Well, some chapters ago
@Palmer told me after my critic of how Amanda´s character was destroyed, that he knew what he was doing, was certain to be right and that I should wait for later chapters, because they would explain why their take on was correct since the authors know the storyline best.
Now it is several chapters later and my opinion that Amanda was character assassinated is even reconfirmed by the last chapters. I even go as far as calling it now extremly poor character handling, no matter that Palmer went for a TV series type of story.
And I deeply pity Palmer if the standard teenagers around him are such dramaking/queen as... ! Yes, there are teenagers like that, but they have their backgrounds why they became such subjects.
But in the case of Amanda pushing her into this mould no matter what, is character derailment, poor handling and simply done for drama reasons. Many other players and I myself already stated a bunch of reasons why true Amanda had not a single reason to believe her aunt even one word.
It got worse with how shallow, callous Amanda treated her Dad and friends, a total 180° turn in behaviour without any logical reasoning. And no, it is not enough to excuse it with naive teenage behaviour, even most teenagers do not become vindictive, abusive a... within the drop of a hat.
I am a HEA ending type with most stories because the world needs some sunshine every day, but in this case I would not hesitate to kick her out for her callous, abusive and untrusting behaviour. If her character at the beginning or in later development showed a change you could say ok, but the Amanda up to about ch11 is not naive, pursues her Dad, knows that he loves her, knows that he loved her Mom, was always there for her and more things in his favour. There is NO, absolutely no reason a girl like that would believe one word of the vile accusations of an unknown aunt openly stating she wants to ruin the MC.
Sorry, but that is drama for drama´s sake as is the reconciliation. It breaks immersion and ruins a lot of the story.
I am sorry for this harsh verdict, because the start of DFD was very promising and without this drama before all it would be a really good game.
As for the statement that only on F95 storyline critic came up: Is it possible that Palmer´s patreons are partly the same ones which back gumdrop´s Dual Family? Those are likewise backer you can tell that Earth is flat and the sun rises in the north without them raising a fuss.