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

[RogueKnightUK]

Fans of Amber ought to be glad to

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[Goblin Baily: DILF]

quick question... does the latest download include the previous chapters or do I need to download them separately?

 

[RogueKnightUK]

The latest update includes all of Series 2, while Series 1 is a separate download

 

[Goblin Baily: DILF]

The latest update includes all of Series 2, while Series 1 is a separate download

that's not a good thing.... I will have to wait for series 2 to download....

 

[RogueKnightUK]

that's not a good thing.... I will have to wait for series 2 to download....

There's an old saying "It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good". For most people keeping up with the game, not having to download the first 6 episodes (those in series 1) again every time an update to Series 2 happens is better than the usual thing of each update being the entire game to download from the very start. For those playing RTP for the very first time, it may also be advantageous to be able to download just the first series to get started on before downloading more. Like most things in life, it is situational and subjective.

Everytime the sun is shining and someone is delighted it is a beautiful day, someone else is complaining that they'll have to water their lawn.

 

[Goblin Baily: DILF]

There's an old saying "It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good". For most people keeping up with the game, not having to download the first 6 episodes (those in series 1) again every time an update to Series 2 happens is better than the usual thing of each update being the entire game to download from the very start. For those playing RTP for the very first time, it may also be advantageous to be able to download just the first series to get started on before downloading more. Like most things in life, it is situational and subjective.

Everytime the sun is shining and someone is delighted it is a beautiful day, someone else is complaining that they'll have to water their lawn.

That's not the problem... I'm running outn of space so I tend to delete games once I finised an update. so I would simpy have to wait few seconds before playing series 2. usually it's not a problem but MrKnob knows how to hook the reader. I've been playing series one till the very first confrontation with Adam.
so it would be only a matter of time efficency for me

 

[RogueKnightUK]

That's not the problem... I'm running outn of space so I tend to delete games once I finised an update. so I would simpy have to wait few seconds before playing series 2. usually it's not a problem but MrKnob knows how to hook the reader. I've been playing series one till the very first confrontation with Adam.
so it would be only a matter of time efficency for me

When you are trying to save space, not having to retain 9 episodes, but just the 3 of the current series, is an advantage

 

[abyoyo]

Awesome game

 

[Blablablafapper]

Is this a VN? Cause I'm a decent ways into this game and I have yet to be presented with a significant choice to make.

Edit: Also is that female therapist the same one from acting lessons?

 

[RogueKnightUK]

Is this a VN? Cause I'm a decent ways into this game and I have yet to be presented with a significant choice to make.

In the opening post, under the heading of 'Gameplay' is a spoiler about the gameplay that describes it as "a linear points based game".

This isn't a game that is going to ask you whether or not you want to peep everytime someone gets changed, or whether you want to go molest people in their sleep or not. There's also none of those choices that lead to an instant game-over. It just isn't that kind of game, so it automatically has about 80% less choices than games of those types. Your choices this far are about which of the women you want to get to know better, and apart from meaning you get a scene with the woman of your choice (and may miss out on a scene with another women thereby), the main payoff for those choices comes later in the game.

By the end of Series 1 (of the 4 series total we expect it to take) you'll have enough of an idea of the complexity of the plot (and characters) to see why it was essential to save the main branching for the end. You'll also likely see that this is a 'character led' story. Each character has their own personality and characteristics that is an essential part of how they got to where they are when you meet them in the game. Since I already mentioned that we don't put in those annoying choices that lead to instant game-over, we don't put in dialogue choices like trying a 'domination route' with Victoria.

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[Blablablafapper]

In the opening post, under the heading of 'Gameplay' is a spoiler about the gameplay that describes it as "a linear points based game".

This isn't a game that is going to ask you whether or not you want to peep everytime someone gets changed, or whether you want to go molest people in their sleep or not. There's also none of those choices that lead to an instant game-over. It just isn't that kind of game, so it automatically has about 80% less choices than games of those types. Your choices this far are about which of the women you want to get to know better, and apart from meaning you get a scene with the woman of your choice (and may miss out on a scene with another women thereby), the main payoff for those choices comes later in the game.

By the end of Series 1 (of the 4 series total we expect it to take) you'll have enough of an idea of the complexity of the plot (and characters) to see why it was essential to save the main branching for the end. You'll also likely see that this is a 'character led' story. Each character has their own personality and characteristics that is an essential part of how they got to where they are when you meet them in the game. Since I already mentioned that we don't put in those annoying choices that lead to instant game-over, we don't put in dialogue choices like trying a 'domination route' with Victoria.

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Thanks for the informative answer! I found the acting lessons references and Our fate MC cameo hilarious and well done.

