VN Ren'Py Summer's Gone [S1 Steam + DLC] [Oceanlab]

[PaxHadrian17]

Here I was, skimming through what's new and found that there was an update. I was like "yay! update!". So I clicked. I clicked with excited expectations. Then the excitement gets even worse! A click me/readme about complaints! O.M.G. I HAVE to click on this. It will definitely have all the answers to our woes on those who complain about things we love. Right!?
So. With bated breath, I shakily click on said click me/read me, my expectations riding high at about 30,000 feet. There! There it is! All the wisdom one would expect with knowledge that surely will exceed even that of the brilliant Greta Dumberg! What will it be!? Surely it will definitely be something as profound as the emotional blackmail of a frightened yet more-brilliant-than-thou teen as she says...."How Dare You!"! Yes! It must be! It was linked on the front page, so it must be!

That's what my expectations were thinking as they walked off the 30,000 foot cliff.

My expectations had plenty of time to think as they plummeted to their doom. Things like...So...after all that...I find an opinion piece...motivated by negative feelings...targeting opinions, motivated by negative feelings...expecting positive outcomes. Why? Well...because it was linked on the front page! So it must be true!?! Is there enough Irony in the worl...Splat.

And there they were. My expectations....30,000 foot down...splattered all of the foot of the mountain.

I'm curious - what thread did you mean to respond to??

You do realize that you did not mention the AVN for this thread once... - It's Summers Gone, in case you did not know.

Fortuna ღ spoke for many of us (she certainly spoke well and represented my feelings on the matter).

What are you here for?

IF you are here for Summers Gone, we just got another Great release.

What did you like about the release?

What are you hoping for in the future?

Have you played it or are you just here to turd bomb the thread - nothing better to do?

I get how exciting it is to crap on something while hiding behind the anonymity of an F95 user id. I Mean it Must be So exciting, right?? Otherwise - why do it...

BTW - nice hidden activity... alt account much??

Cheers!!

 

[PaxHadrian17]

Why Ocean has eliminated these renders in chapter 5? for a pussy that was seen in the whole game and he removes it?

It's been covered in the thread but here is a short explanation:

Ocean needed to make minor changes to a few scenes (hiding Vic and the MC's privates - typically with a minor change in perspective in the renders) prior to the Steam release.

There may be someone modding these images back into SG for F95, much like the music that had to be removed due to licensing issues now has a music mod (I have not tried this one yet, so I am only going by the discussions about it).

Ocean needs to make sure that there is No reason Steam has to take down SG once it is released.

There are a lot more details surrounding everything being done in advance of the Steam release, but they are spread over Many pages on this thread - and it had gotten Much more active with the new release.

Cheers!!

 

[PaxHadrian17]

they deleted my long review for some stupid reason so ill post here cuz i cant write review they locked me. looks like this game under protection of f95 just like the other stupidly overrated games.

this game wothless waste of time doesnt even deserve to try, thank you i can totally ignore this game now by

Thank you for your post so I can just put you on the ignore list and move on.

For anyone who might respond to this troll, I recommend just hitting ignore and Not feeding Yet another troll who could not even mention the name of the AVN he is trashing.

 

[Ottoeight]

This latest update is showing some continuity "glitches" in the story because of some branching choices (yes, I'm talking about the dialogues betweem Nika and Bella in chapter 5: they make sense only if you made certain choices earlier).

Hopefully Ocean will solve this. Anyway, he didn't update the gallery.

 

[DovahKing111]

Chapter 3, Gym with Bella. Read, or reread the conversation, and try to understand what they talking about.

Ok so I didn't know that because I didn't go to the gym with Bella so was like dafuq how does she know................and I stand by it.......the writing of that scene is awful you wanna have a depressed guy that has trouble getting wood until he knows a girl more fine...........but don't make the poor guy have to admit to the girls he's courting it's just sad when she's hot and ready and says I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING but then she knows he can't!!!!!!!

 

[Paradigms]

Summer's Gone Slander !

 

[PaxHadrian17]

Good update I guess, Just kind of boring story wise. I thought the plot would develop further and expand on summers mysterious disappearance but instead the majority of the update was a pointless book club scene. I don’t really care if there’s no sex i just want the plot to move forward.

Wow - we must have Very different takes on the book club scene.

I thought that this was one of the best scenes in the release.

It had:

Spoiler: Book Club Scene Details

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There is So much more in this scene - I just covered a few of the highlights.

Ocean is still doing world-building and there was Lot of it in this scene and we don't have nearly enough information to know how many of the clues here relate to either Summers disappearance, the death of the MC and Nami's parents, and the life-threatening injury the MC almost died from (I consider two collapsed lungs to be life threatening).

