Last Second Save
A downloadable fangame for Windows, Linux, and Android
LAST SECOND SAVE
a fangame based on Cavemanon's Snoot Game
by snoot_talk
Featuring the voice of Nichole Goodnight in the "A path in the woods" bonus story!
Estimated playtime: 5-6 hours (+ bonus stories)
PRISTINE CUT PATCH IS LIVE!
After a month of work and plenty of great feedback (including the lead of Cavemanon himself), I took the time to iron out the game's story and add new content on top. Patch 1.06 is (somewhat) to LSS what Pristine Cut was to Slay The Princess, including:
- FULL SPANISH TRANSLATION by Legalo, the translator for SG and Wani!
- a new bonus story about Samantha and Ripley!
- featuring art by the talented toad14!
- reworked Anon and Fang storyline!
- strong tweaks to the first chapter, second chapter heavily rewritten
- multiple reworked scenes, dialogue sequences and even an entire chapter
- many small additions to existing scenes!
- 20 + new artworks!
- new end credits song!
- new polls for the Pristine Cut version of the fangame
- and more, which you can read about in detail in the patch notes!
"What is this?"
Last Second Save ("LSS") is a "what if" scenario for Ending 1. Anon, influenced by the harsh words of Naomi, realizes his approach to helping Fang was a bust after the disastrous prom night. Instead of distracting himself with video games, he sits down with Fang and, to the best of his abilities, comforts her.
Alas, he can't undo the damage that's already been done. Doesn't mean he won't try.
The story goes far beyond prom night, exploring what happens to the cast in the days after. The writers of E1 left a trail of breadcrumbs regarding the fates of many characters, some of which I scooped up and crafted into a cohesive story.
I've placed high emphasis on characters that went on unexplored in the original story or were given fairly shallow characterization — Samantha, Ripley, Naomi, Reed and Trish in particular are all given room to breathe and have their goals and motivations explored in detail.
"Is this just a happy ending for Ending 1?"
Kinda turned out that way, but not without some legwork to have it make sense.
I intentionally did not play E4 before completing this, so nearly all of the plotlines are based on E1-E3 lore, with some Goodbye Volcano High sprinkled in-between. The resulting script is solely speculation and thorough theorycrafting except for some sparse info from a friend about E4. I don't know how much it sways from the canon best ending, but I bet it's a lot.
Most of all, LSS is designed to neatly fit the canon resolution of E1! Without Anon's change of heart, the events of the game still act as an extension of the original bad ending. Pick the obvious wrong option at the start of the game to find out.
"What's in the bonus stories?"
Unlike in Snoot Game and its "bonus chapters", in LSS "bonus stories" unlock over time as you play through the game. You can play them from the moment they are unlocked and mainly act as supplement material for the main story, except for a few.
Beat the game to unlock the remaining three!
The bonus stories can also all be unlocked via the debug menu in Chapter Select.
- Music room meltdown
- Mask off
- A path in the woods (Slay The Princess crossover)
- Queens of gossip
- Seething in the rain
- A familiar face
- A talk on the balcony
- Making amends
- ???
- ???
- ???
"Does it have branching paths?"
The story remains linear all throughout, with only the final chapters offering six now seven impactful decisions.
"Why make LSS though?"
"Screw it, I'm gonna make my own E4 before I see the real deal."
And I enjoyed every second of it!
Cool features
- character development for Ripley, Samantha, Naomi, Naser, Trish and Reed
- 11 bonus stories
- 170+ hand-drawn artworks
- 200+ custom sprites (check them out on Snootbooru!)
- 36 main menu screens that change depending on recently played chapter/bonus story
- full-blown gallery with all custom artworks, new sprites etc.
This fangame is very much a love letter to Snoot Game and I hope that sentiment shines through in the sheer attention to detail and care put into the story and art. I hope you enjoy!
Show off your choices!
SPOILER WARNING!
NEW POLLS FOR PRISTINE CUT
After completing the game, you're welcome to partake in a few public polls. No real reason, just for fun. Thanks in advance for taking the time!
