A few suggestions with examples for Khan and his team (for the new plot). If you wonder why this game confuses people, this may help.
1. Please read the dialogue with each of the girls when Marcus is opening the puzzle. Take a sharp pencil and strike through 75% of it. Get to the point. For example: "Here are my suggested changes to the school uniform. The uniform is too revealing. It makes me uncomfortable. Will you take a look?" The massive back and forth dialogue buries the simple point.
2. Please read the dialogue when Snape drinks with Marcus after opening the puzzle--the one that goes into all the background stuff. A lot of this is from an earlier version and had been stricken for a reason. It is so long and so boring. Get to the point.
3. The discussions with Sally. These should advance or explain the plot only. Please minimize the chit chat back and forth. It is incredibly repetitive and boring. It is not witty. For example, stop already with the repeated threats to burn or use paint thinner. Say it once.
4. Marcus's internal monologues. Internal monologues or comments should be one line only, two at most. They should help explain the importance of what Marcus has discovered, what he has to do, or be a single line quip.
5. Dialogue for dialogue sake is boring. Every writer knows this. It must advance the plot or provide critical information or be mixed in with action.
6. The best editing is the delete button. If you want people to understand what the hell is going on just say it---stop burying it in a mountain of words.
7. I see some of the densest, most boring dialogue from the earlier versions has returned. It had been deleted for a reason.