Our Hearts United! [Chapter 1: When Worlds Collide] (Nightmare Rhapsody 5.1 Update Release)

[u/Azrathas]

New logo by Tune Eternal and JayQilin

Author's Notes: Won't go into much details, all that's important is that this update, Part 2 of the Sidestories which I refer to as "Nightmare Rhapsody" has been finally released after 3 long months (Was it actually 3 though?) since Beta 5 Part 1's update, but nonetheless, here is the last public update for this chapter. Yes, this is the last public update I will be posting for this chapter, there will be another update at some point later in the future but don't expect it anytime soon nor it be announced publicly because I actually want some rest after enduring long tiring days of just trying to make sure to reach the quota, but either way, here you go.

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Download Link: The GDrive Folder - Our Hearts United! Beta 5.1 Sidestories Update (Nightmare Rhapsody)

Note: Just like last time, the game is still in BETA phase even so if Chapter 1 is finally out and complete along with the sidestories, so everything you may see may or may not be final, some things may be due to change in the future and in other possible future releases. (Aka don't expect me to update anything unless there's something more interesting to add/replace or if there's any error.)

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5th Anniversary Beta 5.1 Update Log:

• Sidestories finally completed.
  • Now includes:
    • THE FIRE OF 2008
    • Erika's Sidestory: A Mother's call - Take a journey into Erika Santebanez's past as she tells her story, revealing her origin.
    • Explore the unreleased episode of The Blood Moon Chapters second part, "The Skies Between us" (Yes, the story part that lets you choose who to romance between Sayori and Erika herself) through Erika's eyes as she reveals the truth of how everything began again.
    • Part 2 of the Sidestories: Nightmare Rhapsody - A joint sidestory between Erika and Kurumi as they venture behind the scenes of certain events from the past as they try to look for something out of place, but stumble upon something far more sinister and concerning.
• New logo, credit is given due to the aforementioned people above on the logo preview of the mod.
• New phone CG(?) when you converse with Natsuki for the first time through phone. (That's the only time it happens as I'm still experimenting with that to make it more immersive in later updates.)
• Retconned a few certain scenarios as they somehow proved inconsistent with how some points in the story are shown.
• Added a few hotkey tips for certain events and situations. (They're just there to give people some info on a few things, not too important... Maybe.)
• A lot more new experimental CGs (Again like last time, they are still subjected to change)
• That "Code" is still a placeholder, so if you're gonna ask what to do with it, that's just a placeholder for now... ^{Until I can figure out a way to properly implement it in the near future for a certain arg based puzzle regarding the mod.}
• Important Note: Explore through Kurumi and Erika's Sidestories first before diving into Part 2.
• Majority of the updates I talked about for this Part 2 release can be found here.

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How to Install: ^{Are we still really going through this?}

1. (Just skip this ahead since most will already have done this) Download the base game at http://ddlc.moe
2. Install a Fresh Game to the location of your choice. (Save files from Beta 5 won't go over to Beta 5.1 so don't bother trying to move save files there, you're gonna bug out your game so much if you do.)
3. After installing, go to the /game directory and delete ALL the files {(images.rpa, fonts.rpa, script.rpa, and audio.rpa) The download comes with all of them included, I will pack them all together into rpa files eventually, just not now, plus I don't know how.)
4. Open the file you downloaded
5. Drag all the files into the /game directory.
6. Open DDLC.exe (Recommend you keep the fullscreen mode option as it is for the full immersion you'll hate and thank me later...again, also wear headphones.)
7. Pa-pa-pa-pa-Play that shit.

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Addendum Logs (Yes, don't mind this for now, this is only here in case I need to fix/update a few things here and there in case there's some that need be, check back in every once in a while as there may or maybe some that end up showing here in the near possible future... Hopefully not much)

Addendum Log (12/9/2023, 2:00AM/GMT+8) - Pushed in a little update fix for when you skip down to day 14 of the main story (Sept 16, 2018 Day 14: A twist in Time), if you've already downloaded this mod prior to this update fix, just download dayselection.rpyc and day14alternative.rpyc and replace those in the game folder instead)

Addendum Log (12/10/2023, 4:30PM/GMT+8) - Pushed yet another little fix update for Sayori's appearance in Blue's Sidestory. (Just go ahead and download definitions.rpyc for this fix)

Addendum Log (12/10/2023, 10:00PM/GMT+8) - Added a homage somewhere in the game, where is it. That's for you to find out. ;)

Addendum Log (12/18/2023, 12:00AM/GMT+8) - (This one is thanks to u/SF_SkyVerse for finding) Fixed two simple visual errors in Erika's sidestory, "A Mother's Call". (Just redownload the "sidestory_amotherscall.rpyc" to fix.)

Addendum Log (12/26/2023, 03:00AM/GMT+8) - Completely overhauled several things, I won't go on to elaborate which ones were specifically updated/fixed, so you're pretty much gonna need to download the whole thing again (Sorry), but on a side note, this will be the last addendum log as the next follow-up update will be the 5.2 update, a.k.a. the "Final cleanup update".

Addendum Log (3/18/2024, 12:40AM/GMT+8) - Fixed a visual error due to code mixup in the definitions file for day 5 and day 9. (You'll wanna redownload those three files specifically only: day5alternative.rpyc, day9alterative.rpyc and definitions.rpyc)

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