There's this quote I like. Paraphrasing, "We do not change, we just become more fully ourselves."
That's kind of how I'm trying to approach the revised Chapter 1. The bones of the original chapter are there - a miserable Guy stuck in retail Hell, Nicki acting as the bright spot in his life, Brent screwing everything up, and a fateful meeting that puts our hero on a new path. But, over the bones are some new muscle and skin to help the whole thing hang together better. My intention isn't to make a new Chapter 1, and then need to rebuild everything around that. It's really that Chapter 1 is the aberration, and I feel like I need to redo it, to make it fit in with the following nine chapters.
All that said, I'll be archiving FiN: Classic exactly as it exists, as of the last release. So, if someone's missing it, it'll still be there. But, like.. C'mon!
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Also, because it remains a sore spot: I know it's annoying that I waited so long to redo the first chapter. But, when
Cassie showed up, that was always meant to be the end of Act 1. That was back when I'd plotted the game out to play out over three acts, each comprised of four chapters. As my plans shifted, that moment with
Cassie remained sort of a waypoint for me, which I saw as a good place to take a pause, and iron out some problems. The entire cast was now there, a new problem was introduced, and it was a big cliffhanger.. It just made sense to me.
After talking with my subscribers, they all basically agreed that Chapter 10 should act as the end of Season 1, and I'm inclined to agree. So, is it really super weird for me go back and touch things up, now that this section of the game is finished, and we're moving into a new one?