VN Ren'Py Abandoned SC4LES [Ep. 1] [Pandalin Studios]

[Sicansios]

no harem? why even have so many girls then, especially twins? skip!

Yeah, because all we know that the main purpose of twin sisters is to be part of an harem and worship their alpha male.

I respect all players kinks, but i'll never understand this obsession with harem endings...

 

[EZ8lt]

So almost 10 months between the updates, and now there's a bunch of side character exposition into it. I'm sure that it's going to be super important at the end, but with this gaps between updates, and with this small amount of content within them, this does not bode well.

Yeah, because all we know that the main purpose of twin sisters is to be part of an harem and worship their alpha male.

I respect all players kinks, but i'll never understand this obsession with harem endings...

Greed is in the basic human nature, especially if it's about really good things. Simple as that.

 

[YogSothoth1982]

so many ?
Just because there's no harem doesn't mean there can't be some other form of multiple girls path/ending.

but thank you for notifying us of the skip, you'll be missed.

Can we focus on the wife and ignore the other possible LIs?

 

[AL.d]

So almost 10 months between the updates, and now there's a bunch of side character exposition into it. I'm sure that it's going to be super important at the end, but with this gaps between updates, and with this small amount of content within them, this does not bode well.

It's not even exposition. Exposition is used to fill in the blanks and drive the story forward. Here we have mundane exchanges between NPCs we haven't met as MC yet and they are completely unrelated to the story at this point in time.

I don't give a shit if the blonde stranger wants to perv on another redhead stranger in the bathroom. Or about whatever those two strangers are doing while clubbing...

 

[talking-head]

It's not even exposition. Exposition is used to fill in the blanks and drive the story forward. Here we have mundane exchanges between NPCs we haven't met as MC yet and they are completely unrelated to the story at this point in time.

I don't give a shit if the blonde stranger wants to perv on another redhead stranger in the bathroom. Or about whatever those two strangers are doing while clubbing...

I agree, it was a really bizarre narrative choice to all of a sudden have the player controlling a non-MC character. It was jarring and very poorly written. That whole scene, I think, both from a render/art perspective and a writing perspective, felt unneeded, badly written, awfully paced, and inconsequential.

I remember specifically one render after the guy hits on them and gets turned down, then there is a render with no dialogue that focuses on the dude in the back with Sasha in the front and it is extremely blurry on her face for that render, it's a bizarre artistic choice. Weakest part of the episode by far.

 

[Rinbael]

I just finished trying this and I also agree that it is really bizarre that you are controlling and making choices for a character that you know nothing about apart from her name or was it just an excuse to add some sexual content to the game? I have to ask the dev is this going to be happening a lot? if that's the case the tags need updated to add in multiple protagonist and female protagonist.

 

[talking-head]

I agree, it was a really bizarre narrative choice to all of a sudden have the player controlling a non-MC character. It was jarring and very poorly written. That whole scene, I think, both from a render/art perspective and a writing perspective, felt unneeded, badly written, awfully paced, and inconsequential.

I remember specifically one render after the guy hits on them and gets turned down, then there is a render with no dialogue that focuses on the dude in the back with Sasha in the front and it is extremely blurry on her face for that render, it's a bizarre artistic choice. Weakest part of the episode by far.

I found the scene and took a screenshot of what I'm talking about
It is an artistic decision I very much do not understand

Spoiler: Strange Artistic Decision

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[YogSothoth1982]

I found the scene and took a screenshot of what I'm talking about
It is an artistic decision I very much do not understand

Spoiler: Strange Artistic Decision

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I think it's made like this so that you fix your eyes on the guy in the background and not on the girl in the front (although she is the "protagonist" at least at that moment). It is a visual effect that I have already seen in some movies, series and even other games: You distort what should be the main image so that the view is fixed on something in the background and that is relevant to what the narrator wants to tell.

In any case, I'm not going to discuss whether it's well or badly executed because I'm not an expert, but I think it does its job, which is the main objective.

 

[talking-head]

I think it's made like this so that you fix your eyes on the guy in the background and not on the girl in the front (although she is the "protagonist" at least at that moment). It is a visual effect that I have already seen in some movies, series and even other games: You distort what should be the main image so that the view is fixed on something in the background and that is relevant to what the narrator wants to tell.

In any case, I'm not going to discuss whether it's well or badly executed because I'm not an expert, but I think it does its job, which is the main objective.

Certainly I agree that that was the intention. Unfortunately, the staging of the shot leaves a lot to be desired, in my opinion. And of course it is up to the dev to decide if they believe it is a valid criticism (which it appears is not the case).

 

[Pandadrummer]

Pointing out : we love negative feedback, it allows us to correct things and get better by not repeating the same mistakes.
However what’s done is done, and we are going to show that we heard you exactly that way : moving forward and avoiding the same mistakes ( and making NEW ONES ! Yeah ! ) but not by remaking what we already made. Mistakes are part of the game now ! Enjoy the ride !

