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

[HornyyPussy]

Ok, I can see that this game gets a lot of praise and I agree with most of it. Especially the graphics are amazing, that is clear.
But i need to say something about the start of the game, more exactly from the accident to the MC and girl leaving the hospital.
First, the way all of them act at that part is so insanely unreal it is hard to take in.
1. The nurse would never let them in to the room. Have them sneek in somehow instead or something.
2. The friend acts extremely weird in every way.
3. I wont comment on the MC because he seems f-ed up and I assume this is a part of the story.
4. The MC´s friend is bothered by him not being polite? That is her concern at this point?
5. The girl was in an accident a a few hours ago and she looks pristine? She should be black and blue all over and 100% sedated to sleep. She just rolls out of surgery and has lost the feeling in her legs looking like a supermodel?

I get a feeling that tis game for some reason gets a huge pass on some glaring issues and I dont get why?

Because it's a damn fantasy Adult VN, not a "true story". Who the hell cares if there are some thing that doesn't make sense vs how things work in IRL?

 

[ICanBeCuddly!]

I'll say this: I love this game but I feel like the story is overrated, like I really don't think it's anything special and barely any interesting stuff happens to drive the narrative forward imo (especially compared to a game like city of broken dreamers for example).

It does have great characters, the characters are definitely the strong point of the game, but a game/show/movie/... can have great characters without having a great narrative and vice versa. All-time great movies etc have both though.

Obviously this game still has time to build upon its narrative since I think there are supposed to be like 30 chapters(?), but yeah, for now I don't get all the people gushing about the story.

And here I thought this game was underrated.

That might be, but there are some huge stuff that utterly breaks the possibility for me to buy the world.

I have commented on a few things just above this and now I have some more stuff.

One day after being hit by a car, hard, the girl is at home looking like a princess. That is just poor attention to storytelling.
She has lost the use of her legs and it might be forever and she is all sunshine about it, one day after the accident. That is not how reality works. This creator might be good at stories and writing techniques but he/she needs help with some reality checks that dont break the world and also some help with how humans work.

You've no idea what you're talking about.

You should listen to what people with similar situations do as Victoria. Not all of them, but some may surprise you on how they dealt with it.

It's called being in denial. It's actually more common among people who have lost something important to them. It doesn't have to be your limbs. It could be someone dear to you as well. Anything that could cause you a feeling of extreme loss.

When they start to slowly let themselves into reality, they start to lose it and immediately break down. That should explain how she behaved in the recovery centre, for you.

So far it's been well written.

I'd say you're ill-formed on this particular matter.

Ok, I can see that this game gets a lot of praise and I agree with most of it. Especially the graphics are amazing, that is clear.
But i need to say something about the start of the game, more exactly from the accident to the MC and girl leaving the hospital.
First, the way all of them act at that part is so insanely unreal it is hard to take in.
1. The nurse would never let them in to the room. Have them sneek in somehow instead or something.
2. The friend acts extremely weird in every way.
3. I wont comment on the MC because he seems f-ed up and I assume this is a part of the story.
4. The MC´s friend is bothered by him not being polite? That is her concern at this point?
5. The girl was in an accident a a few hours ago and she looks pristine? She should be black and blue all over and 100% sedated to sleep. She just rolls out of surgery and has lost the feeling in her legs looking like a supermodel?

I get a feeling that tis game for some reason gets a huge pass on some glaring issues and I dont get why?

Okay, I get it. You haven't played the game to its completion. Do that first! That should help you understand a bit, even though I feel like you're lacking some serious points on the empathy scale.

 

[senjin]

Oceanlabs is employing writing techniques that will prepare the audience for a major reveal/event somewhere down the line.

That might be, but there are some huge stuff that utterly breaks the possibility for me to buy the world.

I have commented on a few things just above this and now I have some more stuff.

One day after being hit by a car, hard, the girl is at home looking like a princess. That is just poor attention to storytelling.
She has lost the use of her legs and it might be forever and she is all sunshine about it, one day after the accident. That is not how reality works. This creator might be good at stories and writing techniques but he/she needs help with some reality checks that dont break the world and also some help with how humans work.

