I talk to people regularly who use translators part time. This is very standard behaviour and by itself not indicative of AI. I don't know what you mean with "regular phrases". These AI bots are mostly trained on fanfiction to my knowledge and tend to overuse highly specific phrases in each individual case (except maybe the many Y/N base bots. Not sure about those). I don't interact with AI bots myself though. It's something I've noticed through YouTube passively over the years. They must have some dubious source at least, because lore mistakes are common. The Y/N centered bots, I've seen less of, but there seems to be a streak of being so over the top, it reads a bit like a comedy. Or perhaps a soap opera.
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I got most endings myself and one with walkthrough easily enough (That was on me, I thought I already did a monster points only run, but apparently not, whoops). The markers really help avoid the knight points, which helped out a lot.
As for Soren... I thought he was already patient as hell with months passing, but 3 years!! Holy fuck. Most yanderes become clingy af after the MC makes the mistake of "feeding" them. Not him. He's happy to lurk and kill all your romantic partners from the sidelines, it seems. I have to wonder just how long he has been watching MC. Waiting. Considering.
Most attempts to engineer her life seem to end badly for him. But also, there's so much left unsaid. Why did MC give up acting? What did he say to her ex? When did he start killing, and why?
Soren seems like a cannibal who dabbles in yandere pursuits. I would assume he killed long before, maybe learned from his grandfather. It makes me wonder what's so special about MC all the more. There's only one ending where he almost ate her, and he gave up very quickly. I'm not sure it's love he feels, though. At least, not for the actual person. Maybe what she means to him in his delusional dream land. Because, for all that he has a great mask of sanity, his schemes are completely filled with magical thinking.
Okay, I've had a surpringly hard time trying to bait him into killing me. Lock in, dude /j. Maybe he's less into murder than I thought. Reactive after all, maybe? Or killing as stress relief. Might be why he loves MC to death in that one ending, he doesn't cope well with intense emotions. And then he still struggled to let them go. I have to wonder if he'll ever regret it.
I went from thinking he's a goth, to an edgelord, to a sociopath hahaha. I'm glad I wasn't there. MC has a better poker face. We can't really ask him about his long history of manipulating others. Or, at least, I couldn't in my first route so far.
Some people say he's traumadumping for an hour. I think it's worse than that. It's an exercise in slowly cooking the frog to see when it might jump. He's acting like someone with no social skills: we know he's a skilled manipulator. It's a front. He knows exactly what buttons he's pressing. He WANTS a honest reaction after wearing us emotionally down.
All around, it felt less like a date than an interview to become a corpse. I didn't get to see what kind of yandere he is yet. Or what triggers him, though. It's definitely a horror game. I just don't understand how MC isn't deeply vary of him by the end of it. Maybe I didn't make enough choices to condemn his actions.
I have so many thoughts. Metaphor? Psychosis caused by black mold? Literal mold demon? With the mind of something formed 5 years ago, at that. If he is semi-real...
The notes upstairs: either he learns fast... or he accesses people's memories through invading their body, maybe? I mean, either Mould wrote that or he possessed your grandfather to do it. Worse, the first words when starting the game: "I know everything about you".
He also seems nameless, but oh so happy to be named. Demon behavior altogether, I tell you all. Very evil spirit core. I hope for Mould that he's not doomed to kill the protagonist. Even when he tries to be sweet, the fruit is poison, his touch brands your skin, you lose your sense of self. It's hardly love, but he's one sad puppy.
I went from pitying MC to thinking they might just deserve each other, LOL. The end when you tell him the truth still took me out. Ace, how will YOU explain to the media that you're dating your would be robber? The one who says you kidnapped him and then stabbed yourself? Man, he really is useless without Caelum. Toxic love triangle throuple with queerplatonic undertones, priceless.
Holy fuck, I didn't expect the ending when MC finally got into his studio! Han, whyyy, we really didn't see anything!!! Were those crocodile tears all the other times MC lost consciousness?! The mystery is killing me. Somehow I suspect MC married his brother and he "fixed" it... I have literally no evidence, but he seems like the type to have killed everyone. That servant knows he's next lol
From the comments, it seems there's supposed to be a way to navigate the space. I have nothing. The arrows from the earlier scene are gone and I cannot look up or down. If the ghost is supposed to appear to the left or right, that explains a lot, I guess.
Edit: watched it on YouTube. I am indeed supposed to get an arrow to navigate to the left and I just don't. I guess I could reinstall it, but I tried like 10 times before writing this comment and I'm tired.