I'm not talking about this kind of details but rather in the understanding of the story and some translations that I'm sure are not translated correctly.
- Did you make the difference between the different personality choices of Lexie?
- Can you imagine what happened in the nightclub on Saturday night?
- Who knocked over the MC when he came out of the grocery store and for what reason?
- Who is the girl on the bus?
- Who is the blonde woman who gets into the elevator at the end of the prologue?
I ask myself these questions because they matter and I need to know if I can get these different messages across. If not, I have to rethink the way I build the game for episode 01.
The feedback from the French players is good and they understand the story. The English players' feedback is rather unclear from what I've read.
Now I'm even more curious!
-I get how "tactil and naughty" could be a bit vague, but I had a general idea what it meant, and Lexie's other personalities seemed pretty obvious.
But most of that stuff seems so obvious to me that I'm wondering if you
made it obvious after people didn't understand, or if I, too, am missing something.
-Alright, I can see how some translation issues could confuse some people a little bit about the nightclub. "bow-wow", for instance, though I understood from context. And at one point the text reads like the woman in the car is talking
to Sandra rather than
about Sandra. But I take it the guy dressed as a priest works for the big guy in the limo, who sent him to check on the club run by... black-and-orange lady with the lightning earrings. And it was about drugs or some other illicit/illegal thing she sells for him. What
exactly happened is unclear, I guess, but I figure we'll learn more later. (Sandra isn't
dead, is she?!)
-A thief knocked over the MC because they were stealing from the porn store and running away. Is there more to it than that?
-The girl on the bus is that thief. Were people confused because the store owner referred to the thief as "he"? Um, she was disguised, with a hood over her face, and she's a tomboy anyway. Why couldn't the store owner think the thief was a man? The thief had distinctive tattoos on their hands, and the girl is wearing one of those shirts with sleeves so long they have thumb holes--TO HIDE HER DISTINCTIVE HAND TATTOOS. WHICH WE CAN STILL SEE IF WE LOOK FOR THEM. There's something about the MC not having 'a mark', but that seems like information we'll be getting later.
-If people didn't get that the blonde in the elevator was the girl from the nightclub before she looks in the camera and says 'Fresh blood!', then sure, it's hard to remember every face. But if people weren't getting that
after she basically transforms in front of us, then I can't even... It must be some other thing that I'm also missing, right?!