Aww, thank you so much for taking the time to play through both of them and to write such a detailed review :3 I appreciate it a lot and I'm glad you enjoyed them both :D
Hehe, that reference made me smile :3 I guess I better continue under spoilers also!
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I'm glad the characters came across that way in A9 because I was really hoping they would. And Rae, Leah's voice actor, even said in her interview that she wanted Leah to come across as just a regular person, so rather than putting on a sort of character voice, she acted with her natural voice. But yeah, it must have been pretty strange for Doyle to watch Leah doing all that stuff with the air when she thought it was Aku x3
Yeah, I can link the episode on Wikipedia if you want to look it up :3 The episode is called Tom & Gerri, from the British TV series, Inside No.9. The episode isn't a romance story at all, so I thought it would be fun to try and turn it into one for otome jam, haha. In the episode, the protagonist is male, and the homeless person is male. And the protagonist's girlfriend is dead all along like Akuji is in the game. I had to change a lot of things and add a lot of things to make it into a romance story, but I still tried to keep the original episode plot intact at the same time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_%26_Gerri
Fleur certainly has a tough job trying to look after Leah x3 It must have been pretty horrifying for her to see that things had gone so wrong >.<
Honestly, I can't remember how long it was supposed to be since Aku died either, haha. I think it was quite a while though, like over a year. And Doyle had been watching/noticed Leah long before Leah noticed him.
Yeah, I knew when I reached the end of writing Leah's route that I wanted to have some sort of new game+ type feature, but I wasn't sure how to make it interesting + create something within the timeframe of the jam that would feel finished. I figured if I made a Doyle PoV route with extra endings, it makes it worth playing through, gives us more insight into Doyle's thoughts, but because it's going over the same story again, didn't require heaps of additional writing so I was able to get it done in time for the end of the jam :3 I was really regretting it at one point though cos I was worried I wouldn't be able to get it all done, haha. I'm glad you still enjoyed his PoV because I was a little worried that it might come across as a bit boring playing through the story again.
You're right, it certainly wouldn't be a healthy relationship in reality, but it is fun to explore that sort of thing in fiction :3 And as you can probably guess, I'm a huge fan of characters with yandere vibes myself, haha. They both need therapy indeed!
That was a lot of fun to write the fourth break part :D And even more fun getting to hear Lars give Doyle such an emotionally charged performance! When I heard it, my face just went O.O He did such an awesome job as Doyle.
And ahaha, yes, that bit afterwards with the mysterious character is likely to be quite confusing if you've not played SR first, which is why I gave the player the option to say that no, they don't remember him, haha. Not that that helps much because he doesn't really explain anything x3 He is absolutely the possessive type, yeah! Sorry about the lack of subtitles >.< I only do it like that because it's part of his nature as a rule-breaking character, but it must be quite frustrating without the subtitles there. If you want, I can email you what he's saying in both the scene in A9 and in the scene at the end of SR. It sounds like you managed to get most of it though anyway :3
Yeah, you're pretty much right there about him! He's a sentient character that knows he's essentially haunting my games, and he wants to keep the players of my games all to himself. He loves the player deeply, but he's also pretty messed up, and one of his favourite things is to watch the player suffer. He finds that fun. He doesn't like it so much when things work out happily because it bores him, and he despises being bored. He hates me because I get in the way of him having fun with the player x3 He just wants to spend time with the player because, in his mind, the player belongs to him. So yeah, he is pretty yandere-like x3
And you're correct that he will be a recurring character throughout my projects :3 I'm hoping to sort of slowly tell his story over time. And you're right again that it's a bit complicated because I don't have any way of knowing which of my games a player might have played already; if any. Hopefully, I will be able to make it all tie in in a way that's not too confusing, haha.
I'm glad you think it shows that I put all my love into SR :3 I certainly poured my heart into it and I hope to remake it someday in the new engine I'm using. I would like to rewrite some of the routes (especially the student one) redo the sprites and stuff, and also add some new content such as new routes.
Currently, the mysterious character isn't in Impostor, but the voice actor who played him also plays the purple-haired male character in Impostor :3 And he's not in DD (yet) because DD is still in development and I only managed to release one character episode in time for the jam at Christmas, so there's lots more content still to come for DD :D
Well, I'm glad you took the time to write everything that you did :3 I love hearing what people think of my projects, so I appreciate the feedback. And you don't need to apologise at all. Don't worry, I understood what you meant throughout :D I don't think you came across as weird at all :3 I'm just happy that you enjoyed the games enough to want to write about them ^-^
Thank you again for playing and for all your kind words :3 I hope you have an awesome weekend!