The setup in this game is ripe with story telling potential. MC comes from a poor city, he is used to living in relative squalor. He suddenly gets a seemingly free ticket to the high life in a FAR nicer city. There should be so much drama, he should be in awe at everything he is seeing.
He should carry over many of the things that you would have to do to survive in district 6, being overly cautious, carrying a weapon everywhere, stuff like that. Instead we get a limp MC who seems like he read a few articles about living in the hood and thought that sounded fun. He is cautious of Emlilia but almost immediately ingratiates himself with her, even after she blatantly lies to other people about him WHILE he is right there. I understand he is used to dealing with bitchy behavior (I will get to Sofia soon), but he should be smarter.
Emilia has the bones of a well written character, I dont mind her tsundere qualities as it seems like she has an actual reason to put up abrasive walls (I am pretty sure she has a line about the people in her life always leaving, and a line about always being second to her sisters). I think it would make considerably more sense if she didnt trust the MC for a long time, and it took great effort on both of their parts for her to begin trusting him. You are ultra wealthy, and are used to having anything you want at your beck and call, out of nowhere this random poor guy moves into your house and you are forced to share amenities with him, you wouldnt trust him at all right? and given how Emilia is characterized this discrepancy is even worse.
I disagree with the notion and Emilie and Sofia are exactly the same, as stated in this screenshot
Emilia might seem like that on the surface, but at this point the MC should understand that her walls are dropping and she was much worse before. Sofia on the other hand acts like a petulant child the entire game, she doesn't have walls up, she is the walls. Start to finish she is upset about something, and she makes it other peoples problem.
usually Tsundere characters have a rise and fall to them, first they are rough and abrasive, then they show their softer side for a short while and then back to abrasive. Sofia doesnt have this, she whines and complains, and then her "softer" side is just milder whining and complaining.
I enjoyed this one a bit, but man there is so much missed potential.