Dont know... didnt liked the update.
The whole dealing with the police was kinda strange, as if a 10 year old has written that... a police man grabbing a lawyer at the throat... well yeah... he never ever would have got away with that and would have been a policemen for the last time. A good lawyer (and this one was a expensive lawyer of charlotte, so he should have been a good one) would have stripped him of his job right there for good and sued him too.
How the police acts here was strange in a big way... so the whole station is corrupt (what a surprise, of course it is) but if it is the case... they never ever would act the way they did IN FRONT of witnesses and especially the FBI... thats just ridiculous. Of course they want revenge for the carter-killing... but they wouldnt act that dumb and clearly showing everybody that they are corrupt.
"oh look there is that FBI woman, charlotte and Emma too, ah fuck it we will abuse our power anyway and make him pay in front of them" or what? come on... Darkblue can do better than that, sometimes it felt like he didnt wrote this episode.
Other than that, it was obvious that we have to deal with the fallout from the killingspree. That was kinda done hasty and plump i think. Overall the last two episode felt kinda "rushed" like DB wants to get over with the game faster.
Well, i admit... we needed some more progress in every direction... but the pace feels off now... the first 9 episodes everything developed kinda slow (and i liked that), and now we are at pedal to the metal, with a pace that doesnt even fit anymore.
And there is something that bothers me more and more... of course there will be some love-routes... one for Charlotte, one for Luzy, one for Suzie and Kaylah too i guess. And there are more than just hnts in that direction already.
BUT there will be an Emma-route too, DB said that, and the whole game design is going for it... but the story and writing not.
There is no way in hell Charlotte, Suzie or Luzy would go through with it that the MC has something going on with Emma. Like this is going so far, if they are falling in love with each other, i cant see any way that this will be a happy thing living in the open and that charlotte and the others would accept that, no way... and if DB would decide to write it that way, all the characters would have to make a 180 degree turn. Not believable. There is just no way anybody could accept a relationship between MC and Emma, i just dont see it... well... for now even Emma cant see that. But her daddy-issues will change eventually.
So when Emma will get together with the MC, the only plausible way to go about it, would be that she i leaving home with him... well there are hints that she is already on a way to leave home evantually (mentioned that she want to leave for university soon) but really, can anybody picture her leaving her mother like the way she is? I sure dont see that. And i think DB has moved himself in a dilemma here...
Everything else is working somehow, but to pull off a plausible way to make a working and happy relationship between Emma and MC with a happy ending seems impossible to me... And i think that Darkblue didnt thaught this through.
Well i have to wait to see how this will go on...
Talking about waiting... i was a sup on patreon, not anymore... i have to say it, iam not pleased with the timing of the updates... This one was kinda short too, last update was late june. So overall 4 months now, not that long compared to other game... BUT, there are no sounds, no animations. static renders dont take much time to render... DB doesnt write that much, mostly every dialog are about 10 lines, not really much more... he is recycling many renders too. For this way how he is developing, there should be way more content per update than this during a 4 months shedule.
I dont have a problem with recycling renders, and to dont change clothes that much and such... makes the work easier and faster... but if you do, you have to make up for it someway. some do it with animations or good sound and music... if you dont have that, than you have to put out more content... way more like this. How many renders were there this episode? 400? Not that much more... others make this numbers in 1 month with more writing too.
For this many patrons he has, i did expected more to be frank. I dont see the benifit anymore to be a sup at patreon like this... for that i expect way more than he has delivered. Sorry.
*edit* well i forget... DB said himself he needs a break... i think its fair to say, you can see that how the last epsiodes went.
