VN Ren'Py Thief of Hearts [v0.0.3] [MrDots Games]

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"Ariel?"
"Hmm?"

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"This is literally the same hairstyle you've had five minutes ago that i had zero reaction to. Why are you acting out of sudden as if you've just given yourself a dramatic makeover? For that matter, why i'm acting like that, too?"

(sorry, just a bit too silly moment to resist poking a little fun)
 
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Hyperserver said:
it's not a bug, you maybe just missed some task points to complete the task (most likely you did some wrong choices)
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No, that sequence is bugged -- you only get the task (Zora's training session) to conclude if you choose to spy on Zora in the showers *and* trigger the "non-canon scene" in there. Otherwise the game skips straight to the next scene (talking with co-worker) and the task never concludes. And i'd argue there's no reason to force the player to view scene they might not want to, especially if it doesn't actually add any task point (plus, missing out on task points drops the grade, but it shouldn't stop the task from getting concluded altogether)
 
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ffive said:
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"Ariel?"
"Hmm?"

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"This is literally the same hairstyle you've had five minutes ago that i had zero reaction to. Why are you acting out of sudden as if you've just given yourself a dramatic makeover? For that matter, why i'm acting like that, too?"

(sorry, just a bit too silly moment to resist poking a little fun)
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Hey now, at least she put glasses on. That was enough for Superman, wasn't it?
 
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ffive said:
No, that sequence is bugged -- you only get the task (Zora's training session) to conclude if you choose to spy on Zora in the showers *and* trigger the "non-canon scene" in there. Otherwise the game skips straight to the next scene (talking with co-worker) and the task never concludes. And i'd argue there's no reason to force the player to view scene they might not want to, especially if it doesn't actually add any task point (plus, missing out on task points drops the grade, but it shouldn't stop the task from getting concluded altogether)
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shouldn't be that way - we'll have a look into that
 
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ffive said:
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"Ariel?"
"Hmm?"

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"This is literally the same hairstyle you've had five minutes ago that i had zero reaction to. Why are you acting out of sudden as if you've just given yourself a dramatic makeover? For that matter, why i'm acting like that, too?"

(sorry, just a bit too silly moment to resist poking a little fun)
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I took that as a typo/mistranslation. I read it as "let my hair down" which means to allow yourself to relax. It was in response to her not wearing her glasses, and she said she didn't need them, and if they were going to sit and relax, she might as well let her hair [hang] down too. So in other words, if they're going to sit and watch a movie, she will relax and take off her glasses, since she doesn't need them.

Obviously I could be wrong, but it's just how I read this exchange when I played it.
 
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I've finished my playthrough of the second episode and I quite enjoyed it overall. I think my main complaints* are about the sex scenes, and it's a difficult one, because one of those complaints stems from the very reason the scenes are there in the first place. It was said that scenes are added to give some sex for players where the story isn't in the right place to have some - making sure there's at least one sex scene per episode. I applaud that in general, but I don't think they were well implemented here.
*I'm not actually complaining, just a figure of speech here as I give my thoughts on the episode.

The one scene that was part of the story did not fit at all for me, and for me the episode would have been better without it. I wasn't interested in the girl either, so that doesn't help, but story-wise, I didn't think it felt right in the first place. The "non-canon" scenes were hit and miss for me. I don't mind the using imagination/dreaming bits, that's kind of natural, though I can take them or leave them. There were a couple of scenes though that I felt would easily fit as story elements, it's just that the MC isn't there to witness them. Maybe that's why they're extra scenes, but I don't think they needed to be listed as non-canon. Showing what a turned-on girl does when she gets somewhere private, or showing what a turned-on girl did before needing a shower is fine for me, and as far as I'm concerned, it fits the story and doesn't need to be counted as "non-canon".

Overall, I thought the story was decent enough, and the visuals nice. I thought it was a bit weird that two people would settle down to watch a movie on a sofa with such a low back that they couldn't lean back and relax, and I thought it was a bit weird that all of a sudden we're kissing everyone (though it moves that part of the story along, so I don't mind it). The only thing that I did find to actually point out was the inconsistency in Vivian's lingerie, where it kept switching from lacy to silky, sometimes literally just when she moved her arm from one frame to another:
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TonyMurray said:
I took that as a typo/mistranslation. I read it as "let my hair down" which means to allow yourself to relax. It was in response to her not wearing her glasses, and she said she didn't need them, and if they were going to sit and relax, she might as well let her hair [hang] down too. So in other words, if they're going to sit and watch a movie, she will relax and take off her glasses, since she doesn't need them.

Obviously I could be wrong, but it's just how I read this exchange when I played it.
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That'd be a generous reading, but no -- if you interpret it as figure of speech then what she's saying is "I figured that if we're going to sit back and relax, i may as well relax too" which simply doesn't make sense. So my guess is that was meant literally --since Ariel usually has her hair in a bun-- and it was supposed to be one of these cheap "a librarian takes off glasses and lets her hair down and look, now she's hot" moments. Except they forgot to keep her hair up in the earlier render, which spoiled the expected "whoa...." effect and made MC reacting like that look silly.
 
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TonyMurray said:
and I thought it was a bit weird that all of a sudden we're kissing everyone (though it moves that part of the story along, so I don't mind it)
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I figure this part can make some sense given the order of events --but only if you pick the "right" responses in the dialogues-- since then you get the scene where it's Vivian who kisses MC, which might embolden him to (try to) do the same to the others.

But yes, even so having it happen to all girls at roughly the same time does come across as bit artificial.
 
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This update was a bit boring. It was very monotonous compared to the first episode.
 
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