Is not the first time that a supposed event is timeskipped, but usually is because the real event is much better (Dalia's massages being made offscreen, for example). Going to class is boring, being alone in Luna's house or trapped in a pirate ship... is better.
Orion's description of the trip makes your post simply wishful thinking tbh. It's quite clear from his words that he was mainly there to visit his grandparents and swinging by to Chang's and/or Annie's folks is just stuff he did likely to assure them that his friends are fine back in Kredon. Thus, the Eternum training is likely just stuff he managed to squeeze in during the trip, likely when he's back at his own home. Hardly enough time to interact with the girls if that's the case (not to mention the timezone differences), let alone swing by the Eternumite community in the UK.
We should've gotten both.
Admit it, you would actually go to school just for a small conversation with Luna...We should've gotten both.
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Admit it, you would actually go to school just for a small conversation with Luna...
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Seems getting Annie's name wrong is taking hold here in the thread. Let's hope it doesn't happen in Eternum. Or else:
Eh, I feel like Cari is focusing less on the little moments and more on the highlights of the story with how he's been writing things so far...which IMO works given that he has to be a bit more economic with his dev time and to not fall back on one of the major issues with his last game (which was that there was just too much downtime and less of a main story to hold it together (which is fine if you like character building a lot more...but ngl I really thought the main story was an afterthought in that game until Asmo got the ball rolling)).We should've gotten both.
Seriously though, them talking about that weekend would be an important point in their relationship that we missed out on now. Like that little scene in the kitchen between Anna and Orion...small scenes like that can be very important.
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Well...duh?!Admit it, you would actually go to school just for a small conversation with Luna...
You Lunatic
Honestly I don't think so. We have a lot of small moments in the game, that progress characters and/or relationships. Like Alex and Dalia in the park, Ariel and Orion in the kitchen, Penny and Orion in the shower, Nova with her Manga and so on.
You misspelled Ashley.
Yep, it wasn't the first time. But there are some differences, for example, at first the game focus in the school life because it was introductory for the girls and those who could antagonize or become in potential useful characters for later in the narrative. So, as presentations are done, becomes more important the relationships and bonding that mainly occurs outside of school, but this time could be for knowing a bit more of MC's life outside of Kredon in UK. Therefore, a bit of the internal grow of Orion was missed besides how that affected his relationships not only with the girls but with those outside of Kredon, that was a missed chance as what we could expect from his training after reaching some point as well, to have a surprise that could be waited instead of a plot device.
Because it is... And as i said, it doesn't mean that it couldn't be other way, about the zone time differences, yeah is a thing, but not something impossible to manage as there could be at least 5 to 8 hours difference iirc between USA and UK depending of time zones (an example is if in Washington is 1pm then in UK is 5pm, it's that hard to manage?), it's difficult to think that he was needed to assure that his friends are fine in Kredon as they and their respective parents could make use of any software with video chat to have a conversation to keep in touch. Iirc, most of his time Orion has passed alone before moving to Kredon, so, it wasn't like his presence would change anything beyond some initial interaction, even his dad seems to forget to say good bye when he was leaving to return to Kredon. And of course, because of that it's justified that Orion thinks in Kredon like his home, because there are ppl who loves them and loves too. What bugs me is that it feels like his life in UK is non existent.
It's not that it's non-existent (otherwise Orion wouldn't have elaborated on it). It's just that it's not overall important to the narrative as a whole. Again, just because it could've served as a good character building moment doesn't mean Cari should've used it, especially if it meant uncharacteristically slowing down the pacing of the narrative.
It's not dump it just add more character development to not get a shock next time we see him doing things because the narrative needs to while keep up with the hopes for the most fapper fan base.
Which again, is ultimately pointless if it is just for flavor but does not serve the greater narrative or hampers the pacing of the plot. We've already gone through that kind of storytelling with OIAL, and by the way this tale is going I don't think he's keen on telling this story in that way again.
All of which acted as interludes before main events. Not to mention they're all brief and don't put a hatchet to the overall pacing.
Luna?You misspelled Ashley.
I'm also not sure, she will join Orion and Luna...
In the end it would've kinda depend on how Cari would've written it, I can't shake the feeling though, that the timeskip really wasn't originally planned while he was developing 0.5.
With respect, I side a bit more with H. Gamer on this because the little side stories can help build up to the main story if you catch my drift. That one time that Penny was underdressed while wanting talking like Orion wasn't there because she hadn't noticed? That helps build up little details you notice later (such as how many sugars she wanted in her coffee).
Timeskip being about Orion visiting his folks, maybe. But as Cari had said on Discord...
Side stories that help build the relationship with the LIs, sure. But what H is asking for is to provide a glimpse of Orion's life in the UK instead of a skip which, while something that would be nice to see, ultimately would be a pointless endeavour if Cari never calls back to it or utilize it later on in the plot.
The problem with that is the extension of his OP Skill has been Orion's discover or developed, now with that lacking, the use of that is literally a plot device to move forward the narrative when the overall story needed, because he can do whatever he wants at the circumstances require it.
And what part of that life the girls aren't part of?, as i stated, the time zone difference isn't at most impossible to schedule for nobody, they still could cellphone text messages, meet and fuck on Eternum as i said before, to see a glance of his life outside Kredon in which he passed most of his unknown to us life but some lil saying by comments from Orion and a flashback of his fathers back watching sports.
I've done some work modeling.
