discussion Abandoned VN Ren'Py DAZ SUCH A SHARP PAIN [V0.11.7R] [KETZAL]

[hrmm]

I added the ages to the

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(set viewing date to 2022-07-24) based on the data in the game. The MC is stated as 44 and Macy and Sophie as 55.

Looks like you might be using an old save. characters.rpy lists Macy's age as 65 and Sophie as 60. I loaded up an old save and the Character Info page has the same ages that you had, but if I start a new game they're listed as 65 and 60.

 

[Gerdi B]

Thanks. You're right.
I corrected the ages on the the family tree.

 

[marcomemmey]

Does anybody know how to get the "Seeing Macy at the Hospital" Alice scene?

What do you mean by Alice scene?

 

[Fonsy]

What do you mean by Alice scene?

In the replay gallery it falls under the Alice's tab

 

[HuelB]

That's fine if you live in a city. Outside that and having to walk 10 miles or more each way to the grocery store = not so fun. Of course these days there's Ubers I suppose, that charge an arm and a leg if they have to drive 20 miles just to pick you up (if they will at all, never needed an Uber so dunno).

I guess you live in the US, which indeed forces you to have a car because country too big + no will to develop good public transportation because oil, car brands & parking lot constructors lobbies are stronger than train, buses and tram lobbies. But it's possible to live well without a driving license (and without Uber) in Europe or Japan for example, you just need to not be too far from a city.

 

[marcomemmey]

In the replay gallery it falls under the Alice's tab

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Idk, my gallery doesnt have it

 

[MattShizzle]

I guess you live in the US, which indeed forces you to have a car because country too big + no will to develop good public transportation because oil, car brands & parking lot constructors lobbies are stronger than train, buses and tram lobbies. But it's possible to live well without a driving license (and without Uber) in Europe or Japan for example, you just need to not be too far from a city.

Well, except for "parking lot constructor" lobbies. No such thing, they're usually built by smaller companies.

 

[Mr. Tearson]

Alright, folks. That's enough Off-Topic chatting. Please stick with the game talk.

 

[Gerdi B]

Based on the Macy spinoff I still think that the age gap between Macy and Sophie shouldn't be bigger than 2 to 3 years.

 

[superpuma]

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Real LOLIS is only here at SSP

 

[Grim21]

I can't get the new scene with Cassey. What do I have to do for it?

 

[crownclown39]

I feel like this game needs a better walkthrough or guide or something. I've restarted the game and made different choices but looks like I'm still missing scenes.

 

[Gerdi B]

I feel like this game needs a better walkthrough or guide or something. I've restarted the game and made different choices but looks like I'm still missing scenes.

Did you activate the ingame walktrough?
Stick to one path (Harem, Macy, Alice) and pay attention to the hints for the "hidden" secrets (magnifying glass symbol on the top right).
If you're still missing scenes, feel free to ask here in the forum and I'm sure someone will help you find them.

 

[Nicest_Incest]

Did you activate the ingame walktrough?
Stick to one path (Harem, Macy, Alice) and pay attention to the hints for the "hidden" secrets (magnifying glass symbol on the top right).
If you're still missing scenes, feel free to ask here in the forum and I'm sure someone will help you find them.

Yeah at this point the only way to make it easier after the 0.8 rework is make it kinetic with simply no choices and only harem path (please no). Some scenes need to be on certain paths to unlock (ie Rebecca Dom path for the office scene with her, not Rebecca Love path, that one took me a few to figure out awhile back since I generally don't like being an asshole to my LI's).

 

[MattShizzle]

Yeah at this point the only way to make it easier after the 0.8 rework is make it kinetic with simply no choices and only harem path (please no). Some scenes need to be on certain paths to unlock (ie Rebecca Dom path for the office scene with her, not Rebecca Love path, that one took me a few to figure out awhile back since I generally don't like being an asshole to my LI's).

Agree with please no. I hate kinetic novels.

 

[Nicest_Incest]

Agree with please no. I hate kinetic novels.

Eh there's a few good ones, but yeah more fun to drive a Harley than a train. Sandboxes are what get on my nerves these days, don't have the time or patience for those in my porno stories.