 

[michael1984]

Welll just played trough this game

Story wise it is interesting so far ... between the twin sisters... and the spoiled female singer with the attitude ... And the redhead girl we probally will make a great star at the end of it all ... Will be interesting to see if the story can keep up the way its going..

The characters are not bad to look at ... Even tho there are alot better ones out there in the avn world ... But they are good enough

Not much content there tho as of yet ... And depending on the wait time between updates it can become good or bad

So far ill probally rate this game a 6.5 out of 10 since there aint much content as of yet

But can become a higher rating depending how everything goes

Good luck DEV ... Will keep a eye on this

 

[Pandadrummer]

My main criticism: in a game with a music producer MC, there's.... no music.

Spoiler: About the game

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HA ! You caught me.
The goal in the end was always to score the game myself, which will happen eventually, the conditions just weren't the best yet.
Be patient !

 

[Takkertje]

does this have a terrible lack of animated scenes or is it just me?
waiting for updates...

 

[Pandadrummer]

does this have a terrible lack of animated scenes or is it just me?
waiting for updates...

Animations are a bitch, tried once, I’m not ready yet !

 

[Pandadrummer]

So you're a musician/composer too? (a drummer perhaps )
Yes it can be tricky to do both (that's also what i plan to do when the time comes) but i think your story would gain alot with some musical background.

I am a drummer, and I also play bass, sing, little keyboard and guitar ^^ and I have a whole concept planned for the game music. You are correct to say it will gain. I’m considering adding fillers track in the mean time ^^

 

[Takkertje]

Animations are a bitch, tried once, I’m not ready yet !

anyway , thanks for the effort.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

So I played it yesterday and while, yes, it's short, I frequent the Discord channel so I know there are good reasons why this release was delayed and it doesn't bother me. And other than that I really enjoyed it a lot, I like the premise here and all of the LIs seem to be well written so far. We definitely need more of Sasha and Vicky before I can settle on them for sure but so far they are my favorites. Jen is a good character but not one I'd be interested in touching with a ten foot pole, the way she tried to trade sexual favors for career advancement with the label owner was gross. But that's not a knock on the game, I think it's an interesting character type that we don't see too much of in these games. I like both Scyllia and Kat as well but their situation looks like a drama fire that anyone would be well advised to avoid sticking their hand in if they know what's good for them. For those reasons Sasha and Vicky are my current favorites even though we don't know too much about them yet.

Other notes: The renders may not be the best I've ever seen but for someone who only just started using DAZ when he started this game I think they're good. The girls are well designed and all of them are attractive. There was a decent variety of backgrounds used given the amount of content in the chapter. The writing was good quality and the proofreading was solid, I didn't notice very many typos or grammar errors beyond those I already argued my case on when the teaser came out (I maintain that "I'mma" SHOULD have an apostrophe! I will not cede this ground!).

It was a very solid first effort and hopefully now that a lot of the delay stuff has been sorted out we'll get a more regular release schedule.

 

[YogSothoth1982]

So I played it yesterday and while, yes, it's short, I frequent the Discord channel so I know there are good reasons why this release was delayed and it doesn't bother me. And other than that I really enjoyed it a lot, I like the premise here and all of the LIs seem to be well written so far. We definitely need more of Sasha and Vicky before I can settle on them for sure but so far they are my favorites. Jen is a good character but not one I'd be interested in touching with a ten foot pole, the way she tried to trade sexual favors for career advancement with the label owner was gross. But that's not a knock on the game, I think it's an interesting character type that we don't see too much of in these games. I like both Scyllia and Kat as well but their situation looks like a drama fire that anyone would be well advised to avoid sticking their hand in if they know what's good for them. For those reasons Sasha and Vicky are my current favorites even though we don't know too much about them yet.

Other notes: The renders may not be the best I've ever seen but for someone who only just started using DAZ when he started this game I think they're good. The girls are well designed and all of them are attractive. There was a decent variety of backgrounds used given the amount of content in the chapter. The writing was good quality and the proofreading was solid, I didn't notice very many typos or grammar errors beyond those I already argued my case on when the teaser came out (I maintain that "I'mma" SHOULD have an apostrophe! I will not cede this ground!).

It was a very solid first effort and hopefully now that a lot of the delay stuff has been sorted out we'll get a more regular release schedule.

The only LI I'm interested in is Scyllia. I can't say that Jen attracts me too much, quite the contrary. I was not enthusiastic about Kat either. I can't talk much about Sasha, but being the MC married it's highly unlikely that I'm interested in her.

 

[fishbrain]

I don't see anything wrong with asking questions about new game content. Whether it's what you want or what you want to avoid, we are all just trying to improve our experience here. Who cares what someone else is asking about, people just need to smoke a joint and relax!

 

[Saint Blackmoor]

Game looks promising, Twins! I'm intrigued. you can do so much with twins ( I didn't mean it like that get your mind out of the gutter) I mean as a story concept
I'll give it a DL and see how it shakes out.
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