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

[Mark Valmont]

Maja and Sasha character development is a little weird, i always say that i will keep an eye on Vic and accept to carry her burden with her, Maja in the beginning seems grateful and more open offering the MC help, then after the night in Vic house in the morning she starts all bitchy again like nothing happened before.
Sasha is the same, after the class where she helps MC with exercises and i save her from a basketball in the head she even smiles and stuff, then in the book meeting she s all bitchy too, like the MC is some kind of criminal, i assume at some point Sasha was attacked by a man and injured in the face, that s why she despises men, but she already knows the MC, and at least in my playtroughs i always have good interactions with her, i even forgive Robin and she seems all happy.
These two are weird.

 

[KekWGgWP]

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Now that i noticed, why is Sasha there? it makes sense for Nami because she is a pervert but why Sasha from all other girls?

 

[lonelyk]

Amazing model omg !
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She was actually meant to be the redesigned model of William's aunt Scarlet in WIAB, but Ocean went back on it after hearing feedback that the age was a mismatch and discarded this model... to use it in SG instead

 

[yossa999]

Maja and Sasha character development is a little weird, i always say that i will keep an eye on Vic and accept to carry her burden with her, Maja in the beginning seems grateful and more open offering the MC help, then after the night in Vic house in the morning she starts all bitchy again like nothing happened before.
Sasha is the same, after the class where she helps MC with exercises and i save her from a basketball in the head she even smiles and stuff, then in the book meeting she s all bitchy too, like the MC is some kind of criminal, i assume at some point Sasha was attacked by a man and injured in the face, that s why she despises men, but she already knows the MC, and at least in my playtroughs i always have good interactions with her, i even forgive Robin and she seems all happy.
These two are weird.

As for Maja, it seems to me that she is clearly pretending, acting as if she is angry and annoyed, but then a smile slips through her lips. It's just an act, and I'm not entirely sure she's not flirting, like, "I'm so mad at you, come on, make an effort to get me to forgive you."
And, I guess, she's probably also playing a little bit of being the only adult in the room among the kids, like, "I left you guys here alone at night, and look what you did without my supervision."

 

[Doomyk]

Maja and Sasha character development is a little weird, i always say that i will keep an eye on Vic and accept to carry her burden with her, Maja in the beginning seems grateful and more open offering the MC help, then after the night in Vic house in the morning she starts all bitchy again like nothing happened before.
Sasha is the same, after the class where she helps MC with exercises and i save her from a basketball in the head she even smiles and stuff, then in the book meeting she s all bitchy too, like the MC is some kind of criminal, i assume at some point Sasha was attacked by a man and injured in the face, that s why she despises men, but she already knows the MC, and at least in my playtroughs i always have good interactions with her, i even forgive Robin and she seems all happy.
These two are weird.

It seems that Maya has always been like this. That’s why I didn’t like her from the very beginning. This attitude towards the mc seems like she is doing a huge favor and honor to accompany Victoria, although there are 100 princes waiting in line.

 

[PaxHadrian17]

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Man, I remember how hard it was to get this 'Secret' image.

The cheat code was...

let me think


oh yeah - starting the game.

Damn... Ocean makes this SO hard on us...

Thanks for sharing the 'secret' image!

Cheers!!

 

[PaxHadrian17]

Did Ocean hint about anything related focus-wise for chapter 6? I hope he maintans that focus on multiple characters through the future
This chapter handled it really well while not feeling rushed or anything

We have the sparring/training session with Ayua coming up.

With the move to Nick's house, some Zara time and (if the MC is on the Bella path) perhaps Bella comes by/Bella invites him to come over for food after the sparring match.

I could also see Ayua being invited for food later since she is Bella's bestie and Bella will likely want to ensure Ayua and the MC are getting along (since Bella bailed on Ayua to return early and see the MC).

If we have time at Bella's home - this also opens up including Amber in the meal. Side conversations would make sense (for example - book club and/or panic attacks are coming more frequently - prompting Amber to push for the cabin visit sooner than she might have once intended) if/when Ayua pulls Bella aside for a chat.

I don't recall if there is training on Sunday night (I have not gone back check) but since the MC missed training due to the move, he could have an evening training session as well.

Much of the above is speculation on my part but the move to Nick's opens up Many new possibilities.

Cheers!!

 

[Lurcher1]

We have the sparring/training session with Ayua coming up.

With the move to Nick's house, some Zara time and (if the MC is on the Bella path) perhaps Bella comes by/Bella invites him to come over for food after the sparring match.

I could also see Ayua being invited for food later since she is Bella's bestie and Bella will likely want to ensure Ayua and the MC are getting along (since Bella bailed on Ayua to return early and see the MC).

