fatpussy123
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The dual protagonist system has raised issues for the development, but it's still the key feature of the game. So much of the game is designed around it, the cheating, the influencing characters affecting others routes, and the general concept of having the ability to sexually romance the majority of characters in a believable manner. In a male MC game Jeremy would not get any scenes, at most a sharing scene, and vice versa in a female MC game all the women would be force written to be bisexual. ORS doesn't have these problems. And also as was pointed out earlier cutting Ian's content would remove key arcs in the story, all of Alisons content, Cindy's entire slow disillusionment with Wade, Hollys romance plot, the whole lot would not exist.Eh, I think ORS is good in spite of the dual protagonist system, not because of it.
I think Eva has floundered around doing revisions and making character changes that it's pretty clear that the dual-protag system is a concept that is hard to develop for a single writer at the scale that she's working with.
Besides, I think there is plenty of content and themes to explore with female main characters that are interesting. Eva doesn't want to be "the one" to explore all of them, that's fair enough.
I have no wish to see Ian removed, not while the game is being made anyway. Even if I had such a wish, I don't see the point when the game's already as far along as it is in development. I'd have still preferred the game be without him if it was only just coming out now, but that's neither here nor there.
Its great that you specifically don't want Ian's part to be cut, but there are absolutely people here that want this game to be single protagonist and it's them who I was addressing.