VN Ren'Py Summer's Gone [S1 Steam + DLC] [Oceanlab]

[Nachtvogel]

This game is probably the game i enjoy the most on this side. 10/10.
I wanted to get this out of the way before i criticize it.
Because there are some things that are a bit disapointing.

1) I like the MC, but he is sometimes rather inconsistent in his actions.
He is being portrayed with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. But for some reason there are moments where those things just fly out of the window for some reason.

The best example is the book club in the new update.
His reasoning for going there makes no sence to me. A person with social anxiety and no interest in books (atleast at the moment) would never go to a club where there are a bunch of strangers, just to annoy his "mom"(forgot her name). And not only that, he even starts to charm his way through all the milfs, like a fcking Bard from DnD.
The Dev tried to justify this with a panic attack at the end, but that just appears like a poor excuse for an action that does not fit the character to begin with.

I think this whole bookclub scene was just an excuse to add a bunch of milfs to the game and expose the MC to the mistery of "mom" and Amber knowing each other already.

2) I have absolutely no idea who is a potential love interest and who is a "side" character.
As much as i love to have a lot of great characters, but there are just too many of them here.
If this would be a harem game, ok, but this is clearly not the case.
Especially if we consider that the first team of the girls has not even been introduced yet.

Sometimes less is more. I think the Dev is blowing this game a bit out of proportion.

3) The lack of sex does not bother me. One of the reason why i like the MC, is because he doesnt act like a horny 14-year-old everytime there is a girl on screen like in 98% of the games on this side.

But he is also an idiot in this update.
He knows that Bella wants him, but he cant get it up because of a mental block.
But doesnt he still have healthy hands and a mouth? Like i know he is a virgin and inexperienced, but atleast some light petting would have been a great addition i think. But nothing?

Thats enough criticism for now.

Like i said. Great game overall, cant wait to see more.

 

[Ottoeight]

MC/Nami pay for pizza:
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Later the MC forgets he's 4 large pizza's light on the wallet:
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:/

I don't know anyone while in uni that forgot a pizza debt...ever

Just wondering... since you looked into the code:

in my gameplay Nika doesn't meet Bella at midnight and doesn't trash the Holgersons' house. Therefore Mila tells him that her parents took her money. BUT in chapter 5 when Bella talks to him that Holgerson wants to meet her, she tells that they reported Mila for the robbery and she fears that Mila might report her (about what? how could Mila know about her?).
Is this a code bug?
(I restarted my gameplay from scratch and I didn't install any mod)

 

[noctarima]

Yeah, there's so much packed into the book club segment [at least for the I-Came-Here-For-The-Story Players rather than the My-Love-Salami-Aches-For-A-Good-Tug Players], that it kinda needs a couple of playthroughs to digest.

Story is a bigger part for me too(Out of my 6 top AVN's, half of them still has no actual "love-salami" scenes with their LI's). But it doesn't take a genius to guess what our batman-ryan gosling-autistic-giga chad MC thinks and does in a room filled with old rich horny mifs. In my first playthrough I was just interested in bella-nami-mila more. But if I didn't play it a second time I never would've learned noji hides a lot of shit I'll give you that. I didn't entirely skip the book club section but I basically spammed the space key most of the time.

MC being this i-can-manipulate-any-social-situtation type moody emo guy is interesting and entertaining for the most part, but tbh I find it kinda cringe in scenes where this is the sole focus. I much rather see him interact with the characters I actually care about. Of course, that's just my preference.

 

[hunterashton21]

Did the Vic pussy shots and boob play get removed

 

[PaxHadrian17]

Terrific update. Ocean continues to be the best in the business. I do, however, hate that it ruins all other games for me for about a week or so.

You are a better man than I am, it takes me weeks and I have to go back and replay various scenes multiple times just to ease my sense of 'Damn - Great update but now what...'

I turn to AVNs that are Very different in renders and story so I don't feel like I am watching a poor placeholder for Summers Gone. I find post apocalyptic AVNs are a good 'palate' cleaner... The good ones are gritty and remind me about 3rd world problems - food, water and shelter, versus first world problems - who is a virgin and how can I build my harem ...

