RPGM - Completed - Scars of Summer After [v1.08] [shinachiku-castella]

just felt like a waste of time honestly

considering it's like an "after" sequel, just give us a lot of H content? I mean there's a lot of story fair enough...but this just isn't it for me

haven't played the whole thing as of writing this, but it's already kinda boring from the starting. that said...it's not "bad". maybe im being a bit too harsh with 2 stars, but it's just disappointing

disgusting gross dudes with a 10/10 hottie if you dont like this then youre a dumb self inserting loser that will never feel the touch of a woman. you avoid ntr because it hits too close to home i get it

well i liked the game less because there wasnt really any corruption of modest girls anymore, the game is sequel to the first one where MC returns to the village after some time and we only witnessing corruption done in previous game, mechanics could be more simple and more friendly to the player because i see it only as hide and seek game, its pretty hard to find ryoka when every action and running into bugs progress time a little every time

aside of that i must commend dev for giving more CGs and even animations i wish there would be as many in previous game too

ok the one hand the game is really linear and with the way the game skips through days, the routes feel shorter and I feel could’ve been conensed even further. The town is just for show basically.

On the other hand the game is “improved” because it cuts out all half the waiting from the previous game, but you have to just kinda duck around until you get the extra scenes, which often are just small continuations of what you already saw. Without adding much to the story. Sometimes the story is worse, though Nobuo route finally gives us shota scenes with other shotas. And hey. Mc kinda gets to go in lol trades some issues for new ones.

There ARE some good scenes here, but…the routes are often pretty short with not much in the way of exploration. The scenarios are more fun than the scenes, which remain kinda vanilla for the most part.

weirdly some of the best aspects are the…moral lessons? Ryoka’s dialogue about wishing things would never change is…honestly pretty good and her dialogue near the end of Daisuke’s route is genuinely heartbreaking sometimes. The game is still well made and presented, but it’s just side content.



I would give this a 3 but

Saki’s route goes crazy imo and is the real star of the show. Basically an entirely separate game with Saki as the protagonist that expands her character into being a very cute oneesan character. Shes way better here than in the last game and honestly I enjoyed her content overall more than Ryoka’s.

honestly with the exosnddd relationship with Saki and seeing her take boys virginities in this game makes me even more sure that there should’ve been a vanilla route. Like some of Saki’s scenes basically ARE a vanilla route, just the everyone but the protagonist.

I think it’s silly they didn’t give mc a sex scene after all the hoops they make you jump through. It’s an intentional choice, but having both makes the Ntr better and all the setup and potential is there.

honestly without saki content I might be tempted to give this a 2. Significantly less content than the first game, even if it is well polished. Stories are overall boring and don’t really feel worth a full game. Plus still not that much content even with Saki. I’m still tempted to give this a 3. 4 just kinda feels more fair

Gotta say it's better than I had expected, listen to me, I like the NTR routes, the scenes were great, the CG animation made it better than the first one too. I didn't care thar much about Saki route, the gacha things was kinda pain in the ass.
I know it's a NTR game, but I can't lie that I'm happy that there's an NTR route between Keita and Royka, the ending his deserved, gonna take that as the "true' ending lol.

more saki is always good, though to be honest, the first/base game was still 10x better in terms of quality and quantity. I don't believe the content here justifies a sequel. Though in all fairness, Solgante pulled the same thing

I loved it, great continuation of the game, art is still amazing, writing for the H scenes is hot af, the h scene poses are great. If you liked the first game I dont think this game will dissappoint.
Ill be keeping an eye for any other game this dev puts out, just pure quality.

I play using Joiplay, I have also downloaded the plugin.js, but after loading to enter the game suddenly force close, when I checked it in log.txt it turned out there was a missing file, will this be fixed?

To be honest NTR game without VA always miss, and this one is not a exception. Why making a RPG maker type game if you don't use the mechanic of the engine ? Overall the game make me feel nothing, the MC doesn't work at selfinsert because he never question anything or confront her.

Its a 2/5 game at best.