I'm looking forward to more scenes like the book club scene!

Cheers!!

 

[yossa999]

This latest update is showing some continuity "glitches" in the story because of some branching choices (yes, I'm talking about the dialogues betweem Nika and Bella in chapter 5: they make sense only if you made certain choices earlier).

Hopefully Ocean will solve this. Anyway, he didn't update the gallery.

He kinda has yet to finish rewoking the second chapter, and is adding more content than there was before (I don't remember exactly where he said that). And as far as I understand (these are just my thoughts), he does this partly for the sake of story continuity.

 

[360 Danny DeVitos Later]

Ok so I didn't know that because I didn't go to the gym with Bella so was like dafuq how does she know................and I stand by it.......the writing of that scene is awful you wanna have a depressed guy that has trouble getting wood until he knows a girl more fine...........but don't make the poor guy have to admit to the girls he's courting it's just sad when she's hot and ready and says I WANT TO DO EVERYTHING but then she knows he can't!!!!!!!

I feel Ocean has made a rod for his own back making the MC THAT broken and it came home to roost this episode. This episode the Bella route reached the point where them two should be sexual. Bella wants to fuck, the MC wants to fuck, they’re close now, they’re attracted to each other, share a goal, they’re similarly broken to the point of getting one another, they decided to have something casual with the potential for it to be serious plus it's the end of the first season. The build up there is done. This really feels like the point that made sense for it to happen.

Without mentioning it's simply not very satisfying to be playing an MC that outright can't fulfill his part of the dynamic it'd be like playing a FPS where the MC can't shoot guns due to PTSD there's a limit on how long that can work. The real reason I feel is the whole “no sex” made Ocean feel he couldn’t give one route sex as it removes justifications for why it isn’t there on any other route. It feels like no sex and broken MC have become more like principals to follow rather than something that adds to the story.

Basically I feel Ocean shat the bed with this episode. It also ain't a great sign that it looks like routes will basically spin their wheels until all the routes are at the point sex makes sense. It feels a bit absurd.

 

[PaxHadrian17]

Not only that but why would they buy a VN on Steam or anywhere else when it's here for free? That also doesn't even have sex in it. That's like paying $1 a liter for 3% saline solution in the middle of the Pacific. Without the sex it's actually worse, like same scenario only it's dehydrated 3% saline solution (30g of salt only, just add your own 970 mL of pure water).

Gifting a game to interested friends and family members is Very easy on Steam.

Sharing links and explaining pirate downloads on F95 is Not something as easy nor is it something I could do with everyone in that same audience.

Now, perhaps your family and friends are different, and they all know about and use F95. If so - that is fine.

It is just not the reality for others.

I'm looking forward to gifting SG to a number of people. It is, in Season 1, a great story with adult elements and therefor more mainstream.

If they like it enough to choose to download Season 2 when it is available or to wishlist it on Steam, I will continue to gift it; if not, I won't.

So That is why Steam is a Very good venue for sharing Summers Gone and building the fan base.

Cheers!!

 

[Mad4lifeBraven]

I wonder... who the futa character was going to be before the removal? is it robin?

 

[LostGhost]

Please just don't make ntr path as cannon ending for wiab that discussion about butterfly and panda scares me

 

[bateauivre]

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This scene is PATHETIC!
You have a SLUTTY hot PIECE OF ASS WITH A WILLING WET<> STEAMY CUNT begging to be stuffed and penetrated right on top of you and he can't get it up!!!!!!!!!! AND when the hell did this guy ever tell Bella he had boner issues!?!!? Hello!?!!? Did I miss Something?????? As far as I remember he only told Nami................................................
This guy should be the main character of CUCKED GAME. Not this one.

PATHETIC!

Lucky you, you evidently have never suffered from depression.

 

[Davizera]

There should be a new tag for some games, with the tag "just talk", this tag would work well in this game! I played once and never again!

 

[mommysboiii]

C5 was quite good, MC/Bella's relationship is going at quite a steady pace in terms of progression. Not too fast but not too slow, they both are broken and scared inside, knowing that dating each other ain't gonna be easy but still worth a shot. I know many folks here think its too slow paced but going by the story till now, it is perfectly fine. It's just the time and gaps between updates that makes you feel like this game is a huge slow burn.

Those Milfs Cougars need to get dicked, all of them were quite beautiful and pretty much drooling over MC.

Looks like in next Chapter we might get to see some backstory regarding Bella's sister or what really went down that she ended up like that.

It will be quite interesting to see when MC and Cheeto move in with Mila and Bella arrives there too.......

