Ren'Py Summertime Saga [v21.0.0 wip.5258] [Kompas Productions]

[Riou]

Yeah, it feels like a different writer came on and completely rewrote it in contrast to the original as well as the MC's progression through the rest of the game. I always thought this game was about the MC getting over the sadness/depression of his father dying and him being a loser to becoming the popular kid at school that gets the hot chick and is the hero that solves his father's murder. While all of this is going on, to then have him be a pitiful loser that begs his bitchy sister for sexual favors seems like it goes in stark contrast. Even the end of the Jenny chain in 18.0 is pretty pathetic with the MC falling in love with Jenny like a puppy dog and her resoundingly denying him.

That in addition to all of the bugs in this release only lowers my hopes that DC & co. would turn things around. Sadly it seems like each release is going to change something I liked previously in the game, add a small handful of stuff that I'll have to grind through from the very beginning to all over again to see, and break a whole bunch of other stuff since the game is running on spaghetti code that only gets worse with the more characters arcs and event flags they add to it. There is such a thing as being overly ambitious, and this game is proving the detriments of that.

I really wish DC would have just stuck to a small group of character arcs to finish completely first, then go back and add in sidestories and whatnot for the extra characters to make it easier to check code and sweep for bugs to make sure anything broken by the additions is found quickly.

Well said man the change in the MC Personality have killed it to me even though being shy and not being the cool guy in school the MC never behaved like the loser he became in this update.
this personality could have worked with Eric but with the MC not

 

[swmas]

*Status update for 0.18.5 starts*

Everyone : Oh shit, here we go again..

All we had to do was follow the damn train CJ.

 

[Quinsy87]

Sooooo....v18 incest patch anyone? XD (And can someone please create a working backscroll again?)

 

[Oriandu]

Vaguely amused that after a couple of weeks your freakish incest baby just vanishes.

 

[ScottyLQ]

Vaguely amused that after a couple of weeks your freakish incest baby just vanishes.

Pregnancy's implemented in such a fucked up manner that I wouldn't be surprised if a future update just cans it, temporarily at least. What's the point in pumping out 2 week babies anyway?

 

[Ungawa]

*Status update for 0.18.5 starts*

Everyone : Oh shit, here we go again..

 

[frank42]

Found another bug , Jenny has her baby at night and when you try to go to Clinic it is closed, Try to go back to sleep and stuck in loop

 

[ScottyLQ]

"Summerville... Home... Least it was 'fore the devs fucked everything up..."

 

[flossy123]

so im still stuck on the part after you connect your computer to hers. it keeps saying i need to unlock her computer at night even though i did that already when dose her cam show thing start

 

[Deleted member 748300]

Way too many bugs in this recent version.
Cant get Jenny to help Roxxy.
Getting unpassable errors once Aunt has child.
Several story lines seem gates by a few of the story lines being broken.

 

[CptRexx]

What DC said was that he was going to add these extra scenes BEFORE releasing. Which is why it took him 2 more weeks to release.

This is the finished version of Jenny's update and no more new scenes are coming for now

 

[Beeda2004]

i had prety ugly bug when i purchased that mask before quest started i started mom help animations after purchase and after animation jumped into main menu, no autosave all progress lost

 

[RedStar]

I started a new clean game (no infinite money), and I noticed that I'm not actually getting money from pizza delivery jobs. The game would say "you earned $240" but my money stays the same (and account too). I also had a game breaking bug at some point, so I had to reload an earlier save :/

 

[irreverant]

I'ma throw my bone into the ring here. Not stoked on how nothing new really came about this update. Maybe 0.18.5 will bring some nice new content for Jenny? I'm not a patreon though so I know not to complain about the dev.

That being said I rather like the direction they're going with Jenny. Still a massive cunt throughout the current version. Without a doubt. But you can see where they are taking her character. There are a few times where she shows cracks in her armour. When MC pushes her on aspirations/family life/feelings etc. she hesitates and will be like "well..." then goes immediately back to bitch mode.

It's similar to the Roxxy route. Roxxy sees MC as beneath her because she's bottom tier trailer trash and projects that onto others. Throughout the route MC learns more about her life, she starts seeing MC as a person, they fuck like rabbits, yadda yadda yadda.

Same with Jenny. She's got nothing going for her so she lashes out at everyone else. Everyone, for the most part, sees MC as capable. He's going around helping people/doing things/smashing puss etc. Jenny hates that and treats MC the worst. But those cracks are there. The more the wall she puts up comes down and she opens up, the better the emotional response is from us the audience. I'll bet any money you'll see more of that in 0.18.5, 7 months from now. Or later in her route.

She's a lot like my bitch ex so I know what I'm talking about.

 

[PatreonTed]

I'ma throw my bone into the ring here. Not stoked on how nothing new really came about this update. Maybe 0.18.5 will bring some nice new content for Jenny? I'm not a patreon though so I know not to complain about the dev.

Given there is a construction sign on Jenny's bed, there's a chance that one of the animations coming is a rework of the "rabbit fucking" scene in Jenny's bed. There's enough art there you could probably convert the scene to be animated, and since there's a couple writing tasks, maybe rework the scene to it's more obviously consensual.

 

[Deleted member 690333]

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I was waiting for someone to do it lol

 

[DemosthenesHPW]

The question being, is he going to fix this version before the next one? I have no issue with the content of this update... I don't like it quite as much as prior Jenny stuff, but it still works and, to me, makes more sense overall. She has moments of weakness for the MC, but that doesn't change her fundamentally, and I dunno, that plays more like a real person to me, especially the kind of asshole she is.

That said, the Roxy/Bisette storylines effectively being deadlocked behind a bug is not OK. That's not a bug to wait to fix, that's a problem with the release that reaaaaaaally needs a fix ASAP. I funded him about a year ago but had to step back after losing my job, getting a lower paying one, then that company shuttering the office in my city. Working on getting a new job now, but release versions being just straight up broken to the point that storylines are cut off, that's something that NEEDS to be fixed before they start working on the next version.

 

[flossy123]

ok the game seems to think im still in jennys room even though im not and wont let me click her cam videos... im playing on the cheat version dose that break it? this is my second playthrough and i keep getting stuck at this point

 

[tyler1234]

anyone have a save

 

[AnonX]

Nothing against the content but it's still pretty buggy (i'm currently stuck inside the threehouse because everytime i want to leave there's a exception). Any word on a bugfix release?