Here's the thing, i both want Maya to get reset, and not get reset, cause i think it would be really interesting to see her reset back to how she was, but also... the Maya we know would essentially die... unless Selly, if he reset her, intends to restore her later, i think resetting her would be very risky, dunno if he would lose subscribers but backlash tends to be a bit hard to predict and a lot of fans could react terribly to it. I detest mentioning the game and dev now but i feel like Selly should pay extremely close attention to the reaction Pers0nas got when he created a major shift in his game, i don't think there's a better example of how shit can go downhill if a dev messes with their characters personalities too much. For all intents and purposes, Maya is Maya, altering her so dramatically could really go south.
Resseting Maya would be basically killing the character, I can't see that working, rather than sad/dramatic It would be something annoying, one thing is making your characters miserable, and other totally different is just toying with them.
Idk, I think that would make me really upset
Yes, but as stated earlier, it would remove a safety net for Sensei. As it is now, she is just about the only thing keeping him out of the real big problems going on. Remove that and we get to see him spiral in an unpredictable way, making things very interesting, especially for theory crafting.
Here's the issue with not resetting her and not removing the safety net for Sensei, we aren't going to get anywhere. We will just keep spinning our wheels in this happier slice of life style part and never actually get to what makes a Denpa game what it is. That safety net needs to go.
Yeah, that's a good point too. I really only want it to kick off the real dark route, because some drastic stuff WILL have to occur for that route to properly start/continue anyway, right? Death isn't the only way for an author to make a drastic change that takes the game in a dark direction. Who knows what Maya really was like before her eternity in purgatory? People here have speculated that she's been the one who's gone off the deep end before in prior iterations of Sensei. I'm very confident in saying that Sel's writing is vastly superior to p0's was, in any case, so I'm sure he'll handle this well and I'm sure he's planned out what he intends to do.
Or at least I hope so.
Exactly, death is not a necessity in this genre, it's just common. The real horror comes from those who are still alive changing so drastically that they no longer act like themselves. Familiar characters doing unfamiliar things as defined on VNDB. I would have to agree on the comparison between developers, even removing my siding with Sel on the topic of LiL, SO was simply not written as well. I'll say it again, it's like that game tries to be like a LiL without the Denpa, but the Denpa is a defining factor in LiL. You cannot remove defining factors without changing the formula so drastically that the product stops being what it was. He essentially tried to make an entirely slice of life version, which relies extremely heavily on the characters being defined and staying within that definition. Denpa games like LiL do the exact opposite as part of their horror elements.
As for Maya herself, yeah, considering how she blew up on first seeing Noriko, which is completely against what we had seen up to that point for Maya, I would not be the least bit surprised if she really was a control freak that flew off the handle very quickly and not actually as calm as we've seen her since the beginning.
But if someone had to be "reseted" I whish that would be Rin (and eliminating Otoha in the procces if not asking too much).
She was one of my favourites characters during the first two chapters, but I can't stand her since the Ch3 started, If I had to say who's the worst person in the game, she surely wouldn't be, but she would be the worst friend.
Eliminating Otoha isn't going to happen, at least not before the dark route is already underway. I could see her ending up a victim of revenge once things start taking a turn toward their absolute darkest. There's no setup for her being reset or eliminated at this point, but there is for Maya.
I feel like Rin breaking up with Otoha is inevitable. It would be better for them both if they separated.
Definitely gonna happen at this rate and I predict very soon as in the next couple Rin or Otoha updates, I think that might even be the next big drama to set Rin off into her depressed state again.
Just an idle thought and I don't think that there is any real indication as to this being something that may happen in the future but what about the possibility of a 4 way between Akira, Niki, Otoha and Rin. Just a thought that this may be a way for Otoha to feel better about herself following the kiss with Niki whilst also not losing Rin when coming clean about it.
Like I said, probably no real chance but an idle thought I needed to share to get it out of my head.
Yeah, I think Rin and Otoha are past the point of no return in their relationship, I don't see it being salvaged.
Well said. Story-wise, resetting Maya probably is an ok direction at the very end of this game. If it’s gonna happen within like 5 updates, however, the effect on the later story would be so grand that I feel like the game itself has to undergo a fundamental change in the formula to properly reflect on the impact.
Like, if we really are going lose Maya soon, there should be no more free roaming and fucking around in this new phase, just Sensei desperately trying to somehow forge a plan to bring Maya back, while suffering immeasurably from solely talking to a chipper Maya. Anything else would just feel very odd
(in an exaggerating sense, the impact is almost like permanently deleting a constant in the universe. Go ahead and do it, but the story that follows after needs to reflect on it hard because you’ve tampered with a core mechanism of the game)
For now I think losing the newest RAS member Ayane should be devastating enough without the need of drastically changing anything, but I’d be super sad though.
What we've been seeing staying the way it is is contrary to the stated genre of the game, where things are known to get real dark, sometimes even deadly, so a fundamental shift is likely, especially around the dark route. I disagree on the free roam, the player should be the one directing as we have been, but within this darker atmosphere expected within the Denpa genre instead of the basic slice of life we've been seeing. Oddity is well within the realm of Denpa, in fact, its most heavily defining feature could be considered feeling very odd. I agree this would need to reflect heavily, any lack of emphasis on the game's genre once that comes into full effect would be a major issue beyond even the most popular character being killed off entirely. At that point, even making the game exclusively about that character would not fix the damage, it would be irreparable not to focus extremely heavily on the Denpa element at that point.
I think that what will set off the Dark Route is Akira reversing to something worse like he said to Wakana in the "The Desk Scene" event, probably due to the influence of Sekai. Wakana trying to fix Ami, Kaori being possessed by Sekai, Sekai's restored spirit talking to him and probably whatever will happen in the winter will make him revert to seeing the girls as walking, talking fleshlights like the start of the game, but more callous.
Random Thoughts Time: Honestly, I've been wondering if Sensei might be wiped and replaced with a more Callous version of himself that we'll be forced to helplessly watch, as he destroys the relationships around him.
I could see this and the mental image is not pretty.