I don't really expect any dicking with the LI's atleast for 2024 as there is still lot to go for that to happen. All of them are too invested in their personal problems to go breeding.

If dev was working just working on SG full time rather than working on 2 games at the same time. the amount of story progression till now would have been a lot. I am not criticizing dev or saying the updates are small in terms of renders or animations but yeah given the time since this game has been in the making, the gap between the updates, reworks...... I would have preferred had he just focused on this one cuz even with WIAB there ain't much story in the rework too so why not just put it on the back of the line.
Going by the current progression, this game is gonna take 5-10 years to reach the ending. Unless he has a big workstation and a good team that can reduce the gap to 3 months.

you know that one misstep and bella is cutting your dick off right?? that means mc has not only dysfunction erection he will be DICKLESS for real

 

[NebulousShooter]

Icing the Bella relationship bugged me this update, she seems unaffected after spending 3 updates pinning and crying for this relationship. I know its narratively necessary to make it no strings, or break up, because every other girl is so far behind in development, but I think it was way to abrupt. Almost like it never happened. Apart from the ending she barely reacts different outside of their scenes together being cut from the playthrough. Reminds me of shitty Mr. Dots coding where if you break up with a LI it just checks you are on her path and gives the same dialogue as If you never pursued that girl in the first place. I think Ocean overdid it...

Side note, Oceanlab, playing from the start I kinda accidently ended up with a save where I was dating Mila, Vic, Nami and Bella and most were aware of it and at ch4.5 I noticed that I was missing the Vic date variable and I wonder if it was a bug. Basically I was making a Bella save(with Nami on the side), but asked Mila out, refused Vic initially but at her house took her for a walk and changed my mind and said I want to go out with her.

The dialogue recognizes that I already invited Mila and Vic says I should go with Mila first and figure it out, BUT the next scene MC and Mila are making out behind the wall, while Vic and Nami build the fort, next Victoria is Kissing MC on the couch and Nami and Mila find them and no one seems to be bothered. Its confusing, if its supposed to be like that but the dialogue needs to be reworked to make it more clear why Vic seems to let the MC go for Mila 1st and decide if he still want to go with her later, but one scene after she puts the moves on him seemingly not bothered about Mila anymore

Not at my home PC, so can't look exactly at variables, but this was the gist of it.

 

[John972]

C5 was quite good, MC/Bella's relationship is going at quite a steady pace in terms of progression. Not too fast but not too slow, they both are broken and scared inside, knowing that dating each other ain't gonna be easy but still worth a shot. I know many folks here think its too slow paced but going by the story till now, it is perfectly fine. It's just the time and gaps between updates that makes you feel like this game is a huge slow burn.

Those Milfs Cougars need to get dicked, all of them were quite beautiful and pretty much drooling over MC.

Looks like in next Chapter we might get to see some backstory regarding Bella's sister or what really went down that she ended up like that.

It will be quite interesting to see when MC and Cheeto move in with Mila and Bella arrives there too.......

I don't really expect any dicking with the LI's atleast for 2024 as there is still lot to go for that to happen. All of them are too invested in their personal problems to go breeding.

If dev was working just working on SG full time rather than working on 2 games at the same time. the amount of story progression till now would have been a lot. I am not criticizing dev or saying the updates are small in terms of renders or animations but yeah given the time since this game has been in the making, the gap between the updates, reworks...... I would have preferred had he just focused on this one cuz even with WIAB there ain't much story in the rework too so why not just put it on the back of the line.
Going by the current progression, this game is gonna take 5-10 years to reach the ending. Unless he has a big workstation and a good team that can reduce the gap to 3 months.

Personally, I liked the update. Yes, it's a slow burn, but there were a lot of plot reveals:

Spoiler: Nami

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Spoiler: Nia

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Spoiler: Bella

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Spoiler: Sasha

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Spoiler: Zara

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Spoiler: The Cyrus Family

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Spoiler: Oh, Ocean, you teasing Bastard!

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Spoiler: Some minor gripes

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[Deleted member 6510130]

Bella just randomly getting her tits out in the desert

 

[NebulousShooter]

Bella just randomly getting her tits out in the desert

If this happens to you, roll with it, don't question it. Trust me!

 

[TangerineTango]

A yes, that's totally how setraline works

I love the game to death but for a game that prides itself with how it handles mental health, that scene with the antidepressant was just a stretch like damn (then again it is a porn game but that besides the point)

Just leaving this here:
" The time it takes for Zoloft (setraline) to start working varies from person to person. You may experience some improvement within the first one to two weeks of treatment. However, generally, it will take about four to six weeks or, in some cases, up to eight weeks for you to feel the full effects of the medication. "