Agreed - if I remember correctly it was early on as you were getting to know the characters and MC had not really formed any significant attachments yet.
Is there anybody that has been around since the days when the original was still in progress and can give any context to this number? For example, is it all about story for this studio and once that reaches a critical level everything else snowballs quickly to the next release? Or will story probably be at 100% but there will still be a long wait for them to get around to rendering and implementation? Or maybe somewhere in between? Don't know anything about how this studio typically works.