Noted, the “hint system for struggling players, contingent upon getting Game Overs” was a good idea.
After having played through several RPG Maker horror games, Prom Dreams remains my favorite, owed to the story and the characters, their personalities and what shaped them. Actually, you can sympathize with everyone of the characters, however bad they are.
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For instance, I played it through twice and saw Neela and Brooke in a different light the second time. Your first impression of Neela is the kind-hearted girl, it’s hard not to like her. But, she protects her father, who has no scruples when it comes to criminal activity, and harming innocent people for life. The stone-hearted Brooke seems to be the kind of richman's child who was compensated with material things, instead of having received affection from her parents. You don’t choose your parents, and there’s a chilly atmosphere over the home shew grew up in. And what about Dolores? Well, had we shared her background, quite a few of us would also have gone insane.