Well, I finally finished the main story and I'm kind of sad that the story is over, I really liked the characters, they are very charismatic, in relation to the story it's very good, the password mechanics work well and it's cool when you discover the passwords by yourself , in relation to the ending:
SPOILER!!!!!
Dave getting memories from other timelines was something I was already expecting but it was cool to see anyway, there were some things I wanted answered, like what the big Thatanos was, what happened to Orlando's father in the P timeline, but nothing that ruins the game in relation to Taison being the Canonical route, I'm happy and sad, I like Taison, but David and Orlando will always be canonical in my heart, excellent game.
Use 'Dave' to get +1 affection with everyone. You can use any of the friends names to get unique dialogue and +1 affection with that person (names must be capitalised).
Theres some others just for dialogue like 'Timber' and 'Chase', i dont know them all
Okay! So first of all, i would like to admit that it was this game the reason why i even created an account lol
Aside from that, and (SPOILERS ALERT) after FINALLYYY beating the whole game by playing just what... 7 times??? xd i can officially say that it was worth it.
I definitely relate to Dave in a lot of things which made the whole experience even more enjoyable, and the whole plot surely managed to surprise me (or at least the first time) and as for the routes... although i have my favorites, i won't deny that they were insteresting and in some cases very pasionate (i'm looking at you Dean!), but yeah, overall pretty good 10/10!
ALSO, TYSON IS THE CANON ROUTE??? YEAAAAHHHH LET'S GOOOOOO
I love this VN! I'm probably about 90% through getting all endings, and I have to say, this is one of very few VNs where I really really like the MC, especially as I get to know him more throughout each play through. He's so cute and sweet and innocent and I can genuinely understand why all the other boys crush on him, rather than it feeling forced. Says a lot from me too as I'm a sucker for a himbo.
the story, as i said in my previous comment, the characters (the main friend group) are all amazing and love each one of them despite how awful they can be, the bad endings are great to a point watching friends die/kill each other for each respective reason is so awful and im a masoquist for mental and emotional pain.
going through each characters reasoning, philophies, mental, emotional and social problems was fun, and watching them grow past them or fall below their struggles was what engage me the most with PASSSWORD
the art style and character desigh grew on me, im a sucker for handrawn artstyle.
the most i was engage was when characters tend to make choices that would lead to a bad outcome or holding secrets that could jeperdise their friendships.
Edit, forgot to add: love how much of a character Dave is in its own way, and while falling heavily into the "UwU defendless twink dork" he those at least look the part.
Ok so this is going to be a long so strap in or skip (no potential spoilers):
To start with i (want to) love this vn, i came in thinking nothing of PASSWORD and its characters and end up falling in love with all of them (with some mix feelings with Roswell) the story WHEN talking to your friends and engaging with each path related character, it truly is wonderful and well done character wise, but the moment the story rails out of the main character dynamics, it becomes a slow, boring story about a scifi drama that drags on and leads nowhere and in my opinion ruins the game or the idea of it.
to start with i have mainly play Sal and Tyson routes and considering Deans route but with how slow Tysons final days are going ill probably stop there, the scifi drama with the vault and passwords add nothing and detracts from the beautifully written character storyline. The password mechanic was a nice novelty but after the second password in it lost its impact and becomes a problem when trying to engage with the story. the bad endings are so well made that it is a shame that its impact is held back by a password you wont get untill you completed the story road. In my opinion the story would have benefited more from the choices you had to make rather than reading through a trauma you had no say in cause its not relevent to your choices.
Again not that the bad endings are bad they are well made, UNTIL, the 3 stooges of memes are dropped in the story, the 3 main "bad guys" are the worst part of password, i never took them seriously the moment they appear and was more annoyed by them it almost made me quit.
Jack is nothing but a parody of Jack the reaper creepypasta, Memphis is so bland of a villain the fact that you have a mafia character and fail to make him interesting is on you considering how many ways Memphis could have been a force of idiological antagonism to Oswin, and the Bear might as well not have been added considering how much of a nothing character he is aside from being the level headed of the Jack and Dom dynamic.
