VN Ren'Py Completed Rick and Morty: Another Way Home [r4.2.1] [Night Mirror]

[Night Mirror]

A comment about Day 34: Saturday's Scene "Frat-getting Morty"

It ends really abruptly. It could probably benefit from a bit of black-screened narrative talking about how they come down from their post orgasm high and then leave the party once Summer's shirt is dry, before the scene shifts to the black-screen narrative detailing Planetina and Morty flying to the protest. As it is, it's a bit of a jarring transition.

I'll look over it again and see if anything pops out at me.

However, the ending is meant to feel abrupt, as it is a cutaway from another scene (rather than a continuation). We don't see what Tricia/Summer do next partly because it doesn't exist (and I'd have to make it), and partly because it's not important (the "fucking" was the important aspect).

Still, I'll give it some more thought and see if there is something that fits (that's what she said).

I meant to give more comments about things I noticed, but the only other one I really remember was the black screens giving narrative mid-sex scene when Summer and Wild Summer are 69ing that seem a bit intrusive, I remember thinking those could have been subtitled in during the scene itself, instead of in a black screen during the scene.

All throughout the original unity game there are a larger number of black screen narrations that happen. And, I'm not a fan of these. I have done my best to significantly reduce them, but I can't get rid of them all (art limitations).

However, in this case, I think you might either have a bug, or a video driver issue (a number of players had to update their video drivers to get animations to play recently, even though I haven't changed anything). During the event on Day 33 (Mirrored) that I think is what you are referencing here, there is no narration over black, the whole scene has images start to finish.

While it's a big game and I can't 100% recall all off the top of my head, none of the sex scenes should be narration over black. That is mainly used for transitions between scenes (where backgrounds don't exist or character traveling across multiple places).

 

[AkylasLovesLicks]

Still, I'll give it some more thought and see if there is something that fits (that's what she said).

Lol

However, in this case, I think you might either have a bug, or a video driver issue (a number of players had to update their video drivers to get animations to play recently, even though I haven't changed anything). During the event on Day 33 (Mirrored) that I think is what you are referencing here, there is no narration over black, the whole scene has images start to finish.

I'll go back and check, but I was sure it was during some 69ing.

 

[AkylasLovesLicks]

Yeah it is during Day 33: Friday "Mirrored" that I'm getting the black screen during the scene. Specifically, from the line:

"Summer (Thoughts) (Fuck... she's so good.)"

All the way to:

"The two collapse on the bed as they tongue each other to orgasm, each giving exactly what the other wants"

Is just black screens with narration in between those lines, with 11 lines of black screen narration and dialogue.

Edit: checked my laptop and android versions and it's the same for both, so probably not a driver problem lol

 

[Night Mirror]

Yeah it is during Day 33: Friday "Mirrored" that I'm getting the black screen during the scene. Specifically, from the line:

"Summer (Thoughts) (Fuck... she's so good.)"

All the way to:

"The two collapse on the bed as they tongue each other to orgasm, each giving exactly what the other wants"

Is just black screens with narration in between those lines, with 11 lines of black screen narration and dialogue.

Edit: checked my laptop and android versions and it's the same for both, so probably not a driver problem lol

Okay, I found the issue. It looks like one of the video files didn't get copied into distribution project for this scene.

I do my best to make sure everything is synced up, but with 30,000+ files, sometimes stuff gets missed (and doesn't throw an error or get spotted in testing). So, fixed, and the bugfix file is attached (containing just the missing video file in the folder structure).

What is really odd is that this scene has been broken since the it first went out in r3.8... back in May of 2023! And no one else noticed or let me know the problem was there. But it will be fixed going forward. Or, now if you download the patch (I'm not gonna put in the OP, as again, no one even noticed until now).