English isn't my mother tongue, but I still want to share my thoughts, and I sure hope what I say behind makes sense. If parts of my words are difficult to understand or too rude, I'm sorry (TAT)
I loved your OL games much! The relationship between families and friends around MC are just so suitable and heartwarming. And I loooove the B&A's sea and the N&F's forest! Thanks for your showing us such amazing and heartwarming games!
I still remember the moment I first 'met' Tamarack nearly 1 year ago. I was shot and happy to see an energetic angle with a sunny smile. How does she beam so bright!! I love her, the kind of love that is friendship or even motherly love. I really want her to live a happy life.
But during these days playing the new edition of demo, I suddenly noticed that she just wears shorts which cant cover her whole legs. It is unreasonable and even makes me feel a little ache.
I do think what she wears should be hard-wearing, loose-fitting trousers ( such as sweatpants, hiking pants, jeans and so on). That's because she shows up as an adventurer girl. I dont think shorts or skirts fit an adventurer girl (living in a mountain town) well, especially when she's playing and adventuring in the forest. And the story of N&F is roughly based in a mountain town and autumn...
※For "mountain town"※
●The temp and humidity in the forest during fall might change a lot. So just wearing shorts won't cut it for staying warm, making it easy to catch a cold.
●In forest, there are tons of low bushes, branches, and rocks around. Shorts cant really protect her legs, making it easy to get scratched or cut.
●There might be loads of mozzies and ticks hiding in the grass. OMG what I'm terribly worried about is the TICKS and the LYME DISEASE. I dont think walking and playing in the forest with exposed parts of legs is safe.
※For 'autumn'※
·When seeing other people wearing suitable cloths like long pants and long sleeves, I feel a little strange and ache about Tamarack's shorts. And it boomed when I see the description text as "but you had to wonder if she didn't feel cold the same way most people did". It strongly remind me of something sad and infuriating: Many female middle school students in Jap*n and south Kor*a put on their uniform short skirts 'voluntarily'.
·They're always told or advised or required to be a 'beautiful' woman just since they're born. There is a group and social atmosphere where women (of all ages) are expected to remain 'attractive' and 'suitable'.
·That makes, even some schools dont have rules like "students must wearing uniform (skirts) even when it's cold", plenty of female-students will still wear skirts even if it's winter. Although they might wear some white, flesh-colored or other colored stockings or tights. They'll still feel cold a lot when no heating. But they keep it. That's so :-(
I dont know either or not you guys designed this point to make Tamarack more fashionable and special, or to leave an important foreshadowing (like the carelessness of 'omi and opa'). But I think it'll be bad, if it's not a foreshadowing and you dont wanna criticize such a damn situation, nor even just change her wearing.
I hope Tamarack wont need to or be made to wear shorts or skirts when it's autumn. She should live a healthy, happy and free life, just like everyone should.
And I also want to know... Will you or would you like to add some characters (especially, women) into N&F in the future? Would there be some characters added like Lee? I think something like "Tamarack's cousins" or "MC's cousins" will be great!
There's actually been a boy's club/boys' club in the N&F and it causes an unhappy conversation (which even makes me felt a little angry) in step1. I cant stop thinking about girl's clubs/girls' clubs.
I think if there's popular Qiu and their club, there'll also likely be a popular girl, who also has many friends and leads a club of girls.
When playing the moment of 'Walks' and 'Wheels', I always think about girl's clubs/girls' clubs. Because I dont want to leave Tamarack alone and dont want MC to join a boy's club/boys' club, I feel stressful to be friendly to them or play with them, even when I want to let MC join and win a game or a bicycle race. I know there always need to be some choices and divisions. But I do hope Tamarack have some female friends from girl's club/girls' club to play with, so I could make my choices more easier
I hope the interpersonal network of everyone in N&F is extensive, and no one will be lonely just because MC is not their friend. So I dont want MC to be Tamarack's only friend or the only person who knows her well. It's stressful and unfair for her. If so, it's such a terrible 'tough love'.
Though I think what I said and shared has its own meaningful sense, still sorry to say these things that may greatly increase your workload or make you feel bad.
Anyway, your games are amazing! Thanks for your providing us such heartwarming games. Looking forward to your further development of OL:N&F.