Nothing like trying to treat a pretty woman as an LI when you find out at game over that she saw you as her FI (Food Interest) - she's a cannibal...

Cheers!!

 

[Mr_Mister]

Why do white mice command brown ones? on top of that Oceanlab is from Germany... oh shit
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i don't know ...but those mices reminded of something huh! , i wonder what it could be ..............

1 September 1939 ......... anyone?

 

[soprano31]

Did the Vic pussy shots and boob play get removed

 

[GameMinion]

Just wondering... since you looked into the code:

in my gameplay Nika doesn't meet Bella at midnight and doesn't trash the Holgersons' house. Therefore Mila tells him that her parents took her money. BUT in chapter 5 when Bella talks to him that Holgerson wants to meet her, she tells that they reported Mila for the robbery and she fears that Mila might report her (about what? how could Mila know about her?).
Is this a code bug?
(I restarted my gameplay from scratch and I didn't install any mod)

Yeah, that's the sort of stuff I've experienced with this release. It's made question if this is pirate finding release

 

[Nurikabe]

I waited years for all the remakes.

Opening scene audio is still shit.
Nami still has small breasts.
MC no longer is The Joker.

Wow

You take that shit back right now! Nami's breasts are perfect!

In a game where every chick has HUGE FUCKING tits, it is really refreshing to see someone with simply beautiful tits. Look at the tits and thighs on Mila. That chick is going to XXXL before she reaches the second semester of her freshman year. Youth doesn't last, Gravity always wins. And the freshman 15 is no joke.

This game is probably the game i enjoy the most on this side. 10/10.
I wanted to get this out of the way before i criticize it.
Because there are some things that are a bit disapointing.

1) I like the MC, but he is sometimes rather inconsistent in his actions.
He is being portrayed with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. But for some reason there are moments where those things just fly out of the window for some reason.

The best example is the book club in the new update.
His reasoning for going there makes no sence to me. A person with social anxiety and no interest in books (atleast at the moment) would never go to a club where there are a bunch of strangers, just to annoy his "mom"(forgot her name). And not only that, he even starts to charm his way through all the milfs, like a fcking Bard from DnD.
The Dev tried to justify this with a panic attack at the end, but that just appears like a poor excuse for an action that does not fit the character to begin with.

I think this whole bookclub scene was just an excuse to add a bunch of milfs to the game and expose the MC to the mistery of "mom" and Amber knowing each other already.

2) I have absolutely no idea who is a potential love interest and who is a "side" character.
As much as i love to have a lot of great characters, but there are just too many of them here.
If this would be a harem game, ok, but this is clearly not the case.
Especially if we consider that the first team of the girls has not even been introduced yet.

Sometimes less is more. I think the Dev is blowing this game a bit out of proportion.

3) The lack of sex does not bother me. One of the reason why i like the MC, is because he doesnt act like a horny 14-year-old everytime there is a girl on screen like in 98% of the games on this side.

But he is also an idiot in this update.
He knows that Bella wants him, but he cant get it up because of a mental block.
But doesnt he still have healthy hands and a mouth? Like i know he is a virgin and inexperienced, but atleast some light petting would have been a great addition i think. But nothing?

Thats enough criticism for now.

Like i said. Great game overall, cant wait to see more.

I like the MC for many of the same reasons. That he is not a horny, screwing everything that walks dick is great! That on-off behavior is typical of people with anxiety and other social disorders, as well as PTSD and complex grief. And him not getting into it with Bella was ridiculous. He gave Nami in the hot tub and lakeside, and Vic at the sleepover more affection than he shows Bella who is dry humping him. He obviously has something for Bella, and she him. Outside of the big kiss scenes, that should've gone further without going to the "something's wrong with my peepee," were it not for the trying to keep a PG rating on Steam.

 

[Doomyk]

With how strongly Bella is against motorcycles, it might be assumed that this is related to her sister's coma.

