Marnie’s Moment

In Marnie's Moment, players embark on a new journey as Pokémon Trainers in a brand new city. They'll travel alongside a beautiful girl, battle and capture diverse Pokémon, and challenge Gym Leaders. Along the way, they'll gradually learn about the girl's life story and secrets, gaining insight into her heart and unlocking corresponding erotic scenes for an exhilarating experience. The game is currently being updated with more exciting storylines to come, so stay tuned.

Features:

Set against the stunning backdrop of Lumiose City, this game invites players to explore Kalos's crown jewel, complete with bustling streets and hidden gems.

Develop meaningful connections as you uncover her backstory and help her through challenges, creating bonds that shape the narrative.

Your choices influence how relationships evolve, leading to one of three diverse endings that reflect your decisions throughout the game.

With a sprawling word count exceeding 190,000, "Marnie’s Moment" offers a deeply engaging narrative filled with twists and emotional moments.

Designed for gradual progression, the game encourages multiple playthroughs to fully appreciate its layered storytelling.

It caters to players seeking more than just quick entertainment, delivering a thought-provoking and memorable experience.

Changelog:

Major Changes:

The ending of the game had been changed significantly. The three ways of escaping the time loop are the same, but now the day after you get free is longer and more fleshed out. Rather than having one conversation with Marnie in the park and then the game ends, you now spend an entire day with Marnie and Celebi.

If you do the date in the park at the start of the morning, you have the option to bring Celebi with you to the pokémon tournament instead of battling with Cacturne.

The battle in Phil’s back yard plays out a little differently. While it ends the same as before, the way in which the good guys win is a little more dramatic and fits better with the rest of the game and story.

Not sure what else to say without spoiling things. Just play the game I guess.

Minor Changes:

Revised the conversation in the morning after having sex to be a little longer and deeper ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) so it feels less like we’re in a rush to get past talking about our relationship.

Added dialog in a few places, mainly earlier in the game, where the player is called out on being a passive wimp so he have a little more growth as a person during the story.

Added some conversation where Marnie balks at the player’s lack of patriotism and general apathy, further servicing the above.

Revised some lines talking about the wars of the past to make it clearer that we’re talking about the general history of warfare and not referring WWII or any other specific real-world war.

Cut a line that mentioned Kalosians “surrendering all the time” because it was pointless French slander, especially coming from Marnie.

Made some revisions in a few places where it looks like the story is setting up a future plot thread, so it doesn’t look like the story is setting up something that never pays off. This includes the tourist vandalizing the tomb in Les Invalides; going camping out in the wilderness; Team Rocket’s package being left in the visitors center; and some others. This doesn’t affect the actual plot of the game, but now it looks less like the game has a ton of abandoned story threads.

Tiny details:

Fixed an issue where some sound effects wouldn’t obey the volume slider in the preferences screen. The tl;dr explanation here is that some sound effects play on a “sound_b” audio channel, but that channel wasn’t controlled by the sound volume slider. Now it is.

Fixed an issue with the game not playing music during your third visit to Sycamore’s lab.

Fixed an inconsistency with the amount of time the doctors want to keep watching Exeggutor. (Thank you Ryogus)

Marnie uses the word “biscuits” instead of “cookies.”

Changed the stated weight of the Adamant Orb. The originally measurements were from before I had art for it and they ended up not really being realistic.

Fixed a lot of minor typos throughout the game. I used a different spellchecking tool, which has a better understanding of when to use semicolons, so the game now has more of those too.

Player Comments:

TLDR: I liked it. It tells a good story. The older version's love story was weaker, but the changes made improved it to the point to where there aren't really any glaring flaws.We can never really have enough "what if pokemon was the real world" stories grounded in protagonists that aren't 11 year old god slayers- meeting brilliant but personally flawed gym trainers. Good stuff.I think I still liked Olivine Lights a bit more, so you should check that out. That game played out like a movie, and this one played out like...well, I previously called it a "serialized manga series that got cancelled a few chapters too early for the author to prepare" and I'll call this one "a serialized manga that ended when the author wanted to end it" which, honestly, is good enough.Disclosure: my hueristic is that you have to either be a good-enough game, tell a good-enough story or have good-enough porn. If we were to grade these games like we grade games with publishers, everything would be garbage and no score would be useful- anyway this is a fine story.Because it's got everything, mystery, intrigue, some red herrings, and the addition of a wise cracking mystical pokemon was actually a genius twist, because it sets up a really excellent dramatalaguical triad.1) You've got a mythic pokemon, who is in charge of, and failing, the one goal he's meant to do- and has to recruit people to do it. He never humanizes himself and always acts superior. His flaw is that he HAS to rely on people due to the plot because there ARE things he can't do.2) The male lead, who succumbed to the terrible disease of being-a-male-lead. He's in town because his pokemon had a disease that needed surgery that wouldn't get fixed by a pokecenter shooting electricity through a ball (I did mention how great it is to world build pokemon like this.)3) And Marnie. Someone who fails a lot because she hesitates and holds herself back. In a very real way, the story is crafted for HER. Time loops are happening and HER lesson is to get some confidence in herself through reset privilege. In order to learn her lesson, she HAS to get over herself and the story (and interactions with you) give her the narrative methods to do this.

Before we talk story, know that my understanding of PoKéMon extends to Generation 2. I left after Johto. Why is this important? This story combines a lot of things from different seasons - all the way from Generation 2 to Generation 8. The VN isn't unplayable if you don’t have all the knowledge, but you will need to google a few times. That said, it’s a testament of great writing that the VN mostly holds up without having current PoKéMoN info.You live with your cousin and aunt in Kalos while helping your PoKéMon through an operation. While your friend is in the hospital, the craziest thing happens to you which coincidentally puts you on a path with Marnie, the girl from Galar. She’s a cute girl with her unwanted fanclub Team Yell and from what I understand of fans, criminally underused by PoKéMon.The developer has made a lot of effort to keep this story connected with the complex PoKéMon universe and the actions in both the games and other media. This story happens after the original PoKéMon Sword/Shield game and deals with her opening up to strangers.Overall, the story is a nice arc where a PoKéMoN causes trouble for both you and Marnie. During this story, you learn to appreciate each other and it’s up to the player how that plays out. It’s a text heavy game and it frequently repeats itself, not just because of the story. Slowly, the VN draws in more recognizable characters from the universe until the plot of your adventure finally unfolds.In all honesty, I found the justification and ending to be quite underwhelming - but in PoKéMon, this is usually the case. Spending time with Marnie is fine and the PoKéMon have different personalities that stand out, helping the story keep it’s dynamic. That said, there are quite a few story branches that are abandoned - which feel like they could have amounted to a better ending. The moment-to-moment writing is great, although Marnie’s Galarian accent might be a bit too much of a stereotype to me. The idea is nice and I’m not sure if it’s original to the developer or adapted from PoKémedia.Marnie’s Moment is more than a moment and won’t sweep you off your feet, but is an enjoyable ride and expands on Marnie’s world. If you crave more Marnie, this is a must-play. It serves as a cut deepening to a character that the series kept too shallow if I’m to believe the stories.

Summary:

A story about getting another chance and trying again. You’ve come to beautiful Lumiose City, the crown jewel of Kalos. There are things to see, people to meet, and a cute girl with a funny accent and a mischievous pokemon. Maybe you can make friends with her? Maybe a new friend is what she really needs right now? Maybe things will escalate from there? Or maybe you’re just killing time in Kalos.