And as for how much the story drags, the fact that you have to back track each time to get the better ending is fine but when days are repeated and diologs are copy pasted it becomes a slog to go through as characters have nothing new or interesting to say. It becomes more of a problem when charaters refuse to elaborate about anything despite already fully knowing the truth and knowing what they are hiding. aside from the main Characters, Benson was alright, Oswing is boring and the fact that you cant question him about the experiments he did to some kids is a miss opportunity to make him interesting if nothing else a potential antagonist. And Thanatos (the rat) is so bad that i ended up skipping him the most to save my sanity from having to deal with a character that talks so much and says so little.
Thats my rant. Verdic, i love this VN but when it misses it hurst.
i feel that im a bit unfair just posting the negatives so once im off work ill post about my positives, cause again is the reason why i even read it in the first place, i love this vn cant say it enough
I'm sorry that you found certain parts of the VN not to your liking. From your critique though, it looks like you went in assuming this was closer to a character drama rather than a mystery thriller, which is possibly where certain parts of the VN felt like they fell flat.
I agree, although i went in expecting it to be that (a mystery triller) however like i said before the characters and their struggles was what cough to me and i guess my expectations where sidelined by that, again just finished Tyson path b ending and i love it despite all the short comings
so I've been watch Keith Ballard's let's play of Password, and has brought up several criticisms, i have a idea of how the first 3 days could be re-written to alleviate some of the problems, keep in mind that i am no writer and this just a fan's opinion, also i'm not on patreon so if anything i talk about has already been fixed in the new builds that's why, Spoilers ahead
start day one with Roswell making a big scene of Tyson's appearance (it's kinda weird we only see Dean's individual reaction despite his lack of connection to Tyson, my guess it was to set up a romantic rivalry but it never goes anywhere, except that kinda sudden fight in Benson's bad end, anyway is weird that Roswell and Orlando don't get a reaction until Roswell suddenly begins harassing Tyson later), but begrudgingly relenting to let him go (thereby starting the vacation in a bad note and providing a reason why they don't hang out together as often as one would expect), day 1 spend first with Tyson and latter Dean establishing any vital information (things like how are their relationship with Dave and each other, who knows about Dave's dad, who was in high school together, who doesn't know each other well, basically any important character information that Dave already knows about at this point), day 2 do the same for Sal and Hoss, and day 3 for Roswell and Orlando, imply that they are mad at Dave and have been avoiding him until now, but don't have them address the issue head on yet, so Roswell later actions and the call out Dave gets later make sense, i would also establish that Dave is depressed because of his father's death from the beginning (probably day 2 or 3), because right now we only find out about it at the end of day 8, and then in day 9 he starts his depressive spiral, this harms the emotional catharsis of day 14 because the change in his behavior shouldn't be a mystery to those who knew of what happened (which at that point is everyone except Hoss and Sal if you are not in his route), but if is established that Dave is putting up a "everything is fine" facade then the reveal of how much this was affecting Dave makes much more sense, also i would move the blocking of the road to day 9, because it makes no sense in path B how they don't just leave for days after finding Oswin's body, the reason given is because they don't want one of them to be incriminated, but that excuse falls flat when you notice it wasn't a concern in any of the previous bad endings
anyway i hope the feedback helps, love the game, personal top 10, but it could be better
The name was a thing way in the past but since Dave is his own person not a self insert he gets his own name. The coffee cup is now for easter eggs. If you type Dave then you get +1 affection with everyone but if you put someone elses name you get +1 with that person (my fave is how Dave reacts to seeing Tysons name). There's some patreon names that change it i think, but the only one i remember is Timber (i think).
I'm replaying the game cause last time it wasn't finished so i want full experience at once but when I got to day 23 it looks like it skips the first time Dave awakening and forest scene. How can i replay it? That was like the most intense part of game for me
I don't think so in the public version, but if it's there it's in the Compendium section. It's been a while so i can't remember if the free version has the compendium even as an option in its basic function or not.
It used to have unlimited saves years ago after the version 0.24 I think..
I stopped to read Password after that since I lost access to my newer saves after that and never had mood to manually renamed those all to back in the moment I last played it.
But It had only 2 lines per page, 6 slots. I have 150 saves anyway that long ago.
I probably need rename more than 100 files if I wanted back to have access to it all.
