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"There are some dragons who lay eggs, and some dragons who fertilize them."

So, there are still males and females, the author just isn't calling them that anymore.

I don't get it. 

Trying to download this game for Windows for the first time in a couple of years, and the installation executable keeps failing upon reaching a file named peaceful[...]. The error message provides no explanation as to the nature of the problem.

Currently, it does nothing but set a variable. Eventually, it will do something... probably.

There's no penalty for doing that. All checks so far require sufficient power OR skill, so as long you keep up on skill, you can forego the power gains from corruption.

They increase the amount of resources a character earns when performing certain jobs (the job description says which skills it uses) and are sometimes used in pass/fail skill checks.

The lastest version was released to subscribers on Patreon two days ago. It will be here within a week.

You don't need the horn, and I would recommend against it. If you make all the right choices, you can max skill, which is all you need.

Note that none of the shop items do anything yet.

Yes. I think it is already implemented.

Also, money in this game does not do anything, apart from a few chances to spend it for relationship points in Amber's route.

Yes

Upon playtesting some more, it seems to be a caching issue. If I load from the beginning or a save prior to the transition, everything works normally. But if at any point during a session I load a save or enter a segment using the new room, if I load a previous save, it retains the new room look.

*It seems like loading a save from before chapter 4 doesn't affect it, but chapter 4 and on is affected, as are new games.

Looks like the tower home room replaces the default one even when it shouldn't (i.e., earlier in the story when she hasn't moved into the tower yet).0

Where in Kagabangui do you need to go to record the sword in the Summoning Blade quest? I've completed this before but can't seem to find the trigger now.

You shouldn't even need to do that. Ren'Py stores save files in a centralized location elsewhere, so you can just run the new executable and it will pull all files.

I think they are supposed to be unrelated stories. To be honest, NiiChan's decision to write multiple games simultaneously is very confusing, especially when so many characters look and sometimes even act alike.

In my head canon, he's an eccentric man who has come by a great deal of magical power over his very long lifetime.

Now that I've completed the game, some thoughts:

I'd forgotten how good your storytelling is.  I'm actually more impressed with it now than I was the first time I played, probably because I've read a lot of genuinely awful stories since then. A couple things that bugged me at first were 1) Ashe telling Mila that they weren't close anymore and she wanted no further part of her life (apparently fighting to the death together meant nothing to her) and 2) the bashing that Rinaldo constantly received from Ashe and Faaldha (while he was unquestionably rash and at times foolish, he also burned with righteous anger and was willing to sacrifice himself to it, which I think deserves a great deal of credit). But I now think you handled both of these things correctly, or in the first case, at least reasonably.

Two other things that bother me about the storytelling which I do still wish to make comments on were the post-battle moments of clarity and the memory fragments. While I understand the desire to morally redeem fallen characters, this particular way of handling it felt… "forced" might be the right word. Not in the sense that the moments were trite, but from a lore perspective, their occurrence doesn't make sense to me.  Why would a vampire getting beaten up reduce the hold of vampirism on them? It's not entirely clear to me from what we are told whether the behavioral changes are the innate effects of the vampiric curse or a psionic link to the master, but regardless: if the curse is altering their mental state like a drug (which it is often depicted like), it doesn't seem like dying should have any effect, and if the cause is psionic control, it seems like the effect should actually become stronger as the spawn weakens (and loses any power they might have had to resist it). So their moments of clarity don't make sense to me.

My complaint regarding the memory fragments is much shorter and really more of a suggestion. The memory fragment fights were all pretty generic and unmemorable (barely more difficult or time-consuming than the ordinary goons running about the palace), and I feel like a real opportunity to relive Mila's regrets or fears was missed by the total lack of dialogue. I mean, why have they been called forth in the first place, if not to torment her?

My last comment is that the final battle felt much too easy. I thought I was going into the battle significantly under-leveled, as I had, by my estimate, skipped half the castle content. (I was HR 74, maybe you can say what it was balanced for.) As it is, I beat the boss without any real difficulty on the first try. IMO, Ashe constantly (and automatically! no opportunity cost required!) reviving Mila is the culprit, because Ashe is an absolute tank, so Mila's health suddenly doesn't matter. I'm honestly not convinced it's necessary and would suggest disabling that. Then again, I don't recall being challenged by any of the bosses after Vivienne (the first time, in chapter 2), so maybe a hard mode would be a better solution.

Anyway, those are just my thoughts on a couple of things. Overall, it's a great game. Thanks for making it freely available. I'll be watching to see what you do next.

Just found him. D'oh!

Thanks.

The Mysterious Dealer seems to disappear from his store in act five. Makes completing the delivery quest impossible.

The game engine is Ren'Py, but if you are asking about the art, I understand that it is all hand-drawn.

Dealing with the princess is as far as you can go in the current version of the game.

I have a bug report for you (this is not a new one). If you decline to have sex in chapter five with the half-orc bard whose name I forget, the game thinks that you sexed her anyway (relationships screen shows 1/1 scenes unlocked and her status as lover, and IIRC, later dialogue alludes to it having happened).

Okay, great. I was somewhat confused when it didn't release last Friday night/Saturday morning but didn't want to be impatient. I'll be looking forward to it.

I love your work, btw. You are great at both characterization and world-building (it's rare to see that together; I'm usually happy if someone is great at one and decent at the other). Plus, (speaking as a man) women write the best porn, yours being no exception.

Will chapter 9 be released to the public? If so, when?

See https://www.patreon.com/damnedstudios

Parasite Black has potential, but it is still really early in development. There aren't any other games quite like this, but I would recommend Rise of the White Flower and The Last Sovereign.

The entire chapter? If it's the same size as the prologue, that'll be a heck of a lot of content; no wonder it has taken so long.

Dev has admitted that many of the assets were taken from another game. Koikatsu, or something like that? Those assets seem to float around, since I have found them in at least two other similar games here on Itch.io.

Are you needing to move them to a new computer, or just to a new version of the game?

Apparently they intend to keep the rest of the game paywalled.

To clarify, we need the patch even if downloading version 0.26 for the first time?

FWIW, I used my old saves and didn't notice any issues.

The black dress counts as treasure, so if you ever reduce your amount of treasure to 0, the dress will be spent.

You can keep them both. Mina will become unhappy, but you can fix that by giving her the expensive, black dress that the kobolds bring back.

*facepalm* You know why I didn't get it? I never downloaded the new version of the game. I feel so foolish. Thanks for being patient with me, both of you.

Thanks. Any idea how many? I grind the arena pretty frequently but have never gotten that before.

Well, that explains why I couldn't find them. I'm trying to identify all the handicaps I need for the new Linda event (one of which appeared to involve restraining your hands). Do you know what they are?

I feel silly, but where do you buy handcuffs?

Everyone's saves by that point in the game will vary significantly depending on the choices they have made. I suggest you recreate it yourself, using the skip button to bypass the text and save time.