If it makes you feel any better it happens to all of us at some point especially if it devolves into a fight.
Yeah, turns out all my reading and catching up couldn't prepare me for your sheer ability of filling out these pages like no one's business. Leaving the thread at ~550 and coming back to ~560 just hits different.
My gripe is no Shadow scenes (yet).
Makes me mad just thinking about it. How dare!?
Is there anything, anything at all, that you guys didn't like in the game/story?
Anything that you wish were done differently/had a different outcome?
Any gripes?
What would you have done/how would you have written certain story beats?
Consequences that you are hoping for?
Character deaths?
Ah, now
that is an excellent assortment of questions, couldn't have picked them better myself.
I expected no less from you my dearest...
twin.
...
*cough* Anyway here I go.
1) Well I certainly answered that one already in detail, but if had to choose something else... then I'd have to go at it from the game mechanics angle. Time sensitive stuff in particular. The two biggest poster children, that I can think of right now, would be you being able to beat the "assassins" in the beginning due to training as your first action, and the possibility of going to a certain party as FemMC, which is made possible by going cheer-leading right before.
There is no warning, heads up, tip, or any of that. You either get it by accident or will remain blissfully unaware for the rest of the game. Especially in a blind/first playthrough.
The fact that you're best advised to go into the game with extensive foreknowledge of what's to come to be able to
really pick your poison... is a turn-off.
Another, smaller example, would be your Virginity-Loss choice before your talk with Jake. I trust that I don't have to go into detail with that one.
2+4+6) Some smaller things, sure. The biggest change? Deryl. I'd have him
and Laurie die at the hands of Jared and Cole in the end.
Without giving you a chance to save them. Alice, should she make it that far, is getting injured at the very least.
It's high time our MC actually got a reality check. Maybe then he'd be willing to make better use of his memories.
Hell, why stop here?
Have Cole spare Brianna a side glance at the studio.
Have Ella fuck a bit more with his friends before stopping. #ItWasAnAccident
Have Sha-
...
The Dev can kill no name police, guards and soldiers all he wants, but this is not where it's at.
It's sad to realize, but the truth nonetheless. We need a face to be able to feel something, not a number.
A journey without sacrifices feels hollow.
3) Really nothing to add here as I've talked about it already more than enough.
5) Aglaecwif. If the Dev doesn't do something BIG with that child of hers I'm gonna be massively disappointed.
As of now, this is literally
The thing I look forward to the most. To have it peter out as some side thing would just not do it justice. I'd almost demand he make it mandatory that the MC impregnate her, but that
would make me a hypocrite, so I'm gonna abstain from that.
And while what I just wrote might make me out to be a fan of Aglae, the truth is that it's just the prospect of
personal consequences that leaves me all hot and bothered. *shiver*
Was also pleased to read that I was not the only one that knew of Beowulf and had alarm bells go off.