manu_arya

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Overview:

Your mother died several years ago and your father has recently died (Happy start, right ?). You are returning to your childhood home to visit your deceased mother's best friend Monica and Monica's two daughter's whom you grew up. You haven't seen them in several years (for reasons explained in the game). In addition to these three ladies, there will be plenty of other characters in play (friends, foes, neighbors, stalkers and the "Coffee-Shop Girl"). Now go ring the doorbell. Monica and the rest of the ladies are waiting.......​

Thread Updated: 2020-06-02
Release Date: 2020-06-01
Developer: CheekyGimp - - -
Censorship: None
Version: Episode 17
OS: Windows
Language: English
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Extras: Walkthrough - Walkthrough+Gallery Mod - - All-in-One Mod - Fan Art
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Joh SMifhoif Thanks for the links *This unofficial port/version is not released by developer, download at your own risk.
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File is too big cant download in mega or other can you please upload Torrent ? thanks
 

Abhai

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File is too big cant download in mega or other can you please upload Torrent ? thanks
You could try and find torent on the other sites such as porno-island etc.
Yet, here you have a few versions/sizes to choose from - apart the HQ (the largest size), there are MQ, official and unofficial compressed versions, where the latest one has only 520MB.
 
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You could try and find torent on the other sites such as porno-island etc.
Yet, here you have a few versions/sizes to choose from - apart the HQ (the largest size), there are MQ, official and unofficial compressed versions, where the latest one has only 520MB.
Also try a VPN - pause at 1GB or other point, switch VPN location/IP and restart
 
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Meushi

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Folks, Let me know your feedback once you've finished. Very interested to hear what people / liked didn't like. Just remember to use the spoiler tag.
Liked the update, as always enjoyed the writing & humour. Lily & Jenna/Katie scenes were hot.

The upgrade to Jenna was particularly noticeable, kudos to Red for finding a solution for the zombie/grey skin.

As others have said, not a huge amount of story progression, but plenty of ground work for future updates.

Have been playing the field up to now (max content per playthrough), so really appreciate the options to back out of various relationships before things get really messy in the near future. The opportunity to setup separate paths/pairings this far into the game without loosing all the existing progress is great!

The option to name saves is fantastic in this context. The prompt worked fine (once I remembered to turn it on in preferences at least...).

The gallery is also a welcome addition, though disappointing it didn't cover the v17 content. It might be better if content the player hasn't previously seen was initially obscured as it's a bit spoilerish. Maybe a preference/button to display the unseen scenes, so those that want to can opt in without spoiling others. Might not be storing persistent variables to support this however.

Thanks for providing the various size/quality downloads, very handy for those of us with bandwidth caps etc.

My crappy laptop with a meager 4GB of RAM struggled if I left some of the videos running for any length of time. I think the problem is some of them have humongous bitrates:
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A bitrate of 38.03 Mb/s is way over the top for 1080p. According to Youtube uploads should be 8-10 Mb/s (8000-10000 kb/s) for 1080p and that's to handle live action etc. For these I think 5-6 Mb/s would be fine, which is more in the ball park of the AVIs used previously.

Apart from flogging my laptop, these high bitrates significantly increase the video file size. I transcoded vid17EBJ_f.webm to an average bitrate of 5000 kb/s (5 Mb/s) and the file size dropped from 6.99 MB to 904 KB. The presets I used messed up the colours (used a web safe palette), but otherwise it looks OK with the lower bitrate? Might be worth acewinz tweaking the video workflow to constrain the bitrate to something <=8 Mb/s?

I noticed some typos etc., ScottyLQ might have already covered them:
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Esp``

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Agreed on loving cameos :)
Sadly though it comes down to reused assets across games & shared/similar likenesses across different games that sometimes it gets hard to see/remember what is a cameo and what is a recycled asset to save design time.

Also... bummer that we won't get to see a scene of Katie freaking out at finding 2 additional bodies in bed with her and the MC at the beach house LoL
Lol indeed true, still just for that dark haired girl, I'm going to check out that game even though I saw that hairstyle hundreds of times already. Still it catched my eye so I guess purpose of cameo worked. :p
 
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Aldnoah Zero

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They can, but it isn't going to change anything.

