Is Lupin Still Flirting?
Master Thief Lupin the Third is always two steps ahead of his eternal nemesis, the ICPO's Inspector Zenigata. But occasionally, Zenigata is lucky enough to slap a pair of cuffs onto Lupin, and today is one of those days. On the train ride over to the hoosegow, Lupin's time is dwindling, and it's time to cash in on Zenigata's biggest weakness: his longstanding crush on his eternal rival.
This short visual novel has:
- -four endings,
- -A jazzy soundtrack,
- - And all the visuals are traditionally crafted with watercolor and fountain pen!
Please enjoy and flirt your way to freedom!
And if you'd prefer to flirt with Jigen? Boss, we got you covered:
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Install instructions
If you're running the Mac version:
You might get an error that says your computer will not open the game because "developer cannot be verified." You can refer to this page on the Mac User's Guide to fix this: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/open-a-mac-app-from-an-unidentified-dev...
Development log
- Greek (Ελληνικά) Translation Available!Nov 15, 2022
- Our Next Lupin Game is Ready to Play!Jun 29, 2022
- Dev Chat and How to Get all the EndingsMay 28, 2022
- Flirting Stream Tonight!Feb 09, 2022
- The Indie Bundle for Palestinian AidJun 04, 2021
- Ver 1.02 UpdateApr 06, 2021
- Ver 1.01 UpdateApr 02, 2021
- All Aboard!Apr 02, 2021
Comments
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Finally finished it, amazing job.
The dialogues were fun and Lupin's face sprites, sweet and adorable!
I pictured all the scenes they refered even though I haven't watched the series.
Thank you for your work!
Just finished playing both this game and "The Jig is Up" and i am IN LOVE!!
Thank you! Lupin is so much fun! :D
During "The Jig is Up" i was so torn on the last chapter! I just wanted to hug them both!
I was playing through the game and in the menu there was a "???" tab. Does anybody by chance know what that was for? (Also i just realized this was a fan game, Does anybody by chance mind telling me the media its based on?)
If you're talking about the Achievements, those will fill in as you complete more endings
And the series is called Lupin the Third! :D It's an anime that's been running on and off since the 70's. The studio uploaded a bunch of episodes over here:
do your games have image descriptions, since they're blind-friendly?
Is Lupin Still Flirting doesn't have image descriptions, but it does have a self-voicing feature. If you feel that this game doesn't meet the qualifications for the blind-friendly tag, let me know, and I'll remove the tag. I don't want to cause trouble by having it mischaracterized!
all your games have self-voicing feature right?
It comes standard with Ren'Py nowadays! ^u^
the phoenix and edgeworth cameo is my fav
I got all of the endings! I love this game sm <33 thanks to the creators for making this, and the sequel!!
Thank you so much for playing them! ^U^
I wish I had a laptop not a phone to play it on
Hi there!
I am creating a collection of fully blind accessible games, and your game is listed under the "blind support tag". The word "blind" means different things to different people, and within that wide spectrum their are various levels of expertise with visual UI's. but as a fully blind gamer, I am wondering what features this game provides for those who can not see the screen at all. Do you have "screen reader" or "text to speech" support? Is your game fully playable with a keyboard or controller, rather than having to point the mouse at buttons on the interface? If the answer to those questions is no, it would still be great to know what options are provided for those with less severe visual impairments, so that I might make them aware of your game's usability for them. Thank you for any information you can provide, it's very much appreciated! :)
Hey there! My apologies for the late response. This game has a self-voicing feature if you press the "V" key while playing, and it will read dialogue or buttons aloud when hovered. I went in to check and see if the controls allow you to tab through options, but sadly, the use of the mouse is still required.
Thank you for your work collecting them, and good luck! Please let me know if there's something I can update my tags to, and I'll be very happy to change them if we don't meet standards for the "blind support" tag!
I had fun playing, had me grinning real big at a lot of things Lupin said. Thanks for making and sharing!
Hey thank you for playing it! We wanted the comedy to stand out like a Part 2 Dub episode. ^_^ If you’d like to play more Lupin, please consider giving The Jig Is Up a go!
