MARREND'S PROFILE

The going theory I have is by the time Chapter 1 ends, the characters are under the assumption that it must be a dream because it's too weird to be explained otherwise. The characters don't know that the experience was shared at that point. That's part of the player knowledge versus character knowledge that I was talking about in the "Knowledge is power" blog. What players believe at that point, well, I guess they can be allowed to believe what they want, now that I think about it.

One of the things I'm envisioning for Chapter 2 is when everyone is at Goho's house, Joruri, Katai, and Goho talk about their "shared dream", and the discussion about why they had such a close experience are so similar can go from there. I was going to have the discussion in the school, but with just Joruri's and Goho's input. I believe having Katai mouth off is important as well.

I don't like the phraseology of "unseen for our eyes." Perhaps "unseen by our eyes" would be better, or maybe go with "cannot be seen"?

I must confess, this one was probably the easiest "interview" I could have done. I developed Masako's background a lot more than the other characters. The funny thing is that a lot of this information, such as Masako's family and what they do, is totally inconsequential to the game as a whole.

I'm guessing half the fun of doing this is to allow a window to potential players about what your vision of a character is before he or she starts playing.

I don't see why Shortstar's version isn't up as the "official" version . When GRS gets his act together, he can put up his version as an alternate download. I'm pretty sure it's possible to do something like this, but I'm not particularly knowledgeable with how a project with this many developers work, gamepage wise.

I've seriously been thinking of doing something akin to this with Matsumori Days. I'm thinking that the angle of the interview would be having the "interviewer" be a member of the in-game school newspaper, the Matsumori Daily. I'm not sure if the mock interviews I would post would be as interesting as this series has been, but it should give insight to characters beyond merely playing the game as-is.