Fantastic game. God tier early art. However I am a bit confused about paths and pacing which I am pretty sure has been mentioned before. I played trying to do everything and found that both Erins and Saras paths both led into the time skip. I am not sure if this is intended or just a place holder for now, like you pick a girl/Erin to follow and go from there. The one thing I really am not a fan of with the time skip is that we lose a lot of character building with Vi and that Mars characterization does a total 180 very quickly (or at least it's presented as such). He goes from a begrudging calculating hurt... Antihero? To communist demigod community planner way too fast. Sara, even with her brief appearance seems to have gone to an extreme as well. They aren't bad changes, but its extremely jarring to be so abrupt.
My biggest fault with the game lies with that change and the lack of Vi content. We get these brief moments of Mars as what I would think would be his true self when he is with Vi and occasionally with Elena, but we lose out on so much because we have no knowledge of why he's like that. Is this intended? Honestly Mars as a character and his story was the main reason I was playing the game. Will there be more content of character building in the early game added later or will it be hand waved? Maybe flash backs or something? Vi on the sideline is such a sad waste as she and Mars mom seem to be a major key in his characterization.
Side thing that's a bit odd to me is the dungeon mini game. Was I supposed to be doing that for content? I saw the dev note and just waved it off. Alongside that I find it strange that Vi has sort of a feral cat battle stance and then time skip is set up as some sort of mage with a staff.
Again, great game just really wanted to voice my experience. I am sure some has already been addressed but I didn't want to scour 355 pages for answers. Might skim the dev replies though.