 

[Enola Gay]

This game is probably the game i enjoy the most on this side. 10/10.
I wanted to get this out of the way before i criticize it.
Because there are some things that are a bit disapointing.

1) I like the MC, but he is sometimes rather inconsistent in his actions.
He is being portrayed with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. But for some reason there are moments where those things just fly out of the window for some reason.

The best example is the book club in the new update.
His reasoning for going there makes no sence to me. A person with social anxiety and no interest in books (atleast at the moment) would never go to a club where there are a bunch of strangers, just to annoy his "mom"(forgot her name). And not only that, he even starts to charm his way through all the milfs, like a fcking Bard from DnD.
The Dev tried to justify this with a panic attack at the end, but that just appears like a poor excuse for an action that does not fit the character to begin with.

I think this whole bookclub scene was just an excuse to add a bunch of milfs to the game and expose the MC to the mistery of "mom" and Amber knowing each other already.

2) I have absolutely no idea who is a potential love interest and who is a "side" character.
As much as i love to have a lot of great characters, but there are just too many of them here.
If this would be a harem game, ok, but this is clearly not the case.
Especially if we consider that the first team of the girls has not even been introduced yet.

Sometimes less is more. I think the Dev is blowing this game a bit out of proportion.

3) The lack of sex does not bother me. One of the reason why i like the MC, is because he doesnt act like a horny 14-year-old everytime there is a girl on screen like in 98% of the games on this side.

But he is also an idiot in this update.
He knows that Bella wants him, but he cant get it up because of a mental block.
But doesnt he still have healthy hands and a mouth? Like i know he is a virgin and inexperienced, but atleast some light petting would have been a great addition i think. But nothing?

Thats enough criticism for now.

Like i said. Great game overall, cant wait to see more.

Well written, I was considering writing same opinion as yours, but now there is no need.

Still, it's my favorite VN, but those flaws really upsets me.

 

[Ottoeight]

Yeah, that's the sort of stuff I've experienced with this release. It's made question if this is pirate finding release

I have no idea of what you mean by that.

 

[Cazzo_duro]

No it doesn't, it's just a plain text file with a rpy extension. False positive, get a better antivirus?

The antivirus is Microsoft Defender Antivirus, one of the best for Windows PCs. So, I take its warnings very seriously. The virus could be embedded in the zip folder released by lewdpatcher together with the lecit rpy files.
Can anyone post only the rpy text file here, so we can avoid to download it from external websites?

 

[yossa999]

1) I like the MC, but he is sometimes rather inconsistent in his actions.
He is being portrayed with depression, anxiety and panic attacks. But for some reason there are moments where those things just fly out of the window for some reason.

The best example is the book club in the new update.
His reasoning for going there makes no sence to me. A person with social anxiety and no interest in books (atleast at the moment) would never go to a club where there are a bunch of strangers, just to annoy his "mom"(forgot her name). And not only that, he even starts to charm his way through all the milfs, like a fcking Bard from DnD.
The Dev tried to justify this with a panic attack at the end, but that just appears like a poor excuse for an action that does not fit the character to begin with.

I think this whole bookclub scene was just an excuse to add a bunch of milfs to the game and expose the MC to the mistery of "mom" and Amber knowing each other already.

But this thing has been addressed many times in the game. The MC constantly pushes himself out of his comfort zone, he believes that this will help him to heal and become sociable. Even Nami was worried about this and warned him not to overdo it. Just recall their conversation at the lake, and later at Nick's, where he challenged Zara to a tennis duel.
So he struggles with his social anxiety, and being around people is one way to do that.

Another funny example, a movie night with Vic and Mila, when the girls started talking about their breasts and ended up talking about the vaginas. And Nami looked at Nika with suspicion, accusing him of not complaining about the topic. He replied that one way to get out of his comfort zone is to listen to this awkward conversation And Nami baited him to the book club, she emphasized that Noji didn't want Nika there and piqued his curiosity.

