>>1092649 How can someone like such a repetitive visual novel?

>>1092649 So do all outcomes end badly?

>>1092749 It depends on choices if you end a route on a good or bad note

>>1092649 Hey its not friday!

>>1092649 >desperately trying to keep a stagnating, long dead memory of better times going I've become the Narrator. I'm sorry Corvidbro.

>>1092843 He comes to learn in a few routes that his plans aren't really going to help anyone.

>>1092649 I enjoyed it but I did all the love routes and I don't want to do the fighty killy routes now because I love her too much.

Would

I got some of the endings in the original release but didn't finish it, still haven't gone back to Pristine Cut. Am I going to have to replay everything?

>>1092749 Got a soft spot for the Wilds paths.

>>1095746 They added new routes but old routes also got expanded.

Nice to see Slay the princess content.

Which V-Tuber has the most entertaining and/or interesting playthrough of the game? I finished it on my own, so I'm interested in someone else's viewpoint while playing.

>>1100262 Obvious answer would be Nicole Goodnight if you want to see the princess herself play it.

>>1097813 I love Princess pubes so much it's unreal.

>>1103027 Wait what?

>>1104963 Nichole Goodnight is the VA for the Princess, specifically because the devs saw her stream Scarlet Hollow while voicing/reading the character lines. She's also a vtuber. It's neat watching her play through it.

>no loli princess I guess the witch is close enough

>>1095804 Reminder that all the iterations you encounter are one and the same person. If you get the "Leave Together" ending, she'll even recall what she did to you - or you to her - in her different versions.

>not a single crowbro made it here it's over.

>>1100262 I liked Pomu's

>>1128744 What I found interesting is how each voice is a manifestation of how the Princess views the bird in each route. I thought the two of you both perceiving each other in crazy ways was interesting.

any word on that ai weg guy?

I couldn’t take the indie-tier art quality. Also the premise is so autistic it sort of turned me off (“what if the narrator, like, agues with the player??”) It kind of sucks that art is so crucial even for low-tier Ren’Py indie slop. Like, no one would care about DDLC if it looked like StP. No AI can’t replace actual artists because each image is generated differently. So from that perspective this game has a done really well inspite of looking like ass.

>>1143708 >I couldn’t take the indie-tier art quality. Zoomer opinion. Slay the Princess looks fantastic. You are correct that the artwork of a visual novel ends up being a lot of the game, but where you are wrong is that StP has fantastic art as well as art direction. >Also the premise is so autistic it sort of turned me off I unironically don't think you understand this game. Like, genuinely.

>>1143708 IMO, the art is really good in a few places. It improves a lot after chapter 1.

>ARE YOU STILL THERE? >ARE YOU STILL YOU?

>>1144504 Arrow next to Anonymous > Delete post.

wwwjam has stated he will be delaying this weeks bunny, plausibly due to either the 4chan shut down or real life I don't know if he knows about this place, but I don't think I'll interrupt his week off

A lot of style, but not much substance. The player is presented with a plethora of alternatives for dealing with a slew of bizarre horror situations, but the game is constructed such that your choices are largely insignificant in the long run. Even if you're interested in exploring all of the strange paths you can follow, the dialogue will say the same things over and over, making the game rather tedious. And it's not one of those games where you can progressively put together everything you've learnt along the way to achieve a satisfying conclusion to the plot. That would be great, but no.

>>1144683 I don't know what this is referencing, so I will assume it's completely sincere >your choices are largely insignificant in the long run In the end of the day, you were always going to leave with only memories, and the choice depth on a chapter to chapter basis is actually pretty deep, given that some part 3's are influenced by part 1 >A lot of style, but not much substance It's a visual novel at it's core, and that means that really it's just a book that you read weird. coming into it with the expectation of a more gamey system system was never going to work >Even if you're interested in exploring all of the strange paths you can follow, the dialogue will say the same things over and over You have an unlimited number of saves, and the format is one VN fans will be very used to. Most of the dialogue felt natural to read and come across in my playthrough, but I can understand how a new player would find it tedious >put together everything you've learnt along the way to achieve a satisfying conclusion to the plot I would agree that the main routes and the final battle are fundamentally different, but it certainly does build on itself In the routes you are trying to learn about, and act on, the princess, whether that means slaying or saving or whatever. Your main goals are to determine what the princess is and if it is correct to slay her. The finale is then the only natural conclusion to this, a segment where you basically learn what she is, but still need to determine the morality of slaying such a complex and all encompassing creature, while tangling with your own emotional attachments and grudges with the woman you've been romantically murdering for the last while It builds on the central thing you've been monitoring the whole game over, your relationship with the princess, both as a woman and as an abstraction Do you like VN's as a genre? Have any favourites?