Before I go diving into this one I gotta ask, for all intents and purposes it is DONE in terms of available story correct? All that comes after this in later versions is general tweaks and polish?
Correct. There's extended content insofar as epilogues and alike in the Patreon version but as far as it being as a complete story with answers to the mystery and conclusion to the story, this version has all that.
The caveat though is this version is a little behind insofar as some revisions made in the Patreon version both for clarification and QoL in some scenes when it comes to explaining some of the central themes a bit better.
What an attractive game it is! With its rich storyline and multiple choices, it's so addictive that I forget to sleep at mid night. By the way, I only found the computer-translation version on Telegram, after spending a lot of time, which makes me had no choice but to stop as soon as I realized it was a mis translation. I need to switch back to English in the menu and then read the original, Yep, repeating the above operation again and again each time. It's so exhausting to play the game without Chinese for me. Some mis translations are really funny, such as “lando laughed, waving Sal off although it was clear that he'd been busted.” The computer translate “been busted” into “被逮捕”, which means getting arrested by the police, lol. Anyway, this game holds great appeal for me, and I am eagerly anticipating playing the legitimate original Chinese version of this game on Steam. I am willing to pay for it.
What options for translations will there be on full release, fan-made or otherwise?
Ideally, I’d like to have Password available in other languages. As of right now, Chinese and Spanish are the two biggest ones requested and given the size of the Chinese fanbase that’d probably be the priority.
Now, while I know fan made translations exist, I don’t endorse them. I can’t quality check them to know what’s going in there, or how well they’re done, but I’m not going to actively tell people to stop doing them.
It’ll also depend on the cost of translating the whole thing as to if it’ll be available. While offers have been made for fan translations to be done for free, it’s a lot of work and something I’d like to reliably be able to purchase under contract so I can deliver on any promises of it coming.
I stop playing at day 15 Path A. Most characters are ok and behaves quite... normal, I suppose. Except for the MC (Dave), I find him rather annoying, especially his inner thoughts and how he makes things complicated for himself and his friends, it's so exhausting that I cannot proceed with the game. Unless he has mental problem and bad communication skill, then it is understandable. Besides, I dont understand how his friends accept his visions/dreams without any doubts. Like, if someone told you that you gonna die or someone gonna die because they see some visions after entering some words into a vault panel, the first reaction should be doubt, or you should think that they are paranoid or had hallucinations. But no, everyone freaks out when Dave reveal those things, even goes find the gun, doubt each others for being the killers (even though they are friends, not total strangers).
hmm, I missed the detail about the vault causing mental trauma, well that explains his behavior. Anyway, his problem would be much smaller if he tried to communicate openly with his friends. All the guys are cute btw, so that is a plus for this visual novel.
Anxiety doesn't work that way, you always second guess yourself things like "am i bothing them?" "i'm just wasting their time", "i dont want to cause trouble". Makes comunication a bitch. As for the vault Oz explains it and mentions he's worried about dave using it because of his nervous disposition.
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Well, I finally finished the main story and I'm kind of sad that the story is over, I really liked the characters, they are very charismatic, in relation to the story it's very good, the password mechanics work well and it's cool when you discover the passwords by yourself , in relation to the ending:
SPOILER!!!!!
Dave getting memories from other timelines was something I was already expecting but it was cool to see anyway, there were some things I wanted answered, like what the big Thatanos was, what happened to Orlando's father in the P timeline, but nothing that ruins the game in relation to Taison being the Canonical route, I'm happy and sad, I like Taison, but David and Orlando will always be canonical in my heart, excellent game.
i have a question. what ages are each of the characters?
Roswell 18, Dave and Orlando 19, Hoss 20, Tyson 21, Dean and Sal I think are 23 and 24.
Hay just started the VN and was hoping I could see what unique dialogue you can get with the coffee name in the beginning
Use 'Dave' to get +1 affection with everyone. You can use any of the friends names to get unique dialogue and +1 affection with that person (names must be capitalised).
Theres some others just for dialogue like 'Timber' and 'Chase', i dont know them all
what does affection do does it make it easier to date that person or does it build trust
its affection, having it high does things like being able to hug Sal at the pool or kiss Hoss in the library
I assume I'm no where close to finishing this game yet, but I swear the correct password sound effect is going to haunt me.
