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Ah, I see, nice.

I uh can't believe I'm saying this but going through the now-visible AI secret I found another bug! "Image 'show beretta who loves ai' not found"

UPDATE: I didn't see any bugs in the secret content that follows itself, so we should be good there? Hopefully.

Fixed! And I'm honored to be part of the credits now haha.

Alright, I finished the game, and I found these last two bugs. Good stuff otherwise, though!

I see the message "Couldn't find file 'images/cgs/beretta_inigo.png'". Upon further inspection, this image is inside of the "beretta" folder, instead of "cgs". I should mention that I can continue perfectly fine despite this, but I still felt like I should let you know.

It's fixed! Thank you.

Hi, uh, I found this game very randomly, but I wanted to report this error I got on the first choice. From the looks of it, it tried to give me a Steam achievement despite not being the Steam version.

Oh, also, I'm playing the Linux version (I'm on Debian 12, specifically).

Hello, I will give the new version of XxU credit for crashing instead of freezing my machine (Debian 12 Linux, as a reminder), but it still does not work without manually disabling dither. However! I think because of this change (or maybe I never noticed it before...), I found a log file I can upload here in the same area as preferences.cfg: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pvHDgblMVEmekKPOvyfR2r01cIVKiDfg/view?usp=drive...

Oh, also, I should mention that I deleted the "XxU" folder preferences.cfg is in before running the game and getting this log, in order to test a "fresh" experience.

Understood, no rush from me, and thank you.

Hi, I found that file and by turning things on and off I discovered it's actually the Dither that's causing issues. But thanks for the quick reply!

Hi, quickly testing this game for later play and both the Linux version and the Windows one (through WINE) instantly crash on my admittedly rather weak Debian 12-running laptop. Annoyingly, the Linux one outright freezes, forcing me to restart my computer (ironically, sometimes it gets to the initial graphics setting menu and freezes there).

Not sure what it is now, but I wonder if this could be fixed by making the default graphics the lowest option, and then letting people pick from there? Just an idea, IDK.

Ah, I see, thank you! I think that is a fun setup now that I know it is on purpose. EDIT: And it works! Sorry about all that.

Hi, after trying this, it played the aforementioned tomato-soup-date-hug-greeting, and then played the intro. So I don't think that helps. Do you happen to know where the save/tribute/etc. data is stored on my computer, so I can delete it entirely?

Hi Linux user here (Debian 12), I'm playing V0.82 and when I got to the date where they were going to make tomato soup and grilled "cheese", after the hug-greeting it looped back around to the beginning of the game for some reason? So yeah, I can't progress.

Oh, also, the game refuses to save my settings.

(But please don't take this as an insult, it's a good game otherwise!)

To expand on that, if it helps:

1. I double-clicked the .sh file, and it did nothing.

2. I opened its Properties, and found that the "Is Executable" checkbox was not checked. I rectified that, but it still did nothing.

3. Afterwards, I tried running the program from the Terminal, and I got a message of "Permission Denied" (even after running it through sudo, though I admit that I did not bother to try running it as root).

I hope that explanation wasn't confusing, I just know how annoying it can be to get vague error reports so I wanted to be detailed. Thanks!

Hi, I just wanted to let you know that I couldn't get (the full version of) this to run on Linux (Debian 12, specifically). I fixed it on my end by recompiling it in Ren'Py, but obviously that's a rather arcane solution.

Update 2: Finished the game, still awesome. I admit to disappointment that there is no zero rating or max rating "bad ending" (it just won't let you go that low/high), but it's a free game so I can't really complain.

Update: I've only gotten one ending so far, but just from that this is quickly shaping up to be a classic, with a deft blend of comedy and commentary.

was just about to report an error, thank you for updating it so quickly! it now runs great on Debian 12 (Linux).

EDIT: Hi, can you download runWindows_ShowErrors.bat above and tell me what error you get (it should stay open).