>>1144683 >A lot of style, but not much substance. I think that if you've never been in a relationship that you might think this, but I assure you that it not the case. >but the game is constructed such that your choices are largely insignificant in the long run You are completely missing the point of the game.

>>1144491 Cold: "Do I have to keep answering?" Broken: "I'm going to stick around as long as you need me to."

>>1142447 Still working on it, haven't really made any progress since last week because I autistically decided to switch from pngs to ktx files to save on vram and memory and thought it would be easy and instead it's taken me like a week and still not working right. It doesn't apply gamma right so everything looks super dark and washed out. It's also causing fringing on transparent overlays which you can see if you look close. Is this the place for STP since 4chan is dead?

>>1097813 That bush one is good

>>1092742 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d0Q64SQujY

slow saturday. Is it over bros?

>>1154504 This is a harsh wane, but most of us will someday return

>>1154504 Wait until you've been around this place for a year or ten

>>1148388 its cool what you're doing but if I might add a critique, the final shot has a wide breast gap, but the first shot shows her torso to be 100% breast with no gap. do what you will just my impression.

Fresh jam

Since things don't die here, does that mean we're stuck in the ending where The Princess is dead?

>>1155954 4chan dying was very bad for indie games >8chan too slow to have enough people interested in niche topics >too fast too keep a thread alive

>>1189657 4chan was a corpse, carried on entirely by its former momentum. What happened is a good thing - either the site will reinvent itself and flourish or they will go back to the same decay, only even more jannie-friendly, and die this way, only permanently.

>>1092649 I tried this a while ago, I remember getting to a point where it got so meta that it just wasn't interesting anymore. Usually when a story reaches a point where there's multiverses/multi-timelines or the existence of omnipotent beings, none of the stakes matter anymore because everything that can be done or can exist has and does and will and would have.

>>1189862 It's not really a complicated meta, though. Each Princess (though they are the same person, as confirmed by the "Leave Together" ending) represents a different flavour of a romantic relationship.

>>1189876 bla bla bla bla The entertaining part of this game, what is attractive to people, are the different princesses and the reactivity to your choices. By doing away with the princess stuff and going for a "higher layer" in the narrative, you do away with what's interesting about this in favor of something boring. What's worse, it's framed as what you were building up to, it's anti-soul and anti-kino. >>1189862 Same. Was extremely hyped for this and felt nothing but disappointment when it eventually released.

>>1144683 >a satisfying conclusion to the plot Sorry, that doesn't make the soyim who wrote this feel smart enough. We'll go with a boring "meaningful" and "deep" ending instead.

>>1092742 It's really no different from the usual route hopping from other VNs.

>>1148388 Glad to see you are still working on this. Can't wait to play some peak sloppa

Is Scarlet Hollow worth a read? anywhere as good as StP? From the game page it looks like the romance options are 3 dudes, a black hipster chick and someone that looks like my aunt. A real letdown after the princess.

>>1189862 >Usually when a story reaches a point where there's multiverses/multi-timelines or the existence of omnipotent beings, none of the stakes matter anymore because everything that can be done or can exist has and does and will and would have. Remember, this is a love story. >>1189887 >bla bla bla bla >The entertaining part of this game, what is attractive to people No, to (You). There are plenty of people who liked Slay the Princess and who got what it was going for. Likewise, there are also people who didn't get it so they think it's bad or whatever.

