Yeah... The story still makes zero sense to me, so it wasn't the language barrier.
What's the point of starting a game building someone up as loving, caring and altruistic, just to show how she gives close to zero fucks for the main character? If she wasn't such an amazing person what would have changed? He'd have to stay somehwere alone? He already did that for 8 years! Big deal!
I'm curious what they were thinking when they left without even sending him a text. I guess something in the lines of:
"We'll show him how much we care about him by not only prioritising his si...roomate's local beauty pageant over his return after 8 whole years, but we won't even tell him in advance that no one is waiting for him and let him ring the doorbell like an idiot and wondering why no one is opening the door! And then we won't allow him to come over or even stay at his own house while we are away without any sort of explanation! Damn, we're so nice to him, he should start calling us loving and caring instead of landlord and landlady!"
And the whole:
"I won't let you stay in some boarding house, you've already been in one for 8 years during your schooling!"
was fucking hilarious! It was meant to be a joke, right? I mean, if she really cared... I don't know... she would be there waiting for him, when he returned home after so long?
But hey, his roomate sounded desperate and we all know that local beauty pageants are basically a matter of life and death! It's up there with going into a warzone equipped with a slingshot... I'm not even going to talk about the psycho aunt with the face tattoo who's holding an almost 10 year old grudge, over some underage wine drinking...
So... I guess I'm supposed to dislike every single female character from the game's banner, right? We haven't seen the sister (the landlady-tennant got old really fast...) yet, but if she's paricipating to pageants and her brother doesn't have a clue about it, she probably doesn't give a shit about him either.
I get that the dev wanted the game to start with the aunt for his own reasons, but he could do it in a way that wouldn't look like no one is really giving a fuck about the MC! I mean, we are not talking about him being away for a couple of months, it's been 8 whole years ffs and even if they had to go to his sister's pageant (which was a bullshit excuse), he could have just joined them wherever it's talking place!
He could have gotten home a week early to surprise them, only to find out they are not home or something, instead of looking like everyone doesn't give a crap about him, or at least they think some local pageant is more important than their child coming back home after 8 years!