#kikkohito sho

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The first romance route for my otome visual novel, Saucy Suitors, is now available to play in alpha on itch.io!! Click over here to download it and check it out, along with links for walkthroughs!

I’ve put a lot of sweat and love into finishing this, so I really hope everyone enjoys it!!! Please let me know what you think!

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Walkthrough to Get to Sho’s Romance Route (Saucy Suitors Alpha, ver. 0.11)

Hi everyone!! As was announced on Monday, Saucy Suitors has been updated on itchio. A beta of Sho’s route is now playable! Hooray for the first romance route being complete!! 

To help people access the new content, I’ve prepared a walkthrough to help people select the right dialogue options in the prologue to get to his route in the first place. 

So, technically I posted a walkthrough to get not only Sho’s route, but every condimen’s route (eventually), a long time ago. This flowchart breaks down how all of the choices in the prologue work. But to give you a clearer idea of what options you need to pick, here’s a summary!

How to Get Sho’s Route in Saucy Suitors

When the tourist is rude to you: doesn’t matter which you pick.

When the boy is asking for poutine: offer him something off the menu (top option).

When deciding whether to call your boss back immediately: call him back (top option).

Eventually, you should reach a point where Piper rushes off to work. If you get the text box that says she ate a bagel for breakfast, you’ve selected the right choices so far. If you messed up somewhere, you may get the option to pick what breakfast she has - if you do see this choice come up and you’re trying to get Sho’s route, pick the bagel!

When deciding what to do about the other food trucks: call the police immediately (top option).

When Jean offers you his mustard: eat the mustard (bottom option).

When Huey asks your opinion about Star Angel’s Bliss: agree with him (top option).

When deciding whether to ask Sweets to stay: let Sweets leave (top option).

When asked your opinion about Hunter’s behavior: agree with Moyo (top option).

Note that if you happened to ask Sweets to stay, you’ll get a different final choice in the scene that follows. In this scene, when Sho loans you his handkerchief, don’t blow your nose (top option, if I remember right).

If you follow the above steps, Piper will select Sho has her cook-off partner, and you’ll be officially on Sho’s romance route! Have fun and please tell me what you think after you’ve played it!!!

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Walkthrough for Sho’s endings!

Hi everyone! An update is going out today on itch.io for alpha version 0.11.1! This small update fixes a few things and adds an author’s note to the beginning of the game about the unfinished state of the game and where to find walkthroughs.

Here’s a walkthrough for Sho’s route itself and all of his endings! Note, this contains spoilers, so if you want to play Sho’s route a few times before looking at this, you should. But if you’re trying to see all of his endings, this is where to look!

I made this flowchart a few months ago for my beta testers - if this isn’t clear enough or you’d like a text version, please let me know!

Thank you again for your support <3

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Hello, my lonely sauciers! Odd Lazdo here with an update on a special day: January 28th is the birthday of our beloved soybeanpole, Kikkohito Sho! 😚Saucy Suitors takes place in March of 2017, so he'll always been canonically 31 years old. But he would otherwise be 32 years old as of today! Happy birthday, Sho!

Now for an update on the progress of Sho's route! Here's the status of everything so far:

Script: 99% done

First round of editing: 100% done

Talksprites: 90% done

Backgrounds: 50% done

Special CGs/additional art assets: 30% done

Programming: 25% done

Selecting music: 50% done

Beta testing/second round of editing: 0% done

It might look like there's a lot left to do in the next month - I still intend to release Sho's route before the end of February - but the most important thing here is that the art assets are close to being finished. Drawing everything I need for the VN is hands-down the most time consuming aspect of making this game. Once those are done, it'll only take me a few days to put everything together in Ren'Py and start testing and proofreading (which itself won't take long).

And that's it! This will be the last devlog before Sho's route goes live next month. As always, thank you to everyone for playing and for your support! Click here for links of where you can follow me & Saucy Suitors on various social media sites. See you next month!

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Rough sketches of Day 2 outfit ideas for Sho, Moyo and Huey! Since everyone’s routes take place the day after the events of the demo, they need second outfits. And since Huey and Moyo make brief appearances during Sho’s route, they all need their alternate outfit talk sprites done soonish.

Still kinda undecided on Moyo. What do you guys think of a denim jacket and/or ponytail look for him?

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I finished these designs and talksprites for Sho’s, Huey’s, and Moyo’s outfits for the post-demo parts of the game! Hooray!!

I know I’ve been very quiet here lately, but I’m still chugging along, working on the game, and I hope to be able to share some good news with everyone in the next two weeks. <3 <3 <3