VN RPGM Abandoned Saria Reclaimed [v0.17] [Velminth]

[Elveskudd]

Wow. Vel actually impressed me. Here I thought hes gonna milk this game by adding "old" art back into it before abandoning it but he just skipped straight into abandoning it.
I guess you could say that 0.18 is a choose your own adventure game, as in choose another game to play.

 

[halcyonpurge]

first game syndrome. there's nothing particularly wrong with incremental development - as for me, i don't have any investment or anything in this project, and there's plenty of other things i can do so i can just watch in passing while development goes on. having reworks and revamps as your skills improve and your vision changes isn't at all uncommon, and it isn't super concerning to see. that's just how it is sometimes. if it were some, ahem, $27k per month patreon perpetual beta project, that would be extremely concerning, but for something of this size that everyone gets access to for free, it's nothing major.

BOY DO I FEEL FUCKING STUPID

 

[Sweet Force]

Well well, he outplayed everyone. The real change for 0.18 is that there is no game at all.

The 0.18 is the friends we made along the way these last 2 years, "Salud mi Familia" .

 

[Kormk]

We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In fealty to the God-Emperor, our undying Lord, and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I declare Exterminatus upon the Game. I hereby sign the death warrant of a Game and consign a million souls to oblivion. May Imperial Justice account in all balance. Discord will shield us.

 

[HikkiG]

I am just glad Vel has the integrity not to leave it in perpetual: "will it, won't it forever dev mode."
Still disappointing to hear, but maybe hoping he'll partner with someone in the future.

 

[JUDAEL]

oh god...i knew it...
one of the worst day in H game development..
I felt like this when lokr and HOTB were abandoned

 

[EmilIrving]

I wonder how the white knights feel after feverishly defending the Dev once this news dropped. Anyhow, sucks this happened (especially for the commissioners that paid to have their characters in the game), as I believed the game is salvageable. Then again, it's not like Vel hasn't outright said he is abandoning the game, just taking a break.

Regardless, gonna start pointing toward this game if I ever see a post begging a game to move from one engine to another, or even just to change from a regular RPG system to be unique.

 

[Bulbanych]

I wonder how the white knights feel after feverishly defending the Dev once this news dropped.

Most likely something along the lines of "It's because you haters dogpiled on the poor dev and made him upset. If only you stopped being so entitled, you dirty pirates who don't even think about supporting the dev with money, then the game would be finished".
Not pointing at anyone specifically, but that's usually what they write.

 

[Trümmern]

What a shame, what a rotten way to die.

 

[Seamonkey]

I mean, is this really a surprise? Dev pivoted direction of the game twice, once moderately, then a really major one. And given the reaction both times it is hardly a surprise that they just packed it in and gave up. They started out with a stupidly ambitious idea in terms of the amount of work it would take and people really liked the idea, but the blunt reality is that most really ambitious projects don't pan out and there was no way they could pull out of the initial concept with how popular that idea is without backlash, which is exactly what happened.

Its a dogs death for an otherwise promising game, but there is plenty of corpses of potentially promising games littering this site, so at least it is in good company.

We should definitely keep this failure in mind should the dev come forward with any similarly ambitious projects in the future before considering getting emotionally invested in them though.

 

[Catabolis]

Think this guy can come back and do awesome work, but he needs a partner who can lay out a project plan and keep him to it.

 

[DraganotheDragonKing]

Lmao what happened to all that talk about not abandoning the game? I was gonna see where this went before leaving entirely I guess Vel made the decision for all of us can't say I blame him after the shit show Saria became dev work is hard and Vel was too ambitious and flew too close to the sun then tried to backpedal when it became too much but it was already too late the base was there and expectations were high of course you're gonna get backlash honestly the smarter thing would have been to abandon the lofty goal of monthly updates and shoot for a longer period between updates instead of just flipping the game plenty of games don't get monthly updates and still get support also the schizo dev practices didn't help when you have an idea rumminate on it for a while does it really need added? maybe make a poll for the fans to see if they even want it if not just throw that shit on the back burner save it for later development or the next game I honestly don't see him ever picking Saria back up sad after what it was and what it could have been.

 

[Supreme_Evil]

I wonder how the white knights feel after feverishly defending the Dev once this news dropped.

Probably, they're TKO'ed and collecting the last money for the wake.

 

[neckless]

Ladies and gentlemen, the bag has been fumbled.

 

[Loligami]

Welp rip this game. Had so much potential, and was looking forward to it before all these changes started happening.

 

[Sweet Force]

I also have the idea that Velminth needs a partner or two, someone should be there to accommodate his ideas and make things clear, Velminth is the top tier if it comes to drawing beautiful women with perfect muscles, he had the goose that lays the eggs of gold in this game, but he made the worst possible decisions in terms of development, in addition to not responding well to criticism, although many criticisms were with respect and good intentions (not all of them), in an ideal world he would create his next game focusing in drawing and leaving the management of the project to another person. He has the talent and the ability, he showed it in the first year of development, he just needs a guide.

 

[Gnodab]

Honestly, i can respect pulling the emergency break on that one and admitting to some of the mistakes made. Better to call it quits here for now, if he isn't feeling it.

Velminth is clearly talented when it comes to Art. Personally, i can't be bothered playing Saria further as long as it remains being a Visual Novel (not gonna bother with 0.17).

Nevertheless, i wish Velminth all the best and i hope he is in a better state of mind, than he was in back when he just outright acted like a toddler towards people voicing their opinions about 0.16.

 

[DrakeWasHere2]

Light Space Love Gentlemen.

Unfortunately, their updates seem a bit sporadic. I remember it being over a year since an update drop and so far they seem to have dropped their last two updates back to back in the last couple of months. So unsure if they will still do monthly updates or if their content ends up randomly delivered.

 

[maybemaybe112]

Like bruh you just had to keep the original turn based system, flesh out the skill trees and keep adding locations and art all the while fixing the bugs on the way

I literally can't believe that the guy had a gold mine of a game on his hands and decided to throw everything in the trash to make a bland visual novel as if there aren't hundreds of them already

he did say that the reason for that change was that pixel art & background took too much time, like a lot more than story and CGs, and he wanted to draw more characters. vel doesn't really care about here tho, so he never bothered to go hentaiwriter here, writing walls of text explaining things.

 

[droglob]

Jesus Christ, some of you people forget and forgive things quick. Already seeing "brave and stunning" tier posts excusing this guy. How can anyone possibly look forward to anything this guy says he's going to make in the future? Is this some findom/masochism thing?