Hey TD, thanks for your reply, I really appreciate it. You have give me insight into your line of thinking and I'm thankful for it, and for taking your valuable time to even reply to my comment. Don't want to repeat my previous comment and some points expressed within just want to say sorry if it has done some unintentional "damage" to the story.Hey, thanks for the food for thought!
Normally, I try not to explain my reasoning for things, since writing should speak for itself and I believe any unaligned interpretation of events is usually the fault of the text, but I guess I'm feeling frisky the past couple of days.
What I said in your quoted post does make it seem matter-of-fact, but I wouldn't say he's characterized as blindly following his base nature. There, I was speaking specifically to why he seems to be able to dive into the sex scenes so easily, despite his misgivings.
He refuses the initial offer, but accepts chuck's second one for a simple and practical reason: he adds the condition that he'll pay for Edwin's tuition. He doesn't immediately jump at it, sure. He first jumps through the hoop Chuck dangles to visit the club, maybe in hopes of finding a less self-serving reason, but he later explicitly states that "Truth be told, in my heart, I had decided to take the job the moment he offered to pay for my tuition."
I'm 100%, absolutely sure there are plenty of other gaps in logic in the prologue, but for this particular cited detail: believe it or not, people do study physics as their undergrad degree before entering into med school. It overlaps with a lot of the pre-requisites you need to hit to apply, and Edwin has a particular love for the field, opted to do it as something he enjoyed.
Asking her out was the push she needed to try and seduce Edwin. She takes him turning her down as kindness / apologizing as weakness, and seeing Edwin take a further active interest, decides to swing for the fences.
Admittingly, having two points where you can jump off a heroine's route early in the story is probably a questionable design choice, but there is an underlying logic to that particular set of events.
Well, that's true. Edwin IS very much intentionally out-of-tune.
The game does have a(n extremely) heightened sense of porn-reality, but I think people hypocritically acting against what they believe is right, is realistic. In this case, perhaps it's done in a too extreme, heavy-handed way for Edwin to be relatable or likable to the reader.
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My specific nit-picky answers aside, I do sort of agree with you about the prologue. It's got a different sense of pace than the rest of the game. Probably a by-product of wanting to just get the project off the ground when GIL and I was unsure if it would even fly.
Again, thanks for helping me introspect.
Thanks again for your effort to bring this game to life, can hardly wait for future updates.
