah, do as Ignatz says; just enjoy the ride, and if you're unsure about certain decisions you'd be making, create another save and check out both options
Play it with your gut feeling, trust your instincts, and if something doesn't play out the way you hoped and so forth, just traceback or load an earlier save, it's not about how the game ends in the end, it's the journey and the decisions that got you there

 

[King Monkey Mon]

Yeah, do as Ignatz says; just enjoy the ride, and if you're unsure about certain decisions you'd be making, create another save and check out both options
Play it with your gut feeling, trust your instincts, and if something doesn't play out the way you hoped and so forth, just traceback or load an earlier save, it's not about how the game ends in the end, it's the journey and the decisions that got you there

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[Eerie Entity]

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[King Monkey Mon]

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oh Nicky

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[Eerie Entity]

oh Nicky

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Gonna take this to our off-topic thread, don't really want to flood the game thread too much with spoilers, someone new to the game could come to the thread and pretty much read the entire story from our conversations right now, haha

 

[King Monkey Mon]

Gonna take this to our off-topic thread, don't really want to flood the game thread too much with spoilers, someone new to the game could come to the thread and pretty much read the entire story from our conversations right now, haha

i think this is the second game ive seen or that i can remember with animation with the eyes

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[Eerie Entity]

i think this is the second game ive seen or that i can remember with animation with the eyes

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There's a few games that has that, but not many indeed =P

 

[King Monkey Mon]

There's a few games that has that, but not many indeed =P

i wonder if Nicky knew this would happen once she got in the water

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There's a few games that has that, but not many indeed =P

just completed the recent update

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[shadow202]

I may be in the minority here but... I prefered Nicky before the make-over. She was one of the rare girl with the no make-up look... With glasses too! Now... Meh... Average punk girl... I gave up the game then... Does she change back?

 

[Eerie Entity]

I may be in the minority here but... I prefered Nicky before the make-over. She was one of the rare girl with the no make-up look... With glasses too! Now... Meh... Average punk girl... I gave up the game then... Does she change back?

I don't think so, ever since she met Jensen, she's become more bolder and confident, or at least wants to be, and dresses up less conservative, wants to look appealing to Jensen and so on.
One character changing her style, and it's such a massive deal breaker to you that it ruins the whole game for you, I don't really even know to say to that. Well, you have your own reasons, is all good.

 

[Alfius]

i think this is the second game ive seen or that i can remember with animation with the eyes

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Fuuck!! She is the hottest girl in the story. Definitely not a long term romance in the game, more like friend with benefits, but RL I would have gone for her in a heartbeat going on looks alone.

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[King Monkey Mon]

Fuuck!! She is the hottest girl in the story. Definitely not a long term romance in the game, more like friend with benefits, but RL I would have gone for her in a heartbeat going on looks alone.

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Best girls imo

Vicky
Tamia
Mei-Lin

I don't think so, ever since she met Jensen, she's become more bolder and confident, or at least wants to be, and dresses up less conservative, wants to look appealing to Jensen and so on.
One character changing her style, and it's such a massive deal breaker to you that it ruins the whole game for you, I don't really even know to say to that. Well, you have your own reasons, is all good.

i thought i was going to be into ann after that preview you gave me but after that bomb drop in the last update nope

 

[Alfius]

Best girls imo

Vicky
Tamia
Mei-Lin

i thought i was going to be into ann after that preview you gave me but after that bomb drop in the last update nope

There is a lot of nice girls in the game..

but my list is different in terms of hotness and likable.

Tania for instance is the hottest for me, but in terms of MC relationships, Nicki and Vicky is rocking my boat.

Mei Lin is up there on both hot and relationship list.

Frankie for instance is very hot for me, but I know almost nothing about her.

 

[King Monkey Mon]

There is a lot of nice girls in the game..

but my list is different in terms of hotness and likable.

Tania for instance is the hottest for me, but in terms of MC relationships, Nicki and Vicky is rocking my boat.

Mei Lin is up there on both hot and relationship list.

Frankie for instance is very hot for me, but I know almost nothing about her.

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[Eerie Entity]

Best girls imo

Vicky
Tamia
Mei-Lin

i thought i was going to be into ann after that preview you gave me but after that bomb drop in the last update nope

I'm definitely about Ann, she's on about the same caliber as Vicky in my book.

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[yihman1]

This game is both great, and terrible at the same time. I'll elaborate on both.

Great:
-Character models are above average.

-The story is pretty well written in terms of proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

-The story is not an obvious clone of another game, and has some originality.

-The sex scenes are nice

Terrible:
-The choices are very rare, and most are seemingly inconsequential. It's not until about the 10th or 15th scene (about 10 if you only count full scenes, and 15 or so if you include short segway scenes / brief exposition) until your very first choice of the game. It's a meaningless choice as most are.

-The main character Jensen is too perfect a character. By this I mean he lacks any flaws. You could argue well there is some past you gotta retrieve, and maybe that's a flaw... not really. Physically he is very handsome. He is a super nice guy. He lives in some luxury apartment with a sweet view, and owns a garage full of nice cars / motorcycles. Dude got BANK! and good looks. He is irresistible to all women. He plays the guitar too, and is hung like a horse. On top of that he always has something very profound to say & can sell a snowcone to an Eskimo. Oh, and he can kick Bruce Lee's ass. This guy makes Chad Thundercock look like Forever Alone. I bet the guys farts smell better than perfume. A CHARACTER NEEDS FLAWS TO BE A GOOD CHARACTER! Even superman had his kryptonite! He has no weaknesses at all & no flaws at all. Thus the character is completely unrelatable. If this guy takes a crap in some scene I'm willing to bet that it would come out as a perfectly edible cinnamon roll.

