Version 0.15 I didn't have any of the previous anomalies happen this time around. It ran pretty smoothly. I did notice, however, that if you click on the left side of the screen, the text reverses direction. So, I'm assuming that the dev programmed a "back button" into the game, either intentionally or unintentionally. Pretty neat feature if you ask me.

That said, the renders are pretty good and the premise of the story is pretty good as well. The writing though... It leaves something to be desired. I hate to bash on any games, but I gotta be honest. It's a good VN overall, just needs a little spit and polish on the writing. Might be due to translation? Maybe?

Getting some bugs like TrulyDemented1. I started over instead of from a save. Ignore my comment above.

TrulyDemented1,
I'll try it out. One thing I've noticed is some Ren'Py games break when you back up a scene. This may be one of those. Also, if you're getting bugs from a save it's best to start over to make sure it's not a version compatibility problem. I hope this helps. I'm going to try the latest version shortly.

Okay, so I'm really getting into the story and the renders are decent but I'm debating tossing this one as every few minutes it starts going in reverse. Still. You can see my above post... And yet once again, I can either roll back some or press skip (usually have to roll back quite a ways then press skip) in order to get it to go forward again. It's getting frustrating to say the least. Honestly, I really hope that I'm the only one experiencing this on one hand, but on the other...

I had a little issue with the latest release. Not sure what's happening... I'd be moving forward through the story and all of a a sudden, it would start going backwards. I.E. he got in the car, he went to the store, he bought something, he went to friends, he bought something, he went to the store, he got in the car. I'd rollback to the point it started going backward, click again and it starting working normally again. ??? Weird.

This game has significantly improved from what it was like initially.

Well after day 3 it crashes

I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred.

While loading <'Image' u'images/Day3/day3mmarcus11.jpg'>:
  File "game/day3.rpy", line 199, in script
    ms "You can't show up looking like that! Go get changed!"
Exception: Could not load image u'images/Day3/day3mmarcus11.jpg': error('Unsupported image format',)

-- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------

Full traceback:
  File "game/day3.rpy", line 199, in script
    ms "You can't show up looking like that! Go get changed!"
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\ast.py", line 678, in execute
    renpy.exports.say(who, what, interact=self.interact, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\exports.py", line 1204, in say
    who(what, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\character.py", line 1031, in __call__
    self.do_display(who, what, cb_args=self.cb_args, **display_args)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\character.py", line 823, in do_display
    **display_args)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\character.py", line 572, in display_say
    rv = renpy.ui.interact(mouse='say', type=type, roll_forward=roll_forward)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\ui.py", line 289, in interact
    rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\core.py", line 2662, in interact
    repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\core.py", line 3148, in interact_core
    self.draw_screen(root_widget, fullscreen_video, (not fullscreen_video) or video_frame_drawn)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\core.py", line 2065, in draw_screen
    renpy.config.screen_height,
  File "render.pyx", line 487, in renpy.display.render.render_screen
  File "render.pyx", line 235, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\layout.py", line 719, in render
    surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
  File "render.pyx", line 147, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "render.pyx", line 235, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\layout.py", line 719, in render
    surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
  File "render.pyx", line 147, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "render.pyx", line 235, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\layout.py", line 719, in render
    surf = render(child, width, height, cst, cat)
  File "render.pyx", line 147, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "render.pyx", line 235, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "accelerator.pyx", line 110, in renpy.display.accelerator.transform_render
  File "render.pyx", line 235, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\image.py", line 497, in render
    return wrap_render(self.target, width, height, st, at)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\image.py", line 306, in wrap_render
    rend = render(child, w, h, st, at)
  File "render.pyx", line 147, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "render.pyx", line 235, in renpy.display.render.render
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\im.py", line 580, in render
    return cache.get(self, render=True)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\im.py", line 266, in get
    surf = image.load()
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\im.py", line 625, in load
    surf = renpy.display.pgrender.load_image(renpy.loader.load(self.filename), self.filename)
  File "C:\Users\chicosoft\Desktop\Culture Shock - Version 0.60 bugfix\renpy\display\pgrender.py", line 162, in load_image
    raise Exception("Could not load image {!r}: {!r}".format(filename, e))
Exception: Could not load image u'images/Day3/day3mmarcus11.jpg': error('Unsupported image format',)

Windows-8-6.2.9200
Ren'Py 7.1.1.929
Culture Shock 0.60
Tue Jan 15 14:48:23 2019