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VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action |OT| Do Androids Drink To Electric Beats?

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Astarte

Member
This is gonna be great; another 4chan-ish project that isn't Katawa Shoujo with a great soundtrack?
Here's to funding their ticket out of Venezuela!
 
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Verelios

Member
I pre-ordered this yesterday thanks to OP. It better be great OP or you and me, we've got a problem!

Nah, I'm just messing with you. But seriously, I hope it's great.
 
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depward

Member
Super intrigued by this. Played the demo and found it a good time. Waiting to hear a couple more impressions before pulling the trigger.
 
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Ricitor

Member
Just hit Day 3. Really love the setting of this game. Gorgeous style and fantastic soundtrack. Figuring out the drinks is fun too. Some teasers but nothing crazy so far. My issue with the game is that it lacks involvement with the patrons. I thought you would have dialogue options that can go different ways. The lack of time constraints on the Drink Mixing also makes it a little too easy.

I am early on so the latter might change, just wish I had more control in Jill's responses. Regardless, definitely having a good time with it.

Also, a great little reference! (not really a spoiler, but just in case)
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Danny Dudekisser

Danny Dudekisser

I paid good money for this Dynex!
I'm surprised it actually came out on GOG. I'll pick the game up if it's good, but with such an out there concept, I want to wait for some more impressions.
 
Coreda

Coreda

Member
Nice. Didn't see the OT before, must have mistaken it for the previous thread when searching. Quality subtitle.

Chacranajxy said:
I'm surprised it actually came out on GOG. I'll pick the game up if it's good, but with such an out there concept, I want to wait for some more impressions.
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If there's one thing I'll miss about my pre-order version it's Galaxy's patches. Having to redownload the entire game for each new update will get tiring.
 
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pariah164

Member
Argh.

Day 3, post-break spoilers:
What the hell does Alma want to drink? The drink is named after the creator's friend, but that tells me nothing!
 
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Moonlight

Banned
Ricitor said:
Just hit Day 3. Really love the setting of this game. Gorgeous style and fantastic soundtrack. Figuring out the drinks is fun too. Some teasers but nothing crazy so far. My issue with the game is that it lacks involvement with the patrons. I thought you would have dialogue options that can go different ways. The lack of time constraints on the Drink Mixing also makes it a little too easy.

I am early on so the latter might change, just wish I had more control in Jill's responses. Regardless, definitely having a good time with it.
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I think the secret is to not really think about dialogue options in a 'pick from these choices' sense and more of a broad 'you are the master of mood' sense. Your point of agency is in the drinks you sell and how good or shitty of a bartender you are, basically. Plenty of branches definitely exist, the break-points are just harder to spot. If it means anything, I've replayed the game up to the middle of Day 2 about twice with different order permutations and I've already seen a lot of differences and a surprising amount of reaching back to previous conversations.

On that note, still really enjoying my time with the game. I love it when the game gets more unorthodox about orders and it gives you a little more control over your understanding of what a client wants or what they need. It's... empowering, sort of, reaching that point of understanding with your clients.
 
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Phoenixazure

Member
I haven't really played any VNs other than the Danganropa and Zero Escape Series, but man this game has me all nostalgic from my earlier game playing days especially with the music and art style of the 90s VNs of old.
Just finished Act 1, this game has its hooks in me quite deep

pariah164 said:
Argh.

Day 3, post-break spoilers:
What the hell does Alma want to drink? The drink is named after the creator's friend, but that tells me nothing!
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wait u refering to the red haired one with the cat ears an cryptic requests? I believe for that one is the "Piano Man" as in a earlier conversation, Jill says the drink is based off a bartender's best friend who was a pianist
 
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Ricitor

Member
Moonlight said:
I think the secret is to not really think about dialogue options in a 'pick from these choices' sense and more of a broad 'you are the master of mood' sense. Your point of agency is in the drinks you sell and how good or shitty of a bartender you are, basically. Plenty of branches definitely exist, the break-points are just harder to spot. If it means anything, I've replayed the game up to the middle of Day 2 about twice with different order permutations and I've already seen a lot of differences and a surprising amount of reaching back to previous conversations.
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I assumed different drinks might shake it up but I never thought the choice of poison had that much of an impact. Thanks! Extremely eager to see where this game goes.
 
MilkLizard

MilkLizard

Member
Man GAF really shows you the coolest stuff sometimes.

I think I'll wait for the iOS version though. Looks like the perfect iPad game, just like Papers Please.
 
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LordGorchnik

Member
So I preordered this game many many many moons ago and never downloaded the Prologue, which according to people tweeting me is integral to playing the game. Does the final release include the prologue or did I just screw myself out of a good story?
 
