First book was supposed to be the shortest? To me, it was so linear with grinding that it went so long for me. Maybe i am just racist.
nah not racist lol i can see where you're coming from: it's very grindy, especially if you want to have/use every single outfit with Katara walk. luckily there's actually no real need for that to progress. main reason is that MiTy had ideas for book1 but were more or less newbie to Ren'Py at that time. story wise, it's really the shortest.
from a 'historian view' it's all exciting because you can see the progress they went through, over the books, in storytelling and writing and art. so then, um, imagine some old fart in some college class pointing at single scenes and spilling out long boring explanations.. "here we can see where the coder started to use this, instead of that,
which improves the ... "
snore.
from 'players view' book1 can be annoying, because if you don't save scum (i do that) you might have to spend most of the tiny bits of coins on potions. the 'jar filler' and the shop, both RNG tend to reeeally low outputs. save before morning, reload that when the coins are few. same with early on mooselions, save scum and you're set.
