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Being realistically possible doesn't mean it works and should be used in literary form. If it was just one, or two characters and a limited amount of events it would have been ok, annoying still but serviceable, but the audience is not in on the joke for the entire VN, scratch that, two VNs. There are like 20+ characters in their late twenties, or older all around the town that all use the same Gugu Gaga speech, with overused diminutives and the player just looks in disbelief reading multiple vague references of 'funny' events the player knows nothing about and has zero emotional connection to them. 'One time at band camp...' Who the fuck cares I wasn't there and the VISUAL Novel doesn't show it to me.I think I understand what the Ocean was trying to show and why it seems cringe to some people.
Sometimes, when I meet my old buddies whom I have known for a couple of decades, we can also sound cringe to others because we talk and joke about things that others simply do not understand. They do not share common memories and adventures with us, so a phrase that sounds like some kind of nonsense to strangers, for us means a hyperlink to an event in the past which we all participated and to the emotions that we felt at the same time. And we also have “our own” words, such as bibi, which sound strange to others, but are absolutely natural in our small group, since we used them as teenagers.
And by the way, Ocean seems to be perfectly aware that those “bibi” and “wormy” sounds weird, but he uses them deliberately. In SG, for example, when the MC calls Bella a bibi, she also looks at him with the WTF face and he has to explain to her what that means.
It's the same with WIAB: most of the characters have known the others for ages, only Miru seems to be new to their group. So they act towards each other as if they are still those teenagers who did all those pranks that they remember the whole chapter. I really like how this is portrayed in the game and I understand why the characters behave and talk this way.
Before rework the plot/secrets were: Why did the MC leave? Why did he stay away? Why is Katie a bitch? What happened with Helen?
After rework every MC relationship with every single character is vaguely referenced, or barely implied without the player having experienced any of it. There is no hint of why they act the way they act and why should the player care. Ocean seriously needs to tone down introducing 'new' characters the MC sorta knows, or at least present some of them in flashbacks, or something, let me understand why the characters feel the way they feel about each other, because I feel nothing for any of them outside of being annoyed by their retarded speech patterns and randomly popping tits out of their blouse.
In fact, if they wouldn't be fun to look at and me liking some of them(mostly Katie) from before the rework, there would be absolutely nothing to create an emotional connection to any of these people so far. Its ep3, I should at least root for some of them by now.