 

[Mechanical_Borange]

I'm not reading/searching the entire thread.
What was this all about? Can somebody please give me the links to the posts if this was discussed here?
I'm clearly late.

 

[RogueKnightUK]

I'm not reading/searching the entire thread.
What was this all about? Can somebody please give me the links to the posts if this was discussed here?
I'm clearly late.

Late indeed, as Rena was removed from the game prior to your date of registering at this forum. Where did you even get that old image?

Searching a thread for specific info, no matter how many pages of discussion isn't hard. Just go to the search box in the top right, put in 'Rena' or whatever you want to find info about, and if you are searching from a discussion thread post, it has already pre-selected the option to search only in this discussion. That's what anyone answering you has to do, but they also then need to copy a link and post it.

https://f95zone.to/threads/retrieving-the-past-s02e03-v2-3-0-mrknobb.13009/page-65#post-1838478

 

[Mechanical_Borange]

Late indeed, as Rena was removed from the game prior to your date of registering at this forum. Where did you even get that old image?

Searching a thread for specific info, no matter how many pages of discussion isn't hard. Just go to the search box in the top right, put in 'Rena' or whatever you want to find info about, and if you are searching from a discussion thread post, it has already pre-selected the option to search only in this discussion. That's what anyone answering you has to do, but they also then need to copy a link and post it.

https://f95zone.to/threads/retrieving-the-past-s02e03-v2-3-0-mrknobb.13009/page-65#post-1838478

Thanks.
I know how to search the thread, I just didn't know when exactly this happened.
Searching for stuff on this site is pretty bad. The limited number of posts per page and the stupid banners under everybody's posts make it a nighmare, even if I can get some filtered list. A good old ctrl+F and everything on one page would be much better.

 

[EzDude]

Thanks for the game, must plays before onhold gone. hehe

 

[Deleted member 167032]

I did a crossover with Acting Lessons, then i did a cameo thing with Our Fate and DocPInk did not like it. He scrapped all references to RTP in AL, i had to do the same.

 

[Deleted member 167032]

We have no intention of stopping halfway. We will finish the game so don't worry.

Thanks for the game, must plays before onhold gone. hehe

 

[Alfred the Fallen]

I'm not too keen on how the writers are focusing on big shocking twists and reveals instead of slow and steady character progression. It gives the game too much of a soap opera feel to it, and the extremely limited choices we have make many scenes feel unnatural.

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Choices make players more connected to their character, which makes them more invested in the story. Severely limiting player choice may allow writers to tell a story exactly how they want it to unfold, but it often alienates players when their character does things that they don't want them to do. It's very frustrating to be allowed to make a choice in a game, only to have the game force your character to go against what you chose later on. There might as well not be any choices in the game at all if the few we can make are constantly ignored.

 

[Deleted member 167032]

Fair enough, each has his own version of how they'd like RTP or many other VN games should go.

I'm not too keen on how the writers are focusing on big shocking twists and reveals instead of slow and steady character progression. It gives the game too much of a soap opera feel to it, and the extremely limited choices we have make many scenes feel unnatural.

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Choices make players more connected to their character, which makes them more invested in the story. Severely limiting player choice may allow writers to tell a story exactly how they want it to unfold, but it often alienates players when their character does things that they don't want them to do. It's very frustrating to be allowed to make a choice in a game, only to have the game force your character to go against what you chose later on. There might as well not be any choices in the game at all if the few we can make are constantly ignored.

 

[RogueKnightUK]

I'm not too keen on... There might as well not be any choices in the game at all if the few we can make are constantly ignored.

One thing we really don't want to do with RTP is introduce those choices that lead to an instant game over.

As I tried to explain to you previously, and the story has since highlighted, Vicky, on her own, was not an option (rather you choose to gain points on the PATH that will hopefully, lead, eventually, to an option). She was not ready for a relationship and has spent the past 19 years avoiding them and sabotaging anything she couldn't just walk away from. It took her 9 episodes, and ALL of the events within them, to get her to the point of telling Jensen why. Without her having to also think about Nicky's potential happiness with Jensen, that doesn't happen.

If you want that choice, it is easy. Imagine being cold to Nicky, Vicky not having Nicky's feelings to consider, and imagine Vicky quickly sabotaging the relationship, then hit escape and choose Quit, and you have your own game over choice. We're just doing our thing of not coding those instant game overs into it.

For the first series, Victoria does not seriously even consider a relationship with Jensen as something she even thinks she could force herself to do. You know when that changes when she finally tells him the stuff that a serious potential partner would need to know - Why even feeling attraction hasn't allowed her to be fully intimate with a man for 19 years.