Download
Install instructions
Standalone mod, launch via the .exe file. Thoroughly playtested on Android and PC.
Development log
- LSS Pristine Cut patch notes13 hours ago
Comments
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Hotfix 1.06b
I'm releasing a hotfix that patches up a layeredimages error for Lucy. It's a floating "missing image" popup, only noticable twice in the whole game, but still something I omitted in playtesting.
Thank you for playing!
New patch is out! You can read the full changelog here! I hope you find the changes worthwhile a second playthrough!
It was one of the best experiences I had in a long long while... Really beautiful piece of work, really loved it.
Is there any plans to translate it to spanish? can't recommend this mod enough but a lot of people are waiting for a translation.
A translator has been hired and is working on it as we speak! It may or may not be ready for the Pristine Cut release. I plan to publish it at the end of the month.
says it updated but what changed?
I probably rolled out an update by accident. The Pristine Cut version of LSS
iswas too large to fit into the website's 1GB limit.It's worth noting that I could contact the staff about this but, a month after release, the game is still shadowbanned from itchio's search results.
why not just divide it into 2 parts with winrar?
Change of plans! All I needed to do was be smart about file optimization. Compressed the songs down a notch and now the game's even lower in file size than before.
As for dividing the game, it'd add a needless extra step to installation, I'd try to refrain from touching that as much as possible. Luckily it's not necessary anymore.
but reducing the sound quality is not cool to put on media fire
The drop in quality is unnoticable, pinky promise 🙏
Hell yeah, I was waiting for it since the reddit post and saw another one today about it!
Glad to hear it's out, I will try it as soon as possible! Thanks for your work. o/
It's not out yet! At best on 31st assuming everyone makes it one time with their assets
I'll play the current one for a bit and then play the update again
Huge update to LSS is in the works! Expect it to release this month!
Huge thanks to head of the Cavemanon studio "The Nerd" for offering their feedback, alongside many other folk who shared their thoughts on the game. That means you as well, random anon on /vg/!
See you in a few!
Great little fan game! Unlike a lot of the fan mods It was put out fully completed. Love that. Also really good original music choices as well. There are a few grammer and spelling errors here and there but other than that, a flawless VN.
If you still remember what those errors were, I'd appreciate it if you reported them to me via either @snoot_talk on Discord or via my e-mail snoottalk@proton.me. The game is planned to have one large update in the future, including remakes of existing scenes, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
THE ONE PIECE! THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!
Patch 1.03:
- accidentally added in 1.02, finished writing additional dialogue for a few scenes
I just realized I released patch 1.02 with a new unfinished (WIP anim and pacing, otherwise fully playable) scene in one of the final chapters. I wrapped it up real quick and it's ready now.
For full transparency, it's at the very end of the Naser route of the epilogue, starting with "Anon, one last thing". I was ironing out a plot point that got a little sidelined in the heat of things. Alongside this change, a few other pieces of dialogue got updated (Ripley route, the ending) to reflect this. Apologies for the inconvenience!
In the future, any significant narrative additions/changes will be kept for a larger patch/improved cut of the fangame.
Patch 1.02:
- numerous small improvements to text pacing
- polished up "A path in the woods" (quick menu hides any time the StP cast speaks, removed the remaining {nw} tags since they notoriously break voice line playback)
- added a few new things to one of the secret bonus stories
- remade Naomi drawings at the dinner table, the OG artwork can still be procced and found in the gallery
Patch 1.01, a very quick hotfix:
- fix for Taxi guy's line of dialogue (credit to CrazyFish1234)
- added a missing quick_menu = True at the start of the game
- replaced anon's postprom happy sprite with a correct one
I dont know if this was meant to be, but when Anon meets the taxi driver the first time out of his apartment, Anon says that he needs to get to Volcano High. Then when the taxi driver speaks, it doesnt have his name
Good catch, thanks for telling me! Adding it to the list, I myself found a thing or two to tweak. I'll patch this stuff ASAP.