I think they're supposed to be LI prologues to give them more character backstory/introductions but yea... it confuses everyone when the story jumps around so much on the timeline between the prologues, especially since the MC is in them as well and we're left asking "wtf this hasn't happened yet"
Yeah, it reminds me of the Star Wars movie release order. Let's start at a point in the story where people are supposed to know things that aren't shown yet. It's a sloppy approach, I think. The "remake" should have started at the prologue and went from there. It was also still very early for a remake to begin with. It's like making a demo and remaking it. Not pointing fingers at the dev, but I don't know where their head was at doing it this way.
Don't worry, the fingers have already been pointed at me. The main point of the Prologues were to give a lot of the LIs that we see first more backstory before the meet with the MC. Now, when I released Episodes 2 and 3 of the Prologues, you could probably say I wasn't really thinking clearing and get confused, which is pretty fair looking back at it, I won't lie.
Probably the better way to do it. That or lock the prologues until you reach that specific part in the story. Like you can't see the dinner until you get to the end of the episode that it's in. Since yea... things are happening with characters that new players have no idea who they are, so backstory means nothing to them just yet.
You know, it's interesting that you said that, because I kept that very same scene in the Remake... in the Legacy Edition, you see all the girls look into the sky to see a "meteor" falling down. Of course, some of the stuff did change, like how the MC, Lily, and Jyn all met each other.
I'm not too sure about that, but it did cross my mind before. To be honest, and this was a thing with the Legacy Edition too... a lot of the stuff I don't particularly think of beforehand (which I really need to get better at). I just do it, and adjust from there, which isn't entirely ideal of long term. I'm learning from my mistakes, even taking in some of the harsh feedback, and working to make it a better experience for everyone.
I think a lot of the confusion is from there being prologues plural. Instead of just having one that incorporates them all as any story should, they are all just jumbled together from different povs and time frames. It's disorganized at best. I think it's better to have backstories for non MCs unfold naturally as the story goes on. Otherwise you get what is happening now, or worse yet, massive lore dumps that no one wants to slog through.
That would be another way to do it. A short-story almost that shows all/most of the mainline LI and the climax is them seeing the meteors overhead. Something to give you a sense of who they are and what the relationship hook with them would be (in the case of the LI who recently got dumped). TBH, anything would be better than the story jumble right now and with however many more are coming out it'll only get worse.
I agree. For me it would of made more sense if this story flowed and progressed like the original version. As I still don't understand why the whole story had to be scraped...instead of just injecting new content into the already created content.
I really is kind of a mess right now. The way it's handled is like it's trying to write a separate main story for every LI as if they are a MC and it just doesn't work. Something like a multi-protag game, though it isn't, as far as I know.
