Ren'Py Years Between Us [Ch3] [ScarabsGourmetHole]

[DressedToThrill]

ScarabsGourmetHole

When Julia asked what I was going do about it, I wanted to type to her that I was going to get our life back on track. At least, that was what I was thinking. Apparently I was using long distance telepathy to communicate this to her, which our telepath wife picked up on, replying to us that she'd been dying to hear these words.

But I would find it more immersive as a phone game if we could just communicate normally through text messages, and for my choices to appear as such message in the messaging "app".

Besides this, I think this is a well put together phone simulation despite it using Ren'py. If I could suggest one more thing (and this is not really important), then by default the gallery shouldn't show empty slots for missing images. When I open the gallery app on my real life phone, it's not predicting future images I will take. Seems a bit odd.

Obviously, the slots are nice for hard core gamers who are picture hunting, so I'm just saying there could be a toggle for those people, in the same vein some people ask for toggles to reveal all images regardless of progression. I'm just opposite man.

 

[DressedToThrill]

This is too vague. My feedback for when three choices like these are given the player, is that they should somehow convey what emotion the MC and player want to convey. One of these will express anger, another will express shock, and one will express enthusiasm. I won't spoil which, but I wouldn't be able to, and wasn't able to guess which until I tested all three.

If the question is asked is "What's your take on this?", then I suggest replies like:
"It pissed me off... (that's my take on it!)" , or
"I don't know... (I'm kind of in shock.)", or
"Dude, I think I liked it... (am I weird for that?).

 

[Lizzardcheese]

The narrative becomes meaningless if the wife is unfaithful, regardless of the player's chosen path. If you are fully committed to a "love" path but cannot prevent this outcome or at least have the option to try, it undermines the entire point of that route. In this case, the only possible outcomes are to either forgive and move on (if the love foundation is strong) or descend into a cuckolding narrative (NTR/NTS)

Games like this have saturated the market recently if this one just follows the trend without any substance of its own, it's not worth the time, if the developer is committed to this direction, so be it. Otherwise, I'd propose a change since it's still early and somewhat feasible

Almost every one of these games has "Love path" in the description, but it's only to help their donations. Soon enough they almost always force NTR or "nts" which is usually just being cucked. Looking like this one is following that route.

 

[hans851]

The narrative becomes meaningless if the wife is unfaithful, regardless of the player's chosen path. If you are fully committed to a "love" path but cannot prevent this outcome or at least have the option to try, it undermines the entire point of that route. In this case, the only possible outcomes are to either forgive and move on (if the love foundation is strong) or descend into a cuckolding narrative (NTR/NTS)

Games like this have saturated the market recently if this one just follows the trend without any substance of its own, it's not worth the time, if the developer is committed to this direction, so be it. Otherwise, I'd propose a change since it's still early and somewhat feasible

how about you guys just play one of the 1 million vanilla games and stop looking for vanilla in ntr/s games?