 

[BadJM]

Either people can't read or they don't have the walkthrough active. I followed it and I got every scene. The game is good the way it is right now. I personally don't mind kinetic novels, but there is no way you could turn this into a kinetic novel without removing a large portion of the current content.

 

[HuelB]

Eh there's a few good ones, but yeah more fun to drive a Harley than a train. Sandboxes are what get on my nerves these days, don't have the time or patience for those in my porno stories.

I'm at the next stage : no patience to follow the story, unless it's from a game I follow since 5 years when I was less busy and downloaded less games, or unless I have no choice. I can tell if I will like the story from the summary, and most importantly, I can tell if I like the art. So 95% of games I directly extract the pics and create the story in my mind (and most of the time you can understand the original story just with the pictures, unless for games that make no sense even if you read everything).

For this game in particular, I started to follow the story, then got slightly annoyed by flashbacks (I'm tired of flashbacks in everything : games, TV shows, movies... there's too much of it and 80% of the time it's just filler). I think a lot of devs give too much space to new characters (whether it's in flashbacks or not) too soon, while all I want to see is more of the main characters. But I understand it's hard to balance. Devs need to introduce new characters because some people want those and because if they advance the story too much with main characters, then it ends too soon.
But maybe it could be interesting to do shorter games more often (like the game is finished in 18 months or so) with less characters, but all set in the same universe. Then you can do another game or more where you mix all characters from previous short games.
But what do I know, I'm shit at marketing.

But besides all this, I still wanted to follow the story of this game but whether because of an update or because of me, my save didn't work anymore and I wasn't gonna replay everything.

An inconvenient of this way of doing things is that I have to ignore any games other than Ren'Py, unless art is beyond awesome and I like the story enough.
Technically it's possible to extract almost anything, but Ren'Py is so much easier than the rest that I don't bother.

PS : art in this game is probably Top 3 ever, Top 1 if you like lolis. The only flaw (but common to most games) is that the more characters you have, the more it's inevitable that some will not be designed as flawlessly as the main ones, which the dev logically spent more time creating.

 

[superpuma]

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[Nicest_Incest]

I'm at the next stage : no patience to follow the story, unless it's from a game I follow since 5 years when I was less busy and downloaded less games, or unless I have no choice. I can tell if I will like the story from the summary, and most importantly, I can tell if I like the art. So 95% of games I directly extract the pics and create the story in my mind (and most of the time you can understand the original story just with the pictures, unless for games that make no sense even if you read everything).

For this game in particular, I started to follow the story, then got slightly annoyed by flashbacks (I'm tired of flashbacks in everything : games, TV shows, movies... there's too much of it and 80% of the time it's just filler). I think a lot of devs give too much space to new characters (whether it's in flashbacks or not) too soon, while all I want to see is more of the main characters. But I understand it's hard to balance. Devs need to introduce new characters because some people want those and because if they advance the story too much with main characters, then it ends too soon.
But maybe it could be interesting to do shorter games more often (like the game is finished in 18 months or so) with less characters, but all set in the same universe. Then you can do another game or more where you mix all characters from previous short games.
But what do I know, I'm shit at marketing.

But besides all this, I still wanted to follow the story of this game but whether because of an update or because of me, my save didn't work anymore and I wasn't gonna replay everything.

An inconvenient of this way of doing things is that I have to ignore any games other than Ren'Py, unless art is beyond awesome and I like the story enough.
Technically it's possible to extract almost anything, but Ren'Py is so much easier than the rest that I don't bother.

PS : art in this game is probably Top 3 ever, Top 1 if you like lolis. The only flaw (but common to most games) is that the more characters you have, the more it's inevitable that some will not be designed as flawlessly as the main ones, which the dev logically spent more time creating.

Well, for rendered AVNs like this one I can now understand why flashbacks were used. I decided to go the more linear route in mine and I'm regretting it since it spans 30 years of time, so there's several flash forwards since I wanna finish it before I die in ~40 years. But every flash forward (on average every 5 years after the teens are over, which itself has several of each char) are new aged char models, total pita. The way Ketzal did it at least he only needs 4 versions of the MC for example (shota, teen, 20's, 40's) or 3 versions of Sophie (loli, 20's, 40's, 50's maybe later) rather than nearly a dozen of each (at least there's only 2 main chars and several side ones to deal with).