If we have time at Bella's home - this also opens up including Amber in the meal. Side conversations would make sense (for example - book club and/or panic attacks are coming more frequently - prompting Amber to push for the cabin visit sooner than she might have once intended) if/when Ayua pulls Bella aside for a chat.

I don't recall if there is training on Sunday night (I have not gone back check) but since the MC missed training due to the move, he could have an evening training session as well.

Much of the above is speculation on my part but the move to Nick's opens up Many new possibilities.

Cheers!!

No basketball training on Sunday's, so that's off. The Monday bar opening will probably be one of the big events for the Season and will probably involved a lot of choices as you start to cement certain playthroughs. Who know's, Ocean may do a mini Sandbox type event where you choose your order of interactions, but you only have a limited time to do it

Finally, at some point, there's the Aurora sign up to happen which may be a bigger event than expected. You'll have Nia follow him, a well known Camgirl. A bunch of big names from ZPR will follow him and, probably to a lot of people's surprise, Elsa will follow him leaving his friends scratching heads...

One thing I do hope happens is that Ocean starts stretching the time in which things happen. At the moment, we're pretty much in the first 1-2 weeks. I hope he begins to start expanding things so they happen over the course of the year where we, the player, get's show cruicial moments and decisions with the general minutae of life fading into the background.

 

[Meushi]

There's an error in the incest patch, it's missing some renders on some line if you don't kiss Bella and you only kiss Nami, hope in can be fixed:

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is anyone else having errors during the txt conversations and when at the start of chapter 5 content on a non bella route?

either my game is corrupted or its the chap5 beta content patch I suppose.

Do you know how to get around this?

Or is this path not in the BETA version?
Kinda fucked up if that's the case, I really don't like that violent dog fucker

Poor Sancho, going the extra mile to drop fixes for the unmodded game that people can't find.

 

[yossa999]

We have the sparring/training session with Ayua coming up.

With the move to Nick's house, some Zara time and (if the MC is on the Bella path) perhaps Bella comes by/Bella invites him to come over for food after the sparring match.

I could also see Ayua being invited for food later since she is Bella's bestie and Bella will likely want to ensure Ayua and the MC are getting along (since Bella bailed on Ayua to return early and see the MC).

If we have time at Bella's home - this also opens up including Amber in the meal. Side conversations would make sense (for example - book club and/or panic attacks are coming more frequently - prompting Amber to push for the cabin visit sooner than she might have once intended) if/when Ayua pulls Bella aside for a chat.

I don't recall if there is training on Sunday night (I have not gone back check) but since the MC missed training due to the move, he could have an evening training session as well.

Much of the above is speculation on my part but the move to Nick's opens up Many new possibilities.

Cheers!!

I'm honestly a little surprised by what events appeared in Chapter 5, so anything could happen next.

As example, MC thought at night with Vic&Mila, that he should visit Emilio tomorrow, and chapter 5 covers exactly this "tomorrow" till the night. There was also mention of a welcome party at Layla's family bar on Monday (Chapter 5 ended on Saturday night). Vic's first physiotherapy session is on Monday. Dojo with Ayua on Sunday.
I never expected that book club thing happens so fast.

But as I said earlier, I wouldn't be surprised if the new season starts a few weeks after the current one ended. And then, in a conversation with some character, the MC will tell them what he has been doing these weeks. As in BaD, there was some time span between the last and previous episodes, and Fuckface, over a bottle of beer, told Derek how he had spent the last few days.

 

[Bombmaster]

Maja and Sasha character development is a little weird, i always say that i will keep an eye on Vic and accept to carry her burden with her, Maja in the beginning seems grateful and more open offering the MC help, then after the night in Vic house in the morning she starts all bitchy again like nothing happened before.
Sasha is the same, after the class where she helps MC with exercises and i save her from a basketball in the head she even smiles and stuff, then in the book meeting she s all bitchy too, like the MC is some kind of criminal, i assume at some point Sasha was attacked by a man and injured in the face, that s why she despises men, but she already knows the MC, and at least in my playtroughs i always have good interactions with her, i even forgive Robin and she seems all happy.
These two are weird.

This game is fire and all, but some scenes feels they need a path to make sense.
And it appears the manwhore Nika is the one the dialogues felt organic (for me ofc)
Maybe is that?

