I also made the mistake of playing this VN in the middle of the night with my headphones at full volume.. But once I started, I couldn't stop. BOY am I messed up right now. And I mean SERIOUSLY messed up. I don't know if it's just me being a loser but that warning in the description doesn't seem to tell HALF of just how intense and mentally troubling it would be. it just seemed like your everyday general warning to me.... (Yeeeah it's just me being a loser)
What really upset me the most was obviously--
(spoiler down below)
--When I saw dev hanging in the closet. And like that wasn't bad enough, the music perfectly immerses you into the horrible situation but I JUST. CANT. TURN. IT. OFF. (can but won't). Everyone working on this game really knows what their doing because right now, I feel like I need a psychiatrist. Lol
Everything about the Echo Series is just plain depressing. It's like they'll make you believe for a few seconds that something good will actually happen, then they throw the deepest pits of hell right in your face. Still, I somehow enjoy this series, and so I'm so goddamn conflicted.
Lol. You took all the appropriate words right out of my mouth. That's just about how it always goes. It's like they make the characters so lovable on purpose so when the disaster strikes, it hits your heart with maximum force enough to leave you broken and its usually very difficult to recover from. Even my family and friends noticed how upset I was. I still am. I'm usually emotional attachments to the characters
I wish I could shake a hand of the creators and simply tell them "Thank you"
Nothing more, just... idk...
I generally dont like sequels and prequels bc i believe these are just for making money, but I couldn't be more wrong about EchoProject. I simply don't even know what to say, right now I'm just letting emotions go out but..
Although it's short, what's out as of now is really good, definitely up-to par with Echo, and I'm loving the more intimate relationship between the characters, it makes the fact that the game immediately delves straight into the psychological horror element feel so much more tragic and sad, but the moments that pull them together so much more special. Overall, I'm loving the atmosphere, music, characters, and setting so far, I'm super excited for the next release.
Despite the fact that this is only the first build, I can already say that this is one of the most impressive and atmospheric VN that I have read! Even if we take into account the fact that in order to read it I used a translator.
Ahh, hell, i want to try out, both the characters are simp for me, but my mental don't let me, i mean i rush myself into the thoughts like "Jesus, that's a wonderland" and suddenly "Sht.... It's murderland". The problem is my imagination is really really wild and fast and because of this, i creating the story in my head, and it's always a nicer one in my head, not a horror one, or if so, but with happy end.
So in short, i may depressing weeks or months because of a novel and somehow my days are balanced right now but if i push myself back in the wrong state, you know, i don't want to do something what doesn't need. That was the problem about ECHO, but it's more like about me. I was such a fool, i mean i did enjoy the story, i just didn't like the ending and also i didn't realise that there's zero problem about the story or about the writer, the problem is more like in me.
If i get a spoiler about how it will end, i may give it a shot, i really want to try it out. Will they die? If yes, which one? Both? No one? Will they suffer until they die? Or simply they will solve the problem and live in peace? I need to know to decide it's okay for my mental health or not.
Even i didn't read, i going to give a ~high-five ☆ <3
Always read the descriptions, also EchoProject created long time ago an ECHO vn and it was horror or smthng. So i didn't read the description about the game, i just simply played and because of this, my mental health went in a wrong way, i'm just too sentimental, that's all.
Honestly I’m not sure, but I think you can search in your file system (maybe you can access it by an app called Downloads and navigating/searching from there) for the name of the game (in this case Arches) and find the folder (mine is called “Arches-0.1-linux” for example, but that’s because i’m on linux) where everything is; you should find things like sprites, cgs, music and sound effects in a subfolder called “game” as normal files since this project doesn’t just compress everything in .rpa or .rpc files (for the games that do it’s a more involved process reading the source code or accessing media, and may be frowned upon sice if they compressed stuff they may not want people accessing it willy-nilly, like secrets or paywalled content locked behind passwords).
But it only contains my saves and nothing else but a peculiar file called "persistent". Hmmmm 🤔🤔🤔. From what I can tell, I'll need to root my precious phone in order to have access to the other stuff. Well, this sucks😞😞
You’re welcome! And yeah it looks like all you have there is what on ther systems is the “game/saves” folder (btw persistent is like a “global save” if I’m not wrong, like what lines you have already read and similar stuff that isn’t specific to any single save); stuff other than saves may not be just around in folders like that…
But well, while you can’t run it, you can still dowload another os’s version, extract it in some arbitrary folder and look at the files there if the android version is giving you troubles.
Actually, I believe one of the authors said that Arches doesn’t follow any of the character’s routes from Echo, as it is a standalone sequel.