Okay! So first of all, i would like to admit that it was this game the reason why i even created an account lol
Aside from that, and (SPOILERS ALERT) after FINALLYYY beating the whole game by playing just what... 7 times??? xd i can officially say that it was worth it.
I definitely relate to Dave in a lot of things which made the whole experience even more enjoyable, and the whole plot surely managed to surprise me (or at least the first time) and as for the routes... although i have my favorites, i won't deny that they were insteresting and in some cases very pasionate (i'm looking at you Dean!), but yeah, overall pretty good 10/10!
ALSO, TYSON IS THE CANON ROUTE??? YEAAAAHHHH LET'S GOOOOOO
I love this VN! I'm probably about 90% through getting all endings, and I have to say, this is one of very few VNs where I really really like the MC, especially as I get to know him more throughout each play through. He's so cute and sweet and innocent and I can genuinely understand why all the other boys crush on him, rather than it feeling forced. Says a lot from me too as I'm a sucker for a himbo.
Well done!
for the things im in love with:
the story, as i said in my previous comment, the characters (the main friend group) are all amazing and love each one of them despite how awful they can be, the bad endings are great to a point watching friends die/kill each other for each respective reason is so awful and im a masoquist for mental and emotional pain.
going through each characters reasoning, philophies, mental, emotional and social problems was fun, and watching them grow past them or fall below their struggles was what engage me the most with PASSSWORD
the art style and character desigh grew on me, im a sucker for handrawn artstyle.
the most i was engage was when characters tend to make choices that would lead to a bad outcome or holding secrets that could jeperdise their friendships.
Edit, forgot to add: love how much of a character Dave is in its own way, and while falling heavily into the "UwU defendless twink dork" he those at least look the part.
Ok so this is going to be a long so strap in or skip (no potential spoilers):
To start with i (want to) love this vn, i came in thinking nothing of PASSWORD and its characters and end up falling in love with all of them (with some mix feelings with Roswell) the story WHEN talking to your friends and engaging with each path related character, it truly is wonderful and well done character wise, but the moment the story rails out of the main character dynamics, it becomes a slow, boring story about a scifi drama that drags on and leads nowhere and in my opinion ruins the game or the idea of it.
to start with i have mainly play Sal and Tyson routes and considering Deans route but with how slow Tysons final days are going ill probably stop there, the scifi drama with the vault and passwords add nothing and detracts from the beautifully written character storyline. The password mechanic was a nice novelty but after the second password in it lost its impact and becomes a problem when trying to engage with the story. the bad endings are so well made that it is a shame that its impact is held back by a password you wont get untill you completed the story road. In my opinion the story would have benefited more from the choices you had to make rather than reading through a trauma you had no say in cause its not relevent to your choices.
Again not that the bad endings are bad they are well made, UNTIL, the 3 stooges of memes are dropped in the story, the 3 main "bad guys" are the worst part of password, i never took them seriously the moment they appear and was more annoyed by them it almost made me quit.
Jack is nothing but a parody of Jack the reaper creepypasta, Memphis is so bland of a villain the fact that you have a mafia character and fail to make him interesting is on you considering how many ways Memphis could have been a force of idiological antagonism to Oswin, and the Bear might as well not have been added considering how much of a nothing character he is aside from being the level headed of the Jack and Dom dynamic.
And as for how much the story drags, the fact that you have to back track each time to get the better ending is fine but when days are repeated and diologs are copy pasted it becomes a slog to go through as characters have nothing new or interesting to say. It becomes more of a problem when charaters refuse to elaborate about anything despite already fully knowing the truth and knowing what they are hiding. aside from the main Characters, Benson was alright, Oswing is boring and the fact that you cant question him about the experiments he did to some kids is a miss opportunity to make him interesting if nothing else a potential antagonist. And Thanatos (the rat) is so bad that i ended up skipping him the most to save my sanity from having to deal with a character that talks so much and says so little.
Thats my rant. Verdic, i love this VN but when it misses it hurst.
i feel that im a bit unfair just posting the negatives so once im off work ill post about my positives, cause again is the reason why i even read it in the first place, i love this vn cant say it enough
I'm sorry that you found certain parts of the VN not to your liking. From your critique though, it looks like you went in assuming this was closer to a character drama rather than a mystery thriller, which is possibly where certain parts of the VN felt like they fell flat.