 

[DirtyMario]

Looking forward to some Zara time. She grew on me over Ch. 5. As did Nia. The end of her scene was heartbreaking.
Bella is still uncontested #1 of course but the constant shitting on each other gets a bit stale by now I think. I don't get why she is so dead set on staying "casual" for now because she doesn't make any kind of moves on anyone else, ever (at least that we know of) so what's in it for her?
As my story went we'll only stay at Nicks for a few weeks before moving in with Mila and Nami + X. Although we all know that "a few weeks" are years in Ocean time. I really hope his plans of hiring a guy to do the coding again works out and development speeds up considerably.
I'm unsure if the book club subplot and introducing even more potential LIs with one fell swoop is a good direction to take. Many of the original ones didn't have any time in the spotlight at all yet and the archetypes seem to overlap a bit. Sasha seems to be the next S1 Bella now. And there's suddenly a whole bouquet of Milfs to choose from. Is this gonna turn into a BaDik situation where you either choose to be faithful to a main girl or sleep around with the side girls?

 

[AlexFXR]

Yeah, we're simply gonna have to disagree on this one. Visual quality aside, Regium's version of the story was superficial at best, and unbelievable at worst. As a case in point, it took until the current Ch 5 to remove that utterly ridiculous Marla shooting event, a legacy from Regium's version.

I don't like the gun scene either, but why are you blaming Regium? The script for SG was made by Ocean, Regium only followed it.
I don’t understand MC’s problem anymore, when he thinks about Summer, everything works, then for some reason it stops working. Once Nami rubs against MC, everything starts working again. If MC suffers from impotence, then even with dreams of Summer, nothing should work for him. This all looks far-fetched. If he was worried about this problem, MC would go to the doctor for pills. Why didn't Nojiko bring him pills from work?
Since I started talking about Nojiko, she is also very strange. She works as a doctor in a hospital, since she was able to cure Zara’s father, whom other doctors could not help, then she is one of the best specialists. Doctors get a lot of money, it’s not a problem for them to buy a house like Bella’s, but specialists like Nojiko should get even more money. So why does MC say that their family has no money? Why do they live in a house for the poor? They must have a lot of money.
Well, the last thing I don’t understand is the new girls. Ocean in season 1 should introduce us to the characters. But instead he constantly adds new girls. At the beginning I added Sasha’s friends, a brunette and a redhead, we meet them in the corridor when we go on an excursion to an educational institution. They are stunningly beautiful, but until now we don’t even know their names. Then we are told about the women's basketball team, which we have yet to meet, and we should not forget that MC will go to the yoga club where there are only girls. Next, the MC is locked in handcuffs in the women's locker room where we meet many girls. And finally, we go to the reading club, where there are also a lot of girls. Is Ocean going to bombard us with female characters? I just don't understand how he's going to fit this into a game consisting of 32 chapters. If the MC communicates with everyone, then even 100 chapters will not be enough.
It seems that Ocean has begun to rework his script, and now the number of LI is not clear.

 

[VicLex22]

hehe, now it's clear why the Ocean has always shied away from the question "Why is Ayua not LI"
That look from Katie speaks for itself.
and I understand why he added this render at the last moment

 

[Lurcher1]

hehe, now it's clear why the Ocean has always shied away from the question "Why is Ayua not LI"
That look from Katie speaks for itself.
and I understand why he added this render at the last moment
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Ha, I thought her smirk had an element of pride in there as well as amusement.

 

[yossa999]

Looking forward to some Zara time. She grew on me over Ch. 5. As did Nia. The end of her scene was heartbreaking.
Bella is still uncontested #1 of course but the constant shitting on each other gets a bit stale by now I think. I don't get why she is so dead set on staying "casual" for now because she doesn't make any kind of moves on anyone else, ever (at least that we know of) so what's in it for her?
As my story went we'll only stay at Nicks for a few weeks before moving in with Mila and Nami + X. Although we all know that "a few weeks" are years in Ocean time. I really hope his plans of hiring a guy to do the coding again works out and development speeds up considerably.
I'm unsure if the book club subplot and introducing even more potential LIs with one fell swoop is a good direction to take. Many of the original ones didn't have any time in the spotlight at all yet and the archetypes seem to overlap a bit. Sasha seems to be the next S1 Bella now. And there's suddenly a whole bouquet of Milfs to choose from. Is this gonna turn into a BaDik situation where you either choose to be faithful to a main girl or sleep around with the side girls?

Even though there are a bunch of hungry cougars in the book club scene, I guess it's meaning is bigger than just a possible source of the new flings for the MC, it's secondary. Much more interesting is the acquaintance with the high society of the city, various conversations that are clearly of great importance for the further plot and which the MC overheard. And his discovery that not everything is as simple as he (and the players) thought about the people around him, that every female character has their own secrets, Noji, Amber, Katie, Sasha - they are all hiding something from the MC. And he, as we know, is a very curious guy.

