Yes it is - and "lighter" was always the goal of this series, anyway . . .
Which, while gratifying to hear (thank you), is less of an accomplishment than you'd think; as a self-insert, all I really had to do was write myself, and play it straight.I've always been impressed by how much suffering you usually drop on your protagonists, and the ways in which they're flawed. Galen's emotional instability, self-destructiveness, and penchant for keeping secrets were all great ways to balance out his strengths, and there were some powerfully cathartic moments as a result.
I do understand, and you're absolutely right. Hopefully, in the event this becomes a full story, we'll all be able to get more out of it.However, one of the things that gave that weight was the long-term setup and payoff, which isn't easy to achieve in snippet format. (I suspect this sounds critical in this context, but this is more a "I wanted to compliment you on this before and here's a context where it's somewhat relevant")
No - that never ends well, in my experience . . . Of course, as we saw with Trinity, that does not mean that the characters won't force drama on me . . .That said, that doesn't mean I think you should necessarily force drama,
Glad to hear.and "why can't I hold all these cute girls" in a slightly subversive way is a very fun read.
I admit, I'm in a similar position for a lot of the expanded universe: the original game, I can find walkthroughs of (or purchase on Steam, maybe, and play myself), but not the versions which would include Mayumi's route (and I can hear her crying from here about it ), the homeroom teacher's route, the other five characters that exist but only exist in certain versions . . . I have (or had, at least) Tick! Tack!, so I could play Nerine's route out to its conclusion(s) - and in theory, I can get Really? Really! as well, and thus Kaede's (and at least get introduced to the native Sakura).I also don't actually know much about the actual plot of Shuffle! apart from wiki skimming, so I'll probably enjoy the details either way.
Episode 2, on the other hand, is not translated (yet, possibly ever), so I'm limited by what the wiki and other websites I can find can tell me - never mind its sequel, Princess x Princess, which hasn't been released yet . . .!
Well, since I brought them up . . . I can see a couple of Episode 2's characters being one heck of a proverbial drop - one of them wants to disassociate her world from humans entirely, because her ancestor's heart was broken - and the other has a hobby of breaking hearts herself for the same reason. And given their resemblance to said ancestors . . .There's also been a fair amount of butterfly effect from Rin being proactive already. I suspect I've just been conditioned to be waiting for the other shoe to drop.
. . . Do you suppose that's what that one subordinate was trying to tell Primula, before she hung up?