VN Ren'Py Ripples [v0.8.0 Public] [Jestur]

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Rehwyn

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pitao said:
The truth reveal to Jenny in 1999 is one of some major plot devices in the story and that enable other events for sure, but like in all time travel stories there is the "what appeared first, the egg or the chicken?" paradox that always will bring inconsistencies if someone overanalyze it but it is also the main (flawed) reason I love time travel stories so much.

There is so many clues planted by Jestur in between the lines/dialogue and in the renders that I feel like repeating this game over and over to get them all. If weren't the so many games I follow and only existed Ripples around I would repeat it over and over again.

Already did like 4-5 refresh plays from the start since I first played it 2 and half years ago and I'll bet I'll do more when have time available and less games on queue to play :LOL:. Right now feeling the urge to do it hehe but can't.
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Yeah, I think for some time travel stories to work you have to accept that inconsistencies in causality from a linear perspective might not be a problem from other perspectives. So it might not be a problem if time traveling back to 1999 is what causes time travel to be invented in the first place. :ROFLMAO:

Edit: Oh, and here's an extra potential mind fuck:
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For all we know, now that MC has told Jenny about time travel in 1999, Jackie in 1999 might know that she can now make contact with Jenny without disrupting things, and might explain to her younger self why she still needs to go to the power plant and what happens, etc. That's speculation of course, but nothing would directly contradict something like this.
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Assuming my theory is correct about Jackie, what if in 1999, Jackie-Jenny tells Original-Jenny how to invent time travel using knowledge from 2009? Which of course means that her "discovering" time travel is just her future-self telling her how to do it in an endless closed loop. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Something I've been wondering about since my most recent playthrough is who is that woman with Riley when they ambush and beat down the principal while he's spying on the MC?
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Prior to this last run through I'd always thought it was Jackie because of the grey hair plus my suspicions about her being Jenny and involved in the time travel stuff. But paid closer attention this run and noted her hair is too short to be Jackie, if Jackie let her hair out of that bun it'd be longer than this. The closest I can think of in '19 to this color and style is Valerie. But even that is a little off because Val parts her hair and this womans looks a little bit longer than Vals.

So been thinking about the possibilities. It could be someone we haven't met yet at all, but since Jestur only showed her from behind, hiding her face, it makes me think it's someone we've seen already. I narrowed down my suspects to people we know or suspect are involved in the time travel and first thought of Darci's mom but that didn't make much sense because she's said to almost never leave their house plus we do briefly see her in '19 and her hair looks nothing like this. So I don't think it's Jackie, probably not Val and it isn't Darci's mom.

Leaving me with only two suspects, one of which is pretty shaky and it would be surprising if it is her. Could this be Cindy in '19? Did she defect at some point in that 20 year gap? Her hair didn't look like this in '99 but it's been 20 years so that could explain the grey plus a style change after all that time wouldn't be unusual. The other is that this is future Jenny, and Jackie isn't Jenny at all. That all those hints were a red herring meant to mislead us.
 
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Enough discussion here of the last episode that I figured I'd better finish it before I saw more spoilers.
  • Damn, I love Jenny. It's an unfair comparison to the 2019 girls since we haven't seen them in a good while, but the content with her since the dance with MC just turned it up to 11. Tiffany made it clear that Jenny was into MC, and Jenny herself tells him so (and more) when she's yelling at him. Everyone's into MC (lucky him), but Jenny's very much in love with him. Not really surprising that she believes MC, and there's absolutely no way anyone else there (with the possible exception of Luna) would. Again, MC, stay in 1999 and marry her, F the rest of the story.
  • Speaking of Luna, I see why some here think she and MC aren't going to get together. And if this is the last time they see each other until 2019, MC's parting words to her ("I'll see you in 20 years") probably give the best explanation of her reaction, if he isn't actually Skylar's father. But still, I don't think they're done. Part of that is wishful thinking, no doubt, but there's also this:
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    Not much sense to speak of her path if it isn't going anywhere. Unless maybe he gets with 2019 Luna?
  • I ran through this update with the Inc mod, and I'm wondering if I might prefer without it. Mainly during the last scene, it just seemed over the top.
  • I can kind of see the point of the complaint up-thread that we spent a whole update just at a party (even if that isn't quite true, it was almost all there), but an awful lot happened at that party too. In addition to all the relationship stuff (and there was a lot of it), the section with Cindy and Riley bring a decent amount of plot as well.
And the wait resumes...
 
