Fallen Hero: Rebirth is released - discussion thread! (Book One)

[Azucuache]

Wow…heroes rise, heroes fall, but this Fallen hero comes on top. And I totally mean it. The game just blew me away. And to think I bought it, because I liked the premise (I hadn’t tried the demo) and I liked the reviews, but then let it rest in my phone for a few weeks before actually playing it! I mean all those wasted weeks.

It’s amazing! I’ve played it so many times I lost count now and I feel like each playthrough I discover something new, some new information about the story or the characters, new flashback (I don’t know why, but I most love the one that shows what happened right after the suicide jump while the MC is being loaded into an ambulance - it’s very short, gives me the feels of indescribable exhaustion, helplessness and a bit of fear and I love it!)…and I still haven’t tried everything yet.

And don’t let me start about the characters. The MC - all those reactions we can choose are absolutely amazing. Sometimes when I play a game like this, I got the feeling like I’d add a few other choices, like none of those really fit my character. It has never happened here. Okay…once, becuase I’m a softie and I so wanted to say “I’m sorry” to Ortega during the fight. But then there was the “I can’t” choice, which fit perfectly, so I was happy with it (Also we got the apologetic kiss/peck, which made up for it with interests). I really like the fact we don’t know everything about the character and their motivations. We get hints into their life (and I’m totally into the Re-Gene theory!), we get feelings, mostly worries and fears, but also a bit of dreams, and somehow that’s enough to show their drive. Maybe someone might have a problem with that, but I do not - it makes it all even more real. That’s life - we don’t know everything, even about ourselves (as much as we might like to deny it.)

And other characters…I love them all. Yes, even Steel and Lady Argent. I can’t help it. I can see the reasons Steel has for being who he is to the MC. And I like that Lady Argent isn’t the typical hero you’d expect in Rangers - I mean, she’s got claws, she can use them and she doesn’t give a damn. Poor Herald though. He’s such an adorable kid and she’s giving him such a hard time And Dr. Mortum - he’s really not what I was expecting from a mad scientist and it’s amazing. Even more so when I chose to romance him with the Puppet and got to know him better. He can be such a charming guy, really. And don’t let me start about Ortega…we’d be here for a whole day. He’s amazing and a real friend (and can be more ). And I was so happy the MC could influence him to reconsider his choice of facial hair, by the way…

Ehm, negatives…can’t think of any, to tell the truth.

Okay, to so to sum it up - it’s amazing piece of work and even more so when I learned the author is not a native English speaker! Kudos for that! I’m nowhere near as good as I’d like, but I’ve written a few things in English (also not a native speaker here) and so I know it’s not an easy feat no matter what grasp of the language I think I’ve got.

So thank you, @malinryden, for writing such a gem of a story!

edit: Yeah, typos

[Unknown_Player]

I have question, How do you study the rangers and their tactics?

[Merel]

When your MC is talking about who they hate the most pick one of the rangers and you will have studied their tactics.

[Unknown_Player]

How do you get the newspaper give you the moniker of “Enigma”?

[Vattena]

This are how from code reading:
Have your suit mysterious, don’t destroy museum or “erase” sidestep, don’t let them know you telepath, and have arrogance more than 60.

[Unknown_Player]

That seems a bit odd, wouldnt it make more sense if you have higher anonymity and thus there is less information about you and thus you are more enigmatic?

[Flaine1996]

One question: how are you able to name yourselves sidestep? I’ve tried but it keeps saying you aren’t ready to out yourself?

[Vattena]

@Unknown_Player

That seems a bit odd, wouldnt it make more sense if you have higher anonymity and thus there is less information about you and thus you are more enigmatic?

here the code if you curious:
Edit:
Though, it does require for the MC to have mysterious suit.

Summary

*if suit_mysterious
    *if arrogance > 60
      *set villain_name "The Enigma"
      *goto press
    *else
      *set villain_name "Enigma"
      *goto press

@Flaine1996

I’ve tried but it keeps saying you aren’t ready to out yourself?

Your arrogance have to be more than 65.

[Flaine1996]

Thank you :D! Will try that next playthru!

[Unknown_Player]

What does the “illusionist” part mean?

[Vattena]

From quick read, it seems some kind of set-ed name during Argent fight in sewer, if you using your telepathic during the battle. Not really sure though.

[AgentVerona]

Here, have a Sim Sidestep (Verona) and a Sim Puppet (Gabe). Cause I had nothing else to do today.

