Heartache 101 ~Sour into Sweet~

author=Dozen
No punishment! I said NONE! You guys are impossible!

I think LordNight was talking about bad characters punishing themselves for being bad. However, the reading comprehension level in this thread is 0%, so who knows?

Anyway, outside of the ones I made myself, I know I played Junko, Yuu, and Midori. Not that I have anything prepared, but I'll still want to get the various subsections that Dozen outlined earlier.


*Edit:
Okay, let's just belch something out, and see if this is the kind of thing we want to see.

Character: Umehara Joruri
Creator: Marrend

Story: (2/5)
Joruri is a student that goes to a different school, namely Matsumori High. The same school Masako transfered from, as it happens. She has a grand-uncle that lives in the area where the game occurs, and she sometimes commutes to the area to look after him. It just so happens that she is tending to him when the competition with Miki is taking place.

Nothing truly awe-inspiring, but it serves a basic purpose.

Character: (3/5)
Joruri's interactions with Masako really give the impression that they've known each other on a friendly basis for some time. Which is all well and good. However, Joruri has no moments alone with the player. There are the repeatible events, but those are obviously there to replace the events that would occur if she was a "regular" character.

Experience: (0/5)
The thing about characters made by this author is the amount of consideration, or lack thereof as the case has been in the past, for players of NORMAL and HARD difficulty. This character takes this to an extreme, as she seemed really hard-to-get even on EASY. Even then, her supposedly repeatable events did not seem to repeat, making her all that much harder to get. The best move for this character, if we still want her to maintain the "student from another school" concept, might be to make the repeatable events HIGH priority. Assuming that does anything at all.

Content: (1/5)
No doubt about it, this character is built around getting the events with Masako and getting in a few of the repeatibles. In theory, this seems like a simple task. In execution, however, nothing seemed to go as planned. Indeed, just being properly introduced to this character took being introduced to three others, namely Masako, Junko, and Aoi. That is a task onto itself, particularly in the case of Masako. Also, while Joruri should not have interactions with the built-in characters, requiring their presence (as they are required for Junko/Aoi) gives the illusion that they are getting in way of Joruri's route.

BOTTOM LINE: 6/20
There's a few good things to be seen here, but the amount of work that is required to see it is not worth the effort.

Marrend.

I can't even begin to comprehend why are you so hard on yourself. 1 out of 5 on Experience? One? From you? Marrend, your stories are short. Very short. But each of them is half an hour worth of pure joy! I'm not letting you degrade your work like this. Think about it.

And I don't think you got hold of what 'content' is supposed to stand for. And other areas are kind of blurry too... I guess I'll have to show you people how it's done?


WHAT SHE SAID!>:D

HAHAHA!

Content is not the quality, it's the quantity. Which is horrible in Joruri's case, but it's not because you have to meet Aoi, Junko and Masako first. That makes it better.

And okay, maybe the gameplay was frustrating. I'll be honest with you, I switched and switched the word 'story' and 'exprerience' over and over in that post. I guess your interpretation confused me of my own rules. That or I'm crazy. Let's say it's the latter. ¯\_(-.-)_/¯ Now, after a good night's sleep(I still don't know what part of the world you guys live in) I'm pretty sure it was the story. Sorry about that.

Soo let's see... Gotta play Joruri. BRB.

No good, if you think about it. That will overwrite every story event in the given location unless it has a high enough priority, and even then it would be a hassle. This can't be solved this easily... Maybe I can figure something out.