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dolfe67

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Another aspect to this perspective is that what the player and MC experience are different, so the player formulates different reactions than MC, leading to many "WTF?" comments. MC has this back history with Mia which is slowly being revealed which informs why he is the way he is around her though there are huge missing pieces (did they have a fight? did MC have a total blackout and not remember anything that happened with her after the party so she's in hate/love with him?). The other side of this is that the player sees things that MC does not, Mia's sidelong looks (at the pickup location, on the stairs, the couch and watching MC hanging out at the pool), her sulking on the stairs (if you didn't leave the pool earlier), etc. which leads the player to formulate an opinion of Mia that the MC can't add in to his experience. So yeah, some people think she's psycho creepy and others think she's pining away.
It's the "childhood friendship becoming love" trope. Some people don't like that, especially in a non-harem game. But it has its fans. And Mia's fucking hot imo
 

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It's the "childhood friendship becoming love" trope. Some people don't like that, especially in a non-harem game. But it has its fans. And Mia's fucking hot imo
If Sophie wasn't there then Mia would be my go-to, so nothing against her. I think that if we (as players) didn't see how sulky and petulant she is that more people would elevate Mia as an LI. We don't get that perspective on the other girls as much which might taint some people's opinion. If we saw Sophie writing in a notebook "I hate that bitch Eve and hope she dies" with lots of different drawings of ways Eve is getting horribly killed then I would drop her down at least one notch (because, damn that body and those eyes make up for a hell of a lot!).
 
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maybe its just me, but the devs just had major backlash because of a lackluster update, and the main plot not really going anywhere, so I'm wondering who on their team decided that the dress-up feature should take priority over actually moving the game along.
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i hear you brother but i think that's more of a kneejerk reaction on our part. I don't believe for an instance that Northpx is just blissfully unaware of the current consensus of their community. Its more of a side thing that they are interested in working on while delivering what the general expectation is. Hopefully opening new opportunities for future content while not burning their passion out.

Did anyone ask for it? Definitely not but I doubt its actually screwing with their goals for some real story and scene progression. Now if we get TOASTERGATE 2.0 then you're right and my entire existence is put into question.
 
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Hmmm i don't thing that's what it is tho. Seems more like a photo mode where you can't fit and pose the girls, in the menu or something (like a characters/models viewer in some games). I don't think it's gonna impact the game what so ever.
I really hope that is the case.

Having a customized gallery (i.e. "clothing simulator") as a means to view the renders they've already made via their Patreon clothing polls is a lot more palatable than an "app" that allows the player to choose what clothes the LIs wear in-game. I still think it's unnecessary eye-candy, but it wouldn't severely impact development time once set up.

In my rush to judgement, I interpreted the original posts on here as the greater of the two evils.
 
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JJ1960

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I really hope that is the case.

Having a customized gallery (i.e. "clothing simulator") as a means to view the renders they've already made via their Patreon clothing polls is a lot more palatable than an "app" that allows the player to choose what clothes the LIs wear in-game. I still think it's unnecessary eye-candy, but it wouldn't severely impact development time once set up.

In my rush to judgement, I interpreted the original posts on here as the greater of the two evils.
Changing what the girls wear in the story/game based on a user menu would require an astronomical number of parallel renders for every clothing combination, so I think this is more of a "paper doll" app where you can pick. Most likely the renders are clothing tests they have already done (like the poll samples that they put out for voting) so will create little or no backlog in the graphics output that might delay the actual game-required renders. Also the code portion may have been a side task they can accomplish waiting on renders to complete and be plugged into the storyline for testing and fixing, so isn't stealing time from main progress. if they are leveraging an existing gallery function with some minor customization the development effort would be minimal.
 
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Changing what the girls wear in the story/game based on a user menu would require an astronomical number of parallel renders for every clothing combination, so I think this is more of a "paper doll" app where you can pick. Most likely the renders are clothing tests they have already done (like the poll samples that they put out for voting) so will create little or no backlog in the graphics output that might delay the actual game-required renders. Also the code portion may have been a side task they can accomplish waiting on renders to complete and be plugged into the storyline for testing and fixing, so isn't stealing time from main progress. if they are leveraging an existing gallery function with some minor customization the development effort would be minimal.
Yeah, i feel like it's more along the lines of opening the girls profiles on the laptop and you can see all their information. Then you can change their shown profile picture with this dress-up...thing...they have planned.
 

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I originally played this at 0.3 and decided to check back in when it was more "substantial." Have we hit "substantial" yet?
 

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Just downloaded this yesterday and it really drew me in

Is the last update really

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Seems like it ended so abruptly.
That's right, the last scene is with Eve in the haunted school, I don't know if you noticed but when you are outside the building you can see a "ghost" woman in the highest window on the right.
 

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Edit: Updated for 0.6.1


I've made a walkthrough/gallery unlocker for this game

Features:
  • Adds hints to dialogue options
  • Added 1 scene to scene replay
  • Added a "Unlock all" button to the gallery
Download: MEGA PIXELDRAIN

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I really like that game and just got episode 6.0 . There are some older versions of the game on my computer and I wonder if I could delete them all to save space. Will the game run alright with episode 6.0 only. PS: I have the same problem with some other games.
 

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I really like that game and just got episode 6.0 . There are some older versions of the game on my computer and I wonder if I could delete them all to save space. Will the game run alright with episode 6.0 only. PS: I have the same problem with some other games.
Yep. You can delete each previous version. The only time you might want to keep one is when the game actually splits, usually because it gets too big to keep all the episodes (or whatever each dev wants to call them) in one "file".

So long as you keep your save and persistent files (especially the backups in your appdata folder), you can delete the whole thing if you really want to, and just download the full game again when the next update comes out.
 

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We've been working on a new feature for the in-game laptop that'll allow you to dress the characters and design your own outfits. It's a dress-up simulator! Right now it only includes the main girls but we might choose to add some side girls too.
The dress-up simulator has potential to expand a lot with multiple poses and clothing options in the future, but for starters we're focusing on the clothes already in the game. Ever wondered what Sophie would look like in a red bikini? Well, now you can find out!
First time checking since the utter disappointment of 0.6 and this is the first thing I see. This must surely be a joke right??
Or is this a highly demanded feature?
Very confuzed..
 
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