Not as cleanly made as the first one but im still very glad it exists. Some routes were definitely far better than others, and the gatcha mechanic to unlock sakis content felt like unnecessary bloat. However all the actusly scenes were amazing NTR content and I legitimately felt glad to complete it.

CG is great, other than that.....

There is no gameplay here,all you do is spam T to pass time and watch the remaining CG.

The worst thing of all : THERE IS STILL NO SEX SCENE CG FOR NON-NTR ROUTE!!!!

This is not a sequel, for me its just a small DLC or add on on the base game.

4 years for this? what are the devs doing?

Finally got around playing it! Took a while to refresh the thread and find the 1.08 patched up with the translation! (Thanks for all the contributing parties, Dazed MTL implementations, auto patching and everything)

Been an anticipated release (pun not intended) and has been quite the while since I've tried its demo.

Initially found it being received poorly , I did a couple fast plays as of now, with a no mobile battery hack (Haven't finished all endings at point of review) and had a built in anticipation for more Saki related content.
(Have developed an unhealthy obsession for her )

While the game features an adequate amount, including her own controlled perspective and corruption gameplay, it doesn't feel adequate, the delivery is too fast and the breeding/pregnancy gameplay feels like a parody and unbelievable game-play lol. The variation of Clothes and scenes were great though, just not enough!

Over-all lacks the polish and slow-burn delivery that the original went for and is indeed a glorified CG viewer, it is ofcourse a DLC or a filler episode of the original, however doesn't justify the gap-time of about 4 years between the original's latest patch and this.

The CGs, ofcourse take a lot of time to polish and illustrate, i can understand. However, somehow they don't improve upon the original's scenes enough. SNS content and voice overs weren't too compelling to dig into, and the reading/screenshot material on the phone was boring.

I am greatly satisfied however, that this has a good end and did not attempt to corrupt that aspect of the original's story. However the corruption paths themselves were sufficiently adequate in the first, and feels like many aspects like the dagashi/candy store shopkeeper, the sadist rich brat, the classmate running the bathhouse store, and the Yasui route, and pretty much all the vagrants and ugly bastard routes really didn't hold much juicy scenes. The Yasui 'Blacked' route was almost too comedic to be taken as a corruption sequence, but the finale ending CG was pretty bland, I just liked the inclusion of Saki in the Yasui route but the ending was trash.

Oyama and Vagrant route could've had tons of interactions (more visible Oyama interactions could've been in the tea/rest house) and include saki-nee but it was left out.

Similarly candystore grandpa could've included Ryoka but it just elaborated on reanimating and slighting adjusting the original's scenes a bit, too inadequately. (I sound dastardly at this point for wanting more ugly bastard scenes LOL but that's what the genre is)
3*s for being inadequate (brings down the average from 3.5 -> 3 at point of review)

TL;DR- The CGs are overworked on to make them glossy or animated, but the whole experience, I found it lacking and not many scenes to relish, as the first game was adequate enough.

I've taken note that a lot of games being made have taken inspiration from SoS to make a SNS based corruption game on RPGM. Ochikano feels like a notable on

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Extra: on a side note, RJ314482 "MUCCHIMUCHI ~Busty Bumpkin's Bumpin' and Humpin'~" wasn't too diffrent of a game, but less of a "NTR" title and has ample amount of content!

Good conclusive dlc is what this game should have been not exactly a sequel but an extension of the ntr routes and a good conclusion of the happy true ending which is completed in this game as well, the story is excellent and the characters are very attachable exspecially the fmc, the playable mc is weak but not much can be expected from an ntr protogonist. All in all good cgs but not a sequel and people waiting 4 years for this and being disappointed is justified.
PLAY THIS GAME ONLY AFTER PLAYING SOS 1 OR IT WONT MAKE ANY SENSE YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED AND I MEAN EVERY ROUTE INCLUDING THE HAPPY TRUE ENDING

This dev and artist always puts out a really good story, and scenes, and different diverging plots and/or paths. The setting is always very well written and the games including this one are very polished.
However, the gameplay of the Scars of Summmer games has been jarring, this one is less so than the last one, but still not a great improvement.
This devs earlier works have had a more traditional type of gamplay, which i personally prefer, but the the direction they are taking with the type of gameplay for me is very annoying to play.
Like said before, art, story and scenes are always good from this dev, if you can get past the gameplay, or you enjoy this type of gamplay this game is a 5/5.