I agree, although i went in expecting it to be that (a mystery triller) however like i said before the characters and their struggles was what cough to me and i guess my expectations where sidelined by that, again just finished Tyson path b ending and i love it despite all the short comings
What is the song name when reading letter at day 24? On Rosswell route if it makes difference. Loved the game
"What You Could Have Been"
Is it uploaded on youtube or any other platform? I can't find it
The music can only be heard in the music room at the moment, think the plan is to sell the OST when its all done.
so I've been watch Keith Ballard's let's play of Password, and has brought up several criticisms, i have a idea of how the first 3 days could be re-written to alleviate some of the problems, keep in mind that i am no writer and this just a fan's opinion, also i'm not on patreon so if anything i talk about has already been fixed in the new builds that's why, Spoilers ahead
start day one with Roswell making a big scene of Tyson's appearance (it's kinda weird we only see Dean's individual reaction despite his lack of connection to Tyson, my guess it was to set up a romantic rivalry but it never goes anywhere, except that kinda sudden fight in Benson's bad end, anyway is weird that Roswell and Orlando don't get a reaction until Roswell suddenly begins harassing Tyson later), but begrudgingly relenting to let him go (thereby starting the vacation in a bad note and providing a reason why they don't hang out together as often as one would expect), day 1 spend first with Tyson and latter Dean establishing any vital information (things like how are their relationship with Dave and each other, who knows about Dave's dad, who was in high school together, who doesn't know each other well, basically any important character information that Dave already knows about at this point), day 2 do the same for Sal and Hoss, and day 3 for Roswell and Orlando, imply that they are mad at Dave and have been avoiding him until now, but don't have them address the issue head on yet, so Roswell later actions and the call out Dave gets later make sense, i would also establish that Dave is depressed because of his father's death from the beginning (probably day 2 or 3), because right now we only find out about it at the end of day 8, and then in day 9 he starts his depressive spiral, this harms the emotional catharsis of day 14 because the change in his behavior shouldn't be a mystery to those who knew of what happened (which at that point is everyone except Hoss and Sal if you are not in his route), but if is established that Dave is putting up a "everything is fine" facade then the reveal of how much this was affecting Dave makes much more sense, also i would move the blocking of the road to day 9, because it makes no sense in path B how they don't just leave for days after finding Oswin's body, the reason given is because they don't want one of them to be incriminated, but that excuse falls flat when you notice it wasn't a concern in any of the previous bad endings
anyway i hope the feedback helps, love the game, personal top 10, but it could be better
How do I NOT get a bad ending?
You will get many bad endings, then you need to find the password, usually a word that sums up all that happened.
At the end of the story you get to imput the password and progress the game to a new path with high grade.
Play all characters to get all zodiac medals.
Thank you, I would not figure that out by myself.
When I type my name for 5he coffee thing on mobile it just ignores it and gives me the default name
The name was a thing way in the past but since Dave is his own person not a self insert he gets his own name. The coffee cup is now for easter eggs. If you type Dave then you get +1 affection with everyone but if you put someone elses name you get +1 with that person (my fave is how Dave reacts to seeing Tysons name). There's some patreon names that change it i think, but the only one i remember is Timber (i think).
Typing in "Chase" as the name is pretty funny
I'm replaying the game cause last time it wasn't finished so i want full experience at once but when I got to day 23 it looks like it skips the first time Dave awakening and forest scene. How can i replay it? That was like the most intense part of game for me
I don't think so in the public version, but if it's there it's in the Compendium section. It's been a while so i can't remember if the free version has the compendium even as an option in its basic function or not.
I finally finished the novel. After 2 years I've finished it.
Thank you for putting so much effort in this novel.
I am excited for more to come! But as of right now, it's time to wait.
I am ALMOST FREAKING DONE. But im stuck. I need a hint..or hints.
How do you get the GEMINI and SAGITTARIUS medal??
I did every person's route and I only got they're personal medals and only a few others.
Do Path B.
Once you have 11 metals what do you do?
11?