-There is a serious lack of realism. The guy is both irresistible to all women, plus all women are physically attractive. No women shoot him down at all, and the ones that do are on his dick like 2 minutes later. Also, there is no "Betty the obese bus driver" or "Rebecca the toothless meth addict" or "Betty the elderly grandma" or "Jailbait Jenny" trying to knock boots with him. His powers are only shown to work on physically attractive women aged 18-42.

-Too many thoughts are shown. You literally see any thought any character has. About 70-80% of the thoughts are of various women thinking "Jensen is hot I want him to fuck me." A solid chunk of the dialogue are these thoughts.

-Sex scenes are not avoidable.

 

[UncleVT]

-The choices are very rare, and most are seemingly inconsequential. It's not until about the 10th or 15th scene (about 10 if you only count full scenes, and 15 or so if you include short segway scenes / brief exposition) until your very first choice of the game. It's a meaningless choice as most are.

You will play a linear points based game.

-The main character Jensen is too perfect a character.

You play as the handsome, fit, and capable Jensen Wenchester, a former Captain in Team 5 Infiltration Unit, Army Rangers, years ago, but now the successful owner of his own business, Wenchester Security Company. You have several homes, a successful company, and amazing colleagues, and that seemed like enough.

-There is a serious lack of realism. The guy is both irresistible to all women, plus all women are physically attractive.

In this game, you will meet some interesting people but overall hot women. There is action, love, lust and porn of course.

If you read carefully the dialogues and thoughts you will find why all women falls to MC.
And I really laugh every time someone complain about "lack of realism"

 

[Avaron1974]

-There is a serious lack of realism.

What's this, a game about peoples fantasies has a lack of realism .... well, I never.

Next you'll be telling me Lord of the Rings wasn't a documentary of our past.

 

[Alfius]

This game is both great, and terrible at the same time. I'll elaborate on both.


Terrible:
-The choices are very rare, and most are seemingly inconsequential. It's not until about the 10th or 15th scene (about 10 if you only count full scenes, and 15 or so if you include short segway scenes / brief exposition) until your very first choice of the game. It's a meaningless choice as most are.

-The main character Jensen is too perfect a character. By this I mean he lacks any flaws. You could argue well there is some past you gotta retrieve, and maybe that's a flaw... not really. Physically he is very handsome. He is a super nice guy. He lives in some luxury apartment with a sweet view, and owns a garage full of nice cars / motorcycles. Dude got BANK! and good looks. He is irresistible to all women. He plays the guitar too, and is hung like a horse. On top of that he always has something very profound to say & can sell a snowcone to an Eskimo. Oh, and he can kick Bruce Lee's ass. This guy makes Chad Thundercock look like Forever Alone. I bet the guys farts smell better than perfume. A CHARACTER NEEDS FLAWS TO BE A GOOD CHARACTER! Even superman had his kryptonite! He has no weaknesses at all & no flaws at all. Thus the character is completely unrelatable. If this guy takes a crap in some scene I'm willing to bet that it would come out as a perfectly edible cinnamon roll.

-There is a serious lack of realism. The guy is both irresistible to all women, plus all women are physically attractive. No women shoot him down at all, and the ones that do are on his dick like 2 minutes later. Also, there is no "Betty the obese bus driver" or "Rebecca the toothless meth addict" or "Betty the elderly grandma" or "Jailbait Jenny" trying to knock boots with him. His powers are only shown to work on physically attractive women aged 18-42.

-Too many thoughts are shown. You literally see any thought any character has. About 70-80% of the thoughts are of various women thinking "Jensen is hot I want him to fuck me." A solid chunk of the dialogue are these thoughts.

-Sex scenes are not avoidable.

1) I Agree with your first criticism. Choices have little consequences at this stage.

2) I initially agree with you, but the story actually does a nice job of explaining this, so I can not agree with your assessment based on the final state of the game.

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[yihman1]

What's this, a game about peoples fantasies has a lack of realism .... well, I never.

Next you'll be telling me Lord of the Rings wasn't a documentary of our past.

There is a difference between "fantasy / sci-fi" and "realism".

Something can take place in a fictional fantasy world and still have elements of realism. I get that he was injected with whatever drug to make him excreet powerful aphrodesiac non stop. The guy doesn't NEED that aid though. He is already tough as nails handsome, wealthy, nice cars, charming musician that loves jamming on the guiatar with no weak points.

Imagine if I combined the following two 1994 movies. "Blank Check" and "Richie Rich" and make it a story about Richie Rich finding a blank check that he gets an additional X dollars from... Well Richie Rich was already rich as fuck. That's no story. There is no journey there. That's what this game does.

Here now I'll rewrite the Jensen character to make him an interesting character in an interesting story:

Jensen is a drunk homeless vet with PTSD that lost someone close to his heart. He has turned from finely tuned killing machine to hippie hobo... (He was injected with some experimental drug and then went a-wall...) One evening he stumbles across a girl getting mugged / attempted rape. (option should be here to watch a little longer or help right away) Jensen rolls on up & smashes the criminal with his beer bottle incapacitating the thug. The woman is grateful to her rescuer. She takes Jensen to grab a bite to eat at the local coffee shop. The barista shoos the homeless man away... Jensen is then taken by the girl he saved home where she lets him have a shower, sobers him up, shaves him... all this close contact with him those pheramones start kicking in & with him cleaned up she notices that scruff ball is actually rather handsome... bam Jensen is her room mate. Jensen now gotta choose to act a gentleman or deviant the choice is yours.

In that version of Jensen I just wrote the dude has everything but the wealth of the previous Jensen yet he is so much more balanced thus much more thought provoking. In the actual Jensen version the character has no flaws and is a boring man. There is no real journey for the actual Jensen.