AHHHHH CHATT THIS IS TOO KIND I'LL SOB LKAJSDFASDF 😭💕 Thank you so much for playing!!!! Your words are too kind...
HHH I'm glad it still felt like them despite the difference in style. I hoped that would still come across! I tried to still interject Genzou's lack of seriousness (and crassness) while still thinking about how those things might translate into this style lol. So I'm glad you feel it still fits them. The last thing I wanted was for it to feel like two entirely different people, rather, for it to just feel like a different version of them that exists in this "AU" lol
HELP YOU DID RESEARCH I'M LOSING MY MIND KJFKDJAFDA oh my gosh... 😭 If I get started on rambling about them and the game I think I will perhaps write 10k words in this comment so I'll try to refrain but yes!!! That's the basic gist of it. Pawns themselves are seen as husks without a will of their own created by the rift to assist the Arisen in carrying out their charge (basically... ensuring that the Arisen can face the dragon and complete the cycle). But part of the DD2 story is that the pawn starts to develop a will of their own from their Arisen that helps them ultimately defy the cycle and their duty... (particularly if you raise their affection level, as they'll start doing and saying sappy things and blushing/averting their gaze around the Arisen... which is not what they're supposed to do LOL) So for this little game I decided to use that idea as a base. Like Genzou in this has started to develop his own will as he falls in love with Iggy, but it's not super strong yet, so if he pushes too much at once, he won't have the mental fortitude to keep going and will have to revert back to simply sticking to his duty. It's not a perfect match/interpretation probably but it felt fitting for me at least in setting up the structure for this in a way that hopefully made sense even though most ppl know nothing about the game LKJDFASD I'm sobbing at "pawn points" that sound so cute HELP
THE PAWN SCAR ON HIS HAND yes................ I love it very much.............. ahhhhh.... it's perhaps, mm, an exaggerated interpretation that I have of it, but, it just fills my head with so many ideas and feelings. It's indeed his connection to Iggy. Whenever he's resummoned from a rift stone (e.g., if he dies) he'll hold it up and it will glow and I like to think it also glows for instance whenever there's a particularly strong pulse in their connection, for instance if they've been reunited after a time apart or during intense moments of high emotion (or here, like, as an indication of Genzou's will skyrocketing as a result of the kiss and their proximity and like... an semi-electric charge between them because of it lkadjfad I HAVE MANY MANY IDEAS AND HEAD CANONS ABOUT THIS I WILL ADMIT I'm very weak to it wahhh...) I need to stop rambling about this I feel embarrassed LKDJFASD
"You're lured into this sense that picking the answer not marked by the hand will instantly lead to a game over." - Indeed, I kinda assumed that many people the first time around would try to simply choose the top answer every time. And at first, I had it so that doing so would easily net you the true ending. Then I sat on it and was like... "this feels pointless then," so I did some finagling to try and set it up so that it still wasn't too difficult to get, but you'd at least need to change up your answers sometimes. Basically saving enough will in order to get through to the end by still sticking to some "duty" answers when it didn't matter quite as much.
Hhhhh I'm glad you liked the final menu art... it's my favorite piece in the game SOB IT TURNED OUT SO SWEET. And just thank you for all the kind words about the art and writing and game in general. It really means so much ahhhhh. I'm glad you enjoyed it. And I'm really touched that you even took extra time to understand it even more ahhhhhhhhhhhh I'll really sob 😭💕 MY HEART IS SO FULL LKADSJFLASKDFA