JPDE2 - Adagio Of Darkness
A downloadable RWBY Fan Visual Novel for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android
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JPDE2 is a fan visual novel based on the RWBY animated series, sequel to the original JPDE - Sonata of Fire. Set three years after the events of the original, which corresponds to the events of Volume3 of RWBY, we find ourselves in a changed Remnant with a completely new storyline! Join Penny Polendina and everyone else once again! The fate of the world may be at stake this time...
- Experience the world of RWBY through a completely new AU story of grand proportions! Travel all over Remnant, meet old faces and new characters alike! Quests and secrets lay behind every corner and conversation!
- Engage your enemies with the PRESS GROUP battle system! Control elements and turn order carefully! Form a team and fight alongside dozens of characters!
- Don't ignore one on one downtime! The time you spend with other characters and the bond you form will be just as important as your fighting prowess!
- Jam to a fantastic OST by OddTillTheEnd, with guest tracks by other artists like Husky by the Geek and Nailik!
Due to some of the Themes and Events depicted in this Fictional Story, it is intended for consumption from a Mature Audience, where Mature stands for: having reached a stage of mental or emotional development characteristic of an adult.
This game contains elements of [NON DEFINITIVE LIST, GAME IN DEVELOPMENT]:
- Violence
- Death
- Suicide Ideation
- Trauma
- PTSD
- Panic Attacks
- Racism
- Prejudice
- Disability
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Development log
- JPDE2 - Episode 07 [RETURNS]4 days ago
- JPDE2 EP06 - QoL2 Update40 days ago
- JPDE2 EP06 QoL Release - [The Ties That Bind]56 days ago
- JPDE2 EP05 QoL Release - [Trials Of Menagerie]89 days ago
- JPDE 2 - EP05, Android Up!Apr 02, 2024
- JPDE2 - EP04 [2nd Bug Fix Uploaded]Mar 30, 2024
- JPDE2 - EP04 Bug Fix Mac, PC [Android Delayed]Mar 30, 2024
- JPDE2 - Episode 04 QoL Release [ANDROID DELAYED]Mar 30, 2024
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Why does it feel like I always remember this no less than 24 hours after it updated, and no other times?
(Good game.)
Probably because it updates monthly and your brain now has a monthly alarm set to "JPDE TIME!". :3
Soooo like when I played this the first time, was like it stuck on episode one? Cause I wasn't sure if I was only messing with the first episode or if there was more...Cause after a certain point it just threw me back the main menu
Though it's been a month or so so I memory is a tad foggy on where exactly I was when it threw me back to the main menu
Right now we're at Episode 6 for the public, as you can see :)
What I mean is since there is several episodes does it mean that only one episode at a time is playable or does if one plays episode one does it continue onto episode two or....? Cause I am feeling like I only played episode one or whatever and it didn't let me continue afterwards just sent me back to the main menu
Episodes is just our way of calling updates. Newer updates contain new stuff and lets you continue where a previous update stopped.
I wasn't expecting that a dropbear would be in this game or the horned kangaroos. What's next, a damned cassowary?
...weeeeeeell... :3
NO! YOU CANNOT DANCE AROUND THE MOST AGGRESSIVE BIRD! NO! NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I did laugh when I saw the koala Grimm, those things literally only eat leaves with no nutrients whatsoever. If a cassowary Grimm does appear, it better be called the most aggressive Grimm that it actively seeks people even without negative emotions.)
I have a complaint about the combat: While I was playing Ch. 6 I got off Patreon, during battle, if the enemy runs out of MP, the game doesn't seem to have a check to prevent them from using moves that use MP when they have none and causes the "an exception has accorded" screen. Attempting to ignore it causes a game over.
Basically, every fight now has a turn limit. This is a problem when the grim you fight in this chapter seem immune to everything except gun attacks, despite the HUD stating otherwise. "Resists Melee" shouldn't mean the attack does zero damage. Electric and Ice attacks are also completely nullified. So, if you don't draw the right cards, or have characters that lack gun attacks like Jack and/or Penny, you have to save scum just to get anywhere. And while I can accept that, considering every time I download a new update my saves don't carry over, this is not something I want to deal with when ch. 7 is released.
