Ahhhh... Don't go soft on us! You still have two more games to go and you need to ensure you have a tough skin for all of the inevitable "Where's the redheads?", "Needs more sex scenes", "Where the preggers ladies at?", "Can we fuck that random lady that was in the background for 1 second?", "I hate it when the MC always pulls out", and of course the infamous "Update when?" questions...
That's the thing that pisses me off the most about dumb reviews like that. I don't know very many games that I played from this site that have meaningful character development like this game.
You forgot...want Android and walkthrough lol
Ahaha you activated my trap card!
I think it really shows how good your writing is because I think you handled a heavy subject like Mental Illness in a way that was both believable and realistic without going over the top.
That's all I wanted, for it to feel believable without hitting disrespectful. Plus it gives you some poetry. Ch.1 you get to "meet" Kimmy. Ch.7 you get to actually meet her.
And that's what made me pretty annoyed by reading a review that just blatantly shits on the difficulties that each character had to go through along with the unfortunate stigma of having a mental illness. Like Rinbael said, there are only a select few games that are able to maintain overall quality as well as have strong character development as well as you have. You painted a strong picture that mental illness is something that can happen to anyone and isn't something that someone should lose friends over. Everyone has their demons and as the plot developed, they were able to overcome their demons and move forward with their lives
Ah yes! The perpetual "please put it on a device I can hide from others in my house" and "tell me how to see the most lewd content" questions... I did forget those two.
And this is just another example that shows just how well organized and thought out the scenes were. Moments like this where we know TheAuthor (ba-dum-tsss) is paying attention to the story and where everything has a legitimate reason for it. Just yeet that review into oblivion. Lol
Didn't ever dislike anybody and honestly didn't think too much about the mental illness aspect until it was mentioned much later. I may have had the inkling of her bipolar disorder when it showed her flipping shit in her home but I was too dense and didn't really think to look deeper. I always saw the characters as rather normal with relatable upbringings and the common facade a lot of us put up in public to cover up whatever internal struggle we have
This was an interesting theory, most assumed because of the Kimmy/Kimberly change. That one is based of personal experience. My friend with bipolar often was called by a nickname when we all knew her as youngins. After she was diagnosed and treated she asked us to call her by her real name because the nickname was the name of what she considered a different person.
I recognized the signs in Kimmy very early, I am pretty familiar with the subject as I've dealt with it in my immediate family IRL. (She's much better now, thank God.) TBH that was probably one of the main reasons I pulled away from Kimmy, I feared the burn I knew was coming. There are some things in my life I have no wish to replay in a game... especially when there are other, very interesting options at hand.
I don’t have irl experience with bipolar disorder but I do have more than enough with other mental health issues. I knew something was off and steered clear, I played the MC similar to how I would handle it - be there but not with my dick in the fire... I always want to help people when I can in or out of games. Gets me in a lot of trouble... Mostly worth it... in and out of games.
For somebody who writes as crappy as a couple reviews have stated I've got say you've somehow tripped, stumbled and fumbled your way into a magnificent handling of a serious issue.. that being mental illness. I was going to call out a reviewer by name but honestly that serves no purpose other then to start a pissing contest that nobody wins. Let's just say there is a wide discrepancy in the opinions written and I have to go with the more positive ones.