Not sure about that but I think you have to repeat A once you've got all possible medals.
Once you have all 12 medals, then repeat the sequence at the end of Path A.
Wanted to let you know I bought your guys plush!
I've always enjoyed this novel since day one and it's exciting to almost be done with the novel.
I hope more plushies are coming. soon!
There will be eventually!
I would love one of Sal but real size.
At leat I can dream. Heheh
Are there only 9 pages of available save space? I'm on the android version and I have no more room to add saves after using 1-9.
there's a scroll bar on the side, each page has alot of save slot on them.
I used up all the save slots on pages 1-9. I'm just used to other novels having more than 9 pages of available save space.
you used up all 180 save slots?
Yes.....
wow just wow, i've done everything with password and i used about 36. Have you thought about going over your older saves?
It used to have unlimited saves years ago after the version 0.24 I think..
I stopped to read Password after that since I lost access to my newer saves after that and never had mood to manually renamed those all to back in the moment I last played it.
But It had only 2 lines per page, 6 slots. I have 150 saves anyway that long ago.
I probably need rename more than 100 files if I wanted back to have access to it all.
Before I go diving into this one I gotta ask, for all intents and purposes it is DONE in terms of available story correct? All that comes after this in later versions is general tweaks and polish?
Correct. There's extended content insofar as epilogues and alike in the Patreon version but as far as it being as a complete story with answers to the mystery and conclusion to the story, this version has all that.
The caveat though is this version is a little behind insofar as some revisions made in the Patreon version both for clarification and QoL in some scenes when it comes to explaining some of the central themes a bit better.
What an attractive game it is! With its rich storyline and multiple choices, it's so addictive that I forget to sleep at mid night. By the way, I only found the computer-translation version on Telegram, after spending a lot of time, which makes me had no choice but to stop as soon as I realized it was a mis translation. I need to switch back to English in the menu and then read the original, Yep, repeating the above operation again and again each time. It's so exhausting to play the game without Chinese for me. Some mis translations are really funny, such as “lando laughed, waving Sal off although it was clear that he'd been busted.” The computer translate “been busted” into “被逮捕”, which means getting arrested by the police, lol. Anyway, this game holds great appeal for me, and I am eagerly anticipating playing the legitimate original Chinese version of this game on Steam. I am willing to pay for it.
From the ask me anything Grizz did:
What options for translations will there be on full release, fan-made or otherwise?
Ideally, I’d like to have Password available in other languages. As of right now, Chinese and Spanish are the two biggest ones requested and given the size of the Chinese fanbase that’d probably be the priority.
Now, while I know fan made translations exist, I don’t endorse them. I can’t quality check them to know what’s going in there, or how well they’re done, but I’m not going to actively tell people to stop doing them.
It’ll also depend on the cost of translating the whole thing as to if it’ll be available. While offers have been made for fan translations to be done for free, it’s a lot of work and something I’d like to reliably be able to purchase under contract so I can deliver on any promises of it coming.
I stop playing at day 15 Path A. Most characters are ok and behaves quite... normal, I suppose. Except for the MC (Dave), I find him rather annoying, especially his inner thoughts and how he makes things complicated for himself and his friends, it's so exhausting that I cannot proceed with the game. Unless he has mental problem and bad communication skill, then it is understandable. Besides, I dont understand how his friends accept his visions/dreams without any doubts. Like, if someone told you that you gonna die or someone gonna die because they see some visions after entering some words into a vault panel, the first reaction should be doubt, or you should think that they are paranoid or had hallucinations. But no, everyone freaks out when Dave reveal those things, even goes find the gun, doubt each others for being the killers (even though they are friends, not total strangers).
You got to day 15 and never realised Dave's an anxious mess with depression and using the vault causes severe mental trauma?
hmm, I missed the detail about the vault causing mental trauma, well that explains his behavior. Anyway, his problem would be much smaller if he tried to communicate openly with his friends. All the guys are cute btw, so that is a plus for this visual novel.
Anxiety doesn't work that way, you always second guess yourself things like "am i bothing them?" "i'm just wasting their time", "i dont want to cause trouble". Makes comunication a bitch. As for the vault Oz explains it and mentions he's worried about dave using it because of his nervous disposition.