OH MY GOODNESS! I am SO excited for this visual novel!! I can't believe it has been more than two years since I first found Sigh of the Abyss: Shadow Bonds! Other than the Our Life series, Sigh of the Abyss is my ALL TIME FAVORITE visual novel series!! On top of that all of the one asset jam games are super great. You put so much effort and thought into every project you seek to create and I have so much faith for this one!
I'm assuming the scope is smaller because of how big Sigh of the Abyss was. In that case, I hope goals and wants for the roadmap of the game are more achievable!
One thing that I am personally hoping for is more...equality(?) between the male and female LI. In Sigh of the Abyss, whether it came to the achievements, amount of CGs or the ratio of LIs themselves, it seemed as though the male interests were favored over the female ones. I'm sure that it wasn't meant to come off that way, and I might be the only one that sees it that way, but as a lesbian that always made me sad. (Hopefully) this game will be different. And at the end of the day, this critique comes from a deep love and admiration of Rascal Devwork's creations.
Those are all of my thoughts for now. Thank you for everything! :)
Sincerely, - Zee <3
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As another lesbian I didn't get that from SOTA. I was very happy with the amount of screentime the female LIs had. Honestly I forgot the male LIs existed at times bc I barely saw anyone other than Marane and Sylas. I wondered if the guys were involved in the plot at all 😅
Maybe it's bc I didn't try the male routes at all (even platonically)? I'm assuming they appear more in the plot if you do.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment 😭 it makes me really happy to know that Sigh of the Abyss touched you ✨
It is indeed a massive game with all its branching; I needed to work on something smaller for a change.
Originally the ratio of female/male LIs in SotA was equal, but Ascanio's stretch goal romance made the balance tip in the men's favor. When it comes to fulgor, both love interests will have an equal amount of illustrations/achievements! The distribution won't be even, however, as Lucius is more front-loaded than Tuchulcha when it comes to illustrations (for spoilery story reasons!); she really shines after the common portion of the story, in her own route 😄