Not gonna lie, protagonist makes it very hard to tear throught this vn. He is so completely unlikable it is very hard to be invested in his struggles or journey. Prince Rowan from The Silercrest Pilgrimage is a much better example of a similar archetype.
I mean. he's a spoiled prince of a prosperous kingdom. one who has had some trauma via the loss of one parent and distance of another. yeah he's gonna be a frustrating little shit at times but he isn't without his redeeming qualities. I think it'll be interesting to watch how he grows through each route^^
Also, given its still in development. I imagine there will probably be a point where things get combed over and refined, potentially even revised. only time will tell.
Tragic backstory doesn’t give a character a shield to be piece of shit, sadly, and so far I haven’t seen even one redeeming quality of his. At this point for me in order to like Katan he has to undergo a redemption arc on the level of Kuzco or Luke von Fabre and Im really not sure i will have patience to stick around to find out if he is going to undergo it at all.
I really don't know how or why I should be invested in a growth of a character who needs unknown amount of time only to become *bearable* (and the fact that a vn that was in development since forever still haven't gotten very far is its own separate can of worms). I will just go and read better stories with characters I actually want to root for instead.