What we do know is that something did happen back in 2015, but this game might not be following any of the Echo cast’s routes. Hell, who knows if any of the characters from Echo will even make an appearance.
im curious who's the one kidnapped in the start, but since brian was there *alive* im assuming it was micha's friend? i can't remember the name but unless brian isn't dead and the opening is near the present, idk who else could be
Honest answer is None xd all of their game aee just like that. But Jenna's route is actually really good(or even the best one actually) you should try it! You even can progress in her route by just being best friend too by choosing 'Yes, Im gay' at the park.
When in half of her route spooky stuffs happens but no jump scared :)
Yeah, I played the five routes like 2 to 5 times. =^.~= Just remember now that the epilogue changes a little depending of what you do in the smoke room as same as the photo you see from the canine guy in the abandoned house in Flynn route.
But well, I played that year ago. I wasn't sure of their names but remembered had a bear boyfriend.
I started playing this VN in the middle of the night. The intro with brian and the ost, gave me goosebumps. Brian has full antagonist vibes, i wonder if he will the main villain!?
OMG¡¡¡ As a psychologist I have to admit, that you have done a really good mental issues research work for this build; are you going to use some Jung topics?¡ Congrats dudes¡¡¡¡¡
And from Echo, what route it's the canonic one that continue in this story arc?; I imagine that it's not Flynn's one cause the epilogue of that route it's a little different from Arches first day. So?
its the one with Leo... the very choice you make at the end decides this routes outcome... which is this game here :> 2 years after the incident (not 5, i think that what it said)
(english is not my first language sorry for the spelling errors)
A new game from echo and another trauma incoming seriusly its just the firs build but dam it was scarry af,i almost cried when i saw devon hanging in the closet,scared the shit out of me especialy the mesage coming from the phone when i played echo it scared me but not this much!, Dang just the first build and im alredy emotionaly atached to devon and cameron (especialy devon im alredy simping over him :3)
Also the laughter GOD that was creepy, i played this in the midle of the night it whas a fricking bad idea! My hands are still shaking from that
Ngl I'm old but still the music + midnight + the quote still scares the crap out of me. And it's perfect for a VN like the echo series: haunting,unease scary, emotional
+The "crackle"- give me chills and the sound is like a haunted doll
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Very good characters, the story-telling level is WAY ABOVE all the other VNs on this site.
Wow! This is Simply Amazing!! Please I Want More!!!
Ikr! I love the Coyote, I Want so More too!!
Ha, if Flynn had ever met with Cameron, he would certainly hire the coyote to find out how Sydney died.
when will this update i hope it wasnt abandoned
update is available on patreon since 14 June and probably will be available for rest in two weeks
Don't worry, they won't abandon this game, worry what will happen to our precious boys ;-;
today
I also made the mistake of playing this VN in the middle of the night with my headphones at full volume.. But once I started, I couldn't stop. BOY am I messed up right now. And I mean SERIOUSLY messed up. I don't know if it's just me being a loser but that warning in the description doesn't seem to tell HALF of just how intense and mentally troubling it would be. it just seemed like your everyday general warning to me.... (Yeeeah it's just me being a loser)
What really upset me the most was obviously--
(spoiler down below)
--When I saw dev hanging in the closet. And like that wasn't bad enough, the music perfectly immerses you into the horrible situation but I JUST. CANT. TURN. IT. OFF. (can but won't). Everyone working on this game really knows what their doing because right now, I feel like I need a psychiatrist. Lol
Everything about the Echo Series is just plain depressing. It's like they'll make you believe for a few seconds that something good will actually happen, then they throw the deepest pits of hell right in your face. Still, I somehow enjoy this series, and so I'm so goddamn conflicted.
Lol. You took all the appropriate words right out of my mouth. That's just about how it always goes. It's like they make the characters so lovable on purpose so when the disaster strikes, it hits your heart with maximum force enough to leave you broken and its usually very difficult to recover from. Even my family and friends noticed how upset I was. I still am. I'm usually emotional attachments to the characters
Yeah, It can leave you in very intense emotions, especially since i get teary easily!
This first chapter was AMAZING. I have shared it with so many people <3
YYASSSSSS
So.... When next update? 👀
Considering on patreon there desn’t seem to be one yet, I’d say at least some weeks for the public one, maybe a month or more.
(Edit: a post on patreon says 13th of June)
(Other edit: that’s a patreon update if I wasn’t clear, the public one should be later)
Hope they dont Abandon this game! I feel like spoiled kid who wants MORE! lol
I wish I could shake a hand of the creators and simply tell them "Thank you"
Nothing more, just... idk...
I generally dont like sequels and prequels bc i believe these are just for making money, but I couldn't be more wrong about EchoProject. I simply don't even know what to say, right now I'm just letting emotions go out but..
Thank you guys.
