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

[danb35]

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:
  
  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...

 

[Rehwyn]

Not much sense to speak of her path if it isn't going anywhere. Unless maybe he gets with 2019 Luna?

I pretty much guarantee multiple 1999 LIs will have the opportunity to restart things in 2019. They all can't seemingly be without husbands in 2019 for no reason.

 

[Derek in a Bush]

I pretty much guarantee multiple 1999 LIs will have the opportunity to restart things in 2019. They all can't seemingly be without husbands in 2019 for no reason.

Lol exactly what i was thinking

 

[pitao]

Unless maybe he gets with 2019 Luna?

Yes most likely you let her continue so you are still with her path open in 2019. No inside information to know if its last interaction with Luna in 1999 but looks like it.

 

[SXStone]

Really like the UI in this game, smooth work!

 

[JJ1960]

I pretty much guarantee multiple 1999 LIs will have the opportunity to restart things in 2019. They all can't seemingly be without husbands in 2019 for no reason.

There's a reason. After being with MC any another guy would feel like someone throwing a hot dog down a bowling alley.

 

[pitao]

Really like the UI in this game, smooth work!

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.

 

[Andolt]

Not much sense to speak of her path if it isn't going anywhere.

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.

 

[danb35]

this mod looks more like fan work than an official one.

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.

we will never return to this period of time.

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.

 

[BeenThroughHell]

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

 

[JJ1960]

Who is who again?

Scarlett is all. That's all you need to know.

 

[danb35]

I pretty much guarantee multiple 1999 LIs will have the opportunity to restart things in 2019.

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...

 

[JJ1960]

But at least with Scarlett, that raises the unholy spectre of NTR...

If you mean she's a National Treasure Redhead, I'm on board with that assessment.

 

[MAGO-DAG]

God, this girl... what would we do without Darci!

I finally started playing the update yesterday and I can't stop.

 

[pitao]

If you mean she's a National Treasure Redhead, I'm on board with that assessment.

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 , than interacting with them.

God, this girl... what would we do without Darci! View attachment 5079637

I finally started playing the update yesterday and I can't stop.

Yeah Darci is a riot, specially in this update. The best MC sidekick in all the games I play by a big margin.

 

[danb35]

danb35 isn't one of them

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.

Darci is a riot, specially in this update.

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.

 

[pitao]

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.

Don't worry I knew what you meant on your prior post, just put that note about you to enforce that I don't put you in that category, it would be easy for you to assume I did. I also don't play those tag paths/routes but I also don't discriminate who does, besides radicals about it of course. Those get the same treatment from me than the Anti on the same topic.

Also Jestur knows their audience and would be a mistake if they gave intimate details or god forbid flashbacks with their daughters father haha. That is why I'm not worried in the least that would happen because it won't, we as in the MC point of view have to understand that 20 years is a lot of time and life goes on.

 

[Discrepancy]

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.

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.

I mean without incest, all the girls that are mothers in 2019 were with other guys, and even with the incest patch pretty sure that will be true, I'm not seeing just the patch is going to create scenes to prove you impregnate all the girls at the right time.
If a LI sleeps with other guy when the MC is out of the picture or even assumed dead is NTR then I don't know what the hell that word means, thought it means cheating and humiliation to the MC, and not seeing that here.

 

[Kelticfury]

I mean without incest, all the girls that are mothers in 2019 were with other guys, and even with the incest patch pretty sure that will be true, I'm not seeing just the patch is going to create scenes to prove you impregnate all the girls at the right time.
If a LI sleeps with other guy when the MC is out of the picture or even assumed dead is NTR then I don't know what the hell that word means, thought it means cheating and humiliation to the MC, and not seeing that here.

I wonder if Jestur has been tracking the choices made when giving the option to finish inside or outside. Seems like that could make the story much more complicated.

 

[danb35]

Seems like that could make the story much more complicated.

Only if pregnancy is going to happen at all--and it isn't in the tags in OP. If it is (or if it's possible), then sure, you'd have to have finished inside someone to get her pregnant. So maybe you don't give the choice for a particular scene with a particular LI. It could be much more complicated, but it doesn't have to be.

So let me run through the gallery, though still missing the last few:

• Krystal (first): choice
• Riley (first): choice
• Krystal (second): choice, inside sets a variable
• Daphne: choice
• Riley (helicopter): no choice, outside, then choice, inside sets a variable
• Skylar: choice, inside sets a variable
• ...
• Jenny: no choice, outside

"Sets a variable" means the multi-mod (linked in OP) indicates that this is the case. Looks like most of the scenes do give a choice, but only some of those track it.