Ok so writing this in the kindest way to not offend you. Let me tell you something, the comments that you just screenshoted, do you know what are those? Answers to each of yours quotes. I wasn't me, but you who inisiated an argument and called names, i only reacted to you guys and asked questions back, where none of them were answered. I wanted a conversation, you wanted an argument.
Now i know you got offended that i actually toke time and answered to each of you, or to the msgs that were directed towards me, and unlike you i was able to defend my points not come up with new ones in each posts. But i let it rest... you were never the target for my questions anyway. Cheers to you too, was probably my last time RESPONDING to you.
(Interesting to see when i ask a genuine question about the game and not state a negative comment is the first time you decide im not worth to respond to)
Well, I'll bite. You've been here since 2017, and you have such a small post count, yet you don't know what dev cycles are common on the bigger games? 7 years is a lot of downloads, a lot of finding out how many times games get abandoned. It's odd to see someone shout about the sky falling because of the dev when they've been around as long as the site says you have. Your post count suggests you decided to break a vow of silence you put in place at some point... yesterday was probably your single most active day posting here.
Ignoring that, because heck we all find our way to the threads we want to engage with. Getting back to the question about Bella.
I am actually curious about this one, cause it makes no sense to me. Why do you guys think Bella fall for the MC after they pretty much started by insulting each others most loved ones? Bella pranking Nami, while MC making comments about Bella's sister? Right after the first day, then go to the gym together in the next? Even inside Bellas house she dropped so many personal space, like changing in front of him and such... what made him be the one when in their first meeting she is clearly out of his league ( emo guy who just threatened her not to fool Nami once more). He actually looks like the guy thats going to come back tomorrow and blow the whole school up, still he gets everyone without trying?
There's a couple of things in play. First, the sped up timeline. We don't see the contents of classes, or the majority of boring mundane events. It's like a tv episode, Ocean, just like every dev, cuts the time to condense the story into a series of events. This means the time to develop relationships is shortened. People already claim it's too slow because Nika's peepee hasn't done anything. So Ocean has to balance between the story he wants to tell, and a fan base who want and AVN, not just a VN.
So that explains the condensed time, but the process of them going from enemies to an item? Remember the flashbacks with Summer - Nika fought with her, then they became an item, there was a change of perception, like with Nami later. Ocean's using it to show a pattern. Nika and Bella have so much in common (in their dysfunction) that they think they're enemies. Same process as with Summer, both Nika and Bella realise the other person is interesting. Maybe it's the scent thing, the pheromones, whatever. Proximity. They're forced together by a plot devic (the project) then Nika develops a need to redeem his general shittiness towards prodding Bella, so they bond over the break in. Is it believable? Not really. But neither is any movie with people forced together.
What is less believable is Nika beating up Sai and then they behave while at training, no should checks or any aggression.
One of the differences is that Ocean (again) realises his audience want the sexy time faster than the plot is ready to deliver it, so girls go topless as though it's super common, people have a casual relationship with nudity. This is just treated as a Wollust thing, the world behaves that way because it's part of the physics of the fantasy.
The last point, his hobbo school shooter vibe was a sign that he's being forced to leave his past behind, to stop the atrophy. The whole interest of the LI's in him is due to Bella's interest initially, while Ayua knows Nami's earring means something. With Ayua and Sasha on board, all of the elites will pay attention because those three are paying him attention.
Again, it's a soap opera vibe, it's melodrama. The thing isn't the plausibility of the circumstances but the reactions. Ocean has to set up the situation quickly with each, even with the story being long. You'll see the false familiarity again with Zara and Vanessa getting naked, Zara dropping her aggression and suddenly getting all touchy feely after one dinner. This is just a function of necessity. Ocean could write render with '3 months later', but there's no real value in that. We just have to suspend our disbelief.
Most of season 1 is effectively putting the pieces on the board. I expect more of the personal interactions we started seeing in ch4 and ch5 to be from here - things that are more plausible, and so more genuine. I could easily say 'Bella's unhinged, so she and Nika develop asuper quick stockholm syndrome!' or I can just accept that it happened purely to set up the starting point, like any fable, any movie.
