Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.4468] [Kompas Productions]

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BrownThunder000

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I care a lot less about all if this now that I'm no longer paying monthly. Played the game from scratch last night, the extra details and new locations were a nice touch and it was kind if fun working my way back into Debbie and Jenny's panties.

This was the first VN I ever played so it will always be a special title.

What I hope this situation does is frustrates a few of you to the point you take matters into your own hands and develop your own games. Some of you have brilliant ideas you're sitting on and hiding from the world. I hope you hop off the fence and decide to finally begin your own projects.
 
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Since saying "the game is bad because the dev removed all content to milk his patreon" apparently violates the review rules (why does a pirate site have so many rules again?) about reviews needing to give reasons for why a game is bad, I'll just re-post my review here:

Summertime Saga: A Cautionary Tale.

You either die a hero or live long enough to...you know, the thing.

How does the best porn game in the game get a one star rating? By committing the cardinal sin of adult devs on Patreon: The Unnecessary Remake.

We've all seen it. A game with tons of content suddenly showing up in the updates page with patchnotes that say something like "Re-added the whole first day!" The confusion that sets in. "Didn't this game used to have 150 days of content? Wasn't I just about to finally get to fuck my favorite character? Didn't it seem like the main story was about to get resolved? Weren't they just about to add my favorite fetish?" The slowly growing disbelief as we realize yet another promising game has been stripped down to its skeleton to solve some backend coding problem the players couldn't care less about. The dawning realization that we're in for a few more years of "updates" before the game even comes close to being what it used to be. For those unfortunate souls that actually supported the dev, the mounting anger that the dev cares more about not losing his precious monthly income than actually delivering what his customers paid for. If you follow adult games for long enough, you'll eventually see this happen to at least one of your favorite games.

And now it's Summertime Saga's turn.

It's a shame when this happens to any game, but it's a tragedy when it happens to a game that was one of the best. Great art. Great animations. Wide variety of girls and fetishes. Fun(ish) gameplay that doesn't get in the way of the adult content. A main story that actually seemed to be wrapping up instead of being dragged out or ignored. Summertime Saga should have been a king of the genre. Instead, it's just another example of why you should only keep backing a developer if they keep delivering real updates.

The only saving grace is that F95 still has the old version available for download. So play that version if you can. It's amazing. Then when you reach the end of the content, you can join the rest of us in mourning what could have been.
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Ifllslonly

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Sscdrake said:
And the blindfold defenders rush out sprinting and waving their hands yet again... well, people have faithfully followed and allowed far far worse throughout history, so why am I shocked.

Recent reviews are positive probably because anyone with anything negative to say said it, and the mods here don't let you talk about stuff like this in reviews.
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Yeah, I agree. The problem is that this game is forever (link) in this state. I don't believe that abandoned tag itself changed (link) anything on a global scale.
DC is just a reflection of the industry (link) as a whole. He's a full-time developer, top 1 adult game developer on Patreon who doesn't deliver at all. It's just nonsense to defend (link) him.
 
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SethCarnius

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someone else got this problem?

I'm sorry, but errors were detected in your script. Please correct the
errors listed below, and try again.


File "game/scripts/patch.rpy", line 24: invalid syntax
what = re.sub(ur"(?<!Aunt )Diane", u"Aunt Diane", what, 0, re.IGNORECASE)
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Ren'Py Version: Ren'Py 8.2.1.24030407
Sat Jun 1 19:45:12 2024
 
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Sscdrake

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Ifllslonly said:
Yeah, I agree. The problem is that this game is forever (link) in this state. I don't believe that abandoned tag itself changed (link) anything on a global scale.
DC is just a reflection of the industry (link) as a whole. He's a full-time developer, top 1 adult game developer on Patreon who doesn't deliver at all. It's just nonsense to defend (link) him.
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I do want to point out that this is an absurdly weirdly western ero dev thing. A lot of Asian developers, even if they make slop, at least finish that slop. There are a TON of eastern indie ero games, and their indie culture in general (VNs, manga/manhwa, light novels and similar) is pretty established with better paths to 'professional' success than the west right now. A long of the stuff on dlsite that goes on to sell like bonkers are from 1-3 man teams too, which a lot of people don't realize for some reason. And these games release with far less time and funding than games like Summertime Saga had.

And it's a disturbingly common pattern... look at Subverse for example. Eastern developers aren't perfect of course... MGQ Paradox, lol. But he still has more complete games under his belt at least than 99% of the western games on this site (and I don't count Paradox part 1/2 as a complete game lol).

Not all western devs, not all asian devs, but yeah, still. I don't know what the cultural difference is that even slow Asian devs steadily actually finish their stuff or at least make consistent progress while western devs go "wow everyone likes this cool thing I made WHELP kthxbye" and turns into stardust before shimmering away in the wind.

It's mindboggling to me. Yes it takes work but this dude could finish Summertime Saga and let it sit milking with nothing but positivity and zero guilt just like Monster Girl Quest and similar popular games and make oodles even if chose to never make anything else.
 
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