Woah, didn’t expect this at all… so far it’s really good and I’m looking forward to continuing of this.
I very much look foreword to seeing this new story unfold with future updates!
Although it's short, what's out as of now is really good, definitely up-to par with Echo, and I'm loving the more intimate relationship between the characters, it makes the fact that the game immediately delves straight into the psychological horror element feel so much more tragic and sad, but the moments that pull them together so much more special. Overall, I'm loving the atmosphere, music, characters, and setting so far, I'm super excited for the next release.
Despite the fact that this is only the first build, I can already say that this is one of the most impressive and atmospheric VN that I have read! Even if we take into account the fact that in order to read it I used a translator.
First build and it's already a good VN. Ahh! The suspense is killing me! I want to know what will hapen next. Congrats, this is well written. :)
Ahh, hell, i want to try out, both the characters are simp for me, but my mental don't let me, i mean i rush myself into the thoughts like "Jesus, that's a wonderland" and suddenly "Sht.... It's murderland". The problem is my imagination is really really wild and fast and because of this, i creating the story in my head, and it's always a nicer one in my head, not a horror one, or if so, but with happy end.
So in short, i may depressing weeks or months because of a novel and somehow my days are balanced right now but if i push myself back in the wrong state, you know, i don't want to do something what doesn't need. That was the problem about ECHO, but it's more like about me. I was such a fool, i mean i did enjoy the story, i just didn't like the ending and also i didn't realise that there's zero problem about the story or about the writer, the problem is more like in me.
If i get a spoiler about how it will end, i may give it a shot, i really want to try it out. Will they die? If yes, which one? Both? No one? Will they suffer until they die? Or simply they will solve the problem and live in peace? I need to know to decide it's okay for my mental health or not.
Even i didn't read, i going to give a ~high-five ☆ <3
what
Always read the descriptions, also EchoProject created long time ago an ECHO vn and it was horror or smthng. So i didn't read the description about the game, i just simply played and because of this, my mental health went in a wrong way, i'm just too sentimental, that's all.
Aw man can someone give me a screenshot (without the captions) of them at the jeep?? It looks really really great for a wallpaper. <3
The illustration is in the game files, here you go:
(btw I know it’s not a screenshot technically but yeah :p)
Where are the game files located on Android?
Honestly I’m not sure, but I think you can search in your file system (maybe you can access it by an app called Downloads and navigating/searching from there) for the name of the game (in this case Arches) and find the folder (mine is called “Arches-0.1-linux” for example, but that’s because i’m on linux) where everything is; you should find things like sprites, cgs, music and sound effects in a subfolder called “game” as normal files since this project doesn’t just compress everything in .rpa or .rpc files (for the games that do it’s a more involved process reading the source code or accessing media, and may be frowned upon sice if they compressed stuff they may not want people accessing it willy-nilly, like secrets or paywalled content locked behind passwords).
Thanks, I found it at :
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/echproject.arches
But it only contains my saves and nothing else but a peculiar file called "persistent". Hmmmm 🤔🤔🤔. From what I can tell, I'll need to root my precious phone in order to have access to the other stuff. Well, this sucks😞😞
You’re welcome! And yeah it looks like all you have there is what on ther systems is the “game/saves” folder (btw persistent is like a “global save” if I’m not wrong, like what lines you have already read and similar stuff that isn’t specific to any single save); stuff other than saves may not be just around in folders like that…
But well, while you can’t run it, you can still dowload another os’s version, extract it in some arbitrary folder and look at the files there if the android version is giving you troubles.
When is the next update?
So, this doesn't take place after flynn ot TJ's routes from echo. That leaves Jenna, Leo and Carl's routes.
Actually, I believe one of the authors said that Arches doesn’t follow any of the character’s routes from Echo, as it is a standalone sequel.
What we do know is that something did happen back in 2015, but this game might not be following any of the Echo cast’s routes. Hell, who knows if any of the characters from Echo will even make an appearance.
Interesting. We might see Leo as one of the few inhabitants still there.
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im curious who's the one kidnapped in the start, but since brian was there *alive* im assuming it was micha's friend? i can't remember the name but unless brian isn't dead and the opening is near the present, idk who else could be
We don't know how far back that flashback was. Could have taken place before the events of Echo.
Why have I only just found this??? It's 5 o'clock in the morning and now this. Welp. Thank you project echo!
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I wasn't prepared for that... I want to slap everyone who convinced me it would be lighter/brighter in tone compared to Echo.
I know right?. I should have prepared myself for a very upsetting (but good) story. it caught me off guard too
Meow,
I just remember those two in the end of Echo, no?
Do they have some nice game happy and not a sadness, horror story from Echo?
