Crimson High Game
Armanda Kicks
Being a huge fan of visual novels, I decided to give it a try myself and funnel my imagination into creating a fantastic world, filled with cute girls, a bunch of weirdness, and some secrets to uncover.
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Just recently downloaded and got to ch.3. Holy FUCK i slept on this for so long. Im amazed about the story and all of the character far (miko and kana have my heart. fight me).I might have to join your ranks on Patreon. Keep it up Vertigo
Just completed this 10/10 VN on my phone and can't wait for continuation of the story and further updates, wished i could've donated to help with development, but oh well. Also thought (and wished) a few times how story would change if we had a choice to allign ourselves to the Church for example, but hey, it'll just make development harder and longer and that's just a theory... A GAME THEORY!
Got to chapter 4's current stopping point for this version. This game is awesome and stressful at the same time with all the suspense. There really isn't anything about the game I don't like, other than story stuff that triggers me but thats just me being really into the story mostly and being aware of something called morality unlike the seriously messed up antagonists in this game. I was practically in sync with MC when Jun's dad appeared. Also the idea of a religion like that in a modern era is both disgusting and disturbing
man..... I was LIKE man... Waiting for 2 updates instead of diving the latest is very VERY worth it. thanks for unveiling what I've been wondering since its introduction during Chapter 3. Also I feel really bad for a certain Vampire(Avoiding Spoiler huehue) A lot has happened during the span of one Week. Also, JUN, I also Didn't forget about Little JUN well... not so Little anymore but heh. looking forward for 0.38 update (Yes. planning on skipping 2 more updates cuz...
I also think the game lacks some sort of (manually enabled) hints and explanations of what your current choices affect, because some choices and their consequences are not obvious at all and you can probably miss a lot of content in the future because of that if you don't mess with the game code.
I would love to give you longer updates, but my days only have 24 hours, too. Seeing as the updates release on a roughly monthly basis, 30 minutes is the best I can (currently) do without compromising the quality. It may not seem like it, but making this stuff takes time if you want it to be any good. (And between you and me, I'm already putting out a lot more content than the majority of my colleagues, so there's that, too.)
I get where you're coming from with the hint system, but that's kinda like asking for a built-in aimbot in Counter Strike - yeah, it'd ensure that you get the best outcome from any session/playthrough, but it'd also take away any sense of achievement tied to the game. Granted, the comparison is a bit lackluster, seeing as Counter Strike is competitive and CH isn't (as well as a few other factors) but I think you get what I'm saying.
On top of being unnecessary, would adding a hint system like that take a considerable amount of time, which - in turn - would detract from the time I could spend on making actual content for the game, further enhancing the "issue" of the first point of your comment: The more time I spend on adding peripheral features like that, the shorter (or further apart) the actual updates will be.
While I, as a player of other AVN myself, absolutely feel your plight of wanting more content and not wanting to miss anything due to making "wrong" decisions in games, I, as the dev of CH, am also just a single person and can only do so much without risking burnout - in which case there wouldn't be anymore content at all.
First, I would like to preface that I have only played until around the start of Chapter II. Crimson High seems to be the makings of an excellent AVN. It has been more captivating than most others I have experienced. I did want to point out a detail that I noticed while playing. When encountering Orianna the first and second time, a "crucifix" is mentioned. The error is that a crucifix is a term depicting Jesus crucified. The item seen in your game is instead a cross. Also, consider making the hint for the hamsters more prevalent and more distinctively contrasting against the quick save notification. It's nothing against the feature. I acknowledge that others enjoy it. I like seeing the extra artwork but feel distracted and less immersed in the story when constantly checking for secrets. Otherwise, I have nothing else but praise for this project. Keep up the fantastic work. Have a nice day!
You're right, "crucifix" isn't exactly the right term, but I chose it deliberately, despite that fact.
Jesus doesn't exist in the world of CH*, so the crucifix in this world can't be depicting Jesus crucified. Instead, in CH lore, the Church's crucifix is a symbol for converging paths of sacrifice and faith.
