Disclaimer: I played the game first on v1.00 but beat it on v1.1.
that's a good question. what did I expect? well, I didn't really expect to get emotional over alice pc-98's misadventures through makai and out to gensokyo, but here we are.
I think what really got me and what really pushed me to beat the game was alice's monologue at the beginning.
"it's suffocating.
why do I feel empty, when I have everything I want?"
I also ask myself this question often. I ask myself why I keep wanting more, even though I should already be happy with what I have.
I think it's human nature to keep wanting more, to keep seeing what lies at the end of the rainbow. just like how alice wants to get out of makai, just like how I kept pushing to beat this game, just like how I stayed determined even when I died to the forsaken laser wheels for the fifth time. there's not really a good answer for whether doing this is a good idea in the long run... wanting more, I mean. but whatever keeps us kicking, yeah?
thanks for making this game. and thanks for v1.1. I really needed that checkpoint update.