I did played Adastra until because someone said it was a sad story.
Just thinking.
Who know? I still build 0.1
It is written in the tags Psychological Horror.
But I was kind of asking if the Echo Project have some story that they created that isn't sad or a horror story.
I don't know if they have and I would like to know.
And lol I am just reading Password that in place of make me sad kind of make me laughs sometimes.
Now I just need to read the girls route in Echo to finish it... but I am to lazy to back in Echo... or so scared... lol
Honest answer is None xd all of their game aee just like that. But Jenna's route is actually really good(or even the best one actually) you should try it! You even can progress in her route by just being best friend too by choosing 'Yes, Im gay' at the park.
When in half of her route spooky stuffs happens but no jump scared :)
hope you give her route a try and good luck!
they are in an epilog in echo just two ghost hunters who go to echo
Yeah, I played the five routes like 2 to 5 times. =^.~= Just remember now that the epilogue changes a little depending of what you do in the smoke room as same as the photo you see from the canine guy in the abandoned house in Flynn route.
But well, I played that year ago. I wasn't sure of their names but remembered had a bear boyfriend.
This was a really good build, cannot wait for more.
Moe did a WONDERFUL job on the music!
I was reading it with bluethoot headophones in the middle of the night, It felt like a fucking screamer in the middle of THAT part...
Dude, spoiler alert please. You just ruined it for me.
I started playing this VN in the middle of the night. The intro with brian and the ost, gave me goosebumps. Brian has full antagonist vibes, i wonder if he will the main villain!?
I'm so excited for this!!!!
first of all. I love Dev and Cam, they are so cute and lovely BUT I HATE IT cuz i know that if they break up I would cry.
AND HELL Lupita`s scream was terrify, she was in the deepest part of hell cuz damn. I`m speechless so really love this game.
Am I missing st here? Cause idk who's lupita :v
Idk, maybe Lupita was a friend of devon and now she is dead xd who knows
No one knows by now
OMG¡¡¡ As a psychologist I have to admit, that you have done a really good mental issues research work for this build; are you going to use some Jung topics?¡ Congrats dudes¡¡¡¡¡
And from Echo, what route it's the canonic one that continue in this story arc?; I imagine that it's not Flynn's one cause the epilogue of that route it's a little different from Arches first day. So?
They say that there's no central route that Arches takes place afterward.
Uffffff.... I suppose that we have to wait until Arches get new builds on it, to theorized it.
But... the thing about "the wolf" in room 12 ... it blew my mind ... Leo was the only wolf that we met in Echo.... Right?
nope bc there is a different outcome were a group of kids visit Echo to explore it 5 years after, this route can be seen by playing/choosing with Tj
mmmmm i need to play that route again.... but i Really hate Chase in that one
same
its the one with Leo... the very choice you make at the end decides this routes outcome... which is this game here :> 2 years after the incident (not 5, i think that what it said)
Leo's.... hmmmm... which ending?... where Chase falls from the train, or the one that he didn't?¡¡¡¡
Where he doesn’t
LoL, He is nice at Carl's
(SPOILERS)
(english is not my first language sorry for the spelling errors)
A new game from echo and another trauma incoming seriusly its just the firs build but dam it was scarry af,i almost cried when i saw devon hanging in the closet,scared the shit out of me especialy the mesage coming from the phone when i played echo it scared me but not this much!, Dang just the first build and im alredy emotionaly atached to devon and cameron (especialy devon im alredy simping over him :3)
Also the laughter GOD that was creepy, i played this in the midle of the night it whas a fricking bad idea! My hands are still shaking from that
I'm pretty sure just about most of us makes the terrible mistake of playing it at night.
Not gonna lie... I cried a little lmao IT'S ONLY THE FIRST BUILD WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME??? I can't wait to play the next build, great job! </3
Ngl I'm old but still the music + midnight + the quote still scares the crap out of me. And it's perfect for a VN like the echo series: haunting,unease scary, emotional
+The "crackle"- give me chills and the sound is like a haunted doll
"Arches can be an emotionally intense experience..."
^^^^ THIS IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT. ^^^^
You literally broke me, and it's only the first build of the game.
5 stars.
hay anyone know how i should hit echo as a series like should i start with 65 or smoke? whats the best order to read them in bc this looks good
echo 65 smoke arches tho smoke isnt finished yet
Whoa, what a start to a new story!
A pink thing floating in the lake and a flat-faced creature...
What do we even call those things with holes for eyes and a mouth?
they call him socketface pretty often during flynn's route, outside of that i cant say from spoils
Right! I forgot about that. Well, I know what I'm playing through again
Already a simp for Dev. 10/10
Another VN from echo to destroy my heart and make me cry for days? LET'S GOOOOO