VN Ren'Py Royal Switch [v0.11] [DeepBauhaus]

[gregers]

Changelog:

Chapter 3 Act 8 Esther’s Story

Esther “Fearless” route: Esther Makes Some Changes

• As her confidence grows, Esther begins to take charge of certain important decisions.
• The Golden Serpent reopens after its remodel
• Esther takes charge of her virginity

Esther “Timid” route: A Tender Trap

• Esther has fallen head-over-heels. What will that mean for her?
• She visits Titus’ country estate and meets with him to discuss business
• Esther’s friends are in for a surprise, as is Jonquil

Subplot stories:

• Titus and Francis
• A Secret Place
• Osprey Checks In, in which Osprey states her opinion on Jonquil’s strategy.

New images in the patrons’ gallery

New user feature: you can now choose to have animations play automatically

Sounds like we're still not getting a choice about the relationship with Tristan on Esther's independent route. Not too crazy about that, but we'll see how it plays in practice.


Edit (after playing through it): Yeah, this blows.

Spoiler

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

Edit 2:
Considering the flashback showing her dying an idiot's death, this is probably a good thing.

Spoiler

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

(And it probably goes without saying, but Wen'Deh and Will offering soft pushback to Jonquil's plan doesn't absolve them from aiding and abetting the treason.)

 

[SonsOfLiberty]

Royal Switch [v0.11] [DeepBauhaus]

COMPRESSED:

Win/Linux:

You must be registered to see the links

-

You must be registered to see the links

-

You must be registered to see the links

-

You must be registered to see the links

Mac:

You must be registered to see the links

-

You must be registered to see the links

-

You must be registered to see the links

-

You must be registered to see the links

 

[RippedKegels]

If one happens to have zero interest in the whole training thing, is this still worth it?

 

[Birdnman993]

This update was entertaining, it's always nice to see each update of this game, but it's a little sad that we still don't see more of Brigette, she's definitely my favorite of the two.

 

[youraccount69]

RoyalSwitch-0.11

Spoiler: TORRENT 3535MB (Windows)

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

rpdl torrents are unaffiliated with F95Zone and the game developer.
Please note that we do not provide support for games.
For torrent-related issues use here, or join us on

You must be registered to see the links

!

You must be registered to see the links

,

You must be registered to see the links

. Downloading issues? Look here.​

 

[tmu500]

Is there any gallery mod for this game?

 

[Speedfeed]

This game turned into how to train your sluts. That's disappointing

 

[ffive]

Yeah, this blows.

Yeah, after having played it, it's... welp. The game kind of sums it up itself early on:



immediately proceeds onto what game now internally calls literally "pawn route"

It's the kind of whiplash that can get you break your neck for real.

Spoiler: for length

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

On the upside, i did appreciate Wendy showing at least some concern, ineffective as it was. I have faint hope that maybe this will develop further into some sort of taking things in her own hands, idk.

 

[gregers]

Yeah, after having played it, it's... welp. The game kind of sums it up itself early on:

View attachment 4203620

immediately proceeds onto what game now internally calls literally "pawn route"

It's the kind of whiplash that can get you break your neck for real.

Spoiler: for length

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

On the upside, i did appreciate Wendy showing at least some concern, ineffective as it was. I have faint hope that maybe this will develop further into some sort of taking things in her own hands, idk.

Go on, tell us how you really feel.

(But yeah, I agree with all of the above.)

 

[ClockworkGnome]

Oh well, perhaps i'll get to make choices about things that actually matter?

Sadly, games with female protagonists where the woman actually has agency are few and far between. Most of them usually just wind up being corruption simulators where you as the audience get to watch a woman get progressively used, abused, corrupted, and otherwise dominated without any real say in the matter.

It's a shame, but it's probably a reflection of the idea that anyone playing porn games is a horny dude who just wants to watch fucking, and the only reason you'd ever want to see a female main character is to see her get repeatedly fucked like a slut. Along with the idea that players are more inclined to want to watch someone else's story rather than wanting to self-insert as the main character and having it be their own story.

It makes it extremely difficult to find good games where the main character is a female with an actual personality, who actually makes her own choices, and which presents a story where those choices matter. Not just being able to choose which guys you want to be with (assuming you want to be with guys at all, and don't want to just go full lesbian), but being able to shape the world you're in in other ways. ie, getting to play AS the main character, rather than simply watching the main character.

There are good female protag games where the main character actually gets to BE a protagonist rather than a victim, but you have to look hard for them here.

 

[ffive]

Go on, tell us how you really feel.

To clarify, i want to apologize for the delivery, it's just... i really like this game actually, it has some pretty rare mix of custom renders and some adorable silliness. So i can't help but get invested and then cranky about the... less adorable silliness, when it pops up like that.

I hope it doesn't discourage the author; i do wish them the best, even when it may not look like that.

 

[KarokaKOHORT]

On the upside, i did appreciate Wendy showing at least some concern, ineffective as it was. I have faint hope that maybe this will develop further into some sort of taking things in her own hands, idk.

I do wonder if her concern varies depending on the relationship (I presume not) - on my playthough I did what I could to have as low empathy and standing with her, yet she still stood up for the little queen, which was surpising.

Like, as if Jonquil wasn't painted as enough of an idiot already...