 

[senjin]

And here I thought this game was underrated.

You've no idea what you're talking about.

You should listen to what people with similar situations do as Victoria. Not all of them, but some may surprise you on how they dealt with it.

It's called being in denial. It's actually more common among people who have lost something important to them. It doesn't have to be your limbs. It could be someone dear to you as well. Anything that could cause you a feeling of extreme loss.

When they start to slowly let themselves into reality, they start to lose it and immediately break down. That should explain how she behaved in the recovery centre, for you.

So far it's been well written.

I'd say you're ill-formed on this particular matter.

I have worked in a hospital as a therapist and now I am a socialworker. No one, ever, acts like this ONE DAY after the accident. Ever. She would be either put in a coma, drugged out of her mind or in total shock and confusion.
The "dealing with it" you talk about comes later, not in this stage at all.

Also, her body would be beaten up like a exploding blood worm. Not looking like a barbie.

I'd say you're ill-formed on this particular matter.

 

[Fortuna ღ]

That might be, but there are some huge stuff that utterly breaks the possibility for me to buy the world.

I have commented on a few things just above this and now I have some more stuff.

One day after being hit by a car, hard, the girl is at home looking like a princess. That is just poor attention to storytelling.
She has lost the use of her legs and it might be forever and she is all sunshine about it, one day after the accident. That is not how reality works. This creator might be good at stories and writing techniques but he/she needs help with some reality checks that dont break the world and also some help with how humans work.

If you're looking for reality, go outside. As realistic as these games are(and try to be), they're still fiction. I'm sure you were not the first to notice these inconsistencies, and you definitely won't be the last. But do you realize why you're the first and only one to actually point them out? Because everyone else remembered that this is a fictional game set in a fictional world. Not everything's going to be realistic. If this were as realistic as you seem to want, Bella and MC would have both been in jail right now, and the story would have ended right then and there(the night of the break-in). No one's expecting this game to be that realistic.

 

[ICanBeCuddly!]

I have worked in a hospital as a therapist and now I am a socialworker. No one, ever, acts like this ONE DAY after the accident. Ever. She would be either put in a coma, drugged out of her mind or in total shock and confusion.
The "dealing with it" you talk about comes later, not in this stage at all.

Also, her body would be beaten up like a exploding blood worm. Not looking like a barbie.

I'd say you're ill-formed on this particular matter.

If she's paralyzed then she should not be feeling any pain to be drugged out of her mind. Since, the affected nerves at the place can't transmit the pain to your brain if there are any present. But the pain is there all right.

How many patients have you dealt with during your time as a therapist for similar situations? Have you witnessed all the patients with the same set of conditions from around the entire world? Did they all react the same day on their first day of realization. It's more than fair to say you haven't. Don't give a statement that's only based on a few of the wide set of variables. What's up with one thing doesn't always apply to the rest.

At the end of the day, it's just a novel where unusual things happen more than once. To have everything be accurate, you'd have to be mental! It's wasted having your brain strained over it.

 

[BlackMoon55]

I'll be damned ... She knows, she fucking knows ... and she’s playing with us

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Bella, I love you but you messed up big-time

 

[Quarron]

I'll be damned ... She knows, she fucking knows ... and she’s playing with us

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Bella, I love you but you messed up big-time

I just want to get a damn driver's license so that We can join the races with Bella. Oh boy, I can imagine we're racing with Bella right now. Shit is about to get crazy.

 

[Rad0]

One of those insane games, where its done so well, remember every detail, always sucks when it ends but testament to how solid it is. Is really nailing some of the music in background with the images at times.

For the tabletop part, I can understand why not thrilled by it, but if I recall, the game is going to be 20(!!!???) or so chapters so plenty of time for it to become more substantial and I think that is what the dev is aiming for. As something taking up a big bit in half a chapter can be odd but as I say, think its just laying the ground.

