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I miss Morenatsu and after playing this again, this brings back that nostalgia I had once again with the characters. I like how you guys give more events and contents for the characters and make them more grounded. Soutarou and Kyoji especially have so many things going on this time. It's nice to finally be able to get to know them properly. The test of courage remains one of my favorite days and I can't help but feel you manage to make the aftermath of it much creepier on Shun's route for some reason. And apparently it seems you guys gave Nanafuse more things to do? Sweet~

Also, I'm liking the newer designs of the characters too. For the second I couldn't really notice what's new about Kouya since he looks like the original while Soutarou is aged up. Some of them gets new outfits too apparently. Plus, we get to see more interaction and relationship between Hiroyuki and his grandparents, which is very welcome since they seem to be just very minor characters in the original. It surprises me that he is now more considerate as well, when he first thought about how he basically used them as temporary shelter as he was wandering in Minasato. This wasn't addressed in the original and one of the things that made me feel bad about it back then. Everything is pretty well done from what I'm seeing so far

So... while I'm starting to be okay with the fact that Hiroyuki is now a fox, I feel like he does this "furry reminder" trope too often, like how multiple times saying "I'm a fox" and its variations. It gets too repetitive I think considering none of the characters say that about themselves and him too much. Also, it would be nice if we can rename him so that we can still experience that "self-insert" feeling

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I myself have a lot of issues with the fox protagonist, but thanks for them disabling the faces on the dialogues, I can just ignore that. I think it would work better if they had, for example, Changed Hiroyuki's personality. The OG game has him with a very meh personality, while the only sole reason for everyone simply for him was because he was a human, therefore smoother than anyone else. And that's it. 

I see that they tried to mitigate that by making him an arctic fox, which is Rare even among furries, but frankly, that's not enough. IT would be way better written if he was, I dunno, a half-breed between two different species were living in a universe where any half-breed is unable to procreate because no one is a close match to his DNA or silly stuff like that (just like in our world). That would make him different enough to make people to be interested for him because someone like him would be rare. 


That would, however, make them have to re-write the entire fucking story and I doubt they would do any of that. The reason they take so long to update us with new routes essentially is that they are re-writing the original story, even if it's similar, it's not just a copy/paste one, besides, I know Ren'py enough to say you this: Once a project gets big enough, it's absurdly hard to fix dialogue issues, you can take big games like Camp Buddies that is on version 1.5 already, and still has the same typos and weirdness in the entire game WITH a lot of slowdowns because the engine is suffering xD. So, I wouldn't expect any drastic changes such as them fixing all the times Hiro relied on the "I'm a foxy boy" trope xD. 


This game is not perfect, but frankly, neither is Morenatsu itself. Actually, MOrenatsu is absurdly flawed, and they made a very good job of making most of the characters interesting enough this time, a thing most of them weren't before. I'm more annoyed with the direction of the characters going to the Bara form from the original, instead of a more natural form. Different kinds of bodies do exist, and I do like it when all of them are represented and so far they already changed a character that was more on the twink but fit side to a very big one. Frankly, I never agree with all of the designs, but there's always one character they don't do a good job artwise anyways, previously it was Kouya, now it's Soutarou (and I'm still trying to get used to this new torahiko too) xD.

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While so far we haven't exactly seen Hiroyuki, I figure we would eventually see him as a fox in event CGs, so I don't think it's avoidable for now :3

Agreed. Well we'll see how they do him on the new artworks. That being said I'm pretty sure drawing a human is way less work than drawing a fluffy fox. XD

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I think a lot of people would disagree with you there 😅

That being said, I hope they keep this Juuichi's design. I actually like this one better than the original. He just needs more expression/gesture sprites~