I like the story. I enjoy every update. Please fix this so I don't have to deal with this nonsense just to get to the parts I'm here for.
Sorry to hear that. The fix for the NO MP situation is coming but, I'm sorry to say, from Episode 06 there's no more issues with the save files. As stated in the update post, you just need to use the update function in the Scroll Menu to fix your save file and then you'te good to go.
I guess you might have missed that post update? Or, as Episode 06 is currently only available to Patrons, maybe you didn't have access to it? :)
About the other elements, though:
1) that's demonstrably not true, other elemental attacks that are not the resisted or nullified elements do damage, just not as much as the the element an enemy is weak to (obviously);
2) the fight system is built around that. It's inspired by Megaten games where, depending on how prepared you are, fights are either long struggles or are over very quickly. There's plenty of dialogue hints at what's coming your way, especially in the latter half of Episode06, and you can change David's abilities on the fly.
You have a legitimate greviance about the MP Turn Limit. But about the other issues: the new save file thing has been fixed, elemental resistances work as intended, and battles will go well as long as you pay attention to what goes in-game and go in prepared.
It Will haver a lewd mod like the First?
Hello! Only if it reaches a certain amount of Patreon support. Lood artists are pricey :O
is there a way to transfer save from jpde1 to jpde2? I’m ok with keeping name as David if needed but I don’t want to loose my relationships with ruby and the other girls I dated
from what we've seen so far you will be able to pick and choose what relations we have when they come up in game like with kali we can choose 3 options - aquantances, intimate, and strangers
so I loose my custom name but I can still be with team Rwby in romance
I'm sorry, but let me ask you a few questions. Will the decisions in the previous part affect the game? For example, if I could keep Pyrrha alive, would she be there alive? If the relationship with the members of the RWBY team influenced the ending of the game, then will it be the same? Will there be a harem ending? Will the relationship with the JPDE team members also develop independently of the player?
THIS IS AMAZING. SO MUCH LORE, SO MANY NEW CHARACER DESINGS AND NEW CHARACTERS!! I kind of miss the older combat style but this is still good. Also its a shame that Jaune and Phyra are no longer a thing. Still I love this game and everything in it. 9/10 for me.
Thank you so much ^^ The biggest worry going into JPDE2 was definitely the reception for all the new stuff... Glad it's being received well!
can we expect some important story choices that depend on the player or will we have an exclusively linear narrative this time?
I keep getting an error during the first fight and its not letting me continue.
I don't know what I am supposed to do.
The question is, will the game support other languages, including Russian?
Unfortunately translation of the game is way beyond our funding. The first was translated because a fan decided to do it in their free time.
Question is this gonna get 18+ Content like the previous game got, or is there no plans for 18+ Content once this game is finally finished?
Hello! The 18+ is possible but due to the cost, it requires the support on Patreon for the game to reach a certain level.
A no combat mode would be nice . I enjoyed the story more in sonata of fire and would prefer if that was an option in this game as well .
Are you still obsessed with trying to pretend Ozpin is as morally gray as his hair, even though both you and Rooster Teeth keep forgetting to show him doing anything evil?
guess someone didnt finished story....
I asked him to name what Ozpin had done that was evil.
He told me that being cursed by a god to be forced to reincarnate against his will as punishment for not stopping Salem was, somehow, something Ozpin needed to be shown retribution for. He refused to explain how being punished by a god with a curse is somehow itself a crime worthy of making one considered evil by in-world morality and needing justice done against the curse repicient.
But he asserted that he genuinely DOES believe that being cursed by a higher power for failure is, somehow, a wicked and evil deed on the part of the person receiving the curse for failure. He just refuses to explain how.
Well the version of the game that i download is only the episode 1 in the windows version. I espect that the second episode is in the Android Version.
The first episode was great Btw. thanks for your work lad!!!!!
Hello! I can confirm that the uploaded Windows and Linux version on Itch is Episode 02. It's meant to end after the boss battle with the Lieutenant.
ah ok! Thanks
Show post...
Thank you! :)
thanks :)
hey there, I’m just getting into the series.
