Thank you, I was missing the second
Rebecca scene and now I know why.
I've gone over the story multiple times and so far I cannot help but find the 3 main Female characters limiting and lackluster, well besides
Katherine, as she is definitely a gem, but for this story she isn't used to her full potential and overshadowed by the world and narrative built.
1Thousand built a great story but failed to polish it out, as a result I'm not going to be fully satisfied with the story.
Rose and
Sarah have extreme personalities and are HORRIBLE choices for love interest, but work as flings for MC while
Katherine is sort of ok.
Rebecca,
Andrea,
high priestess and
Dahalia are interesting but never fleshed out as they should have been and only serve as a mechanism for things to happen/do or fall back to.
Rose is a coward,a fool and self centered brat, and the cause of all this is because she has the worst character arc written in this story, and it makes you wonder why she was even a main character, her whole deal is to escape from everything that challenges her to grow because she's uncomfortable with it.
Sarah is a short sighted fool who is too focused on her duty because of this she can only be a slave to her beliefs and ideals, never growing or challenging the norm as a result she is the personification of duty and stagnation, as she fights for a cause with no plan for the future or awareness of the bigger picture, her action of leaving the MC behind when he was in an illusion in the enemy's lair(villian route) when he had come to rescue her speaks much about her as a person as she won't hesitate to chose between her loved ones or her ideals.
Katherine is a good wife for any man as she has most of the qualities anyone would want,and her only limitation are the writers obsession in her lewd scenes and the fact that she doesn't grow past the Sondheim arc as she's put in the back burner and a representation of the normal life, for players who seek more from the game she ultimately falls short and to no fault of her own.
Pearl,
possibly the best female character as she has all the good qualities of the 3 female characters along with good writing which makes her a breath of fresh air, she is a main character of the story, as the narrative revolves around her and through out the story we entrenched in our desires and beliefs but our time spent with her makes us question our world view and beliefs as we come to understand and empathize with her and it is there that we consider other possibilities and slowly we see their is more to the world than a 9-5 job, we can explore this new world which was previously hidden from us and to some the allure of the unknown is great that it forces us to act in bizarre ways.
I ultimately wondered why it is that I enjoyed playing this game soo much and the answer came from the writer himself in the Village trials 1 and 2, as they giveaway the core of the story and foreshadow an ending similar to Zords words for us.
Every story needs to have consequences to give weight to each decision and each decision made by each player is a glimpse of who we are and the person we will be at the end of this story. To my knowledge
1Thousand is the first person I have seen to present this idea as eloquently as possible in this entire forum and to conception as well but the quality of writing in the village trials dialouge is soo high that had he polished his game a bit more and had kept that level of writing he'd be a big name as well.