Ren'Py Straitened Times [v0.66] [HRelease]

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SlumberingNaM

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I tried, i really tried to play the game. Unfortunately for me, playing this game is now synonyms to "waiting for a more diligent player who manage to complete the game to share their saves". Which is really sad cause honestly the plot and setting itself isn't that bad. And it wasn't even the grind (the cheat is enough to mitigate it).

Imo, What hinder this game is really the lack of coherent objectives. Like you could be playing the game for a whole while now thinking your making a dent to the content when in reality your barely scratching it but you have no clear way of knowing how much progress you have and if you have already completed it. The UI isn't even helpful at all. It at most provide the most minimum information and hints possible like giving a vague to do list and hints that are summed up with a "maybe more naughty events" like that's supposed to help. Heck even the gallery dont have blank pictures to indicate what scenes you could unlock but instead given a blank page that just records everything you saw without knowing if the recorded scenes are all of it or not.

Sigh...

I'm grateful for the Save file but at the same time find it such a shame that i have no clue how the scenario made it to those sexy scenes. I really wanna see it for myself but at the same time after doing victoria party again and again without any real progress. I honestly don't feel like continuing the game. so unless the developer or a kind hearted modder took time to make a coherent pathways for each girls. I'm only probably touching the game for saves.

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Don't wanna make this a review cause for all the flaws this game has. some sex scenes are pretty nice and (barely) satisfying to unlock.
 
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SlumberingNaM said:
I tried, i really tried to play the game. Unfortunately for me, playing this game is now synonyms to "waiting for a more diligent player who manage to complete the game to share their saves". Which is really sad cause honestly the plot and setting itself isn't that bad. And it wasn't even the grind (the cheat is enough to mitigate it).

Imo, What hinder this game is really the lack of coherent objectives. Like you could be playing the game for a whole while now thinking your making a dent to the content when in reality your barely scratching it but you have no clear way of knowing how much progress you have and if you have already completed it. The UI isn't even helpful at all. It at most provide the most minimum information and hints possible like giving a vague to do list and hints that are summed up with a "maybe more naughty events" like that's supposed to help. Heck even the gallery dont have blank pictures to indicate what scenes you could unlock but instead given a blank page that just records everything you saw without knowing if the recorded scenes are all of it or not.

Sigh...

I'm grateful for the Save file but at the same time find it such a shame that i have no clue how the scenario made it to those sexy scenes. I really wanna see it for myself but at the same time after doing victoria party again and again without any real progress. I honestly don't feel like continuing the game. so unless the developer or a kind hearted modder took time to make a coherent pathways for each girls. I'm only probably touching the game for saves.

P.s
Don't wanna make this a review cause for all the flaws this game has. some sex scenes are pretty nice and (barely) satisfying to unlock.
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Exactly the developer should work on this because the game so confusing
 
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Death3248

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Exactly the developer should work on this because the game so confusing
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I don't know about that. I just downloaded the game after I missed I think 3 or 4 updates so far it good but I just started to play it trying to get the mc jack off when lisa/mom walks in on him on day 1.... I have the cheat mod also.
 
FlamesOfVengeance

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The only really difficult thing on how to progres is someone looking up the character interactions chart and not being able to read and understand it.

Does the game have you doing repetitive things? Yes. Is is grindy and events sometimes conflict with the timing or large numbers of events on some days/times and fgew on others? Yes.

Look at the interaction log for the characters, it will tell you what still has "juice" left to change their relations. And last I played there were 2 main stats, one is the corruption and the other is the relationship between the two people. It's a number and it goes up when some things are done, it's NOT the conflict bar with who's the roommate thing that looks like a triangle.

