VN Ren'Py Completed School for the Friendless [v1.0] [Conor Hehr]

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Wait a minute, wasn't there a reference to this in Lessons of Love?
LiL dev here! There was not. These character sprites are royalty-free assets made by an artist and friend of mine, They're free to use for anyone and also appeared as the three heroines in a demo I published last year titled (Which is what I was calling back to in LiL).
 

nielsen145

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so either this is a really short game or i have no clue how to not get the bad ending all the time, with the Guy as roommate.
tried several different combi and all leads to that ending.
i dont care about the sexual content, as long the story is good
 
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Robotik

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I felt like giving this a try because I was in a sappy mood and figured a cute story about love and friendship between formerly friendless people sounded like just what I wanted, so I wasn't going to be like 90% of the people in this thread who insult it and refuse to give it a chance because of a lack of sexual content. Sadly, that's not to say I can speak positively about my experience.

it's not very good. It feels more like an outline for the premise of a visual novel than it does a finished product. Very limited sprites, no cgs, backgrounds just being generic blurry pictures, characters too flat to prevent me from focusing on the aforementioned backgrounds, backstory details that are brought in without having any weight on the narrative or characters, choices that are frequent but banal most of the time, a story that is incredibly rushed, lacking in any real conflict or events, and lacking in any details for what little does happen.

Can I say anything positive? There were a few moments of slight charm, though they were rare. The story wasn't offensive, just bland and empty. The premise I think has potential for a heartwarming story, having the characters being such social outcasts who find companionship with each other. It sadly just left me unfulfilled. I wanted to see more exploration of those characters, why they were incapable of making friends, how that affects them and those around them, how they interact when things actually happen, some kind of supporting cast, and a better explanation for the school they are in would be nice. The way the protagonist was described in that small exposition dump at the start, it sounded like he had finished school and had years of failures in finding work only to have his parents get annoyed and throw him into another school. How old is he? Was he a high school dropout? Is this supposed to be like a high school? University? Some kind of weird mental hospital they've shoved all the people they don't want to deal with into that's made to look like a school?

As I said, as a premise, I find it very intriguing, but the execution isn't good. This thing needs a lot of work to be made into something worth playing.
 

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Is it bad that i already got the worst ending 3 times?
so either this is a really short game or i have no clue how to not get the bad ending all the time, with the Guy as roommate.
tried several different combi and all leads to that ending.
i dont care about the sexual content, as long the story is good
Not sure if you 2 new to VNs (least of this type). But it VERY easy to get a route.... in this more so than many.
Literally just choose what personality you want and keep it same for EACH QUESTION (and the 3 should be obvious: ie mystery gals, mystery novels ...=scout fun, porn = perv gal and 3rd choice = kindergarten brain gal.) (4th option is a lie / boy unless there a secret harem end but highly doubt it).
 
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Not sure if you 2 new to VNs (least of this type). But it VERY easy to get a route.... in this more so than many.
Literally just choose what personality you want and keep it same for EACH QUESTION (and the 3 should be obvious: ie mystery gals, mystery novels ...=scout fun, porn = perv gal and 3rd choice = kindergarten brain gal.) (4th option is a lie / boy unless there a secret harem end but highly doubt it).
new to this kind of VN at least, anyways figured it out
 

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Is it possible to become partner with one of the girls? I kept getting the random dude no matter what i chose.
 
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nielsen145

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Is it possible to become partner with one of the girls? I kept getting the random dude no matter what i chose.
Yes it is, took me a while to figure it out
their is a Romance,Friend and Bad ending for each of them
 
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Alfre4u

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Is it possible to become partner with one of the girls? I kept getting the random dude no matter what i chose.
as I pointed out earlier just make every question always 1 of them and keep it that way for everything (this how these VNs work).
(idk if there a hidden harem but highly doubt it but some other vns can have choices unlock it or have like beat every route to unlock more which also I am 90% sure not in this one).
These Vns don't allow diverse personality on MC :) why do you think the meme is they always simple. (so be into porn n fun for 1 or mystery for Scout or 3rd option for other 1)
 
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ronan333

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I felt like giving this a try because I was in a sappy mood and figured a cute story about love and friendship between formerly friendless people sounded like just what I wanted, so I wasn't going to be like 90% of the people in this thread who insult it and refuse to give it a chance because of a lack of sexual content. Sadly, that's not to say I can speak positively about my experience.

it's not very good. It feels more like an outline for the premise of a visual novel than it does a finished product. Very limited sprites, no cgs, backgrounds just being generic blurry pictures, characters too flat to prevent me from focusing on the aforementioned backgrounds, backstory details that are brought in without having any weight on the narrative or characters, choices that are frequent but banal most of the time, a story that is incredibly rushed, lacking in any real conflict or events, and lacking in any details for what little does happen.

Can I say anything positive? There were a few moments of slight charm, though they were rare. The story wasn't offensive, just bland and empty. The premise I think has potential for a heartwarming story, having the characters being such social outcasts who find companionship with each other. It sadly just left me unfulfilled. I wanted to see more exploration of those characters, why they were incapable of making friends, how that affects them and those around them, how they interact when things actually happen, some kind of supporting cast, and a better explanation for the school they are in would be nice. The way the protagonist was described in that small exposition dump at the start, it sounded like he had finished school and had years of failures in finding work only to have his parents get annoyed and throw him into another school. How old is he? Was he a high school dropout? Is this supposed to be like a high school? University? Some kind of weird mental hospital they've shoved all the people they don't want to deal with into that's made to look like a school?

As I said, as a premise, I find it very intriguing, but the execution isn't good. This thing needs a lot of work to be made into something worth playing.
Thanks for the review, Robotik; it took a lot of effort to write that.
 
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ronan333

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The uploaders aren't confused. Sometimes a game exists that is definitely adult, with themes not meant for children, but does not have sexual content. This is not a porn game site, but an adult game site.
Adding to that some people do like a good story and writing as well.
Hope that answered your question:)
I thought about it, and I think that most of the contributors of negative comments are perfectly aware that No Sexual Content is a legitimate label and that many people enjoy just naughty games. It's like the opposite of those translation requests where people just post +1 to tally up the interest to get someone to take action. The negative comments, often done in a humorous way, are negative votes to keep those types of games from proliferating too rapidly and crowding out the sexual content we so crave.
Oh, and your explanation was a good one. :)
 
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DrFree

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I certainly scanned through the comments because they were funny.
On a side note, I checked this out thinking Selebus referenced this in Lessons in Love. Didn't expect the mystery would be solved right on the 2nd page of comments.
 

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I think I might just be the only person here not surprised at the "No sexual content" and it's all because I accidentally misread the title as "School for the Friendlies"
 

gfdgdg

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So has anyone gotten the True endings for the routes cause ive been trying to get Scouts True Ending, No Luck Doh :p
 

Karakura

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Went through all the routes and opened the files to take a look.
There's a Love, Friendship, and Bad end for all three characters. The questions on the first day adds points towards each character, and if you get a certain amount of points you get onto that characters route, otherwise you end up with some random guy.
Then for the remaining days, the choices either add "good" points, "bad" points or change nothing. Get enough good points and you get the love ending. Get enough bad points and you get the bad end. Otherwise you get the friendship ending.
Apart from the first day the choices are pretty obvious, though there is a manual in the game files that contains a walkthrough.
 
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