Honestly, the prequel one is better but this part is till good (about 8/10 to the prequel one). This part show how seriously the Studio working on it. I feel like they make this game is not because the money, they love their works. The game made by money deadline is finished when it's done, but to them, the game made by passion is finished when they feel it done <3 <3 <3 Thanks

Story: 8.5/10
Sound and music: 9/10
Art: 9/10 (I prefer the old 2D style than the animation one)

P/s: sorry for my bad English, but atleast you guy understand what i mean, right?

Scars of Summer Alright. That's pretty much what's there to say.
It's nothin too crazy or new... just additional scenes. Some of them next to the plot of the main game, some of them after,
Didn't catch me at all though.
Bit disappointing

Well playing this just give me a bad after taste. I can't really call this a stand alone game it's more like a DLC. The scenes are just have the same feeling as the first game. Since the first game already showed us that FMC got broken already. Maybe this game was going to amplify the MC's suffering. Like the MC tries everything to pull FMC back into him, just to end up failing.

I really thought this sequel was going to full on double down on the NTR. But it didn't which the reason why it leaves a bad after taste.

Great art and scenes, especially the Vagant route. This is just a 2.5/5 for me.

I think the previous game was better, in this one you select the route at the start and follow the rails to reach the conclusion of that story. The freedom the prequel had added to the voyeurism aspect that made Scars of Summers so popular in the first place.

That being said I still really enjoyed this game, having so much Saki content was what I wanted more of from the previous game. I think the secret end is worth working towards (completing every route).

Edit: Like the game itself recommends, play the previous one before this so that you have a little more context since the routes pick up at various points from the previous game

It's hard for me to give this one such a low rating given how much I liked the prequel, but it just feels inferior in alot of ways which sadly destroy the magic that the prequel has created.

The main takeaway that you have often read (which I fully agree with) is that choosing the routes at the start takes away from the immersion, makes the whole phone system kinda obsolete (since you can already kinda guess what happens) and turns everything into a linear story without any initiative, whereas in the first game that wasn't the case as you could choose and prevent who she went with and could even have her go at it with all of them at once.

What also strikes me as weird is that the "voyeurism" events are just straight up not as good as in the prequel. Take Oyamas route as an example, in the prequel you had CG's from the MC's perspective, many character dialogues, sounds etc. which in combination worked perfectly to create an anxious atmosphere. In this version, you merely have some sound indicating they are having sex, cannot interact with the room at all and the only thing you can do (besides the ending) is to watch the scene in the recollection (making the map, ambience and characters on the map entirely useless). This happens more often than not, and while in some scenes it may have been executed well, in most it just disappoints.

The art has definitely improved, but the animations feel "off". They are good and hand drawn, but don't fit in with the art style of the standing CG's (which also often changes (?) given the characters looking different, indicating that there must have been alot of time between the creations or some of them being straight up rushed). But some of the scenes definitely deserve praise, especially in the vagrant route.

In conclusion, as a standalone it's still better than most of the knockoff clones, but in comparison to the prequel (especially given it's development time) it threw all the gameplay out the window and just kinda disappoints me.

It's basically a DLC to the original game.

There's not a lot of scenes, not a lot of gameplay, and most everything feels like some kind of "Hey it's DLC, it was only 5-10 bucks!"

But it passes itself off like it wasn't.

Still, it's good enough compared to a lot of short games on its own, but if you played the 1st game it just feels like a lack luster rehash.

As a side note, if you really couldn't care less about the main heroine and wanted more of her sister, then this is especially worth a look, since she has a lot more going on in this one.