Bella is defiantly the top LI, but I think partly by virtue of having so much good content thus far. Can easily see others outside Nami once they get there own good bit of content also being comparable to Bella. Heck for me even Zara after real half epsiode of content is pretty cool.

 

[Bella Von Halen]

guys i am looking for the image with Bella and Ayua at de car meeting.
after Bella get call of the MC

 

[B-52reloaded]

I still believe that Sasha and her mignon Robin are the evil masterminds in this game ... it was Robin who used Nami as a bait for our Mc to come to the locker and it was also Robin who told this reporter bitch about the "sex scandal" in the ladys restromms at the college ... and her close affinity to Sasha makes her suspicious too

 

[B-52reloaded]

B-52reloaded nein, nein, nein Sasha is an angel

even Satan was an angel before he got kicked out from heaven ...

 

[Tairnel]

I still believe that Sasha and her mignon Robin are the evil masterminds in this game ... it was Robin who used Nami as a bait for our Mc to come to the locker and it was also Robin who told this reporter bitch about the "sex scandal" in the ladys restromms at the college ... and her close affinity to Sasha makes her suspicious too

Oh my god, I didn't think about the scandal part, even though it was staring me right in the face. I do agree on the counts that Sasha and Robin have a hidden agenda, but I don't think that Sasha's angle is going to be antagonistic (is that a word?). I don't think that she holds any ill intent towards the MC.

 

[Udayana]

antoganistic (is that a word?).

Antagonistic

 

[crunchycake]

I was curious after i was using unren on the game and started to dig into the gamefiles.

Found this use of, lets call it "pet name" used by Ocean for Bella. was spitting my tea while seeing this.

To be fair, it makes really no sense for non (native) german speakers.

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awwww......

Spoiler: What a cute little

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a tiny cute little

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Bella team ftw

 

[crunchycake]

Oh my god, I didn't think about the scandal part, even though it was staring me right in the face. I do agree on the counts that Sasha and Robin have a hidden agenda, but I don't think that Sasha's angle is going to be antoganistic (is that a word?). I don't think that she holds any ill intent towards the MC.

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Sir, I'm with you here. With the earring, my theory is that Sasha and Summer are somewhat related and have some ideas (?) about the relationship between MC and Summer. By spotting the other half of the earring which Nami wears (which was a significant possession of Summer perhaps?), she may have some questions about the relationship between Nami and MC after Summer's gone (remember? Summer, Nami and MC all 3 thought Nami had a feeling of being left behind when summer and mc got together, things may or may not gone worse when Summer left).

By using Nami had a heatstroke as an excuse, Robin can paid the debt from Zara AND tested out how much did MC care about Nami at that moment.

Hitting 2 birds with 1 stone.

ONLY drawback is that the plan backfired to Robin, badly, in the future I guess lol

 

[nevermoreXX]

Entire game acts as if i accepted Bella's vs mario and then didn't show up. Bulshit. Multiple references to it in fact. Bella even bullshits about it numerous times
dev obviously has black people kink.
Jeff should learn existence of mobile phones and use that to call instead of barging on people's home uninvited
And whats with Nami? one moment she is loving her "mom" and MC beyond measure and next when word boys popup , she is too eager to ditch named everything. (going to market story part)
chapter 1 is all kinds of wrong for me. Im stopping will wait for that ch1 "rewrite" and see
I'm not enjoying it at all so far

 

[Mortarion]

guys i am looking for the image with Bella and Ayua at de car meeting.
after Bella get call of the MC

there are a couple ones:

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That interaction between Zara and the MC after the jacuzzi is so adorable:

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[den_tiger]

The MC is amazing. The two girls who handcuffed him at the end of 3.5 are now hot for him in Ch4.

 

[Quarron]

The MC is amazing. The two girls who handcuffed him at the end of 3.5 are now hot for him in Ch4.

Zara literally got a Zuko redemption and I don't know what to say. I wish we had an option to beat the shit of her. I wanted it.