 

[BobTheDuck]

Looking forward to some Zara time. She grew on me over Ch. 5. As did Nia. The end of her scene was heartbreaking.
Bella is still uncontested #1 of course but the constant shitting on each other gets a bit stale by now I think. I don't get why she is so dead set on staying "casual" for now because she doesn't make any kind of moves on anyone else, ever (at least that we know of) so what's in it for her?
As my story went we'll only stay at Nicks for a few weeks before moving in with Mila and Nami + X. Although we all know that "a few weeks" are years in Ocean time. I really hope his plans of hiring a guy to do the coding again works out and development speeds up considerably.
I'm unsure if the book club subplot and introducing even more potential LIs with one fell swoop is a good direction to take. Many of the original ones didn't have any time in the spotlight at all yet and the archetypes seem to overlap a bit. Sasha seems to be the next S1 Bella now. And there's suddenly a whole bouquet of Milfs to choose from. Is this gonna turn into a BaDik situation where you either choose to be faithful to a main girl or sleep around with the side girls?

I think Bella's set on being casual, for the same reason she kept changing her mind on the date - the footsies etc. She has a natural chemistry with Nika, but whenever she catches herself even slightly fawning, she gets angry with herself. I think she wants Nika to prove himself to her partially, but I think her shit talking is a defense mechanism as well.

I don't like the gun scene either, but why are you blaming Regium? The script for SG was made by Ocean, Regium only followed it.
I don’t understand MC’s problem anymore, when he thinks about Summer, everything works, then for some reason it stops working. Once Nami rubs against MC, everything starts working again. If MC suffers from impotence, then even with dreams of Summer, nothing should work for him. This all looks far-fetched. If he was worried about this problem, MC would go to the doctor for pills. Why didn't Nojiko bring him pills from work?
Since I started talking about Nojiko, she is also very strange. She works as a doctor in a hospital, since she was able to cure Zara’s father, whom other doctors could not help, then she is one of the best specialists. Doctors get a lot of money, it’s not a problem for them to buy a house like Bella’s, but specialists like Nojiko should get even more money. So why does MC say that their family has no money? Why do they live in a house for the poor? They must have a lot of money.
Well, the last thing I don’t understand is the new girls. Ocean in season 1 should introduce us to the characters. But instead he constantly adds new girls. At the beginning I added Sasha’s friends, a brunette and a redhead, we meet them in the corridor when we go on an excursion to an educational institution. They are stunningly beautiful, but until now we don’t even know their names. Then we are told about the women's basketball team, which we have yet to meet, and we should not forget that MC will go to the yoga club where there are only girls. Next, the MC is locked in handcuffs in the women's locker room where we meet many girls. And finally, we go to the reading club, where there are also a lot of girls. Is Ocean going to bombard us with female characters? I just don't understand how he's going to fit this into a game consisting of 32 chapters. If the MC communicates with everyone, then even 100 chapters will not be enough.
It seems that Ocean has begun to rework his script, and now the number of LI is not clear.

I think Ocean is purposefully crowding the choices to make it hard to stay faithful. It has been mentioned there will be consequences for having loose relationships. So I don't think all these characters will have the same levels of interaction, that would be far too complicated. I think there will be the ones like Jenna and Anna that Nika can risk manipulating for the stories sake, but we've already seen that gossip travels fast, and now Robin's mum knows the rumours. Ocean might put some of them there as red herrings so people chase them, only to get rejected or something. I think more than anything its to provide a believable context rather than have empty corridors. We're always wondering if someone in the background is important or not. It's pretty devious. But players who want to just get the lewds will get lots of quick action I think, and lose their reputation, and lose meaningful relationships.

Even though there are a bunch of hungry cougars in the book club scene, I guess it's meaning is bigger than just a possible source of the new flings for the MC, it's secondary. Much more interesting is the acquaintance with the high society of the city, various conversations that are clearly of great importance for the further plot and which the MC overheard. And his discovery that not everything is as simple as he (and the players) thought about the people around him, that every female character has their own secrets, Noji, Amber, Katie, Sasha - they are all hiding something from the MC. And he, as we know, is a very curious guy.

Yes, exactly this. And I think some of the characters have been chosen purely so the information can come from all kinds of different sources - like the gym, or the walk: you get completely different information revealed depending on who you choose to talk with/go with etc.

 

[Blueray]

so Next Year thy might make Chapter 6?

 

[DirtyMario]

so Next Year thy might make Chapter 6?

Oh dear lord I'm so ready for Nikas dick to work again. This is (one of) the longest blue balling in AVN history.

 

[Bombmaster]

so Next Year thy might make Chapter 6?

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