I've played it. I made a comment on that thread about it, he's awkward af.
He makes situations that shouldn;t be awkward, really uncomfortable. 2 sisters joking around and he brings it up like it's unnatural. I like the girls in that game but I don't like the dad.
I get that I don't know much about guys but i've played enough games to know it's not normal. There are some awesome MC's around like the ones from Lexi, Depraved Awakening and Where the Heart is. Even the goofball from My Sister My Roommate is at least the fun kind of goofy.
I don't need an MC to be a complete badass but when i'm expecting a professional bodyguard with an excellent reputation or a father of 3 girls who's been in relationships long enough to know what women get up to, I don't expect them to act like clueless teenagers seeing bikini's and boobs for the first time.
I think it's part of the problem that this game is so similar to Lexi in premise, so that's what we're expecting. And this just isn't.
But the writing really needs to be taken back to scratch and tried again. Too many of the characters are just don't act like how they should act in the situation.
MC: Professional Bodyguard. Starts off colder, but reassuring. Keeps a professional discord and distance. Warms up as the game goes on and the trust between him and the Family gets better. There should be more scenes of him actively doing something around the house. Charlotte sends him to his room like a kid who got grounded. A professional would have said "No, sorry, that's not going to work."
Charlotte: I don't have a lot of complaints, I get that she's been traumatized. But she can work with men all day, what is it about the one she's hired to protect her family that hits her trigger alarm exactly? Even when you don't try to act creepy (which is hard because the writer keeps throwing that shit in there) she still goes off on him. I mean fuck, was it that hard to find a female bodyguard? Because those exist. If you're this fucking panicky about Men, how the hell do you go out and do your job?
Lucy: Concerned, but acts happy around Emma. Can have a crush on the MC, can even flirt when no one else is around, but having her just jump into his face and actively reduce him to a piece of meat in front of her sister just to get a rise out of her? That's just asinine. Also what was with this masturbation scene? Fluff, filler, pointless and shouldn't have been here so early in the game. Your game has barely got started, are you throwing in nudity to try to get noticed? The character as she was presented in phone calls is nothing like the live version when she's around people.
Suzi: Not here yet, but I can already tell how this is going to be writen. Spoiled bitch, throws a fit at everything, tries to get the Bodyguard thrown out, tries to blackmail him somehow. Tell me I'm wrong.
Emma: Mostly perfect as is. The problem is things like showing her fully naked in this update. She's the innocent little girl. Let her stay that way more than 3 updates in. Geez. The Underwear scene from the beginning of the update was bad enough.
The game just needs a rewrite really badly by someone who knows how characters like these should be written.
