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

[Fortuna ღ]

It's the accumulation of feelings she gathered throughout the time they've spent together. She was already getting "sad" aka jealous when MC started dating Summer, but during all those years the MC never showed any type of feelings towards her. Now they're both in college, she's seeing him hanging out with other girls and getting into relationships which is super sudden since he basically didn't talk to anyone before college. So yeah, at this point, she's extremely close to have a complete mental breakdown because of the MC because she has never let out the fact that she has feelings for him and now is dying of jealously.

It's quite sad really. When this happened with Summer, she stopped hanging out with both Summer and the MC. Albeit she was much younger back then. The major difference here is that she and Summer were best friends when her jealousy caused her to react that way. I'm really curious as to what her jealousy would make her do with Bella, considering that she does not even like her.

she's already experience that the first time she third wheeled our protagonist and summer albeit they were kids; she probably understands the feeling already and it will go either it'll prompt her to move on - non-nami route I guess - or it'll make her fight hard for our boi.

Those are the only real routes she can take with this. She lives with MC and likely will continue living with him for a long time(especially considering that they're all supposed to rent out a house together in the future), so it's not like she can just cut him off in order to move on peacefully. She will constantly be reminded of the fact that he chose Bella over her. What makes this situation all the more complicated, is that Nami cannot run from this. She cannot run from seeing the love of her life with another woman. And I will make it known now that a woman who has loved a man for that long cannot just "move on". It will take time, and in that time she may see the MC with Bella.

I'm sorry, but I just really want to see how it will be handled. I'm fortunate enough to have never been in Nami's position, but I've definitely been in MC's position more times than I can count... and I know how delicate these situations can be. This situation is more complicated than anything I've ever dealt with due to Nami and MC being adoptive siblings. I was lucky enough to have had the option of ending those friendships, but Nami cannot do that. So when I see a situation like this, knowing how good of a writer Ocean is, it really gets my creative mind racing on how he plans to deal with such a situation. Sorry for the rant lol

 

[UncleFredo]

Bella comes from a wealthy, high society family. She frequents the most expensive restaurants and shops in town.

Or maybe not so wealthy. We can see that Bella comes from a well to do family, but there is NOTHING to suggest they are wealthy in the conventional sense. NOTHING. She could be nothing more than the single child of a high earning double income family who dote on their daughter. That easily explains her shopping and dining habits and her "race" car.

Her mother is in the position to earn $250K-$300K per year or more. ASSume her father has at least equivalent earning power. So they bring home $500k-$600K pre tax. That's an extremely comfortable life style, but it is not wealthy. Proof of of wealth would be a weekend on their private island or some equivalent display of raw wealth. Until we see something like that, statements that she's from a wealthy family can not be supported.

 

[Frostvred]

Or maybe not so wealthy. We can see that Bella comes from a well to do family, but there is NOTHING to suggest they are wealthy in the conventional sense. NOTHING. She could be nothing more than the single child of a high earning double income family who dote on their daughter. That easily explains her shopping and dining habits and her "race" car.

Her mother is in the position to earn $250K-$300K per year or more. ASSume her father has at least equivalent earning power. So they bring home $500k-$600K pre tax. That's an extremely comfortable life style, but it is not wealthy. Proof of of wealth would be a weekend on their private island or some equivalent display of raw wealth. Until we see something like that, statements that she's from a wealthy family can not be supported.

I have no idea what dollar you're thinking of here..

In the US as example. (Especially as it's fair to assume SG is in the US, or similar.)
An average household income yearly, is around $65k - $70k, by 2020 median...
Well off would be considered middle-class... which is $150k - 200k yearly per household..
Above $200 is upper middle-class.. $300k and above yearly, is top 6 percentile. Which is considered wealthy.

So if you're assumptions are $500k - $600k yearly pre-tax, it's very wealthy, even rich.
Enough to support several families.. 7 - 8 'average' families.. So way beyond 'Extemely comfortable' for one household.

 

[LostGhost]

So nami and MC are not blood related? I thought they are siblings not step siblings

 

[Frostvred]

So nami and MC are not blood related? I thought they are siblings not step siblings

Both adopted, from different families at a very young age. (So adoptive siblings?)

 

[Violet Lee]

I have one silly question, Are we able to play/choose music in scenes where there is no specific music?

For eg, In this scene there is no specific music playing, I can see the music player interface, but I can't play any music. Is it like this?
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Just play your own music maybe. Before SIG 3.5 i used to play music from Vesky, because his tracks suit this game alot in my opinion. Ocean already uses some of Vesky's tracks in his games like the main menu themes. Like: Vesky - Dreamstate/Regret

 

[bacienvu88]

Also, I do not know if it is my English, but I do not understand the last part lol. I do not think that the MC would face unrequited love from anyone unless we the players were to go out of our way for that outcome.

It is not something that is likely to happen in this game, no. That was in reply to someone who don't want to see Bella have eyes for anyone but MC. And perhaps I'm a bit tired about games where many girls just throw themselves into MC:s arms.

 

[Terminator_26F]

Or maybe not so wealthy. We can see that Bella comes from a well to do family, but there is NOTHING to suggest they are wealthy in the conventional sense. NOTHING. She could be nothing more than the single child of a high earning double income family who dote on their daughter. That easily explains her shopping and dining habits and her "race" car.

Her mother is in the position to earn $250K-$300K per year or more. ASSume her father has at least equivalent earning power. So they bring home $500k-$600K pre tax. That's an extremely comfortable life style, but it is not wealthy. Proof of of wealth would be a weekend on their private island or some equivalent display of raw wealth. Until we see something like that, statements that she's from a wealthy family can not be supported.

