My infinite disappointment that you baited Ylszaras signing a contract with Rowan, only to immediately immediately cock block us... Why? why???? WHY???? my night is unironically ruined, most excited i had been for the game and poof, its gone.
First post ever just to underline how terrible this fumble was.
Update: i nutted and now i think im okay but still, why bait that just to shut it down, terrible decision
Cause they wrote themselves into a corner by deciding they wanted 3 different games for 3 different arcs, and deciding that it would be a warcrime to have Rowan gain any actual useful connections before the devs point at some point of the second game and say "We are done blue balling you, you may now have some power and start to work youself out of this situation"
I like the game, but most of its story limitations seem to come from outside setting reasons.
Why did Rowan somehow have zero contacts he could use to rescue Alexia? - Cause if he actually acted like a smart guy the game would not happen.
Why does everyone seem to go back and forth in their character development? - Cause we wanted to have random events with only a few linear ones that appear at certain points
Is Rowan the actual power behind the twins or completely replaceable? - Yes, he is, isn't, they actually need him and the fail endings either allude to, or outright indicate, that the twins get completely crushed without him, what? That means he actually should already be getting some influence? No , completely replaceable.
Add to it the stuff that was scrapped and is being remade, and each time i feel more than the devs shot themselves in the foot by wanting to do 3 games to cover the 3 acts of the story. Now they are stuck in a space where the story cannot move foward, characters cannot grow, and most of the people that get into the game wanting to actualy make decisions with big consequences besides "Fuck you for thinking we would let you have big heroic decisions on act 1" have to wait till who knows when in the future.
