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

[Exidel]

Are you paying? Do others force the backers to pay? If you dont like his vision dont support him, as simple as it is. He is the game dev, he adds the mechanics he wants. He takes the risk for it, he puts its time into it. He is not wasting anyones time, you are wasting your own. End of Story.

If the dev wants people to support his vision and continue to support his game development endeavors, then he needs to have a solid vision worth supporting in the first place.

The moment he started taking peoples money for this project, promising a particular product for that financial backing, he opened himself to any and all criticism. If he was developing for a larger video game publisher and was accepting financial backing off the back of an RPG, and suddenly he showed the game as a visual novel instead, that would constitute false advertisement.

Stop meat-riding someone whose scamming their audience for more money for less content. A massive trove of content from previous versions is simply gone now, and it's been replaced with a bare-bones multiple choice visual novel that's a dime a dozen on this site. As far as I'm concerned, pulling a bait-and-switch on his paying patrons by completely changing what this game is is just an outright scam.

 

[Jetejete]

its genuinely sad for everyone (including dev) at this point

I feel like the patreon funding is a cancer for creators of indie games at least for most of them
sounds good to financially support a promising project to allow the dev to work on it and be payed to do so but it seems thats really bad for the final product if it is even released someday

maybe crownfunding would be better or, (i know), finish the game before releasing it even if it's not perfect, not everything fleshed out

the financial aspect of the games is the only aspect i see to explain why japanese games can be released while western ones are just... disapointments or endless vns

 

[DraganotheDragonKing]

If the dev wants people to support his vision and continue to support his game development endeavors, then he needs to have a solid vision worth supporting in the first place.

The moment he started taking peoples money for this project, promising a particular product for that financial backing, he opened himself to any and all criticism. If he was developing for a larger video game publisher and was accepting financial backing off the back of an RPG, and suddenly he showed the game as a visual novel instead, that would constitute false advertisement.

Stop meat-riding someone whose scamming their audience for more money for less content. A massive trove of content from previous versions is simply gone now, and it's been replaced with a bare-bones multiple choice visual novel that's a dime a dozen on this site. As far as I'm concerned, pulling a bait-and-switch on his paying patrons by completely changing what this game is is just an outright scam.

That's what happened to Overkills The Walking Dead game they showed one game it was super hype and everyone loved it then they were making practically an entirely different game and the publisher pulled the plug and shut them down and people were pissed

 

[KryzstofGryc]

In my most neutral stance out of all of this, as long he's updating, I'm happy enough, obviously there are still problems to deal with, which I hope he can fix and balance, but at the same time, shitty as it may seem, criticism is criticism, everyone here just wants the game to be good, how it good it is, it depends on the person


This is uncharted territory, at least in terms of gameplay in hentai, so I do understand why some would just prefer the older version, but I am hopeful dev would be able to balance it all out, because if this succeeds, that just means another genre for other devs to base their games on, more variety, more fun I suppose

 

[dn2sm]

There is version 15.2 on itch.io, can someone update it here, in case it get's removed?

 

[wowwhatisthis]

to follow the games, the saddest thing with this latest update is that A LOT of old hentai drawings for the combat scenes or the massage for example were purely deleted from the games, I find that these are a waste of time and money. money from the people who finance, so sad. These games had potential but changing everything about this is a mistake for me. at worst make 2 different games why not, but here these are just starting from 0 a game which was nevertheless progressing well

Are they deleted forever or are they being added back in future updates?

 

[Nikita1488]

RPG --> Semi-CCG --> Adv/CCG. I came here for the first one. I am not sure I wanna stay for the 3rd one. I mean I might as well wait for someone to do a CG-rip at this point?

For CG-rip I can recommend Petschko png_ converter

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, works on previous versions too
It's funny that in this version Velminth acknowledged that people do that and put this pic named "hey buddy why would you do that huh" into the files

 

[Clear sky enjoyer v2]

The 0.16 is horrible, at least at the moment, I hope that it is placeholder/temporary as the gameplay feels like shit, not to mention missing content from 0.15.

Also, I'm either retarded or the tickler is nearly impossible to beat.

However, I see a lot of potential in this game, the art-style is amazing, if done correctly it could be on par with Karryns prison.

 

[tzydekki]

Looks like the Dev was bullied off this thread. Well there would be a reason for that since he can't partake any criticism, even if it would be constructive and in the prosess of receiving said criticism - call the criticisers braindead retards and whatnot.

Where you at Vel?

I enjoyed the earlier version of the game, but if he keeps developing Saria Reclaimed as a linear VN with no open world mechanics, poor corruption system and just a jarring text bar and battles with different images to advance, it's time to jump the ship.

 

[annam]

What's happening that got everyone screaming and crying?

 

[dazzlesp31]

What's happening that got everyone screaming and crying?

No idea, We'll need to wait a month till the developers releases de 0.16 to the public, and test it.

 

[ShadowedKnight50]

No idea, We'll need to wait a month till the developers releases de 0.16 to the public, and test it.

there was a version posted somewhere in the replies

 

[HikkiG]

Are they deleted forever or are they being added back in future updates?

Considering some of the images are directly from 15.2; looks like some are making it back over and some are being re-drawn (which is not too bad, considering Vel has been improving art wise.)
Also, not directed at you, but I wouldn't call Vel a scammer when he's open about not caring over how many people support his vision and simply does whatever the fuck he wants. Hell he still sticks to a release schedule, that outside of these revisions, been pretty decent speed-wise and appearantly we should be back to monthly releases.

 

[dragonsix6969]

well i see what people saying now it's feel like you get downgrade gameplay (like on 3 steps away), you should just stick with second version of gameplay, but not so greedy on sex scenes. Now its feel like get scammed and arts now covered on half, with not good, i hope author understand it.

 

[Dallas113]

new version 0.16 out

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[dragonsix6969]

also now we can't walk with chibi version of Saria to explore world, less details.

 

[Salladz]

What is Saria Reclaimed Legacy Version ?

new version 0.16 out

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[ShadowedKnight50]

What is Saria Reclaimed Legacy Version ?

Its the open world version.

the new version is more like a visual novel.

 

[Glorp]

Where you at Vel?

Tucked away and generating salt at even the mention of this thread

 

[lesath]

I can make an educated guess what happened. Creating the open world required creating each level with its foliage, background, music, entry points, exit points, NPCs, NPC interactions, enemies, enemy behavior, battle stages, cutouts and others. This is quite the amount of work for each level, quite the amount of balancing, and probably he wasn't capable of delivering on consistent basis, and judging by his recent meltdown - he's probably overworked and burnt out.

The VN route - just some static screen, text, an animation here and there, the battle stage, and cutouts.

I'm not trying to excuse his infantile behavior, I'm guessing what caused it.

Still, can't deny - his art is really good, the game had a lot going for it, but this current downgrade, and especially the way he faced the well justified criticism - I doubt it will go well in the end. I personally unwatched this thread, might check from time to time, but will not spend a single penny on this anymore, as I'm starting to get the Divine Arms vibes - great promising start, and then downgrade after downgrade, in hopes of steady stream of monthly subs...