VN Ren'Py Abandoned The Best Days of Our Lives [v0.5] [UndergroundStudio]

4.20 star(s) 26 Votes

fishbrain

Engaged Member
Apr 9, 2018
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Well damn that was rushed and boring.. but animations are fucking CLEAN, absolutely beautiful!! Some of the best I've seen yet
 

Ape Drape

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Oct 3, 2018
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Of all names, hell, even personally chosen names, you chose instead to use "Ben"? Bruh.
Did you choose to stick with Ben? I mean in the first 3 seconds of the game your hand was so firmly planted on your dick you couldn't type out a new name?
 
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Canto Forte

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Jul 10, 2017
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The only girl who actually chose us .. of course she is the only one,
because all the others so called ”friends” chose to ostracize MC
and prank him while booting him outside of the group,
treating him like some charity case, waiting 4 him to crawl to be accepted back.
What a pack of diks.
 

Ape Drape

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Oct 3, 2018
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I'm used to the ntr hysteria of some but this is just ridiculous. Holy shit :FacePalm:
Well, I won't be trying this game because there are other characters in other games having sex and I can't stand that much blatant NTR. /sarcasm

Honestly, the devs are aiming for realism here. Real isn't a harem unless you are a billionaire surrounded by gold-digging whores. Go out and try it in real life and see how many girls will even give you the time of day after you get busted for cheating once or twice.
I doubt anyone here if they saw two people fucking would avert their eyes and move along in disgust. Most likely they would give it a good long gander then go home and watch porn which also contains people not them getting laid. The devs already stated that MC will not get cucked. But for some people that simply isn't good enough. The girls all have to be low self-esteem, no morals whores and only the MC is allowed to get laid or else they will bitch bitch bitch.

It's a good little time sink. You don't have to suspend disbelief because it's not necessary to do that. The models and renders look great. The story is good and believable.
 

224488

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I don´t like NTR, but I don´t go to threads of NTR games to provoke people or say that their preferences are wrong. I don´t like to discover that a female character that I like, in a game with a male MC, is actually a lesbian or bi, but I don´t go to threads of games about lesbianism to provoke people or say that their preferences are wrong. But there are always people in this forum eager to judge others that dare to express what they would like or not would like to see in a game. To say others if their preferences are "acceptable", and ridiculice and insult them if, from their presumed moral superiority, they consider that those preferences are "wrong". I´m so tired of that... :cautious:
 
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Arisushi

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Jul 9, 2020
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Old saves not working? :(
I assume you're trying to load a save file made during 0.2 or 0.1 releases?

During the release of 0.3, there was a bug that caused all save files made in 0.1 & 0.2 to become unusable. So you will have to restart the game. Sorry.

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Note: Anyone who started (or restarted) playing the game from 0.3 onwards should be able to use the save files without any issues.
 

Qmil679

Q / Motherlover
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Mar 13, 2019
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I just finished playing. A short game so far, but very good. ;)

I like Sophie.. but sex with her, too fast in my opinion.
I did not expect completely that after the first date with her, she would not have a problem going to bed with MC.
 

erkper

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May 16, 2018
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guys who is your fav right now? :unsure:
mine is Sophia :love: but... i like all the others too :ROFLMAO:
If I were ranking right now...
1: Nina - this redhead checks about all my boxes - more please!
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2: Rebecca
3: Sophia
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4: Jennifer
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5: Nathan
6: Dave (ok, these two were a joke but this joke serves a purpose)
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999999999999: Vanessa

I kind of wish this was a space opera so I had the option to shove Vanessa out an airlock.
 

Arisushi

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This is why, I believe, given the complexity of your project, you should storyboard and/or flowchart each permissible route to the end. This way you will know if you have bitten off too big of a project for your given resources and need to either adjust the plan or add resources. That does not mean that you would need to adhere rigidly to your plan. But if you do decided to change it in midstream, you would know exactly the ramifications of the change.

Having such a plan in hand, it could be used to determine what goes into each subsequent release as you proceed.

Unfortunately, planning is not the sexy part of development. It is rare that creative people like to do it. But winging it can easily lead to disaster... as in abandonment.
I assure you, we're definitely not winging it with either the script or the art :)

The base script for 0.4 was completed when 0.3 was released.

All the major story beats of the entire "first year in college" have already been mapped out quite a while ago.

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Coming to the process behind individual updates:

The script (along with the exact number of images and poses needed for each scene) is handed to the artist - well before he starts working on it.

So, if we ever needed to change something, there was always enough time to do it.

(In fact we HAVE changed stuff in the past without any delays in release)

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What happened with 0.4 was a rare miss due to some unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances.

And we've already made the necessary adjustments to our working style so that it won't happen again :)
 
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quorkboy

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Sep 26, 2020
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Finally got to playing this and really enjoyed it. Sophia's my top choice right now but there are others in the running. Vanessa could be fun but she could also be frustrating, I see her more as a fun diversion than a serious love interest (for now.) I liked the outcome of the game we played with her (I won the final round with the phone texts and got her to send me a picture.) I'm interested in Jennifer. And possibly Nina. And Emma. The only one I don't find myself much attracted to is Rebecca. I know I'll have to choose. Right now I'm going with Sophia, but I plan to return to old saves and explore the others, or maybe switch later (it was hinted this will be allowed.)

The stupid prank they played on the MC - I think he did overreact a little by refusing to talk to them for so long, but taking into account how Dave spoke to him when he first objected to what they'd done, he wasn't completely in the wrong. They could all have apologised. Instead, Dave insulted him for daring to think what they'd done was stupid and call them on it. Dave's exact words: "Stop being such a fucking over-sensitive prick, man." And then when the MC storms off Dave says "Good riddance." That's not how friends behave. Tease and joke, fine. But if a so-called friend treated me that way and refused to apologise, it's unlikely we'd remain friends. For the sake of Jennifer and Rebecca, who seemed like they might actually be sorry, I could tolerate him. But we would not be friends unless he owned up to being an asshole and apologised. He further shows himself to be a fairly typical asshole with the basketball scene. Right now, I don't like him. I'm neutral on Nathan.

I don't agree with the couple of people who've said it seemed too fast with Sophia. They've been hanging out getting to know each other for over a month (they met on, I think, on Sept 12, and had sex on Oct 19th, which is about 5 1/2 weeks) and very obviously felt something from early on. Is that short? Yes. Is it unreasonably short? No. Don't get stuck on the first date thing -even though that was their first official date, they were friends with a definite physical and emotional attraction before that night.

Seconding the recommendation for some rough sex with Vanessa. Seems like the kind of girl who'd be into it.
 
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