Ren'Py Goddesses' Whim [v0.4.1] [Ncrow]

[jvbatman]

MFW i decide to try this one and when i reach Sakura Village, turns out its actually Yae Village from HI3, i could recognize that map anywhere, lol, guess the dev is a man of culture

On another note, adorable chars, game looking good

The more you play these games the more you realize you're just looking at the same assets over and over.

 

[Rexo1013]

I can't believe I've been playing this game for who knows how long, and I just now found out I could set it to Spanish :''v Thanks for the update!

 

[spininicolas]

I can't believe I've been playing this game for who knows how long, and I just now found out I could set it to Spanish :''v Thanks for the update!

XDDDDDDDDDDDDD

 

[Ouryuken]

The more you play these games the more you realize you're just looking at the same assets over and over.

i mean, sure, but Honkai Impact 3rd assets, and specially Yae Village isnt exactly what you'd call "common" on a porn game, unless its a porn game about Honkai

Its the first time i see someone recreating Yae Village in Koikatsu

 

[Otherguy2012]

this fishing minigame is fucking dogshit did you even play it yourself before releasing it

ok i found a fix to the hyperspeed fucking cursor for no apparent reason

press shift g and change the renderer to force angle2 renderer and 30 fps

This did not work for me. I still can not catch a damn fish...game is stuck because I am to damn slow.

 

[Pero95]

Yeah, as I said before, the game is becoming a bit stale.
You can see boobjobs and vaginal sex only so much before it gets boring. The dev needs to spice things up and not make each update so little, considering how long we wait.

 

[Helblau]

Unfortunately, feckless MCs is a staple of Japanese style games. For some reason they have zero personality and yet every girl desperately wants to fuck them.

Expecting a meaningful connection between characters in porn games or borderline H anime is basically a lost battle from the get go to be honest, you're kind of setting yourself up for disappointment. Approach these games with different expectations.

The Japanese style is not inherently flawed here, at least you have some decent emotional moments where characters cry and hold each other like in romantic anime. I haven't found a single western title that isn't reflective of the shitty soulless American dating culture (id est, orgies or cheating fuckfests with no substance and no explanation to how things escalate to that). Not that the Japanese aren't some massive cucks and cheaters, but at least they make both.

If I have to choose between the two types of brain damage, I'll take the wholesome Japanese harem anyday. And this is coming from a fully monogamous person, so I have to reframe my judgement and adapt my taste regardless.

 

[Kiraforsomereasonishere]

How do you complete the "Help Ryoko in her room in the afternoon"?

 

[jvbatman]

How do you complete the "Help Ryoko in her room in the afternoon"?

Try going to Ryoko's room in the afternoon and helping her.

 

[keegan1234]

Fantastic game one of the best on the sites and its still early on great art and great animation from delevloper and the story is pretty good too cant wait to see the progress with this one

 

[NK116]

Full All Event Save
the compressed file contains 296 save points (around 50 tabs) that records every single event, story, and dialog choices, pretty much everything from start to finish (as per update 0.4.1) for those who likes to nostalgia but doesn't want to play the entire game again.

0.4.1 content is from the sixth save at tab 48 (48-6).

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[iIIusory]

how i wish this wasn't sandbox... the renders/animations are amazing

 

[DBAV]

how i wish this wasn't sandbox... the renders/animations are amazing

Is hating games with sanbox cool? Because I see lots of people shitting on the non-grindy ones out there like this one, and they seem think they are the kings of the world.

 

[jvbatman]

Is hating games with sanbox cool? Because I see lots of people shitting on the non-grindy ones out there like this one, and they seem think they are the kings of the world.

The concept of a sandbox isn't bad. The execution more often than not is absolutely terrible. Take this game for example, it's basically a linear narrative but instead of just going one scene to the next you have to click around to find which character you have to click on to move the main story forward. If there's only one event that's going to move things forward then there isn't a choice. It's just extra clicking. It doesn't add anything to the game play.

When the game does open up, you run into the issue of each character only being available at certain times of the day or events only progressing when you visit them at a certain time of the day and it's not balanced at all to fill your character's day with things to do. Often times you'll run into the situation where every girl's progress is tied to an specific time like morning so you do one girl's morning event and then can do nothing but kill time until the next morning so again it's just more pointless clicking to get to the next morning again.

Having to travel around from area to area by click arrows over and over also quickly gets extremely tedious. Much of the UI in this game is poorly set up. There's a quest page but also each girl has a quest page of their own in their data sheet so after you complete an event you have to click through every girl to see how to progress them. I don't know about you, but I don't have a perfect memory so I'm revisiting those screens constantly to check what I should be doing next which means clicking through 10-15 screens just to see if anything updated.

All this to say that it's not that sandboxes are bad. I'm sure there is some gold standard game out there that all these types of games are trying to emulate but so far I have yet to see one that feels like it has been implemented in a way that's not just extremely tedious. It adds frustration to a game that's otherwise really pleasant and enjoyable. I like the story and all the characters, I just wish there wasn't so many hurdles to get to the good bits. It's really hard and complicated to develop a game as a solo dev that has the complexity and depth that a good sandbox game ought to have and it's not really a strength of the Ren'Py engine unfortunately.

 

[DBAV]

The concept of a sandbox isn't bad. The execution more often than not is absolutely terrible. Take this game for example, it's basically a linear narrative but instead of just going one scene to the next you have to click around to find which character you have to click on to move the main story forward. If there's only one event that's going to move things forward then there isn't a choice. It's just extra clicking. It doesn't add anything to the game play.

When the game does open up, you run into the issue of each character only being available at certain times of the day or events only progressing when you visit them at a certain time of the day and it's not balanced at all to fill your character's day with things to do. Often times you'll run into the situation where every girl's progress is tied to an specific time like morning so you do one girl's morning event and then can do nothing but kill time until the next morning so again it's just more pointless clicking to get to the next morning again.

Having to travel around from area to area by click arrows over and over also quickly gets extremely tedious. Much of the UI in this game is poorly set up. There's a quest page but also each girl has a quest page of their own in their data sheet so after you complete an event you have to click through every girl to see how to progress them. I don't know about you, but I don't have a perfect memory so I'm revisiting those screens constantly to check what I should be doing next which means clicking through 10-15 screens just to see if anything updated.

All this to say that it's not that sandboxes are bad. I'm sure there is some gold standard game out there that all these types of games are trying to emulate but so far I have yet to see one that feels like it has been implemented in a way that's not just extremely tedious. It adds frustration to a game that's otherwise really pleasant and enjoyable. I like the story and all the characters, I just wish there wasn't so many hurdles to get to the good bits. It's really hard and complicated to develop a game as a solo dev that has the complexity and depth that a good sandbox game ought to have and it's not really a strength of the Ren'Py engine unfortunately.

I fail to see the tedium here, you don't have to grind exorbitant amount a resources or wait for specific weekdays to talk to a certain girl, while linear (as it should be) you choose which character to prioritize even if you have to watch all the events. I see a sandbox worthy of imitation.

 

[Pero95]

Any plans for the dev to change MC's dick not looking like a fucking baton?
While I don't like looking at dicks, that thing stings the eyes whether you want it or not.

 

[Hanny2000]

 

[Washington404]

How do you use the patreon codes?

 

[Thanman83]

How do you use the patreon codes?

Go to Tomoe's store.

 

[Washington404]

Go to Tomoe's store.

I have. But no menu or anything pops up for codes.