On top of that, the term "crucifix" has a way closer tie to vampires in various pieces of vampire mythology than the term "cross" does, seeing as the cross itself is (usually) only considered harmful to vampires while in the context of Christianity, whereas the crucifix always is considered harmful due to its inherent link to Christianity. And, frankly, I personally think "crucifix" just sounds better and more impactful than "cross".
As for the notification stuff for the hamsters.. I'll think about it. You're the first person to tell me that the notifications are too subtle, so I have to assume that most people are fine with them as they are (or just don't care enough to mention it). Now, if I were to make them more obvious, on the other hand, I'm sure I'd get people saying that they are too distracting or something like that, instead.
What I potentially could do is to give the player options for the notification's style, even though I honestly don't think it's the best way to spend my time, seeing as it'd take away from the development of actual content.
Now, that being said, though, I'll probably still do it, since I enjoy this kinda work and it shouldn't take away too much time. I just can't promise when and how I'm going to implement it, seeing as the hamsters themselves are already just an "extra" feature of CH, and thus this addition is very low priority.
I was thinking 'i finally found a game thats as good as fall of the angels (probably better)' and literally 5 minutes later i saw the tv scene... i wonder did you get inspired by that game to make a story focused one as well ?
the game overall is 10/10 but i noticed that in the hamster gallery section i saw that even though i found 5 hamsters the photos were still locked so i thought i need to click unlock hamsters to use the ones i found but it unlocked all of them... even if i go back to previous saves they are still unlocked is there a way to 'fix' it ? Also i think a warning for the button would be good too
Yeah, a warning for the button might be a good idea. I'll see that I add that for next update. Also, there sadly isn't an easy way to "fix" this. Best thing I can offer is to create some sort of reset button for the hamsters in general (something I'll likely do anyway) and to send you a fix for this issue in particular, if you tell me which hamsters it were that you accidentally unlocked. There sadly isn't something as simple as an "undo" button or something like that.
Thanks for offering help but its fine no need to send a fix if there isnt an easy one. i can wait for the next update to find the others. i only wanted to say it so if another player sees this they wont do the same mistake as i did. Because finding them was really fun, just playing the game and you just notice a tiny cute hamster looking at you behind a book or something :D
I know i left a review before but seriously im loving this story. I just wish you could release new update by the week but I understand how hard it is to release a new version but that's seriously how much I enjoy it
first we got fired and got case with chika closed already. After that we got to know about what happened to chika from Suzu and then going to talk with Yukari about chika. L - logic (idk if this is intended but i got it like that)
P.S. i'm in love with this project it's just too cool and hamsters is cool easter egg and there's just everything good about story it isn't too unknown but in the same time it isn't obvious at first and only thing what putting it a little down is some animations bc they are just slideshows and i'm only on second act as i wrote this
I assume you're on PC? Did you use the update-only version or the full version? If it's the latter, did you unpack it to a new location or just shove the files in the same folder, overwriting what was there before?
I did use the update only version, and when that did not work downloaded the full version and moved a copy of my saves there to test. I stored it in a separate location for that. Both provided the same error message.
To explain my train of thought here: Seeing as you're (so far) the only person to show me this error leads me to believe that it's not an issue with the update itself. Then, the only time I've seen that error being persistent before, was when I switched from RenPy 7.4.8 to 7.5.3 back in like v0.13.0 (or somewhere around there).
The traceback doesn't really give too much information about what's actually wrong, so all I can really offer you is to take a look at your save file and see if I can get it to work on my end or if the save file itself somehow got borked. If you want me to do that, upload the save file to Google Drive or some other file host and send me the link as a reply here and I'll get back to you at some point tomorrow.
No problem, Thank you for your help. I think I will just replay the game at some point, gives me the excuse I need to track down the hamsters I missed. Thank you for such a great game. Though the last update I played was the 0.34 using the update only I believe.