It's in Cindy's personality to be spiteful if you give priority to any other girl over her and makes sense but Holly thing I completely agree is not handled well by EK. It's same with Alison if you don't go to her home for the supposed "talk about Gillian(Chameleon) to lessen your burden" you get massive hit on relationship points and That is Alison being a dumb bitch.
It's Cindy we're talking about.... Cindy. The self-righteous and spoiled brat. The unreasonable bitch. The whore who bends over for dickwad Axel. Such behaviour is in character for her ilk.
Not in all path/s BUT In some path/s:
No, it's just bad writing because for whatever reason Eva wanted to force a split between Cindy and Holly paths. You can see this in Cindy's surprised reaction to you choosing to go to Wade's birthday instead of to the book fair when she learns of it:
i "I even rejected an invitation to go to a book fair to be here tonight..."
$ fcindy = "blush"
c "You did that...? Your writing career is what you're most passionate about."
i "It is... But that doesn't mean that's the only thing I'm passionate about."
considering how ORS is moving with all)I don't feel as negative as you do about the game. It's one thing plain bad writing when you make characters act OOC and even totally opposite to their reaction to the same thing like in Cindy's case because you want to force the story to go in a certain way. And it's another thing a dev making choices for the story or the development that you as a player disagree with or strongly dislike and I somewhat agree with some of your points:
That it's handled poorly. Makes me wonder is EK moving story just on whim?
And which direction the story is progressing? Heck the question should be WHAT IS THE STORY AT THIS POINT? SMH!
- Stan's rework
- Robert ton of content
- Every character who appears in top in polls getting content (Latest Marcel example)
- Story going down the hill
- Character management
- Reskinning scenes A.K.A no Versatility hence, Laziness
- Bringing ton of characters from GGGB (IS this GGGB 2.0 or ORS
- Cameo character's getting full fledged sex scenes plus reserved places in story when original story characters are sidelined
- Original story characters getting shit in terms of content
Things are all over the place!
#HopeCH12
It's not really a matter of what's acceptable, though. Ian/Cindy catalyst is the perfect storm of Cindy's world falling apart when her attempt to bring some spark in her relationship with Wade and something she's been looking forward to goes completely sideways, and Ian --who's potentially been her support for a good while now-- actually being there for her, unlike literally everyone else, her boyfriend included.
You make your point well, but I disagree. How does it make sense for her to keep it together after a totally dissapointing birthday party?. I would argue that her not even being able to make it happen at all is worse that happening and going badly for her relationship with Wade. I still think that it would have been perfectly in character if Ian asked her after coming back from the fair how things went and offered to go just the two of them (or with others like Jeremy or Emma) whenever. You can not write the same Cindy (because it's not a case of Lena on being a different character on different paths according to your choices) reacting to you going to the book fair very negatively and also reacting quite surprised if you refused such an important opportunity for you to go to a birthday party. It's game logic not "real" character logic.
Well, obviously. That's why i said Cindy wouldn't resent it too much as opposed to not resenting it at all.
The same way it makes sense for Cindy to regret what she's done and attempt to pretend things never happened, if Cindy and Ian fuck on that day. People can act very differently when their emotions run high, and when they've had some time to cool down.
First of all, I'm not a professional novel critic so plz bear me If I come off as too strong as I maybe too invested in ORS and have certain expectations from Dev that I want character to reach their top potential and used wisely so that why I might be coming as too strong
. Secondly, It's alright if you don't agree with me on some points that's totally cool as opinions are subjective and of course we are human, so we will definitely disagree with eachother on some things which is a good thing in order to learn and understand new things/people.Same can be said that it was a potential waste to spend that much time on Stan and Robert even when Dev herself was not in favor of reworking on Stan(still did it) and bringing them up to the par instead of putting that time to use and work on other important to story character which are more close to both MC's. They are not even close enough to MC's. The issue with Marcel is that dude appeared for only 1 time in polls and guess what he got a content in-game. You can clearly see in which direction the Dev is taking the game but the thing is not all characters are that lucky(Yeah I'm talking about Ivy here). Dev is biased.