Also a Sim Sidestep (Beretta) and Sim Puppet (Percy).

[Theguyfive_Jbra]

I would believe that sidestep would look more “out of it”.

[AgentVerona]

…It’s the Sims. You don’t get THAT much to work with. I’d have to move them into my current world, ruin their lives, and then take depressing screencaps while they were probably about to die to get ‘out of it’. I worked too hard on my current town to subject them to that.

[Merel]

How do you get the code like that? I am curious about the other names you can get (if you are conqueror for instance).

[Vattena]

There tutorial for that:

How To See Other Games' Code (current info posted in OP and Post 146 on 6/18/19)

I saw an explanation of how to look at “/scenes” for a game in a long-ago Choice of Vamp comment thread. If I hadn’t seen it, it wouldn’t have occurred to me that it was possible… and I’d have missed out on a whole lot of learning that’s come from digging into how other people coded their games! [Edit: Reaperoa’s original explanation was back when mygame.js was where your scene list lived. Now it lives in startup.txt. So here are some Choice of Rebels examples to complement/update his explan…

Though if you want to see the full game code but have not purchase it directly from CoG, you have to send your receipt screenshot to Choice of Games support.

[Blmc000]

Epic. Well done! Lots of depth, great flow of narrative, PC felt real and complicated. Good job on the foreshadowing, btw.

[SteampunkNinja]

@Vattena

Though if you want to see the full game code but have not purchase it directly from CoG, you have to send your receipt screenshot to Choice of Games support.

There’s other ways to see the full code too without owning a CoG copy. Someone in that thread shows a method for most of the Steam versions, which is what I own.

How to view code in Steam versions

@mreed

This method is now required for games downloaded on Steam – the “Use 7-Zip on the .EXE file” won’t work on games that have been packaged recently. In particular, it won’t work for Lost Heir 3, and (when I re-downloaded it from Steam to check) the “Use 7-Zip on the .EXE file” won’t work on Lost Heir 2 either (and it used to work).

Note that you are still able to open the .EXE file with 7-Zip, but it opens it as a “PE file” (= “Windows EXE”) and shows you a list of resources, including the uncompressed compiled code, that make up the EXE. This isn’t useful in the slightest for the purposes of “Viewing the source code of a ChoiceScript game”, so…

To add some more detail to the instructions:

Go to https://nodejs.org/ , download and install the software you find there. You must note the installation directory, as you’ll need it for the next step. By default, it will be “C:\Program Files\NodeJS”.
Open a command prompt (Start / Run and type “cmd” works prior to Windows 10 – in Windows 10, click on the “Find anything” button next to the start button (its a circle) and type “cmd” in that box to do this.
Type “cd [path you installed NodeJS too]” – note that you will need to use double quotes around the path name if it contains spaces, and it almost certainly does. For example: cd “C:\Program Files\NodeJS”.
Type npm install -g asar into the command window. After a fairly short (< 30 second) pause, a text rendition of a file / folder tree will appear and you’ll end up back at the command prompt.
Open (or change) the current directory to the location where Steam installed the game you are investigating. This tends to be a long path – in most cases it will be easier to right click on the game in Steam, select “Properties”, then “Local Files”, then “Browse Local Files”, then while holding the shift key, right click on an empty area of the window that appears and select “Open Command Window Here”. If you don’t see this option, you aren’t pressing and holding the shift key before right clicking – this isn’t a documented feature, but it does work. This is hardly the only way to get to the right directory, but it is the easiest to explain without screenshots (I think).
Once you have a command prompt opened in the right directory, type cd resources (this is where the app.asar file actually resides).
Finally, type asar e app.asar dest. Nothing at all will seem to happen (although you shouldn’t get an error message). However, if you go back to file explorer, there will be a new directory “dest” in the resources folder for your game, which contains the source code of the game.

Good grief, cheating has never been this hard before…

For the record:

dest in Step #7 is the name of a directory where the files will be decompressed to, and you can change it. But the instructions are complex enough as it is, so…

[Theguyfive_Jbra]

In the words of a broken meme of a man, “JUST DO IT!”

P.S ever heard of “saving”?

[AgentVerona]

Wow why is this such a big deal to you? Maybe just leave it? You’re being kinda rude at this point. You go make your own depressed looking sims. All I did was share something I made, no need to keep this up.