>>1191499 It isn't. What made Slay the Princess good was even though the devs are lefties, they deliberately left any sort of politics out of the final product. Scarlet Hollow is them indulging but Slay is them trying to appeal to a broader audience.

>>1192438 On the other hand though, there are people that think it really isn't a love story but more like, as Johnny said in one of the streams on describing the relationship between Quiet and Shifty as, "sadomasochistic existential masturbation" of a God. They WERE a singular being at one point, and is part of why The Narrator gets so disgusted whenever The Princess and Quiet have their moments with romantic subtones, in a way, he's narrating masturbation. It also reminds me of a very similar character doomed to be in a really shitty franchise, that is, League of Legends. Kindred was pretty much The Grim Reaper/Death, or simply called The Grey Man, which in his loneliness split himself in two different beings so they wouldn't ever feel alone again. Wolf and Lamb, black and white respectively, much similar to our case with Slay the Princess.

>>1193160 Also worth mentioning, Wild's voice reminds me a lot of Kindred where it has that serene tinge to it.

>>1192625 Which is why people actually bought STP.

>>1140674 I am solitary lights in an empty cityscape, Anon. What are you? Weeks mean nothing in the maw of forever. The Saturday StP thread tradition never left your side...

>>1192625 There wasn't any significant leftie politics in scarlet hollow It wasn't as good as StP, but that was for other reasons

>>1198507 >There wasn't any significant leftie politics in scarlet hollow I haven't played it because it looks too gay and tumblr for me, but what do you mean there are no leftie politics in it? Look at your love interestes. Do you see any conventionally attractive girls here?

>>1192625 I mean, the guy took his wife's name and then hyphenated his own after. And their official discord asks for pronouns and other such cancer, plus as far as I saw, Hollow has this shit in it too. I seriously don't understand how they managed to make something so good and inject none of their personal retarded views in it... I doubt I'll ever touch Scarlet Hollow. I don't want to sour what StP gave me. I'll just pretend they made their magnum opus and stopped making games.

>>1198581 Faggot, fat negress/goblina, fat redditfag atheist, Abby Howard self-insert but way less fat, gay nigger/troon. Beyond grim. Based on that alone I will ignore it.

>>1198581 I'm impressed they managed to make STP one of the best VNs ever made.

>>1198581 I mean we don't have to spend 20 minutes watching someone moan about traumatic discrimination Some people are black or trans, and they don't bring it up, like in real life They are actual characters beyond these things, because the writers have their shit together, unlike the standard lefty spam >>1198772 Aren't you just a bundle of sunshine? Abby actually self inserts as the fat black one and you can also romance faggot's mother if you made the right choices I do want you to be happy anon You don't need to play the game >>1199422 It's quite an impressive feat

>>1198581 Pug girl is not exactly ugly, she looks like someone that a normal guy like me could hook up with. Unfortunately she does look like my aunt and not in a wincest fuck yeah way.

I'm glad we can post lewds here.

>>1193644 Exactly.

>>1199474 Weri good post saar, apply for 500 rupee bonas saar! What is there to be a bundle of sunshine about? An indie dev that I loved and support making some gay shit that's designed to be as unappealing to me as possible? I genuinely adore StP with all of my being and the romance and connection I felt to the princesses and Shifty is something I've rarely felt in anything, which is why it saddens me they are making this fucking mess now. Someone who understands romance, growth, philosophical dilemmas, interpersonal relationships wasting his talents on this trash is just depressing. Why would I possibly want to play a game with current year San Francisco or LA or whatever checkbox cast and every starbucks cuck/theater kid cliche stuffed into it? Call it having high expectations if you want, but still. Also, both niggers and trannies bring up being niggers and trannies ALL THE TIME, so even that part of your comment is just wrong. Tony, are you lurking this place now?

>>1199857 I mean I dislike StP lewds, but both of those Adversary images are hilarious.

>>1199422 Not just as a VN, but as anything with a romance element. Thorn, Dragon, HEA, the cabin/godhood endings with Shifty, even Redeemed Fury are just fucking sublime stuff. I forgot the quite, but I saw an Anon say in one of the weekly StP threads, "the highest praise I can give this game is that it sincerely made me cry. Nothing hits a cynicalfag harder than sincerity" and it stuck with me. The game awakened some things in me that years of cynicism and apathy hadn't successfully crushed.

