I dont think anybody was really sad over Maya's "death". But I lost interest in Maya after she didn't become the all knowing guide anymore. Once she lost her mystique she was done for me. Now all Maya is summed up to is "Akira notice me. Akira have sex with me."
Maya has never done anythiing for me and now I like her even less. If she'd stayed gone for a couple more resets, I'd have enjoyed the last year of the game a lot more.
I would put og Maya in the middle of a tierlist, but the rooftop scene did make me feel. Her lines, the faces she makes, and story impact combined for a heavy scene. To me, it is one of the best scenes in lil, and it visits my mind often. The loving acceptance of oblivion.
Top three for me.
I'd say he's closer to Ayane than Niki. Call it a problem with dev planning if you want, but how out of his way has Akira gone for Niki like he has for Ayane?
There definitely is. I can tell either from their responses to CH3's ending or the too soon worthy jab I took once.
I still think Maya's "death" was just a subversion of expectations and the "death" flags were there for a long time. After she didn't make it to the rooftop the first time, we knew something bad was going to happen to her. But Sel made it seem like she really died, only for her to be back the next update. I think Sel should've held out on Maya's return. I know it's supposed to mirror Maya-prime breaking past Sensei's. But if there was no Maya for a while it would've made the "death" more impactful imo. And when she got reset I think she should've been written like how she was in Baby Finches.
Would've made that scene in particular more impactful, but I feel like it would've lessened Sensei's post-traumatic response and meaning of the following depression arc having to constantly be reminded of "losing" her.
I'm super hyped for more Maya now that she's acknowledging the situation. People are too harsh on Nu Maya, I quite like her, and it's interesting to see what Maya was originally like.
While I agree, I still feel the same thing could happen if Maya was just not there. Maya could've been gone for however long and Sensei is still bummed and depressed only for the one of the things he wanted the most to comeback just for it not to be the same and it would've been a deeper gut punch. Then it could lead into the whole Sensei ghosting Maya arc and whatnot.
It will DEFINITELY make it worse.
If you exclude Himawari (who also has an unique model but not be a Main/Side girl), then yes Chiaki is currently the only one background character that has this treatment iirc (not counting all the cross-over characters, including those from NiB). My guess is that Selly did make her model early but for the sole purpose of making her "first debut" in the form of a framed photo look authentic; she just ends up being useful again much later on for storytelling purposes. Because of this, it might not be able to prove that Selly does have future hardcore uses for Chiaki just because her model is uniquely available. But hey, her model is readily available for something horrible, so you might still guess it right in that regard.
That's dev's petty jab at other devs who swim in the similar water, calling people copycats, sellouts, mimics, amongst other things. It's his way of jerking his ego off; don't worry about it as it has absolutely zero in-story value.
You should like the next update then. Unless Sel just shits the bed with the writing, he's set Niki up to have a confrontation about Akira fucking his students next update. Half of the invite events in 0.47 had Niki there, including one where he fucks Sana while Niki is supposedly off camera in the shower, but then has a moment where there isn't a warm bath for Akira to use after his shower. This isn't a thing that normally happens in Japan, she was very likely watching them.
Our little angel... that scene melted my wretched heart...
I cannot belief I forgot Himawari. I love Himawari. I have to repent.
When I first saw this I couldn't help but laugh my ass off how ironic and petty this guy is considering he's copying things from other denpa games. He is no better than anyone else that wants to create these types of games.
He doesn't want to play his hand too early. My theory is Rie Rokuhara is the hot mom and Sel is purposely hiding her from us. Two Rokuharas is not enough, we need three or four in game.