If you're stuck then STOP REPEATING THER SAME ACTIONS and try something new. There are places in the game that twll you what can still boost relationship and/or corruption and what doesn't.
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The funny thing is that sometimes you actually have to do the same event over and over again before it finally progresses to the next stage so it can be kinda confusing as to what the game actually wants from you. I really wanna progress with Mom but as I said, I'm just stuck currently and I have no idea what to do now. So I thought maybe I have to progress with some of the other characters first (which is something I hate in sandbox games, I just wanna focus on my favourites) but so far I didn't have any luck.
 
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FlamesOfVengeance said:
The funny thing is that sometimes you actually have to do the same event over and over again before it finally progresses to the next stage so it can be kinda confusing as to what the game actually wants from you. I really wanna progress with Mom but as I said, I'm just stuck currently and I have no idea what to do now. So I thought maybe I have to progress with some of the other characters first (which is something I hate in sandbox games, I just wanna focus on my favourites) but so far I didn't have any luck.
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What stage are you at with Lisa/mom? Some times you do have some triggers you have to do to progress. Like have you been doing the appointments with the counselor? Have you progressed with the other characters at all?

Sometimes you have to progress with other characters a little to unlock something else, but depending on where you are with Lisa that can change a LOT. The biggest thing I can think of with her is all the counselling sessions and keeping the grades up. That and generally building the corruption and relationship with her. I think you may also have to get her to not share your room to progress some events.
 
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What stage are you at with Lisa/mom? Some times you do have some triggers you have to do to progress. Like have you been doing the appointments with the counselor? Have you progressed with the other characters at all?

Sometimes you have to progress with other characters a little to unlock something else, but depending on where you are with Lisa that can change a LOT. The biggest thing I can think of with her is all the counselling sessions and keeping the grades up. That and generally building the corruption and relationship with her. I think you may also have to get her to not share your room to progress some events.
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Yea I've been doing the therapy appointments with her. I've also put Lisa together with Lily because I tried getting that event where you all sleep together and you can fool around with Lisa but so far she only ever got angry and stopped me when I did that. I think I'll just have to progress some more with the others. Maybe something will come up. With Lily I've come so far that we can have actual sex now so I guess that ain't too bad but I'm not that far with Jill yet. I've also maxed out Kate, the aunt so I dunno.
 
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you have the right idea, but this is a corruption game. you have to get them both to a a sluttier state before you join them. how you have your rooms matters too, some events are locked behind who you're sleeping together with in the motel.
 
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The ruud said:
How to get Darna (motel manager) in sleeping together?
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she shows up one day with enough progress in your room i think, and then after that at 21h you can give her some alcohol to hang out with your mom at 22h
 
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The dev has been fantastic is quality and consistency, but if you miss and update or two then you really are lost due to the grind.

I think I've restarted this game a few times and always burn out, then its hard to get back into. Gonna give it a while longer and probably restart again at some point. I have to agree with others that it would have made for a much better VN than sandbox type game. Cut out so much of the pointless stuff.
 
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Anyone got a save up to the newest update? played this a while back love the content but the grind can suck one.
 
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Code: 
I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While running game code:
  File "game/ch_FGran.rpy", line 857, in <module>
KeyError: u'HusbandGrope'

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "script.rpyc", line 6, in script call
  File "GameData.rpyc", line 835, in script call
  File "ch_FGran.rpyc", line 856, in script
  File "renpy/ast.py", line 2133, in execute
    if renpy.python.py_eval(condition):
  File "renpy/python.py", line 1153, in py_eval
    return py_eval_bytecode(code, globals, locals)
  File "renpy/python.py", line 1146, in py_eval_bytecode
    return eval(bytecode, globals, locals)
  File "game/ch_FGran.rpy", line 857, in <module>
KeyError: u'HusbandGrope'

Windows-10-10.0.19041 AMD64
Ren'Py 7.6.3.23091805
Straitened Times 0.45.1
Wed Dec 20 00:31:38 2023
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snsimwak

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Lost my save after building a new pc. can anyone donate their save file please? I do not want to start from the beginning. Thanks in advance o7
 
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