>>1201030 >What is there to be a bundle of sunshine about? Tabitha

>>1201030 Bro, if you can't deal with a little bit propaganda in your games, you're a bit of a winger. It's one thing if that's the core loop of the game, but it sounds like it's just a big fucking maze of a game with love it or hate it art and a little bit of alphabet puke.

>>1201115 >Redeemed Fury I like how both the Cold and Broken through, sheer apathy or the genuine belief that nothing could break you any further. Pretty much stopped her woman moment.

Well boys, it's been a honor.

>>1205107 Awfully short for a suicide note

>>1201774 Yeah, and both the new(?) art sucks and the propaganda is retarded. So is the rainbow puke. I don't HAVE to deal with propaganda, that's the point. I don't like these fugly characters. I don't play games to be reminded how retarded the real world has become. That's why I just won't play it. I pre-ordered the Collector's edition of StP, the vinyl, even got a poster and two Steam copies to gift to friends in addition to mine. I felt they deserved the support. It's just sad they decided to go they route after I loved StP so much and they're clearly capable of making a game that doesn't adhere to Weimar cancer California sensibilities but choose not to.

>>1201829 Cold is the man. He comes in clutch in some of the worst situations and saves the day, but Broken redeeming himself here (arguably) and in Apotheosis was great to see too. I really liked how you can show compassion to even the worst vessels and get some mutual understanding. It's a fucked up situation that isn't fair for either of us, but adding more hurt to the existing hurt is just pointless and I genuinely didn't want to be cruel to any of them. Not even Den or Fury. After all, it was still my choices that molded them into this.

>>1210793 Not trying to be a dick about it but I'm quite sure they'll dip a bit more further into the StPverse after Scarlet Hollow since I frankly don't see it becoming as much as a hit. Not that it'll bomb, mind you, it just lacks presence overall in comparison. While StP has such a stupid amount of potential to dwelve further into, I honestly enjoyed seeing people coming up with new Princesses even if it was mostly for fetish sake, there are people that do make some interesting spins to it. The Wild was one of the most interesting routes for me, over the glimpse or something much more on what once was and is the closest to a prologue exposition

>>1212012 Really enjoyed Networked Wild too. Wounded wild was heartbreaking, and I didn't see any reason to hurt her. I got it once but I truly don't see the reason of splitting from her for the route. "Kill me then, if you hate me so much."... But I don't, I never have. I never hated her and turning to anger and bitterness was the exact opposite of what made Thorn and TpaTD so damn good. It put all that misery in perspective and let us bury the stupid hatchet in a way where we both grow. I also really enjoy the way Apotheosis, Wilds and Shifty work in parallel to each other, especially with the musical motifs. Apotheosis being the closest to Her but incomplete and not looking to be with you truly, other than as a witness, while Wild being so close to both us realising our godhood and that we were once one. Man, I love the game and its world. I hope they get back to their senses after SH. I will ignore it and pretend it doesn't exist. I don't want to sour myself.

>>1212012 >Scarlet Hollow Looks like shit.

>>1212575 Wounded Wild is what I ended up getting on my first playthrough since I got eaten by The Beast(stood around like a retard since I didn't think she'd outright vore me) and then stabbed her heart so, it made sense at the time to split ourselves as I had to agree with The Narrator as I didn't know better at the time, that we are two separate beings, and leaving Wild embedded within the cabin didn't feel right so I cut her free. Plus, I believe in forgive and not forget, doesn't mean I'll think less of them, just that at one point they did fuck up with me and it takes time if able to mend that, doesn't mean that I'll turn my back on them either.

>>1144491 If possible, re-use this for the next OP People won't have seen it

Im going to slay the -AAAAAIEEEEEE I got all cgi's for most of the routes yet Im missing two pics on the initial princess. Do you get them in the actual SLAY the princess ending?

>>1466269 You DO know about The Look right /v/?

>>1465337 No, you just need to be a dick to her in all 5 routes