VN Ren'Py Completed The Interim Domain [v0.99.0] [ILSProductions]

[danb35]

Mina just told me if i "progress" too far with Mira that she'll become a remnant

No, that isn't what Mira told you about Mina. She cautioned you--correctly--that moving too fast, sexually, with Mina could be harmful and possibly lead to her becoming a remnant. You can progress her story as fast as you want.

Mina's also the only one where "have all the sex you can" is a drawback to her story.

walkthough

The "if you have sex with Mina now, you'll get her bad ending" is indeed from the walkthrough mod.

emotional

Yep. Kara really surprised me in this regard.

Chira

You'll get a scene with her if you choose the "no one" ending. But if you like redheads, you should be an Anita fan.

 

[danb35]

Is the Saaya/Selene scene new in the DC, or did I just miss it in my last play-through?

Hmmm, no, it's in the 0.31 walkthrough. Maybe I sent Saaya on too quickly the last time through? I don't clearly recall when I did that compared to when I first got with Selene. This time through, I'm going strictly through the list in order (Kaitlin, then Tina, than Anita, etc., all the way through the list, then back to the top and start again)--last time I'd kept the LIs pretty even but wasn't quite as strict about it. I'll have to see if there's anything else new to me this time through.

 

[Penis Lord]

Just finished the new ending and oh man, this really scratched the itch in me about harem ending. To see the gang happily living together and bear the offsprings of our boy.

Not to mention the MILFs scenes come with it is a fine addition. Absolute cherry on top.

 

[danb35]

Just completed a play through on hard mode, and other thoughts about playing through a second time will be in another post, but I'm wondering about "600 Qi to win." I played taking each LI in order as they came up (so no trying to "catch up" later additions like Saaya or Sammy), following the walkthrough mod, saving Polly and Natalie, which gave 617 Qi going into the cycle. OK, great, I meet the threshold (though not with much to spare), no need for the cheat to just "make it so."

But when I get there, I see Mira again, and she gives me Qi for Allison (26) and herself (42), bringing me up to 685. I'd think MC should get Qi for unmaking Selene too, but that doesn't happen. Ifuma, meanwhile, has 599. So I guess my question is, does the player really need 600+ Qi at the time of choosing "The Cycle" to get the good ending? Or is the requirement really 600+ when the accounting happens (which would have meant 532+ for me)? I could probably install URM and try for myself, but...

 

[Sneak Monkey]

Just completed a play through on hard mode, and other thoughts about playing through a second time will be in another post, but I'm wondering about "600 Qi to win." I played taking each LI in order as they came up (so no trying to "catch up" later additions like Saaya or Sammy), following the walkthrough mod, saving Polly and Natalie, which gave 617 Qi going into the cycle. OK, great, I meet the threshold (though not with much to spare), no need for the cheat to just "make it so."

But when I get there, I see Mira again, and she gives me Qi for Allison (26) and herself (42), bringing me up to 685. I'd think MC should get Qi for unmaking Selene too, but that doesn't happen. Ifuma, meanwhile, has 599. So I guess my question is, does the player really need 600+ Qi at the time of choosing "The Cycle" to get the good ending? Or is the requirement really 600+ when the accounting happens (which would have meant 532+ for me)? I could probably install URM and try for myself, but...

Do you know if not going down the Selene path hurts your Qi at all? Cos ideally I'd avoid that but it's not clear if that'll mess up the ending or not. Obv WT mod wants you to choose it but that might just be geared towards seeing all scenes. Even though it obviously avoids the ones with Mina so... I'm uncertain.

She's fine, as a human being, interesting character for sure and I am curious about her story, but I find her very off putting and not remotely sexy. Few worse chat up lines than someone propositioning me for sex with the sole reasoning being "it's OK I don't have gonorrhoea." I can only imagine my real life response being... "I'm really happy for you. Please don't touch me."

 

[danb35]

Do you know if not going down the Selene path hurts your Qi at all?

