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I have to agree - it would be great if it's done well.
The first renpy game I played was "MythicManor" which still is a great sandbox game. You are free to choose, where to go, whom to date, what to to, when to do. And you can continue to play without limit.
Unfortunately most sandbox games tend to be a "grind fest". To make a good sandbox game a lot of work and effort has to be put into it - which is rare.
VNs on the other hand are not really games IMHO. You walk through a story, make a decision here and there to miss a scene or not and that's it. A lot of people don't bother to decide anyway but follow a walkthough. As long as the story fits ones taste, all may be shiny. But beware if suddenly the plot goes into a direction which I don't like? Or the mc acts like I myself never would?
So yes: good sandbox is great, but a lot of work to make it right.
For me it's the other way around. The sandbox games I know mostly are kinda "kinetic" for the story and characters, you can't change there much, the scenes you get are always the same. Also there are VN's with very heavy game changes after the choices you made, too. So you maybe have only played the simplier VN's.
For me a sandbox is only a different way you can get to the scenes of the game, not if and how your interactions have influence to the story. That can be also done in a VN. I also already have seen VN's with a kind of grinding also (yikes). Maybe a Sandbox/free roam feels a bit more like a game because of these special parts - but to have a "full games feeling" they are to limited for me either.
Fuck sandbox. Just saying. Except for 'Come Home'.
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Great line, should have saved it for the main event.
Also, there seems to be no way to reduce opacity on the text box at the bottom of the screen. Can you change that Zargon_games?
Also, there seems to be no way to reduce opacity on the text box at the bottom of the screen. Can you change that Zargon_games?
Strange that you see it so dark, I''ve modified the text box to be almost transparent.
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Yes, Ruby route is mandatory at the moment.
Agreed. Even in "good" sandbox games, the story is more or less linear. But the story is obscured by bullshit like eating, showering, checking rooms, random clicking for hidden objects etc. etc.
In an erotic game, I want eroticism. This means relationship building and lewds, with a sufficient amount of back story to avoid it getting boring. Eating and checking empty rooms is not erotic. Showering loses every sense of eroticism after spying on your sister for the 500th time hoping to finally catch the "random event"...
Then you guys haven't played Come Home.Yes, Ruby route is mandatory at the moment.
Agreed. Even in "good" sandbox games, the story is more or less linear. But the story is obscured by bullshit like eating, showering, checking rooms, random clicking for hidden objects etc. etc.
In an erotic game, I want eroticism. This means relationship building and lewds, with a sufficient amount of back story to avoid it getting boring. Eating and checking empty rooms is not erotic. Showering loses every sense of eroticism after spying on your sister for the 500th time hoping to finally catch the "random event"...
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You can try as mentioned above the mod from Koga3. His Android version should have that option, too.
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No I haven't. Will try it, maybe it's good.
But I am talking about the general distraction that all sandbox games have, by design of being a sandbox.
I do play sandbox games, some are ok, some even good, but for most games, it's a distraction rather than a feature.
One game where sandbox / game play is actually a feature used to great effect is this one:
https://f95zone.to/threads/patronus-v3-2-72r18-dve-games.12458/
However, people complain that mechanics are broken, story progression is slow, etc. All consequences of the game design.