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Voice Patch for Date Ariane Remastered (Part 1)
🕑 Added 2023-08-18 20:59:01 +0000 UTC
If you have Date Ariane Remastered 1.2 (the screen above says 1.05, if your game is up to date it should say 1.2), I am releasing a patch tentatively labeled 1.3 that voices about half the game as well as make other significant changes.
If you are new to Patreon patches, it involves downloading the zip file and extracting to where your DateArianeRemastered.exe file is located on PC. On Mac or Linux see the README file, and letting it overwrite files with the same name.
If you got the game on Steam, the exe is usually located at: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\DateArianeRemaster This will vary based on where your steam library is located. Note: doing this will break steam achievements, I'm going to need to merge the two versions to prevent this, but that is an October project.
The biggest thing this does is add voice to about half the game. Specifically:
* Meet at the door through dinner
* All 5 dinners
* Most activities that take place in the house
* Most activities that take place in the backyard, hot tub, and pool area
* Some assorted "common" activities like dancing at the strip club and dancing at the night club.
* Activities at the park that are part of the intro (playground) or the Truth of Dare game.
Still missing (hopefully next month):
* all park activities, all convenience store, art museum, coffee house, amusement park, downtown locations, lake and vista activities, and things involving Rebecca.
Surprisingly, I may finish all this in two months, where SITAR took 4.
Other non-voice changes: It is now a lot easier to unlock the "naked date" bonus. You only need two achievements "All five dinners" and "Sex Endurance", once achieved, the Achievement Menu will tell you to create a new "Naked Character" and that will unlock the naked date bonus. Dialog is already partially voiced for naked dates under the same rules as regular dates (intro, dinners, house, backyard)
Another change: many parts of the game used to involve randomized Ariane dialogue. I got rid of most of it except in scenes that has repetitive dialog. Too many lines to voice with them. Instead I have added some variety in dialog in other ways, especially where it tends to get repetitive.
Obviously when the script has Ariane calling you by name, the dialog isn't going to match (the very first line voiced has Ariane calling you by name in text but "my date" in voice). Ditto in scenes involving variable numbers like the board game or the "On a scale from 1 to 10" endings. These last endings are now italicized and gray to indicate that is the game saying your score and not Ariane. They are not voiced.
Many lines of dialog are longer, more conversational, or contain better explanations. It's amazing how hearing dialog makes things feel different in a visual novel, and that often forces changes to the dialog.
Issues you are likely to run into include lines that should be voiced but you can't hear them. The majority of these are due to being parts that haven't been voiced yet, like just after the strip club, or just before going to the store or park.
The ones I'd like to know about are lines where what is played, and what is displayed don't match. Most likely cause by playing the wrong sound file, but with over a thousand lines these are tough to test and find.
Note: I am providing this patch to all levels of Patrons. Most patches go to Daters and above, but because Date Ariane Remastered is not free this month (it will be next month to Daters and above), I am providing it to all Patrons, on the assumption that most of my patrons already have this popular game installed.
Edit: Attachments have been removed because the patch has been updated.