Is there any method of carrying over save data from the first game?
Hi, Mr! There will be, yes :D It's not included in the game yet but it's in the plan!
Will this one have a male or female protagonist?
found an issue someti.es happens when i pick an attack so there may be an attack thats bugged also ignoring it leads me to the main menu so there may just be a defeat screen that wont load properly.
Just checked and it isent tied to one specific attack and from what ive seen happens on both the adam fight and goons before it though its preventing me from continuing so i dont know if it happens on any other battles the game may or may not have
Hello, Chris! This is actually a bug that happens when it's the enemy's turn and you try and choose an attack. It's already been fixed for the next release. Maybe we should also add an indicator for whose turn it is.
Thanks i just have a habit of selecting attacks even when its not my turn to see thee effects when i can do it in games so i would not have figured this out.
You released this faster than i thought. It was probably a task to swap engines, take breaks dont burn yourself out i beleve i can speak for most if not all of this comunity when i say we truly appreciate all of the hard work you put into developing these games.
when we can expect public version of new demo?
Mid October! Moving on we'll probably tie it to the level of support on Patreon. The higher it is, the sooner it becomes public :3
Finished a route on the first game a weeks ago, my experience was so good that made me watch the episodes of the RWBY series that I was postergating... I finshed them and now I need more, decided to look your other games in Itch.io and found that the second part for JPDE is already playable....
Are any performance improvements going to happen soon because I'm on mobile and even after boosting my game it crashes quite a bit though my phone isn't really the best so it might be my phone.
Hello, Chris! Thanks for the question!
We're actually completely remaking the game in the Godot engine. RPGMaker sadly has too many limitations and they showed the most, as you experimented, on Mobile.
Good to hear and thanks for caring about the mobile part of your community most creators ive seen don't care about us as much as the other parts of their communities on windows mac and such.
@Meinos Speaking: Well, on top of Android being literally one third of the downloads we get for the original JPDE, I feel like mobile devices have a lot of untapped potential and audiences.
Hi there, um, quick question? when will you guys put more of the Story into the Game?
not in the near future i guess, cuz they started to work on different project
Hello :D Thanks for the question.
JPDE2 is still being worked on, but since we noticed thay RPGMakerMZ has some serious limits especially on Android the game is being remade in Godot.
ah, Noted, thanks for the Update ^^
Id also like to see your take on naruo/boruto, one peice, demon slayer,, mha WIP, an fairy tail
um sorry its me again but any update on the my hero game demo? and also i hope jpde continues forever and if you make another ruby vn how about youlet us create our own first and last name plus wepon type and sembalence an start from season 1 plz remember this all just a suggestion
is there a way to bring over the lewd mode form the first game or no
So is romance continued from the first game? Like for example in mass effect 2 if you romanced a character from the previous game and had a save file you could import that to the sequel. Is there something similar for JPDE 2?
There is :)
Hey quick question for literally anyone who better at tech than me but how exactly do you install the battle core for the game because every time I try either the files won't open or there's an error of some kind
What happened to this game's style?? I thought it was gonna be like it's predecessor
It was never supposed to be :) The team has been talking about it in the community for months.
cool stuff
love these games, when is the next content story update?
There is God after all or Satan depending on who you prayed to for JPDE to get a sequel ( no comment on mine )
Now we just have to get MHA game released
Loved JPDE it was very fun and the story was great so I know JPDE2 is going to be just as good if not better I look forward to playing it from start ta finish.
I know that this is off topic but a few years ago you guys made a my hero academia parody demo game I was wondering a few things is there gonna be an update soon, is it going to be like jpde where you can have multiple different powers,Are we going to be able to name our character (First name only,Last name only, or both First name and Last name
Please let me know as soon as you can
Sincerely,
Ace C
Hello, Ace :D The MHA Fan-game has found its final form, so to speak, and it's now being worked on but it may not be like you remember from the demo...
Thank you for responding also I'm a big fan of your work I will definitely play the mha fan game when it's released to the public
is it possible to speed up the character movement on the map because in my opinion they are moving far to slowly.
Do you mean even with dash on?
yes