Tbh I dig the incompetent Jonquil - she kinda needs to be narratively to keep everything going as long as it does (either that or she'd have to be malicious, making her no different from Titus) and I hang on to a hope we can dish out some comeuppeance on her towards the end.

 

[ffive]

I do wonder if her concern varies depending on the relationship (I presume not)

That presumption is correct; there's slight variations of the scene based on whether Wendy is now "spying" for Bruno at the palace or the player picked different approach, but her lines/concerns are effectively the same, no matter Bigitte's relationship score with her.

 

[gregers]

I hang on to a hope we can dish out some comeuppeance on her towards the end.

My Brigitte is keeping a List, and Jonquil's at the top of it followed by Bruno and then all of her former friends who left her to rot.

But given what we've seen in recent updates, I'm not confident the dev will allow any such satisfying conclusions.

 

[ffive]

My Brigitte is keeping a List, and Jonquil's at the top of it followed by Bruno and then all of her former friends who left her to rot.

Mine includes the captain of the royal guard next to Jonquil but with a question mark, because if the guy was simply ignorant that his sweetheart knew all this time the crown princess was rotting in some creep's dungeon, then that's merely eyebrow-raising incompetence, but if he actually knew. Well.

 

[gregers]

Mine includes the captain of the royal guard next to Jonquil but with a question mark, because if the guy was simply ignorant that his sweetheart knew all this time the crown princess was rotting in some creep's dungeon, then that's merely eyebrow-raising incompetence, but if he actually knew. Well.

Oh yeah, those were just the top billings: Jonquil's confederates, Bruno's gang, the abusive villagers, etc. Even the fuckin' Magical Cat left her out to dry. Which only strengthens my thesis that one should never trust an adult who'll still drink milk.

 

[kekasaurus]

I like the set-up to this story. It's quite heartfelt.

 

[DeepBauhaus]

I wanted to ask about the stats, in regards to Brigitte's paths. With this new update including some fixes to the bratty path I wanted to re-run through things to make sure I was doing it the way I wanted. See, I know this is a corruption/training game, but I really dislike Bruno. Any desire to see lewds with Brigitte are massively outweighed by the need to disrupt his plans and deny him any success. But I'm not sure if I want to go bratty or outright resistance. When given the choice to clean her room or not, if you just refuse then all that happens is Energy gets -1, but if you go bratty then Obedience gets -1. Now, I read that the energy stuff is deprecated (for now at least) and probably wasn't removed in the resist side when he fixed the bratty side so we can probably ignore that. I'm just unsure why Bratty gets Obedience -1 and Resist doesn't. And I don't know what these stats are gonna be used for.

(On that note I was worried about the DP counter being incremented because of Bruno's dream, thinking that maybe that might be included in calculations about how well she resists or something, so I backtracked to un-see the dream so it wouldn't be counted. Might want to clarify on the stats page the difference between attributes that affect things and just plain counters.)

This isn't my first corruption game so I'm a little confused why I'm having issues playing the Brigitte side. Bruno just squicks me out so much. When he interrupts the bdsm session I safeworded at the first opportunity. I was getting annoyed with some things that happened but I think it was due to the bratty path bug so I'm doing this replay to see if it turns out better.

First of all, I want to thank you for your interest and for caring about Brigitte's independence!
As you have seen, I have gone back and done some pretty big re-writes of her story. Some of the things I was trying do do before just weren't working very well.

Spoiler

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

 

[DeepBauhaus]

Oh yeah, those were just the top billings: Jonquil's confederates, Bruno's gang, the abusive villagers, etc. Even the fuckin' Magical Cat left her out to dry. Which only strengthens my thesis that one should never trust an adult who'll still drink milk.

Hey, you can criticize my story all you want--though, I beg patience...chapter 4 and chapter 5 should resolve your questions (though I can't guarantee full satisfaction)...

BUT DO NOT CRITICIZE GEORGES!!! First of all, he barely knows Brigitte. They only met once, and then only briefly. Also, if you speak ill of him he will come and steal your soul as you sleep, so watch it.

 

[DeepBauhaus]

Sadly, games with female protagonists where the woman actually has agency are few and far between. Most of them usually just wind up being corruption simulators where you as the audience get to watch a woman get progressively used, abused, corrupted, and otherwise dominated without any real say in the matter.

It's a shame, but it's probably a reflection of the idea that anyone playing porn games is a horny dude who just wants to watch fucking, and the only reason you'd ever want to see a female main character is to see her get repeatedly fucked like a slut. Along with the idea that players are more inclined to want to watch someone else's story rather than wanting to self-insert as the main character and having it be their own story.

It makes it extremely difficult to find good games where the main character is a female with an actual personality, who actually makes her own choices, and which presents a story where those choices matter. Not just being able to choose which guys you want to be with (assuming you want to be with guys at all, and don't want to just go full lesbian), but being able to shape the world you're in in other ways. ie, getting to play AS the main character, rather than simply watching the main character.

There are good female protag games where the main character actually gets to BE a protagonist rather than a victim, but you have to look hard for them here.

If it makes you feel better, the idea is for the full arc of this story to lead to exactly that.

Spoiler

You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.

But yes, it gets there by exploring how corruption and training tropes shape the 'subjects' of those tropes. I doubt that satisfies you, but there it is.