But she was mean to him and hurt his fee fee's at the start.
Excuse you. I don't invest anything of myself into these games early on, so no. My feelings weren't hurt until the two-hundredth time she was still a cunt to the MC despite him still being a decent gentleman to her and dating her sister... (exaggeration)
To see her go from someone who can barely stand having the MC around, to not being able to imagine life without him. To see her also begin to help the MC deal with his own trauma.
That's great that you're interested in such a ... rewarding ... romance. It wasn't for me, and since I don't find Charlotte at all attractive, her attitude gets no slack from me.
In my opinion there is a big difference from being a bitch and someone that puts on a bitchy facade for armor reasons.
Reasonable.
Charlotte does act very standoffish teetering on the edge of confrontational sure...
No 'edge', she is all confrontation, which yes, her career and trauma have honed to a fine point. But she needles the MC unprofessionally and well past even her trauma dumping on him should excuse. Which sure, for the sake of the "destined lovers dragging each other out of the crab bucket" trope nonsense "romance".. whatever. It's clear
I'm not the intended audience, that isn't a story that resonates with me. Just as I can't stand the toxic Robert/Invisagal pairing in Dispatch - why would you want your MC to hook up with a sociopathic bully?
Is it wrong that she treats the MC as she did?
Yes. Excusable to an extent? Sure, but still 100% wrong.
Now if you was calling Suzy a bitch I would wholeheartedly agree...
Ironically I'm more willing to give Suzi slack. She was raised to bear the burden of her Mother's trauma, she needs therapy just as badly as Charlotte does, just for different reasons.
That said, she is also not good looking enough to get any slack cut... and I was already involved with best girl Lucy so... even if Suzi were to suddenly warm up to the MC and throw herself at him, no dice.
I plan to play on a route for every girl in the game eventually...
I play these games for the story and since the story isn't going to significantly change, I won't bother. But I'm sleeping on it going forward till it's done, I'm tired of 'replaying' just to get half a chapter further*... "hurry up and wait" only works when you're paying my salary.
* Three times my saves have broken and one if those times was corruption to database move that I know off, so I'm not blaming the dev, it's just how these things are.
I’m not complaining about the rework itself. My question is: why do it now, when the game isn’t even close to complete?
Dude... you already know the answer, here you posted it yourself a little bit later:
I get that, but the dev himself said the rework was mainly because of outdated code, renamed variables, and updating Ren’Py. The Suzi point is more speculation. My main concern is just the timing, especially since Charlotte still has zero content after all these years.
Code is the foundation of a game, the best time to relay the foundation is yesterday, the second best time is today, the worst time is after the house has been built... you don't finish building a game on top of shaky code or worse code
you know you have to rework. The problems will only compound and multiply and you'll have a larger rework later down the road.
You rip it out and rebuild it now before you keep building with that "shaky code" or those wonky variables, you pull it all up, redo what needs redoing and then use clean(er) code and your fresh variables going forward. That way the dev doesn't run into a snag two chapters down the road where the game won't load and they can't figure out why and have to either spend four times as long fixing it or worse, abandon it...
How can you even consider other LIs besides Charlie? They all look like gray mice compared to her.
Because for me appearance is partial based on personality and for a long time Charlie was just ugly.