Of course It is lazy and same as when different Dev's buy same Daz3d models and put them in their game as it is without changing appearances. Versatility is the main asset of a Dev. If a dev is reskinning same models, bringing her previous games character over and over again than It means 2 things, either the dev is lazy OR there is no story and is just trying to keep things afloat till she get Ideas on how to move things forward and might still be stuck in writer's block.
For my 9th point I would say bcz of other character taking time of dev (referring to my point 8 of cameo characters) they are overshadowed as now Dev have to give those new character content too and than including them in main story line. So, of course original story characters are getting less content while being deserved. On one hand, Dev is cutting down chapters so the most logical thing for dev to do is shift focus on main cast rather than bringing new characters to increase workload.
I agree! As we see that scene between IanxCindy was triggering point of their scandal and if that didn't happen than their would be rarely as good of an opportunity for Ian to pull Cindy as Cindy was emotionally vulnerable at that time but Holly's side of story could be handled more maturely as Socrambus mentioned. I believe Cindy's side is handled well but not Holly's.
More like proned to pandering to the fetishist than actually care about the other characters who have been waiting for content.
My point is not that it should have happened the exact same way but afterwards if Ian decides to go to the book fair. Kissing first time and inmediately start to passionately fuck in the middle of an alley it's not an everyday ocurrence to say the least. My point is that it doesn't happen out of nowhere, like sex with Emma, there was a buildup, an attraction, passions long denied. And of all of that suddenly dissapears, not only on Cindy but also on Ian's side. And he's not like everyone else that wasn't there for her, that's overdramatizing one event that wasn't even her birthday and erasing all past Ian's support. Look, just imagine a change in the story: Ian is hit by a car a few days before the party and obviously can't go because he's recovering from the injuries. Wouldn't you feel cheated as a player if that meant that Cindy path were closed forever?. I know it's not the same thing because that would be totally outside any player's choice, but not being able to go because of the book fair is also a perfectly fine reason. The game tells you that the party is dependant on Ian, but that's bullshit, without Ian it doesn't happen because of Wade and Perry that behave like they have told to go to the front lines of a war.
It's not a problem, of course you are entitled to your expectations and opinions and we can argue some things or just agree to disagree. It's cool and I also like to read different opinions to mine, it's really useful specially with some kinks that I struggle to even understand their appeal. Doesn't mean that I dislike you or anybody for that, far from itFirst of all, I'm not a professional novel critic so plz bear me If I come off as too strong as I maybe too invested in ORS and have certain expectations from Dev that I want character to reach their top potential and used wisely so that why I might be coming as too strong
Moving on
.In a way every author is biased towards their own vision and (likely) the vision of those giving them money. Again, I mostly agree with your tastes, so I would also be happier if some content didn't happen and more attention were given to other characters. But a lot of people disagree with us and it's hard for me to feel entitled to protest when I'm giving no money or even direct feedback to the author and I am just writing in a forum.
That's the more likely reason, but it looks pretty random to me choosing Cindy and Holly to make the split. I think their only interaction is the card game at Perry's flat if Ian and Holly are dating. Maybe the reason is more clear in future chapters but right now it seems that Cindy/Alison or Cindy/Emma would have been better options to limit branching.
Alright! You raised a damn good point too that the tension between them should've remained and could've been evolve into a more controlled path where Cindy might broke up with Wade and THAN Ian could've an easy chance without making Cindy cheat on Wade or some different/existing path/s unless it is intentionally kept that way by the Dev herself to keep branching/workload minimized. And I agree with you! Also, I believe IanxHolly if Ian didn't went to book fair should've continued too But it is intentionally kept at minimum too and puts Lena more in driving seat by keeping Ian on backfoot again I think it is intentionally kept that way by the Dev herself to keep branching/workload minimized.
