Well, within the time she's been introduced, you've made me interested enough in Shiver not to just hate her automatically-I also can't help but wonder if the version of us she's familiar with is just as much of a playboy, considering that she seemed to both be into us AND Chiame.
The doubles from alternate universes are really fascinating, I'll admit. This new status quo is interesting, and I like the consequences of not going to school coming back. I appreciate that none of the new characters are fully flat, either(Well, all the guys are, but thats not what I meant). Brooke is a ditz who wants to become a police investigator, Shiver is a nepotist mommies girl who blackmails everyone but also is a dork who loves musicals and has zero emotional intelligence, etc.
Unfortunately, I do have one big criticism: The MC is a passive idiot.
I'm willing to accept the 'immediately going to receive the letter' thing as mind fuckery, seeing as how he didn't question why it just teleported into his hand. There is some precedent for that, since 'the other him' has occassionally forced thoughts into our head to tell us 'everything is fine'.
But he's also just fully willingly going along with this and never actually pushes for answers to his questions, like "what the fuck was I doing while possessed', 'why do you keep possessing me', "Why did I teleport out of a club room," " and such. Granted, the new Ants are kind of psychopathic and clearly willing to hurt him, but I feel like the train of thought wasn't fully clear. I understand its alot to code in, like, linear paths, but I'm constantly frustrated because the character I'm playing won't try to get any answers for things. Its possible this will be added in later updates, but still.
One more positive note, though:I love the cinematography in this update with Kits cutscene and Shivers cringe-ass musicals, and the lil puppet show thing. Its nice to see more of King Suke and the so far unseen Whole Garden Suke, who I'm sure hasn't done anything horrible.
All in all, I really like that all this timeline-hopping and harem-gathering actually has some consequences in the form of other versions of us also hopping into us(I mean, we know the Dimensional Slingshot exists, so theres no reasons someone couldn't do that to us back.) Keep up the great work!
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Thank you for the kind words man, I'll concede that the majority of this main quest kind of just 'happens' to MC without him having much active say in the matter, but that's kind of the point I was trying to get across, this is a point in his arc where he's losing control of the narrative, trying to fight back through giving (an ultimately pointless) choice to you the player as an attempt to take back control. I'm trying to write his next steps in dealing with this in a way where he doesnt actually physically show what his plan to deal with the evil version of himself is if that makes sesne. Because the evil version of him can obviously see and hear his thoughts, he needs to find a way to disconnect himself from- well okay i cant get more into it because that's spoilers obviously.
But he's been shown to be pretty passive in the past, fucking up trying to save algaia from jester and only saving melon from valentina because another version of him had to basically take over. But he's definitely learning, as soon as he gets hit in the head by Urabi he teleports to Whole Garden to try and get away, she just happens to be able to follow him. Originally I wrote him to be more active in the end of 0.30 with Shiver and Chiame's story but I felt like that was their own thing and getting him involved would kind of seem weird so I just kept it so that he confronts Shiver and then has that interaction with Blake instead.
But you're right, it's something that'll be tackled later, the next main story quest in 0.35 is going to be a chance for him to shine, I promise.