if people were not complaining about it I wouldn't even know it was happening, my save file has nothing with her in it. I assume you need to be playing a certain way for her to appear in the chapter 11 prologue?I don't get why some people are upset with Gillian's return. "Drama for drama's sake" Drama is the point. There are a lot of scenes here that progressed into sex quickly. Would you listen to someone complaining, "Porn for porn's sake"? Unlike other games, ORS actually has good character development and drama. Ian is already recovering, and depending on your choices, could be starting to get into a committed relationship. This will lead to better story arcs. Instead of your typical, "Heartbroken person lost trust but found the right person to love again" trope (more common with female protagonist finding the right man in romance stories), this could lead to more heartaches and send Ian spiralling back, or make proud proclamations of "I have moved on and I am happy" to the person who broke Ian's trust. This could also lead to wild plots like Ian's voyeurism that was explored with Allison or Lena's Stalkfap. Not having Gillian return would be a missed opportunity for the story, especially since this is an interactive fiction where you can choose decisions for characters, and not a novel or TV show.
I will say this though, I wish Gillian's return wasn't so early. There are a lot of subplots where their conflicts are increasing and becoming more tense. Having yet another major conflict introduced so quickly can be disorienting. I wish Ian's relationships were deeper and progressed further before Gillian returned. This way, the "will he or won't he go back" question is much harder to answer.
I don't disagree that her return is unnecessary, but you raise a lot of good points.
This game really needs to move faster, and by faster I don't mean story wise or anything, the work on the game needs to be faster and we need to get a chapter monthly. Now that is probably not possible, but this game really takes a long time and there needs to be a whole lot more of it and I don't really want to wait 2-3 years, but I obviously will wait.
There is so much game here so much possibility and so many routes and so many different things that can and can't happen that should be able to happen. There just isn't enough of EvaKiss to create everything. Where is that cloning technology when you need it.
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