Sure devs have changed their story to fit peoples wishes ... smaller devs ... chasing a few extra patrons.
Although i've yet to see any dev change the direction of their entire story and entire cast just to fit a few requests while butchering their own game.
The game didn't start yesterday, to say: please a few ..
And several times Mc had the freedom to choose several partners ,without many serious consequences ...
Once you can go back to some answers, it is possible to even (ep16) draw a gray line
(I haven't started ep 17 yet).
Edit..
Unfortunately after playing part of ep..17 ..:cry:
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Unless you have inside information on which this story is finished ... and it is the final and infecible will of the DEV ..
(butchering their own game) does not apply ..
What is the reason for having feedback with fans in each chapter, if not for changes in the plot?
As Full Harem.., you are right ... it is not possible .. (monica is one that makes it very clear)
The dev is free to finish the game, in a bad ending ,for those who choose to
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.. as punishment for betrayal and greed...
But as it is a game and not a book, alternative endings or even a continuation is possible.
And like any commercial product, (although in my opinion it can be considered art) the more pleasing and getting sales, the better for Dev, and even future projects ..
 
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acewinz

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Liked the update, as always enjoyed the writing & humour. Lily & Jenna/Katie scenes were hot.

The upgrade to Jenna was particularly noticeable, kudos to Red for finding a solution for the zombie/grey skin.

As others have said, not a huge amount of story progression, but plenty of ground work for future updates.

Have been playing the field up to now (max content per playthrough), so really appreciate the options to back out of various relationships before things get really messy in the near future. The opportunity to setup separate paths/pairings this far into the game without loosing all the existing progress is great!

The option to name saves is fantastic in this context. The prompt worked fine (once I remembered to turn it on in preferences at least...).

The gallery is also a welcome addition, though disappointing it didn't cover the v17 content. It might be better if content the player hasn't previously seen was initially obscured as it's a bit spoilerish. Maybe a preference/button to display the unseen scenes, so those that want to can opt in without spoiling others. Might not be storing persistent variables to support this however.

Thanks for providing the various size/quality downloads, very handy for those of us with bandwidth caps etc.

My crappy laptop with a meager 4GB of RAM struggled if I left some of the videos running for any length of time. I think the problem is some of them have humongous bitrates:
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A bitrate of 38.03 Mb/s is way over the top for 1080p. According to Youtube uploads should be 8-10 Mb/s (8000-10000 kb/s) for 1080p and thats to handle live action etc. For these I think 5-6 Mb/s would be fine, which is more in the ball park of the AVIs used previously.

Apart from flogging my laptop, these high bitrates significantly increase the video file size. I transcoded vid17EBJ_f.webm to an average bitrate of 5000 kb/s (5 Mb/s) and the file size dropped from 6.99 MB to 904 KB (dl @ Mega). The presets I used messed up the colours (used a web safe palette), but otherwise it looks OK with the lower bitrate? Might be worth acewinz tweaking the video workflow to constrain the bitrate to something <=8 Mb/s?

I noticed some typos etc., ScottyLQ might have already covered them:
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Thanks for all the input. Especially about the vids!
 
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Ghostload

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I dunno... we kinda enjoy people flailing around not knowing when the hammer is coming down. View attachment 682983
I told Bella and Jolina they could move into the beach house. All while being with Jenna. I also said I'd be Jolina's silent business partner.

My main gf is Jenna due to the fact that she was so salty after rejecting her on my previous playthrough.

You're now writing up an ending specifically preventing them from moving in, aren't you?

That's fine. I don't really care whether it happens or not, I made those choices because I felt bad for them.

It's just that I don't want to get screwed over in the end. I said no to the money.

Acewinz -- you, Cheekygimp, and the rest of the team are really ratcheting up the suspense here.

Hats off to you.
 
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I read that the maker of the pdf walkthrough said they'd stop at Ep.16 because of COVID. I searched and couldn't find a pdf for 17 from another source.

Anyone have one? I know there's mods which are great for the LI I'm talking to at the time, but I don't understand the branching choices as clearly as when it's a pdf with comments.

Any help would be appreciated with some good ole words based walkthrough thanks.
 
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