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Dear Althea

Decisions in a Victorian LGBT romance with Puzzles · By Tijerín Art Studio

English translation errors + bugs

A topic by umberchaos created Jun 09, 2022 Views: 229 Replies: 1
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Hi! I want to start off by saying that I really enjoyed the game, but I unfortunately ran into a lot of errors.

I found that the English version had a lot of issues with repeating dialogue, typos, and untranslated sections. I had trouble following some things due to that. It'd kind of go something like this;

Me: Hello, it's been a while!

Person: Hi, how are you?

Me: Hello, it's been a while!

Person: That's great to hear! 

I think this caused me to miss some crucial dialogue in some places unfortunately. I think the game would benefit from another look-over by the translator(s) to see the inconsistencies and hopefully fix them. 

There were also some issues with portraits not appearing, or glitches in which I'd done a puzzle correctly (like the tea) but got more than one outcome; such as that Althea liked her tea, but then in the next line she hated her tea, or that I would be presented two options but one wouldn't work and they'd lead to the same dialogue branch. For example, if option 1 was "Hello" and option 2 was "Goodbye", then no matter what I chose, I would end up saying "Hello" in some choices. I do not know if the Spanish version has these issues, because I cannot read Spanish. 

Other than that, Dear Althea is wonderfully done! I've played many visual novels and went in with the usual expectations that I have, but I was very impressed by the story and just how much artwork there is! I can tell it truly took a lot of work. I hope the issues can be fixed at some point.

Developer(+1)

Hello,

I'm glad you liked the game and I'm sorry you encountered so many bugs. I don't want to sound like an excuse, but due to the engine used and the fact that I'm only one developer, it's difficult to detect all the bugs that can arise after choosing specific combinations of decisions. 

I will investigate the errors you have encountered to see if I can find a solution.

It would be very helpful if you could post the translation and dialogue repetition bugs you've encountered so I can investigate and fix them.

The game could certainly use some translators to take a look at it, but I don't have the budget for such a thing, I'm really sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Best regards and, again, I'm sorry for any bugs that might have spoiled your experience.