As a long-time fan of Lupin, this was such a delight to play!! The watercolor artwork was a wonderful surprise (this may be the only visual novel I've seen with it), and the dialogue felt so fitting for the characters–such an amazing job!! ୧(๑•̀ㅁ•́๑)૭✧
I am curious though, about copyright issues and such. Is there any concern about receiving a notice from like TMS Entertainment? Obviously you clearly state it's fan game but is that enough...? Either way, this is too good to be taken down (☆▽☆)
Thank you very much! We had a wonderful time working on this and The Jig is Up; I love painting and I love Lupin, so it was a dreamy little time. :3
And as far as I know, TMS doesn't have a history of going after fan or doujin creators, so I'm not particularly worried. Thank you for your concern, though! ^u^
doesn't work...
Could you give a little more information? Which version were you using, and what error did you get? Thanks!
I was using the web version. Is that the problem?
The game does run best if you download it, yes! But if you could let me know which browser you're using and specify the error, I could look into it.
Bwahahaha incredible. The Ace Attorney reference in the "I Like You Too Pops" ending had me wheezing (funnily enough I'm into narumitsu for the same reason that I'm into this ship).
There seems to be a bug where whatever ending you get is listed as "ending 4" on the end screen, it said ending 4 for both the Jigen ending and the ending I'm talking about
wanted to play but there's a script error that pops up (tried playing on chrome)
HI there, would you like me to translate your game into Esperanto for free? I'm just looking to help the Esperanto community out by getting some more games into the language.
That would be wonderful! As long as you allow us to host the translation here (instead of posting it on another site), then we'd be honored to have you translate the game into Esperanto!
If you'd like to talk to other translators or would like a look at our translation guide, please consider joining our Discord community! https://discord.com/invite/Y5PGVwEgaH You don't have to if you don't want to, but it's there for you if you do! :D
I really liked the look of this but thought "since this is Lupin fanfic, I shouldn't play it until I've seen a bit of the show" and started the Part 2 anime and fell in fandom love right away, it's so much fun... so thank you for a new obsession. although I ended up shipping Lupin/Jigen the most tbh but I love how this game recognizes the "everyone is in into each other" romantic chaos energy of the show lol.
Anyways now that I have enough knowledge I have played this and it is a DELIGHT, so many funny lines and the art is absolutely gorgeous, I love seeing traditional art used for a project like this. Everyone should give this a shot, I think you could get into it even without knowledge of Lupin III.
Hey there, sorry about that! If you're having trouble with the web version, you might want to try downloading the game. If the downloaded version is giving you trouble, let me know which version you're using, and what kind of bug you see. Thanks!
i,m using web and thank you for the quick reply
Thanks bro, got me addicted to Lupin the Third just in time to watch 'Lupin the Third and the Castle of Cagliostro' on Netflix
also the watercolor and art was AMAZING-
This is absolutely adorable, I love the watercolor art too, I've never seen art like that in a visual novel before!
The dialogue is also so fun, it feels just like watching an episode of Lupin!
dude this is like the italian secret unltold dream!
btw diggin a LOOOOOOOOOT the art style!
damn neat and adorable
Ooo~
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Hello! This game was awesome! I unlocked all the endings and the secret scene. Lupin Part 2 is one of my favorite parts and I'm really happy that I found this fan game. The pictures and sprites in this game were so beautiful! You did great job! And this game even inspired me to draw and write other endings myself. I can't express how much fun this game was! :D
Yo this is awesome, we'd love to check out whatever you write! And let me know if you need links to the tools we used to make this game, making VNs in the best!
why am I not able to download the game?
How are you trying to download it?
This was so cute ahahha I loved all of the dialogue and the humour was just spot on. Absolute gem of a game.
i love this watercolor type artstyle, very nice to look at
ahh, i just finished playing the game, absolutely loved every second of it! the characters were written very accurately, the watercolor art was STUNNING and every single ending was super fun. all of the routes made me smile constantly, thank you so much for making this game!
