This game really inspires me mixed feelings between love and hate because I love some things while I hate some other things in it.
I want to continue it for its intrigue even though, as so many other intrigues, this one requires its characters to be idiots who never connect the dots and don’t solve mysteries too fast, why can no creator actually think of a mystery which is not too obvious to solve instead of creating predictable intrigues which rely only on their characters’ utter stupidity to keep the “suspense” going on, I AM SO FED UP OF THIS!
I mean this is SO OBVIOUS that the protagonist’s father is Cordia’s ex-fiance and that both him and Rina DeLuca were exiled from the DeLuca Family because he cheated on Cordia with her best friend, just like it is SO DAMN OBVIOUS that Serpent is actually Dante, but the most infuriating because most obvious point is that the protagonist still believes that his mother actually wanted to kill him when he was a child even though after he survived his poisoning at his first DeLuca Family dinner, Gracie blatantly shoved into his face that he survived because his body was trained to resist poison and then he still didn't connect the dots that his mother lightly poisoned him during his childhood in order to train his resistance to poison because she actually wanted to protect him and he is supposed to be “incredibly cunning”, ah, what a bad joke!
Indeed, this game tries too hard to present its protagonist as a god among mortals who only pretends to be weak in order to purposefully be underestimated by everyone and conceal his actual abilities and only the few smartest people figured this out and claim that he is “incredibly cunning” so every time he does not connect obvious dots, this “incredibly cunning” character infuriates me to no end, I genuinely hate him because the whole game was obviously designed to emphasize his superiority, especially his incredible intelligence, however its creator is actually not smart enough to impress me with any superior intelligence and therefore all that he actually does is to annoy me with his lame delusions of superiority while his plots are so predictable that I figure them out too fast then I have to wait for the so-called genius protagonist to FINALLY figure them out as well an eternity after me.
Actually, HopesGaming suffers from such an inferiority complex that he can’t even take any criticism to the point that he literally inserted an incredibly pathetic and useless 4th wall breaking scene into his very game for the sole purpose of degrading someone who criticized him and he made it in such a pathetic way that he actually degraded himself and I have been tempted to answer to his challenge to criticize him and to leave him such a merciless, devastating and apocalyptic review of everything lame in his game, and there are A LOT, so to completely annihilate his unwarranted pride in a way that he couldn’t possibly strike back, I would thoroughly demonstrate that he is actually insecure and suffers from an inferiority complex which makes him unable to cope with criticism and react with great hostility, I would be merciless because he basically declared war to criticism implying that he basically forbid people to express any negative opinion of his game, which I take as a challenge to dare to criticize him and I love challenges, moreover he has been annoying me with his delusions of superior intelligence trying too hard to amaze me with an “incredibly cunning” protagonist which I find pathetically dumb so I want to release all of the frustration that he caused me by demonstrating how I figured out his “mysteries” that even his “incredibly cunning” protagonist still has not connected the dots, I want to show him how his plots are predictable and that he cannot impress me because he is not smart enough to surprise me, I see all his ploys coming from the other end of the galaxy, I want to teach him a well-deserved lesson of humility, I want to utterly destroy his foolish pride, and I will enjoy it, as I always do every time I break someone who believes themselves superior. 😼
Alas, I can’t show him the errors of his ways because he is out of reach, which is to be expected from someone who can’t take any criticism, he interacts only with his patrons and as much as I want to patronize him, I don’t want to waste any money to become one of his patrons. 😏
Even though I hate him and his game so much, I still am eagerly waiting for it to be continued because as much as this game is full of infuriating shit, the first season concluded on a cliffhanger battle and I want to discover how it continues from there...
Who attacked the DeLuca Family and why? I don’t think it is the Shadow Coalition because they are still in the recruiting phase so they are far from ready to strike yet then who attacked the DeLuca Family and sniped Gracie? The most probable culprits are the Bonanzo or/and the Terranova Families for punishing her to have attacked the Bonanzo while impersonating the Terranovas but this is only a probability until proven. Who is part of the Shadow Coalition against the current mafia system beside the Silverino Family? Who are the Mysterious Six? My theory is that the woman who forced Luna to kill Lucan was Lumina Profaci and therefore that the Profaci Family is part of the Mysterious Six. How longer will it take to Gracie to discover that she is actually Lumina and Erardo Profaci’s daughter and that she is therefore Cordia's niece and Luna's cousin? How will my dumb-ass protagonist and Luna interact with Gaia, Viola and Laura? This is something that I really look forward to discover Luna’s “big sisters” years after the “Big Cage” now that they are active adults. How longer will it take to my "so smart" character to FINALLY connect the dots and figure out that Antonio was behind his assassination attempts? Will I actually architect an alliance between the DeLuca and the Bernero Families? Will I know why I am being kept by the DeLuca eventually? I assume it is because I am the son of 2 of the 4 original Serpents but why make it such a mystery that even the Pacificatori hided my existence? Is it because the DeLuca Family wants to keep Cordia's fiancé cheating on her with her best friend a secret? How am I connected to Dante? Why do I remember his voice from my childhood memory and why does he care so much about me? Is it because after my parents betrayed both of their fiancees and got exiled from the DeLuca Family because of that, they separated and my mother reunited with her ex-fiancé Dante? Did he raise me with her? Is he like an adoptive father to me? Actually, WHY did my parents separate even after they unite against the other Serpents and got exiled from the DeLuca Family? What was the point of sacrificing their Family if they didn't even stay together? You understand now? Even though this game is full of infuriating shit, it still contains many gripping points which is why it inspires me mixed feelings between love and hate and I can’t wait for it to continue while hoping it will get better and annoys me less. Because Season 1 was honestly not that great so I really hope it will get only better from now onward...
That depends on HopesGaming and his willingness to improve or not.