Hiya! It’s certainly a relief to hear that you thought the prologue was at least minimally tolerable and that you found the characters to be well-written! As previously stated, the initial target audience was extremely narrow, to the point where every character except Killmore (Monokuma) and Mii-Yu have at least a couple of esoteric inside references that no-one outside my immediate friend group would likely understand ><. They got phased out gradually after the prologue anyway, but everything else (including random gaming references such as Levitica’s Age of Empires II-style conversion method, just to name one of many) will be left in since they they’re things literally everyone *can* understand^^
I’ve noticed that you’ve dropped by the discord! I’d love to hear what either yourself or Vee think about the rest of Ch 1 (daily life/investigation/trial). Our vision for the Chapter 2 trial will be massively ambitious, from the VA to the gameplay, so we’d really like to make sure we’re going in without repeating (too many of) the mistakes from Chapter 1.
Thank you!