{"id":161,"date":"2014-08-24T02:18:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T07:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/?p=161"},"modified":"2014-08-24T02:18:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T07:18:40","slug":"navigating-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/navigating-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating the Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who are new to visual novels, you might wonder how it works when you want to replay the story and try making different decisions.\u00a0 Well, for one thing, you\u2019ll get quite a lot of save points, so you can jump back and forth between them as needed.\u00a0 More importantly though, the game tracks every scene you\u2019ve completed, ending you\u2019ve reached, and the like across all play throughs.\u00a0 Some of that will be tied to unlocking various content, but you\u2019ll also be able to skip over any scene you\u2019ve previously read.\u00a0 So whether you\u2019re just going back to an old save or all the way to the start of the game, it won\u2019t take you too long to get to whatever decision point you want.<br \/>\nThere are a couple of ways this skipping can work.\u00a0 Most visual novels basically just throw the game into fast forward (with the text advancing automatically).\u00a0 Others, like Fate\/Stay Night, pop up a title card of sorts at the start of each section and give you the option to skip the scene or play it normally.\u00a0 I have yet to decide which approach to take with Aurora\u2019s Nightmare, but it\u2019ll certainly have one of them.\u00a0 Of course, if you want to reread the story normally, you can do that as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who are new to visual novels, you might wonder how it works when you want to replay the story and try making different decisions.\u00a0 Well, for one thing, you\u2019ll get quite a lot of save points, so you can jump back and forth between them as needed.\u00a0 More importantly though, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/navigating-the-story\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navigating the Story<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penandswordgames.com\/AurorasNightmare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}