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VN Ren'Py Westview Academy [v0.5.1] [Tako Yuh]

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Vasin

Vasin

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Venoma said:
15 minutes in and I'm already questioning how much substance I can actually expect out of any of these female character storylines. Seems to be shaping up to be one of those shallow and afraid-to-offend-anybody games that just bypasses the whole chase aspect. Which for me essentially separates these games from just watching real porn with better visuals.

Might need somebody to convince me it gets better with that before continuing :)
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I'm curious, what is the "chase aspect" in a video game where you know that a particular person is a love interest? Aside from the whole "chase" being just stupid mindgames that pretty much everyone hates IRL.
 
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Venoma

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Vasin said:
I'm curious, what is the "chase aspect" in a video game where you know that a particular person is a love interest? Aside from the whole "chase" being just stupid mindgames that pretty much everyone hates IRL.
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It's already pretty obvious you could care less if I actually have to explain the difference there to you in that fairly bad analogy attempt. So i'll just save us both the time and argument.

I played another 30 minutes and feel confident I already got my answer anyway. Conveyor belt design approach with the women, and no real resistance or written in effort at relationship building. Again I'm sure that is great for some out there who get easily offended at potential rejection, or classify a female character not immediately thirsting for the male MC as "stupid mindgames".

Definitely not my cup of game play tea though. Especially when the writting unavoidably suffers as a result. For a game that wasn't struggling with a translation to english that story presenation was all over the place from the start.
 
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Barannn

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Venoma said:
It's already pretty obvious you could care less if I actually have to explain the difference there to you in that fairly bad analogy attempt. So i'll just save us both the time and argument.

I played another 30 minutes and feel confident I already got my answer anyway. Conveyor belt design approach with the women, and no real resistance or written in effort at relationship building. Again I'm sure that is great for some out there who get easily offended at potential rejection, or classify a female character not immediately thirsting for the male MC as "stupid mindgames".

Definitely not my cup of game play tea though. Especially when the writting unavoidably suffers as a result. For a game that wasn't struggling with a translation to english that story presenation was all over the place from the start.
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but isnt this a porn game? you should try dating sims for what you looking for. what i want from these games is, enough "plot" to make me want continue and sex scenes with great renders, preferably animated. and im not american or european but maybe if you are enough handsome and nice person, you could live campus life like mc?
 
Vasin

Vasin

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Venoma said:
It's already pretty obvious you could care less if I actually have to explain the difference there to you in that fairly bad analogy attempt. So i'll just save us both the time and argument.
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*Shrug* I mean, it's pretty obvious it's not a story first game, as evidenced from the lack of general plot direction, so it's a bit weird to demand character integrity from it. If anything, this game goes out of it's way to avoid meaningfully progressing "romances" with 90% of it's main "love interests".

Frankly it seems like you're just bitching for the sake of bitching. Tropes exist and just because something is tropey doesn't mean it's bad.

There was no analogy in my post, and I was actually interested how you can reconcile "chasing" something that you already know is within your reach by design. It seems like a logical impossibility at worst and self deception at best.

As for the tone I do think it suffers from the game being unable to decide whether it's a serious story or a goofy comedy and it doesn't stick the landing in either area because of it, but I wouldn't call it bad. It's definitely a cut above 95% of slop that passes for games here.

I also find it tremendously ironic that you use the word "gameplay" when describing this type of media.
 
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TheSwashBuckler

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Eonor said:
Made a compressed Android port of Westview Academy v0.4.1 with the multimod.

Got some basic gestures loaded in: swipe up for save menu, swipe down to hide UI, swipe left to rollback and swipe right to skip. Save files are now stored in the Documents folder. This sometimes means that you may need to close and re-open the port after installing so the save folder is properly created.

Please let me know if you encounter any issues with the port and I'll see what I can do to get them sorted.

Links: Pixeldrain

Edit 23/08/23: The cheat menu wasn't showing. I have fixed this and updated the download link
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Please update this.
 
alex13_zen

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Approximately how many hours of content are there currently? I'm debating if I should wait for a few more releases.
 
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Venoma

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Barannn said:
but isnt this a porn game?
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Yes and No?

As I implied earlier to me there is always a dividing line factor in play which ultimately separates the appeal factor of these games, or the ones worth playing at least, from that of just watching real porn with better visuals.

This one simply did not create that line for me.
 
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Seiko126

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Sep 21, 2018
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Good cast all around but Jordan's best girl and the music path is better than sports. This basketball star stuff is a bit corny and feel's like an obstacle just to see the girls. Not bad but not great. Being a musical man isn't original either but doesn't matter because it's funnier and does a better job integrating the LI into the chosen career path as a shared interest giving them more time to shine as characters and better pacing. It just feels fresher and has better style IMO.

On a side note, I gotta say those 2 star reviews are pretty unfair ... and just some dumb shit I had the misfortune to read, they also have the most likes as well, just tells you people like to hang around and bitch or watch other people do it for them. Anyway, good work.
 
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shazba jnr

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Holy shit! Passive aggressive much!?

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I noticed a few people commented on the mc being a dick for getting Aurora's name wrong, but the whole situation seems too surreal to be taken seriously, like it's gonna become a running gag or some shit.

Her instant hate for him getting her name wrong the first time was extreme (People get my name wrong from time-to-time, and it's a super common name, so I don't know how they fuck it up, but I don't go full hate mode! :ROFLMAO:), and then him doing it repeatedly while she's FMLing away, it's clearly done as a joke (not him joking with her, but the story joking with us).

But more importantly, I'm not sure what this is doing to his chances of fucking her in the future... :sneaky:
 
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scaryterry19

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Still no Jordan scenes. Sad face. I chose the music path and nothing with her besides some more conversation. I feel like the dev isn’t going to progress their relationship. They almost feel like a brother and sister relationship.

(And yes, I know they had the bar scene and apartment scene in this update, but no romantic progression).
 
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