discussion Hot take - every game should have an "unlock gallery and replay" option.

[shulk18]

Of course yes, there are times when you want to repeat the scene or maybe the game has too many routes and if it takes you a while to unlock the scenes

 

[One Shot]

If its a single route visual novel where just one playthrough it enough I would say not, but if you need multiple routes, I prefer the gallery unlocker option

 

[2424ad]

First: all games should have gallery and replay options, full stop. No exceptions. There's nothing more annoying than having to try and remember what part of a long game had the scene you want to replay and having to have thirty seven different save locations to try and find it again.

Second: all galleries and replays should be able to be unlocked manually by players if they just don't want to play through the story mode any longer.

Third: If you mouse-over or click on an "locked" gallery or replay location it should hint to you what you need to do to unlock it. "This path requires Izzy Love of 10+" or "To unlock this scene try and spend more time with Laura" or whatever.

yeah i hate games that dont have a gallery seems like an easy add to me

 

[UgoFrizzi]

Sometimes, a game's characters and action will be hot as fuck but the game itself is obnoxiously grindy or super boring, or you're really not into the story. A gallery unlock feature solves that problem. Even withot a gallery function, if you're playing a ren'py game, you can just unren the image files and fap away.

Absolutely, and if the game is a RPG maker you can usually skip directly to the gallery room via MTool if the dev added it and modify the value to unlock it. That is what I usually do if the game sucks

 

[BLBoi69]

definitely team gallery. if you don't like it, you can just ignore it! (however as a collector, I'd prefer the gallery to open up as I play and reach things.)

 

[Rebel 357]

yeah i hate games that dont have a gallery seems like an easy add to me

I haven't gotten around to half of the game engines but I agree. So far I find that adding galleries to a game is not hard.

 

[fwjv]

I've noticed a number of non-h games which are including things like this. FF14 comes to mind immediately, but there's been a few others. Technically, all the Valkyria Chronicles games did this but it was literally how the game's story is told (it's all technically flashbacks in a book)

 

[TERClamore]

I haven't gotten around to half of the game engines but I agree. So far I find that adding galleries to a game is not hard.

Good to hear!

Also, I enjoy having an option that gives you a guide to getting certain unlocks if you have finished the current build and missed something or want a different ending that isn't readily apparent.

 

[Rebel 357]

I've noticed a number of non-h games which are including things like this. FF14 comes to mind immediately, but there's been a few others. Technically, all the Valkyria Chronicles games did this but it was literally how the game's story is told (it's all technically flashbacks in a book)

I'm pretty sure that some console games back in the golden era [6th Gen of gaming is considered the golden era for gaming] of gaming had galleries too.