TLDR, since this is already talked about plenty. They took a Karryn's prison style combat system, then transitioned to a deck builder battle system, both of which used a side view overworld map and in combat sex as well as defeat scenes. Then they changed it to basically a visual novel. Neither of these changes were popular, and they abandoned this game and another that they released one demo for after before claiming they're starting another game (with no evidence of it yet).
Surely making new separate games would have been smarter than transforming what an existing game is.
Well, the issue is that it's now a pattern of starting and abandoning games. Velminth was involved with some other projects before Saria Reclaimed, which all failed. They claimed it was the others involved with those projects that caused them to fail, however Vel has since failed to complete / continue 2 games so where they were the only one involved. So, the common denominator of failed projects is currently Vel for sure, and starting a new game when you've consistently failed to completer any project isn't such a good thing.
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Dev is a complete dumbass.
1. Reworks his golden beloved game like 3 times against the fan's suggestions and wishes.
2. Turns out the rework was shit, just like his fans predicted.
3. Looses all motivation to continue and abandons the game.
This is what happens when developers think they know better than the consumer. All he literally had to do was continue on the winning path he started out on and he would have had a very succesful game that could have earned him a lot of cash.
Which rework? The one that turned this game into a Visual Novel, or the one that was wannabe Library of Ruina? IMO, the one that added cards and stuff was a massive upgrade from the piss-easy combat from before.
Gooningmaster
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While there is no hope for an update,
https://f95zone.to/threads/saria-reclaimed-unofficial-edition-0-23-velminth.205774/
^ there is a fan made unofficial edition that's added a bit of content, however its using AI to do so if you're against that.
https://f95zone.to/threads/saria-reclaimed-unofficial-edition-0-23-velminth.205774/
^ there is a fan made unofficial edition that's added a bit of content, however its using AI to do so if you're against that.
Hunterop6969
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oh is abandoned now, is took the sweet time for this game to actually die... how could someone lose a gem that badly huh
Hunterop6969
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probably going to be expensive but the one I can imagine doing a good job is the artist of karryn prison or the one from Hasoyua games
Welp even if his game got spread into F95zone i doubt there'll be a lot of ppl expecting much considering they got their expectation betrayed so much.
I waited for 4 months and it ended up being abandoned for real.
I waited for 4 months and it ended up being abandoned for real.
Sig_hai
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I'm playing the 0.15 ver. and I'm kind of lost after reaching the cardinal heart. Idk where to go next.
Sig_hai
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Ah that's a little disappointing but oh well I guess I'll go and finish whatever i left behind.
BigBiggieBig
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This dev burned all the goodwill that this game had built and then some, the fact he abandoned SR for Cogito Line only to abandon that just after the initial release is enough to permanently tarnish his reputation even if he makes a comeback.
thomashot
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Wow, seeing this game getting abandoned is not what i was expecting after a long time. Sad
It's simple, really. The legacy version, as good as it is, is not the most up to date version and not what Velminth was planning around in the future. No, what people are judging is the game that went through two different genre changes, going from a LISA-esque RPG, to a deck builder RPG, to the VNRPG version that we know and loathe today.
People (myself included if you want to read my review) are judging the game as a whole and not just what it used to be, that and Velminth's reactions to people's comments to and about changes (and whether he can actually deliver on a game, keep in mind they are 0/3 at this point)
BigBiggieBig
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It's rated 2-stars because the content, good as it is, is minimal and unfinished, the plot is non-existent, the mechanics are unpolished as fuck, the game's buggy as shit, and it's abandoned aka never going to be finished or fixed.
I get that you like the game and that you think it has 'le potential' or whatever, but it is heavily-flawed, flaws that could have been fixed if the dev wasn't an ape/grifter.
Of course people will rate both the game and the developer, specially in an abandoned game that has gone through several re-works, in what world is anyone going to just rate an abandoned v0.17 game more than 2 stars lmao.
Ah, yes, a patreon-funded hobby, mind you. But you conveniently left that out.