Wow... just... okay I want to start with my only real negative point, which is that I personally found the Tsuzumi sister dialogue uncomfortable. Otherwise like great characters, great themes, great art, great music... okay I'm going to try and be specific for once.

Lightning round here:

• Characters: I love almost everyone, but just, Atcchan is adorable and I had so much fun reading about people calling him cute for personal reasons (I'm a short guy, lol, that's the personal reason), but also he has actual flaws that he's working to overcome
• Themes: I really love the inclusion of non-romance routes, and not always having to choose between your friends
• Art: I'm no artist, so I'll just stick to something close to home and say the purposely bad drawing in the Tsuzumi route was hilarious
• Music: I bought my Lovey-Dovey Demon nearly two years ago, so borrowing the countryside song from there gave me exactly perfect nostalgia

Anyway, yeah, great game, I'm so happy you remade this and I hope more people get to enjoy it this way!

PS: Could you maybe put the mature content description from Steam on here as well (assuming I'm not just missing it)? I think it's good for people to know about that stuff going in. Thanks.

That's sad to hear, but I'm glad she can live on through this at least!

This was really sweet, and I liked how capable Holly was despite what one might expect from the whole maid framing (not that I was surprised myself having read your other work, but still). Also the soundtrack was a nice treat, I was not expecting the 90s-style music but it was really good. Finally, the name "Magical Pumpkin" is intriguing to me, did you base that on an existing show or did you just think it was funny?

Perfect, thank you!

Also, what colors does this page use? I'd like to match them, and also they're very pretty.

sugoi, with that in mind here is an itch link for everyone: https://opiter09.itch.io/nian-res-publica-saccharina-neconina

Hello, my apologies for just posting this here, and I will certainly take it down if you like, but I don't really know how to get in touch with you otherwise so... Anyway, I made a Latin translation for this game! It does require the original (for all that that matters for a free game, I suppose), and can be found here: [EDIT: see the itch.io link below].

Very unique and interesting mechanics. Making a puzzle out of the "id" (pun-intented) genre is certainly a feat.

this was sugoi (or should I say, mirabile), thank you for making it!

This was like a solid short story in VN format. Also these are very pretty sprites, so I hope that one day they are used in something bigger.

This game was absolutely amazing--the humor, the surprisingly tense fights, and who could forget the lion cameo. My friend remarked that "someone had fun making this", and I really hope everyone involved did.

I was playing on Windows (11).

I finished the whole game, some of it was funny, most of it was very sad (not that that’s a problem or anything, to be clear), and everything was very well-written as always. Dream 9 also actually made me think about time loops more, so good job with that.

I also got dream 11, but I kind of cheated accidentally, I had got through part of the last puzzle, then clicking on a piece somehow gave me a "divide by zero" error screen, and after I hit Ignore the puzzle finished automatically.

Finally. thank you for making that chronological collection, because the full weight of the breakup in this game becomes clear and crushing after reading what they went through together in One Last Story.

I certainly liked this game, but I do want to really recommend the DLC, it gives the side characters their time to shine and it's really good. Also, the art style in both is adorable, I love it, and the music's great too.

I thought all of this was very well-done and moving. I am very sorry that you have to specifically tell people to not be mean about something this personal. It also seems that in particular people are very rude about your art, so I wanted to say that I found it striking and thematically appropriate.

Gorgeous art, great soundtrack, and beautiful writing (I am not one of those people who complains about VNs having too many words lol). Definitely check it out if you like the vibe!

For anyone having the error about the path being too long: if you press Skip to ignore those files, the extraction will work, and as far as I can tell the game still runs fine. Just wanted to let everyone know.

This was an excellent game, with incredibly unique art. Although I am American, some of my ancestors are from Palermo, so it was very fun to learn about its history and culture.

Like everyone else said, this game was cute and sweet, and I enjoyed the art and writing. I also happen to be from Rochester, NY, so it was a nice treat to see it show up in the wiki! But I liked the wiki in general, you did a great job with the tone and all that.

Nothing new to add but I agree that this was very cute