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Gunstarheroes

Member
So, quick question, without spoilers hopefully:

Does Read Only Memories actually have any crossover into this game? I remember reading the game was in the same universe, and i'm curious if they did much with that at all.
 
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Jedi2016

Member
How long has this been in development? I seem to recall seeing this, or something very much like it, at least three or four years ago. Looks interesting, might give it a whirl.
 
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Galang

Banned
Just purchased. About to sink some time into it. Don't play games like this at all, but the art style and music is too damn good
 
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Moonlight

Banned
mankoto said:
These cryptic puzzles are only going to get harder. So remember who loves what drink and any conversation about a drink in particular.


I gave it a 9.5

CGMagOnline gave it a 10 (a much more in-depth review imo)

I don't know anyone else that looked at it.
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Kill Screen probably wrote my favourite review so far.

Gunstarheroes said:
So, quick question, without spoilers hopefully:

Does Read Only Memories actually have any crossover into this game? I remember reading the game was in the same universe, and i'm curious if they did much with that at all.
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A couple cute references. They exist in the same universe but separated by a long enough period of time that there's no real connections if you weren't paying attention.

Flandy said:
So I just bought this on Steam but you apparently need to play the Prologue which it doesn't come with -_-
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You don't... really need to. There's some stuff that it references but there's almost nothing that relevant to the history that exists between most of the characters that you need to know.

Maybe something comes up later, but I actually can't think of anything in the Prologue that could be 'integral' to the game. The special pre-launch demo is probably more relevant as far as that sort of thing goes, though admittedly I don't think that's packaged with the game. And even then I don't think you learn anything there that isn't immediately self-evident.
 
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LordGorchnik

Member
Moonlight said:
You don't... really need to. There's some stuff that it references but there's almost nothing that relevant to the history that exists between most of the characters that you need to know.

Maybe something comes up later, but I actually can't think of anything in the Prologue that could be 'integral' to the game. The special pre-launch demo is probably more relevant as far as that sort of thing goes, though admittedly I don't think that's packaged with the game. And even then I don't think you learn anything there that isn't immediately self-evident.
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Dammit, so even though I preordered the game way back when from their .io page and never got a chance to play the prologue it's now unavailable forever and I will never get a chance too? I hate missing stuff like this. Really gets under the skin. Hopefully they make it available for people who backed them all that time ago.
 
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epmode

Member
LordGorchnik said:
Dammit, so even though I preordered the game way back when from their .io page and never got a chance to play the prologue it's now unavailable forever and I will never get a chance too? I hate missing stuff like this. Really gets under the skin. Hopefully they make it available for people who backed them all that time ago.
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If you had it before, the prologue is now back on your itch.io page. I believe it's also going to be added to Steam but I'm not sure if they'll charge extra for it.
 
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AtomskEater

Member
Finished day 1, I'll pick it back up once I'm done with work. Love the artstyle and music. Mixing the drinks is kind of a slow/annoying process on my laptop's trackpad, otherwise no complaints thus far.

Flandy said:
Just served my first customer
This game seems really good
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Don't get those anime girls too drunk, now. I'm watching you, buster.
 
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mankoto

Member
AtomskEater said:
Finished day 1, I'll pick it back up once I'm done with work. Love the artstyle and music. Mixing the drinks is kind of a slow/annoying process on my laptop's trackpad, otherwise no complaints thus far.



Don't get those anime girls too drunk, now. I'm watching you, buster.
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Don't listen to this guy. Get all of them drunk.

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Phoenixazure

Member
How do u make drinks "big?" i thought its just adding more of the bottom right one but i find doing that messes up the drink? I think im missing something. Do i multiply all the ingredients (but what if the amount of the drink is already 6/10?)
 
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mankoto

Member
Phoenixazure said:
How do u make drinks "big?" i thought its just adding more of the bottom right one but i find doing that messes up the drink? I think im missing something. Do i multiply all the ingredients (but what if the amount of the drink is already 6/10?)
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Double the ingredients. If the drink already has more than 10 components then it's already a "big" drink
 
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rocK`

Banned
Phoenixazure said:
How do u make drinks "big?" i thought its just adding more of the bottom right one but i find doing that messes up the drink? I think im missing something. Do i multiply all the ingredients (but what if the amount of the drink is already 6/10?)
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I guess I'm not the only one :)

I wanted to ask this as well
 
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MrDoctor

Member
just a heads up that buying from the website/itch.io still gives you the prologue and OST + a steam and DRM-free copy. might want to make that clear in the op
 
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E_Darkness

Member
I've only just done day one. Rather enjoying it. There's a world being built as you play and the music is really relaxing. Like this is a damn good soundtrack, one which I can see myself listening to a lot.

I'm already in again for a physical Vita copy whenever that happens.
 
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