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

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ILostSoMany

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If it gets to be a good VN with actual gameplay I only understand complains of people who wanted an RPG, other than that whatever genre if it's done well.
 

datarelay

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holy heavens this is the biggest downgrade I have ever seen in a game here. When people talked about remaking the entire thing they weren't kidding, this 0.16 is a totally different game now, and boy it is boring, I couldn't force myself to play after the second fight.
For me this is a novelty in f9, a game doing such a huge 180 and shooting itself on the foot with uncanny precision.
 

Draddo678

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Game lost the Blasphemy (the game) vibes it had, i liked it because of that and because of the good art it had + the exploration. Now it's just a CTRL simulator, which honestly makes me sad and a bit mad, but what can you expect when the dev changes the damn base of the game every year? Like legit, it's like building 1 house and demolishing it every year because you didn't like how the kitchen looked.

I honestly can't trust the dev anymore, he changes his mind too many times, if it continues like this, the game will never be built properly.

If the "Shooting yourself in the foot" has to be applied here, i'd say that it isn't a gun he shot his foot with, but a damn nuclear bomb which doomed him, the game and the community.
 
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the whole "Reworked the whole game from scratch" was definitely NOT way to go for this game.
Taking the normal RPG turn base gameplay and turning it into a card game was really a downgrade.
 

PofB

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I definitely don't hate the new revamp, as I enjoy lewd card games, it was just a bit hard to parse. I haven't played in a while, so I completely forgot the "rock, paper, scissors" combat mechanic and only knew about what the short tutorial told me; that being the specifics of Slash Stance.
Combat isn't bad, it was just somehow more difficult than the sometimes tedious turn-based RPG combat the game did have. I guess in a way it's makes combat go faster, but in practice I spent more time trying to figure out what stance will keep my clothes from being annihilated in 2 turns.
Did anyone else have problems with combat? I may just be stupid.
 
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voxsunderland

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I woke up yesterday to see my notifications stacked with review changes to this thread. lol

I mean, I know it sucks. I myself was hoping it would compete with Karryn's Prison & try to be better.

But based on someone else's post, apparently his patrons wanted this change.

Also, while I dont know much about game dev, perhaps it would be easier to develop in RenPy than in RPGM?

For those who don't like where this game is going, no words are gonna convince the dev otherwise. Either you suck it up or start pretending it doesnt exist. Nothing else's gonna hit harder than the latter especially. & if the dev's donors want the game in its current state, then they shall get the game they deserve.

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HikkiG

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But based on someone else's post, apparently his patrons wanted this change.
Curious if there's proof of it, or just hear-say, given only Patreon comments are deriding the update and the only poll I know of is Card Based vs Traditional Skill combat results.
 

Kormk

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Curious if there's proof of it, or just hear-say, given only Patreon comments are deriding the update and the only poll I know of is Card Based vs Traditional Skill combat results.
Well first we need to see what patreon? Was that before the change to a VN or was the remaining echo chamber that the author seems to have sheltered in.
 

AH-64E

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Would be cool if reviews weren't just deleted, the influx of negative feedback and criticism isn't unwarranted.
Have they been? Your 1-star from almost a month ago is still up. So are the 1-stars made in the past few days. I assume the deleted reviews, if any, didn't meet the bare minimum requirements of a review.
 
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DarkForse

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If "Reworked the whole game from scratch" means losing at least 60-70% of the already existing content + many of the core mechanics as restoring willpower and such (if you try it you will see that in v.016 you can't recover willpower, so after few ero attacks your defeated) then we need back the old version ...

Not to mention that cheats in v.016 are also bare bones of what they was they only get Saria in heat but there is no heat meter in game to begin with, so yea dev made a bait and switch and run with all of the supporters money ...

We can assume this game will be with tag "Abandoned" soon which is sad as it had such a great potential.
 
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holy heavens this is the biggest downgrade I have ever seen in a game here. When people talked about remaking the entire thing they weren't kidding, this 0.16 is a totally different game now, and boy it is boring, I couldn't force myself to play after the second fight.
For me this is a novelty in f9, a game doing such a huge 180 and shooting itself on the foot with uncanny precision.
speakin of shooting in the foot i cant wait for 0.19 to be a unity built 3d first-person shooter
 

The_Thiccness

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I woke up yesterday to see my notifications stacked with review changes to this thread. lol

I mean, I know it sucks. I myself was hoping it would compete with Karryn's Prison & try to be better.

But based on someone else's post, apparently his patrons wanted this change.

Also, while I dont know much about game dev, perhaps it would be easier to develop in RenPy than in RPGM?

For those who don't like where this game is going, no words are gonna convince the dev otherwise. Either you suck it up or start pretending it doesnt exist. Nothing else's gonna hit harder than the latter especially. & if the dev's donors want the game in its current state, then they shall get the game they deserve.

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I have definitely missed a lot of the complaints as well as the post about his patron's wanting this change but the Dev made it clear on his patreon that he has his own vision and wouldn't be bought. " I won't cater to anyone but myself regardless of sum or interest. Support is appreciated if you are happy with the direction it's heading in, but that's all there is to it. " directly from his patreon.
I hope he enjoys his creation but he definitely did a 180 from the original concept, I speak for myself but I'm sure some like me came here in hopes for a Karryn's Prison successor with a better/sexier protagonist. Karryn's Prison is a masterpiece and there aren't many if any that are like it so it was a sucker punch to the gonads when the original game took many notes from Karryn's Prison and some from other games to completely trash it for something different almost 2 years later in development.
 

redbulllx6

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For those who don't like where this game is going, no words are gonna convince the dev otherwise. Either you suck it up or start pretending it doesnt exist. Nothing else's gonna hit harder than the latter especially. & if the dev's donors want the game in its current state, then they shall get the game they deserve.
Mind you, I am neither a fan nor do I hate this game, my last post is even saying I'm just confused on what the F the dev wants to take this games direction in, so I'm not specifically commenting about the game here, but rather your stance on it.

Similar to other games the devs donors are most likely kissing the devs ass by just blindly agreeing with him. It likely wasn't a poll pulled up out of nowhere, dev had to complain about previous updates being too hard/unachievable or something along the lines.
Now, I could be wrong and the paying supporters really hated the current gameplay and wanted a "Skip dialogue" game with awful combat mechanics, which completely starts development from the ground up, ruining any foundation it had before except for general story (if there really is any) and Saria herself ig.


People complain and rate a game low to voice their opinion and share a common frustration, whether it falls on deaf ears or not. At the very least the smart people who first look up reviews on other sites than the echochamber of dev discords and what not, will get to see whether they want to support or even play the game. In this case, I personally highly advice against it.

Product isnt finished, let alone has a ground to stand on and except for dark skin muscle mommy Saria:PogChamp:, you don't know what you'll get, if you'll ever get anything outside of more reworks and what not.


Pretending a problem doesn't exist only makes things worse, which is a common life lesson. And it's not gonna hit hard at all because if noones complaining, then the dev will continue to not "give a shit about what others think", despite putting up a poll because his insecure ass can't focus on a single direction to take the game in.
 
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