Honestly I do feel like this would have been better as two separate games
To be clear, I would play both games. I loved good girl, gone bad.
But the two characters have no connection that isn't romantic, no shared plot or story beyond the idea of 6 degrees of separation. Which makes the game feel disjointed, torn in two directions.
If Eva really had to have this concept, i think a fun way to do it, would have been to make the whole thing a shared universe, then develope episodes. First episode, play as Lena, ALL THE WAY through her entire plot, as many chapters as it takes, one Protagonist, one viewpoint.
THEN make Our Red String episode 2, starring Ian, a character who was a very minor part of Lena's story, probably not even a love interest beyond a possible fling. Ian's story takes place at the same time, in a parallel universe where slightly different things occur (since we control Ian now, instead of Lena). Make Lena a slightly larger role in this universe, possibly even a love interest option. However, there would be frustration or perhaps interest, since Lena wouldn't necessarily act like she did when we controlled her. She might be a jaded cheater now, or a maybe a passionate romantic.
After that we could explore Axel or Cindy, who are both SUPER involved with the other characters, but they have viewpoints we've never seen before, and would be interesting to get their point of view, their version of events.
And so on and so forth. You get it.
