Too many shitty characters, specially when they are li's are a problem for me in a few vn's but I could get enjoyment if payback was an option in some way or mc would treat them how they treat him rather than sucking it up.
I played a vn the other night and mc had the choice to tell a shitty li to fuck off litterally, he gives her a piece of his mind and she feels it. In 99% of vn's this would be a "it's not working out, lets break up" option with minimal friction, it was awesome and connected me more to the mc.
I feel 99% of dev's are missing this one simple trick.
I don't dislike most LI's to be honest.
- Lora i don't like and i would love an option to make that clear.
- Olivia is good, she didn't have any screen time in this update thought
- Olivia's sister we haven't seen since they left earth, i'm kinda questioning why she is listed as LI, except they make a trip to earth and back...
- The cat girl i find ok so far, didn't had any focus this update either, even in the last update she feels more like a support/side character.
- Miriel is likeable, didn't had any focus on the last update and even in this time, which kinda was labeled as the Miriel path, she didn't have all that much screen time. What was there was ok.
- Kalestra our sister of battle, personaly my favorite, thought i can understand why people don't like her, she's a bit crazy and unhinged.
Thought one problem with this update specificly was that the MC seems to activly piss off others in really dumb ways.
Like he nearly got offed as he was ready to shoot the black haired sister of battle, because now he is the leader and she must tell him everything...that was so bad...not to mention, i don't see why anyone would make him of all people the leader, or follow him, he's the most clueless dude around in pretty much any aspect and not even powerful. And that is pretty much also all the content for Kalestra in this update...
Then he activly provoced Ember and betrayed Yong to save his dumb ass, which made Miriel pretty pissed (probably the sisters of battle too as the guy is their chaplain)...again the reason for pissing of Ember were kinda really bad imo. Also no talk or anything with Miriel, kinda understandable, still...
Then we have Lora, which gets more plus points for being shitty...
Last update i found mostly good, and a rather enjoayble time with most of the girls. This update feels pretty much the exact opposide, we just piss off the LI's which are present, or they get an even worse rep in the case of Lora...which didn't make the update really enjoyable.
The story alone really can't carry the game, as neither the MC, nor we, have any clue whats even really going on for most of the time and just go along with whatever.