I am going to be clear here. No filter, but no intention to hurt or offend.
The problem I am having with this game, as I have explained, maybe in too much detail, is that the MC that you make us drive around is impossible to stand.
Why am I talking so much about this? Because you made a lovely game, a great story, an interesting set of characters, and then...... this MC. He's insufferable. People have been telling me that he's just a kid, etc. That isn't the problem, I don't want him to be a super hero, a super spy, a super macho, I only want him to be human. He isn't.
As it is now, this MC that we are stuck with, either doesn't react or reacts in the worst possible way. He gets angry when he shouldn't, and doesn't even get bothered when he should be angry. It's like you designed all the characters in the game to be awesome, and they are, all of them, and then made a specific effort to NOT make him interesting or even acceptable. He's amorphous, pusillanimous, cowardly, a serial cheater (denotes lack of self awareness), no confidence, distrustful and above all, stupid as a truck of bricks. He's absolutely unlikable.
It wouldn't be so bad if he was a secondary character like Tommy. But, no, you make us BE him. You make us be this unpleasant person.
Some have pointed out that this is his Zero stage, and he will grow... At this point, sorry, but I don't want to have anything to do with him. I love everything about your game, except this rather important detail, the MC is unplayable.
Each and every of his interactions are handled wrong. Yeah, you are giving us some lewd content that he somehow manages to get, without any effort, it's a porn game, so... but, in regards to the story? He's completely wrong every time. He keeps secrets from his girlfriend that could make a difference in how she reacts and acts towards the Bitches, and now she betrays him and we can't even drop her, it is his mistake (yours) but at least show some backbone. Annie, causes and accepts his humiliation in his house, and for a full year she chooses his bullies over him, yet, she doesn't regret it, she doesn't show any remorse, she doesn't even apologize, and we have to forgive her. Why? Why would we even exchange words or have ANY interest in her as a person? She's the worst offender. Yet, we go and allow her to trample over us, again and again. At this point she's worst than Kate. Kate at least was playing with a toy, she couldn't care less who you were. Annie, not only knew you, lived with you, called you family.
You, as the Dev make us walk around on this character that is as remote from a human as a shoe box. His internal monologue is ...... annoying is the minimum I could call it. He ALWAYS gets things wrong. He gets mad at what is meaningless, and goes along with what should make him scream. He doesn't ask the question he should, and asks all the questions he shouldn't. Like with Kate's father... he puts on a charade that he has buried the hatchet with Kate and when he talks with her father he acts like a peacock pretending he's tough with someone that can order him dead with impunity, I wish he did by the way. He's insolent, brash and disrespectful, it doesn't matter who he is, he's talking with him for the 1st time. Again, very, very, very stupid.
I don't know what you can do about this. I really don't see a way out with this MC you created. He's killing this lovely game, this cool story by being impossible to like.
I would very much like to know if you plan on going on with this MC as he is, or if you have any plan to have him dropped from a tall building, get into a 6 month coma, wake up and be what he never was, a human. I ask you to please understand that I don't hate the game, I hate, completely, this MC.
Please do something to make this lovely game enjoyable. Thanks.
Peace