According to the walkthrough, the combo scene with Selene and Natalie earns you 1 like and 1 love with Natalie, and there's a later interaction that's only available if you've had that scene that earns you another 1 like with Natalie--that'd be a total of 4 Qi. It will prevent you from choosing Selene's ending, and will probably prevent you from choosing the harem ending (I'm not certain of the latter, but it makes sense to me).

Obv WT mod wants you to choose it but that might just be geared towards seeing all scenes. Even though it obviously avoids the ones with Mina so

The WT mod specifically recommends avoiding one scene with Mina, because seeing that scene will give you her bad ending. You can later rescue her if you choose, but (if it's correct that you need 600 Qi entering The Cycle to win on hard mode) it would preclude the harem ending. The BJ with Mina costs you one possible like with her, which isn't that big of a deal.

Though I'm much more interested in sex with Selene by the time she proposes it than I am in sex with Natalie--she just doesn't do anything for me.

 

[Sneak Monkey]

According to the walkthrough, the combo scene with Selene and Natalie earns you 1 like and 1 love with Natalie, and there's a later interaction that's only available if you've had that scene that earns you another 1 like with Natalie--that'd be a total of 4 Qi. It will prevent you from choosing Selene's ending, and will probably prevent you from choosing the harem ending (I'm not certain of the latter, but it makes sense to me).

The WT mod specifically recommends avoiding one scene with Mina, because seeing that scene will give you her bad ending. You can later rescue her if you choose, but (if it's correct that you need 600 Qi entering The Cycle to win on hard mode) it would preclude the harem ending. The BJ with Mina costs you one possible like with her, which isn't that big of a deal.

Though I'm much more interested in sex with Selene by the time she proposes it than I am in sex with Natalie--she just doesn't do anything for me.

Oh dear... someone worse than Selene. Not that she's bad, again she's an interesting character, but literally not one tiny hint of chemistry, or otherwise sexiness in any form, up till that point. Plus she offers sex straight after her story about selling it, which is filled with lovely turn ons like shriveled dicks and old men who can't get it up.

I could do a slightly sexier segue than Selene by chatting about IBS and how "I don't have to worry about it now though so how about we have sex yeah?"
I dread to think of a less sexy segue into sex than that... Actually now I'm just intrigued. Maybe when I really wanna kill a boner I'll play it again and find that scene.

 

[danb35]

Obviously tastes vary. It took me a while to warm up to Selene, and she isn't my favorite, but I ended up liking her quite a bit in The Interim (though I found her ending very frustrating--but if you want to see her struggle with her history, you'll probably enjoy it). On the plus side, she's one of the hottest of the LIs (her only real competition in that regard is Polly IMO). Which leads to a bit of a digression...

IMO, visuals aren't this dev's strength. They're serviceable, but not great, and one of the issues is that lighting is kind of weird. One way this shows up is that at various points, people "glow;" I shared an example of that up-thread. Another manifestation is that characters' apparent hair color changes at times, which brings me back to Selene. She's a brunette with blue eyes, but at one point in her sanctuary, she looks like a redhead with green eyes--plus several points from me.

 

[Sneak Monkey]

Obviously tastes vary. It took me a while to warm up to Selene, and she isn't my favorite, but I ended up liking her quite a bit in The Interim (though I found her ending very frustrating--but if you want to see her struggle with her history, you'll probably enjoy it). On the plus side, she's one of the hottest of the LIs (her only real competition in that regard is Polly IMO). Which leads to a bit of a digression...

IMO, visuals aren't this dev's strength. They're serviceable, but not great, and one of the issues is that lighting is kind of weird. One way this shows up is that at various points, people "glow;" I shared an example of that up-thread. Another manifestation is that characters' apparent hair color changes at times, which brings me back to Selene. She's a brunette with blue eyes, but at one point in her sanctuary, she looks like a redhead with green eyes--plus several points from me.

