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Hey there hello!

I've made this "review" while playing so it's quite a bit messy.

The only part that matters is the last one (pleaseee) and when I finish I am gonna make another, better well-put review anyways.

It's really nice that both you and Alexanda support each other like that, it's cool seeing the references in the different games.

ART GALLERY KATAWA, Katawa Shoujo reference OMG Hisao and Rin. My favorite was Lilly.

ANWYNN AS THE SISTER HAHAHA. I also like cooking, joined the cooking club :D

Anwynn room lmao. I tried one ebi-hime vn but didn't like it, I'll try another one someday. Gonna play Paws & Effect ASAP.

50 minutes in and I finally had my first fight, this is gonna be a long one... Oh, nice, a level up system :D

41 Years old and Anwynn is still faster than Yumi. Is there a way to speed up these fights? That would be nice.

I noticed now, the assassin at katawa gallery, Harold and Therese have the same sprites from the fastest and weakest rpg, fun seeing that

The pigs don't talk :( The scarecrows are scary, I am not a crow and they are scaring me!

I like how you made the mimic chest be red, it's a nice way to say it's different.

The characters: Let's go to the village Me: Saves and goes on

The fight with the dragon was just lengthy, not really fun. But that might have been due to the fact I didn't listen to the game... Next time, I'll be sure to go to the village

I discovered how to speed up fights, I feel so smart :D

Empty dialogue box in the sleeping child at the orphanage and also at the pink-haired girl in your room.

I am liking the story so far but I am stuck in the mana stone part. Pretty please, where do I get that?

Anwynn3 years ago(+1)

Hi Ony :)

Yeah there a few characters with empty dialogue box( I forgot them hehe)

For the mimic chest I am glad you like how I made them noticeable :)

Yes, the battle with the dragon is lengthy on purpose to show dragons are powerful so I am sorry if it was annoying :)

I love the stories in Katawa Shoujo that is why I made that art gallery ( I love art too :) )

Yes, the speed of battles can be changed in the options :)

Stuck with the Mana Crystal? that comes in the story or the Mana Seeds in the spiritual forest? it is optional with a npc in the spiritual village :)

I would have loved to add a sound for the pigs but there is no sound for them in rpg maker :( not sure where to look for that either :(

Thank you so much for your review and glad you like the story so far, I have been away for a bit and will need to continue the game :)

Ony_br2 years ago

Am back, played a lot of it today.

Hope you are doing well, I can see you are active as ever haha, it's good to have some recommendations on my itch feed. (You commenting on PUQFFAL was definitely something that motivated me to go and translate it, although I was probably going to anyways)

Now, for the actual game. The mana stone I was talking about is the one you get in the, uh... Dungeon to the east of the mountain village.

Right now I stopped after killing selene and going to the village, I don't know what to do now... Also, when I went to the abandoned house and slept I 100% thought it would make Yumi wake up, and as I had went there after killing selene but before going to the village I was like "No please let me gOOOOOOO" xD

My main team is Anwynn, the blue spiritual (alicia?)girl, the girl from the wind tower and the doll we bring to life from the mana stone (named her Dolly). The actual essential ones being Anwynn so I can stun shot and Alicia so I can heal. (Which, admittedly, makes most fights really boring and just pressing the enter button over and over. Oh well, the price to always win)

I had enough life removers to remove 80% of the boss' life in one turn, then I used them all in the same turn with the different characters and only removed 20% :( I WANT A REFUND

In the fight with only Yumi I always gave two attacks and healed, so I guess it's a good thing I stocked on mana breads (22 breads that heal my hp and mana to full, YEEHAW)

The story of the knight Marina is interesting, also, one of them asks about that Knight (the savior) reincarnating, which makes me think of in-game Anwynn, as in your profile you put Anwynn/Marina.

Wow, that was a lot, but I think it's everything, please do tell me what I have to do now to continue the story.

