- Jul 13, 2017
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Wow, first off thanks for all the feedback!I think it had to do with the characters... the old version of the game had a lot of charisma powerhouses who constantly interacted with the protagonist, came back, most had a role to play in each arc... in this version of the game though, the cosplayers have simpler personalities and in a lot of instances are just... "there". no big scene between them, hardly returning for plot relevance, few if any dynamics and character clashes when they are not directly linked... I have a feeling each update is just a 'let's introduce this character' instead of pushing the story forward, Only Phoebe seems like she has a real character arc and she is originally from the first version of the game. A shame, the pryor version seemed close to completion too, i wonder what the endgame would've been.
not saying the prior game was a masterful character analysis or that all girls had equal display or that this is a bad game (I still like it fine), but at I remember Phoebe, Carmen, Ivy, and a couple more for their personality, not just their cosplay design. To this day I still don't understand why they went to remake the game instead of just... changing some lines of dialogue and slightly tweaking the designs to get rid of the direct pokemon reference. (also, ngl, a big part of me is just missing the characters from the previous game)
So yeah, i think my main thing is... i kinda vibed with the characters more in the previous one.
I think that's totally fair, In the original game the whole main cast was introduced super fast so you got a ton of different personalities all clashing and interacting at the same time which was fun. In the newer version it does take a bit of time to start getting the main characters like Phoebe. In the newer updates there has been much more of that conflict now that Ivy is thrown back in the mix. The next major update is going to have Carmen and Joyce so I do think that will help.
Some of the parody characters are simple by design and were intended to be more like fun rewards than fully fleshed out characters that have big stories. Maybe there is something i can to help distinguish the two. I bet it is super jarring to save one girl like Ellie and go on this giant quest line then find Tifer and just get a instant reward.
As to why we choose to remake it instead of just changing things it was a multiple reasons.
The code of the original version was really messed up, I'm a self taught programmer with no formal experience and this was the first game I've ever made. So I had a buddy of mine come in and try to help me fix it but it was one of things like a deck of cards. It ended up being easier to just redo things if I wanted to have something more quality. I wanted to do a bunch of cool stuff for the ending but it just wasn't possible with how the rest of the game was running. That combined with the Nintendo sending the copywrite stuff. I felt like remaking was the best option at the time.