The first time I tried playing this, I figured the intro must be important. I mean, why else make it? I have no idea how far I got, but it just started to feel repetitive, or at least due to my disinterest in mmorpg stuff, everything looks very samey to me. It literally made me stop playing.
Later on, I saw some screenshots in a fan sig and took another look and wondered what the intro had to do with the main game. I downloaded it again and skipped the intro. The game was awesome! Then the development stopped for a while and I took it off my watchlist.
Imagine my delight when I saw it in the updates! I downloaded it immediately. When I got to the skip screen I thought, "maybe there's something I forgot?" but I tried the skip option anyway. I cannot tell what I am missing by not watching the intro and I think that's a problem. It isn't that the intro is good, bad, or indifferent; I'm just not sure I see the purpose.
I really enjoy the post-intro game. I feel like it is well written and the visuals are well thought out. The stationary (stamps and letters) aesthetic the menus have is very pleasing to me. The intro feels like a vestige of a previous effort. If the intro becomes important to gameplay, unless it gets shortened, i'll stop again.
Reading some of what has been said about the MC's past and how it relates to the current plot brought up a thought I had while playing this. At one of the points where Prii encourages the MC to remember things I thought, "Do you really want the asshole back? Because I am pretty sure this is where remembering things would lead" I mean, she's got this extremely malleable hot guy now that treats her nicely, this is her chance to iron the asshole out of the object of her affection.
it'd be funny if the MC was a lab built body that is injected with the 'soul' of another person who recently died and signed up with the company that makes the body to get a "second chance". The problem is, they are portrayed as tabula rasas to be purchased as 'companions' when they are in fact given locomotion by a soul that may or may not surface later on.