Anwynn2 years ago

Hi Ony :)

I am doing alright and hope you too, I think it is a nice gesture of you to translate Puqffal and Myx bittersweet into your language and it sure a good thing for the visual novel itself, not everyone knows English or English well enough to play all the games on Itchio. I would translate my own visual novel into my language (or try to find other languages) if I knew how to set the language settings in Ren'py, I checked about it before and it is way too complicated for me.

I am glad my ratings on games helps you :)

For Yumi's Dream, after killing Selene and exiting the castle we are supposed to go back to the main town for a last event scene in the headquarter and the game stops when the player is ready to leave the island by boat.( the sea below the main town where there are rocks) for now as I did not make anything else after, Um the life reducer was an idea of Alexanda, it might make things too easy..if we keep them and all, no idea if I should just remove them from the game or not.

The battle between Yumi and Selene was harder at first then I thought to make it easier in case people would complain about it, in my own point of view I made the whole game too easy on battles, I do not know what everyone that played thinks? maybe I will just put back the difficulty I thought at the beginning, I am not really sure what to do. For now I will try to continue the story further and see difficulty after.

I have not been able yet to get back into continuing the story but I will try to get on it soon, I am feeling down with various stuff but I do not want to give up on it.

Once I will get back into continuing the game, I will make a (probably) small world map with a few other areas and all, I have not fully thought about everything yet.

I am glad you liked the short story of the knight Marina, that took me a while to write and check mistakes even though there might be some mistakes yet? That stays in my mind for maybe a short rpg maker game later.

And thank you very much to have taken the time to play Yumi's Dream :)

Ony_br2 years ago (1 edit)

I am doing well too!

if I knew how to set the language settings in Ren'py

If you want help I can make a little step-by-step tutorial on how to set the translation and send it to you on discord

the game stops when the player is ready to leave the island by boat

Ah, then that means I finished the game :D

Maybe you could make difficulty a setting that you choose? Although if by making harder you mean giving them more health and making them hit harder, you can see how my stun shot strategy would still work easily, right? It would just take longer and be less fun, I think that to make it harder you should make parameters like enemy dodging attacks if you are just repeating the same ones, etc. Although, admittedly, I don't know how hard it would be to code that in RPGmaker

knight Marina, that took me a while to write and check mistakes even though there might be some mistakes yet?

If you'd like I can proofread it and tell you any errors find (I don't remember many though, so congrats)

And thank you very much to have taken the time to play Yumi's Dream :)

Nah, thank you for making it. Took me 8 hours and 54 minutes, I believe I spent one hour in the wind tower so 8 hours for the main story, that's a lot!!!

Anwynn2 years ago(+1)

Battles takes times in Yumi's Dream( I have not tried if changing the speed of battle in options change it much) but there events and walking around that takes time too so yeah the hours go by fast, the last time I played I was over 10 hours but I always check every npc, test every type of monsters, the wind tower takes me about 1h too.

I have no idea how to put a difficult setting in rpg maker, monsters have enough health already as it is, I am not sure yet how I would make things harder, maybe putting again heal skill to monsters that are not bosses or like you say giving some dodge to monsters which is easy to do if I remember right but making them have a "brain" to be more difficult is something I cannot do, I looked into that before and I do not understand how it works (and it would add to the money I spent already)

Proofreading could be nice to fix the mistakes I did( and will do) but rpg maker does not work like Ren'py where I can just save or copy paste all the text, I would need to open every characters text box and write down everything and then doing the same again later for what needs to be changed. Or you mean just for the magic knight Marina story?

So yes you finished the game for now :)

I have not been on Discord for two days but I will check it later today, that would be kind of you to show me how to do, though I am not sure I would understand

Ony_br2 years ago

Or you mean just for the magic knight Marina story?

Yeah, that's what I meant, I feel like it wouldn't be very fun for me to read everything again a second time. That's something I do even when translating VNs, if I already know the story, reading once more feels like a chore.

that would be kind of you to show me how to do, though I am not sure I would understand

Okay, sent you a friend request!

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