True visuals aren't the best. A glowy redhead does sound lovely. Who knows maybe I'll change my mind but honestly even the rejection dialogue put me off as it just feels so off base. "No thanks, I'm not feeling it." Would have been simple enough to write but he instead goes on about how hot she is... maybe it's a time warp, MC knows cos he's already been there so he already thinks she's hot. So far though she hasn't been at all and as you say, visuals aren't that great so nothing at all backs up the words.

The general talk does suggest that she's a very interesting LI. And personally the escorting doesn't bother me too much. Which begs the question as to why on earth the dev would put her initial scene smack bang after that conversation which does nothing except conjure up rather unpleasant images. In another later encounter, I'd have responded differently but then and there it's a hard no. It's kinda like the dev just wanted her to put people off rather than be given a proper shot.

I have mixed feelings allround with this project, on the one hand the concept much more interesting than anything else on here and props to them for tackling something akin to psychotherapy in the afterlife, on the other hand it would have been good to see a great example of someone really good at it to make it more believable and also some grittier stories, some feel a little meh for the concept. Also the pacing is terrible... We figured out Ifuma destroyed the planet, and he's on the loose and now I know he can kill us in the afterlife too... let's go eat pizza with someone for the entire day... There's just no sense of urgency at all with the switching from individual stories to the main story and back again.

 

[danb35]

some grittier stories

Anita's story is plenty gritty IMO (kidnapped, almost raped, probably would have been murdered? Yeah, pretty gritty), even if it depends on a fundamentally implausible premise (her inheriting her mother's debt). Robin's too. Maybe even Kaitlin's.

 

[Sneak Monkey]

Anita's story is plenty gritty IMO (kidnapped, almost raped, probably would have been murdered? Yeah, pretty gritty), even if it depends on a fundamentally implausible premise (her inheriting her mother's debt). Robin's too. Maybe even Kaitlin's.

Agreed hers I enjoyed, although I haven't reached that bit yet, clicked the spoiler... oops. Hers does feel bad enough for her spirit to be trapped in limbo. She's stuck feeling completely trapped so it fits rather perfectly. The debt thing was stupid, nowhere does that anymore, used to be a thing long ago in some places but now nope. Robin is probably my favourite girl, love me a raven haired tatted goddess.

But really when thinking about what the whole game is about, several narrative tricks were missed. For example Ifuma has destroyed the world, before he did so he enjoyed torturing people. Now that is a whole wealth of stories with the countless toture victims, which would be much grittier and connect in to the main story rather than feeling so disconnected as everything did. It'd be a much more believable reason to be stuck in limbo, tortured to death rather than just fearing death in Anita's case... she's already dead... It also could involved his victims helping out deliberately, after all they're all just normal people in the same boat. And helping people to understand the old rules don't hold them anymore I feel would have been a more interesting direction. More in line with his own exploration of how things work. Rather than just sticking to their narrative playing out unconciously and worrying about interrupting it with the truth.

 

[danb35]

tortured to death

What you're considering here is a very different setup (and thus a very different story, I think) from what we have in TID. The Interim is populated by people who were living at the time the transmigration began (the fact that it began prematurely notwithstanding). The lone exception is Allison, but she isn't really there--she's somewhere between a Shade for MC's benefit and an alter ego for Mira. Anyone who'd died previously has already done whatever they were going to do; MC's task (along with the other Archons) is to move along the people who were stuck at that time. Though we do get to deal with (and eventually send on) one of Ifuma's victims. Dealing with a series of victims who'd been tortured to death just seems like a different direction from where this story was going, though it would make for a (different) interesting story.

With that said, I'd like to see this dev take a crack at another game/story more like TID than like N&T or TOXICity. Maybe to go in the direction you're suggesting, maybe something a bit different.

 

[danb35]

Or is the requirement really 600+ when the accounting happens (which would have meant 532+ for me)?

Turns out I didn't need URM to test this, just to enable the Ren'Py console. And yes, that's the requirement: 600+ when the accounting happens, not 600+ going into The Cycle. Given that, "hard mode" probably isn't actually that hard, even without the walkthrough, though I'm not going to play through a third time to test that.

 

[Gilber_bestram@176]

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