Love the art style - it would be fun to see a Lupin/Fujiko game in this style.
I'm such a big Lupin III fan and this amazing game did not disappoint at all. The art was just great to look at and the dialogue had me smiling but also had me laughing my ass off (also love how many references there was from the series). Thanks for making my past 2 hours playing this game so fun, will definitely come back to it :]
Me who can't play the game because I only have a chromebook
same
I feel you.
Made a complete video
HOLY SHIT
Just love the artwork and the fun gameplay!!!
Thank you very much!
Your welcome!!!!
gosh, is this hand-painted????
Everything I make is hand-painted, I sure don’t use my feet! XD
But these were all traditionally painted with watercolors, and then scanned into the computer. I tried to make sure that as much of the game as I could was watercolor, even the menus!
Thought the characters were OCs until I discovered the anime, this definitely pulled me into a whole new fandom. I simp for Zenigata.
Welcome to the Lupin fandom, my friend lol
Thank you, happy to be here! Forgot to mention I absolutely love the artstyle. It’s so charming! And it looks exactly like watercolor paintings. Are those digital brushes or actual traditional art? :o
All of the assets were watercolor paintings so they were physical pieces that Royce painted and scanned. We sold almost all of the assets actually, but we have some left on etsy at last check so you can see what some of the paintings look like when not in the game if you'd like :) https://www.etsy.com/listing/1023307256/lupin-still-flirting-art-assets-cut-in?g...
That's really impressive! Thank you for sharing, that's really fun to see!
wow this is amazing! did you draw the visuals too? because they look beautiful :)
Thanks! I (Alexis Royce) painted the art and wrote about half the script. My partner in crime Tsushi wrote the other half!
I'm a huge fan of Lupin the Third so finding this little gem to play was a real treat.
Love how you've captured the characters they feel like they've been taken from the show, and the art direction was stunning. Fab work devs <3
Thank you very much! We wanted everyone to feel like they came right out of the Part 2 dub!
This looks great. Any chance for a steam release?
No plans to release on Steam, but thank you for your interest!
Ok so I downloaded this for shits and giggles, knowing almost nothing about Lupin, and lemmie tell you this is some good fucking shit. The visuals are great and charming, the writing is witty and cute, and the game itself has every quality of life feature ever to exist and its fucking great. Now I'm in the situation where I'm gonna actually watch Lupin the III without knowing what their voices remotely sound like and having an extremely skewed version of the plot, its gonna be great. Thanks for making this and obviously putting so much time and effort into it, you may have just indoctrinated me into a new fandom
Oh hell yes, this comment was so nice of you to leave, and it is very satisfying knowing we may have convinced one more person to join up and watch Lupin.
There’s a lot of Lupin out there, so we recommend starting with the Dub of Part 2. It’ll pretend that there’s continuity, but there isn’t, really. The dub is super silly and fun and those were the voices we were writing for, so hopefully it’ll give you what you crave right off the bat.
I mean Lupin gives Zenigata a big ol smooch on the cheek right in episode one; they act like he’s joking but we know what’s up.
This was extremely cute. I really only know Lupin through cultural osmosis, but that didn't hamper my enjoyment of it at all. Super endearingly-written, brightened up my afternoon.
Thank you! I wanted to make sure that people who weren't Lupin fans could still enjoy it, so I made sure to include the dance-card segment at the beginning.
I have finally downloaded it and I love it, I am in love with this game. I wish I had a Spanish translation, but it's still very enjoyable
Gracias! Sadly, nobody on our team knows Spanish well enough to translate. But I don't mind at all if anyone else out there wants to translate it to another language! So in case anyone else reads this comment and was thinking about it, please feel free to go for it!
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Some computers aren't too fond of programs that weren't submitted to Apple themselves for verification. Here's a fix from the Mac User guide: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/open-a-mac-app-from-an-unidentified-dev...
Hello, I have a mac as well and what I do is I click it with two fingers instead of double-clicking it. When you do that, a few options will open up. You want to click "Open."
After that, this will pop up. Click "Open" again.
That should open the application up afterwards. I hope this helped. :)
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