But he clearly overdid it with socialization, after several years of loneliness and depression, he jumped too quickly into social activities, made many new acquaintances and took part in too many events. Hence the increase in the number of panic attacks and their intensity, putting aside the fact that he did not work through the underlying psychological trauma with Amber.

 

[hunterashton21]

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I meant the boob teasing animation that happens if you decide to walk with Victoria. Is that still there

 

[soprano31]

I meant the boob teasing animation that happens if you decide to walk with Victoria. Is that still there

yes,teasing without seeing anything ..

 

[John972]

Story is a bigger part for me too(Out of my 6 top AVN's, half of them still has no actual "love-salami" scenes with their LI's). But it doesn't take a genius to guess what our batman-ryan gosling-autistic-giga chad MC thinks and does in a room filled with old rich horny mifs. In my first playthrough I was just interested in bella-nami-mila more. But if I didn't play it a second time I never would've learned noji hides a lot of shit I'll give you that. I didn't entirely skip the book club section but I basically spammed the space key most of the time.

MC being this i-can-manipulate-any-social-situtation type moody emo guy is interesting and entertaining for the most part, but tbh I find it kinda cringe in scenes where this is the sole focus. I much rather see him interact with the characters I actually care about. Of course, that's just my preference.

Yeah, I am the same. There's enough out-and-out sex-fest games on here that I don't mind the odd good-quality slow burn as well.

While, I didn't skip the book club, I realized I'd have to replay the scene and pay more attention story-wise (because Ocean's such a tease).

I am still trying to work out if Ocean slyly made the Panda and the Butterfly book and the book club discussion about it analogous to Summer's Gone and its fandom...

 

[PaxHadrian17]

I have a feeling that Zara's never had a serious relationship. Her constant training and participation in multiple sports teams monopolizes her time, and any guy who has been interested in her is probably put off by having to compete with her sports obsessions for her time as well as being intimidated by a girl who is in far better shape than he is. Nika is so into himself that nobody intimidates him and he's physically fit and competitive, all which catch Zara's attention. He's probably the first guy who she hasn't scared off, plus he reaches out to her asking for her help which reveals a vulnerability she finds endearing since everyone else sees her as threat if she's a potential competitor or standoffish in other circumstances if they don't share her passions. She is becoming a favorite girl of mine.

While I am a Bella first guy, Zara has grown to be my second favorite LI.

Ocean intertwines the paths of different LIs with information about other women that the MC may/may not become involved with. Regardless of whether or not I am interested in pursuing an LI (I like Nia, for example, but I won't pursue her as an LI), insights into other people are critical to understanding who they are today and Why they are the way they are today (like learning that Nia and Summer were good friends and that Summer's disappearance hurt Nia badly).

I adored the MC and Bella laying down to sleep together in his bed - it felt right. There was a quiet intimacy that required no sex to make it special. One of the added bonus parts of that scene was when Bella shared stories about Zara when she was little. The emotional and physical abuse that Zara endured at the hands of the egg donor, her mother who was Supposed to protect her, was a gut punch for me. The only other scene that hit me worse was the flashback of Bella being bullied by Melanie Ceril.

This insight made the following scene when the MC and Zara were playing BB with another couple much more powerful and made me feel like: GD Ocean - you are killing me here.

Spoiler: Zara Is a Gem

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Cheers!!

 

[DrakaF]

Lmao and Mila still acts dumb and asks Nami how big his ding dong is in Ch3.5

Dev should put a towel around his waist and the question is more relevant again.
Now it looks like a 'bug' in the story.

 

[PaxHadrian17]

I'm going by the dates on my saves and I tend to skip half-chapter updates like the last one was (4.5). Also simple math: first release was May 2019. 5 chapters/53 months = 10.6 month average.

I understand your point, if you don't count every non integer release, but that is one of those 'minor' points that is worth including in a post, so people don't misunderstand.

It would be like saying GOT took way too many years between releases without mentioning that you only count odd numbered season releases.

Just saying.

Cheers!!