Wealthy or not, there is a huge gap between the worlds of Bella and the MC. It is only in fairy tales that this is not a problem ...

 

[_A.QH_]

Does anybody know the full story about Ocean and Regium? If yes tell me please
I only know that Regium used to be the main developer of SG, and Ocean was Regium's helper. Then for some reason Regium left and Ocean took care of both his own game WIAB and his friend's game SG.
What happened between them and why did Regium disappear like Summer? Is he still a game developer?

 

[Terminator_26F]

I understand that the story has 30 (thirty) chapters. And we are only at the third (and a half!). Holy shit, I'll be dead before the end ... so it's useless for me to keep following this story ... too bad !!

 

[Mortarion]

Does anybody know the full story about Ocean and Regium? If yes tell me please
I only know that Regium used to be the main developer of SG, and Ocean was Regium's helper. Then for some reason Regium left and Ocean took care of both his own game WIAB and his friend's game SG.
What happened between them and why did Regium disappear like Summer? Is he still a game developer?
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Afaik the original story of SG was penned by Oceans and Regium started developing the game, this apparently didn't last long as Regium wasn't able to render some scenes (the rain scene just before Victorya's accident - mentioned in a recent WIAB devlog). Ocean then took over the rendering of some scenes.
Why and why Regium then dropped the sails to leave the field to Ocean drifted into the realm of speculation - about which I can make no assumptions whatsoever.

 

[`Ray`]

Does anybody know the full story about Ocean and Regium? If yes tell me please
I only know that Regium used to be the main developer of SG, and Ocean was Regium's helper. Then for some reason Regium left and Ocean took care of both his own game WIAB and his friend's game SG.
What happened between them and why did Regium disappear like Summer? Is he still a game developer?
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[Mortarion]

I understand that the story has 30 (thirty) chapters. And we are only at the third (and a half!). Holy shit, I'll be dead before the end ... so it's useless for me to keep following this story ... too bad !!

Well, even this is the case - you can enjoy a good story.

That reminds me of the "Dark Tower" books from Steven King. In one of the afterwords of the first books has SK mentioned that he received letters from inmates in the death cell - who received their date of execution - and wanted to know how the series of novels would end.

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You dare to question our lord Ocean?!

 

[`Ray`]

You dare to question our lord Ocean?!

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[Donettes]

So nami and MC are not blood related? I thought they are siblings not step siblings

They are with the patch applied (despite some bugs in the script, though the typo mod fixes it). If not, they're just friends/adopted siblings.

 

[Fortuna ღ]

Or maybe not so wealthy. We can see that Bella comes from a well to do family, but there is NOTHING to suggest they are wealthy in the conventional sense. NOTHING

Except for the fact that not only is she able to afford supercars and decorate them, she can casually spend almost $20k in a clothing store. A clothing store that knows her by name, meaning she frequents this highly expensive store. Not only that, but the high-scale restaurant she and the MC have attended is also on a name basis with her. Oh and let us not forget that she also has even more supercars for street racing only, amongst other things. There's also the fact that she lives in the wealthier side of town. Unless you deliberately ignore all of these things, there's nothing to suggest that she is not wealthy. I mean, I doubt someone with an annual salary of $600k can afford all of the things she buys casually...

 

[UncleFredo]

I have no idea what dollar you're thinking of here..

In the US as example. (Especially as it's fair to assume SG is in the US, or similar.)
An average household income yearly, is around $65k - $70k, by 2020 median...
Well off would be considered middle-class... which is $150k - 200k yearly per household..
Above $200 is upper middle-class.. $300k and above yearly, is top 6 percentile. Which is considered wealthy.

So if you're assumptions are $500k - $600k yearly pre-tax, it's very wealthy, even rich.
Enough to support several families.. 7 - 8 'average' families.. So way beyond 'Extemely comfortable' for one household.

Your statements about income are correct, but you're conflating income from salary with wealth. Unless they have substantial assets, if her parents were to stop working, their lifestyle would rapidly collapse. Wealth is self sustaining. Work or don't work, you live without monetary concerns, because your assets grow faster than your spending. So, depending on how aggressively you invest, to sustain a $500K life style you'd need assets of between $10-$15 million. We can debate what level of self sustained spending constitutes wealth, but in the US that's probably the minimum to be considered wealthy.

 

[UncleFredo]

Except for the fact that not only is she able to afford supercars and decorate them, she can casually spend almost $20k in a clothing store. A clothing store that knows her by name, meaning she frequents this highly expensive store. Not only that, but the high-scale restaurant she and the MC have attended is also on a name basis with her. Oh and let us not forget that she also has even more supercars for street racing only, amongst other things. There's also the fact that she lives in the wealthier side of town. Unless you deliberately ignore all of these things, there's nothing to suggest that she is not wealthy. I mean, I doubt someone with an annual salary of $600k can afford all of the things she buys casually...

I'd forgotten the scene in the clothing store. You make an excellent point about her spending on clothing. Cars are an occasional purchase, and very high end restaurants are more affordable on a middle six figure income than you might expect, but people buy clothing, shoes, jewelry, etc all the time and casually spending $20k like that is the mark of the wealthy. I concede that she and or her family is wealthy.

 

[Aldrac]

If you think this will last another 27 chapters, I've got news for you. 27 more years to wait? Ha.

 

[Terminator_26F]

If you think this will last another 27 chapters, I've got news for you. 27 more years to wait? Ha.

Too late, I am dead ...