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SXStone said:
Really like the UI in this game, smooth work! :sneaky:
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It was improved in this last update, specially the main menu. It wasn't bad before but looked more renpyish haha.


Side note, not really replying to you: One of the many things Jestur does really well and I wish other games that have longer than 6 months with a lot of content in between updates is the really good recap on the start of the episode of the update, it is a great way to remember events without replaying the whole game when the update hits, of course it is much easier to do in a game like Ripples where there isn't many deviations/branches on the main story.
 
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danb35 said:
Not much sense to speak of her path if it isn't going anywhere.
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I don't know, but this mod looks more like fan work than an official one. But maybe we'll get something with Luna in the present. With this Luna, I think it's over.
My thoughts are that we will never return to this period of time. To another period, perhaps, but not to this one...
And the reason for this is that we are now spending too much time here. It seems like a farewell to this time.
 
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Andolt said:
this mod looks more like fan work than an official one.
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It's linked in the OP, and I'm pretty sure it's "unofficial." And I'm not taking it as Gospel truth, but I don't think it's talking out its ass either--if it's saying "Luna's path," it's because that action sets some variable that enables Luna's path. I admit that's an assumption on my part, but I think it's a safe one.
Andolt said:
we will never return to this period of time.
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Quite possible, and certainly seems MC has been thinking that way. Which will make me sad, because I've fallen hard for Jenny (as is probably obvious), and even 2019 Jenny, if she lived, wouldn't be quite the same.
 
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Who is who again? I really need to play it all from the start just to catch up to wtf you guys are discussing about hahaha
 
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Rehwyn said:
I pretty much guarantee multiple 1999 LIs will have the opportunity to restart things in 2019.
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I mean, we've already seen some interest from both Scarlett and Valerie, and while the former may be confused about what's going on (who wouldn't be?), she knows it's the same guy. Other than Luna (briefly), we haven't seen any of the other 1999 LIs in 2019 (I'm not counting Tiffany as a 1999 LI since MC barely interacted with her).

But at least with Scarlett, that raises the unholy spectre of NTR...
 
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JJ1960 said:
If you mean she's a National Treasure Redhead, I'm on board with that assessment.
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Hahaha that was clever and very funny, much better than my old usual rants about people ranting or bringing up that topic. That now I mostly avoid, prefer to ignore the NTR radicals that see it everywhere, and I guess danb35 isn't one of them since it isn't ignored :p, than interacting with them.

MAGO-DAG said:
:KEK:God, this girl... what would we do without Darci! View attachment 5079637

I finally started playing the update yesterday and I can't stop.:LUL:
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Yeah :ROFLMAO: Darci is a riot, specially in this update. The best MC sidekick in all the games I play by a big margin.
 
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pitao said:
danb35 isn't one of them
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I mean, I don't want to watch one of "my" LIs getting it on with another guy, especially once I've been with her--not my kink. I don't want to know that it's happened over a short timeframe (I'm with her Monday, he's with her off-screen Tuesday, I'm with her Wednesday). But at the absolute best, it's going to be ambiguous whether Scarlett was with someone else between 1999 and 2019 (maybe we see MC come back in 2000, making it possible he's the twins' father; maybe we're told it happens but we don't see it; maybe it's left completely unstated, allowing those who want to believe it to do so), and it's entirely possible we'll know the twins' father is someone else. But if I'm gone for that 20 years, eh, not a big deal for me.
pitao said:
Darci is a riot, specially in this update.
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Definitely. She's not pushing the "friends-to-lovers" button for me (the way Annie in Eternum does, for example), but she's a hell of a lot of fun.
 
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