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Re: *SPOILERS* What are your thoughts on the game?

Subject: Re: *SPOILERS* What are your thoughts on the game?
by tiniponi on 2009/6/10 10:33:35

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Lady Meowlet wrote:

Cutoff point-I understand that the decision was made late in development to split this into chapters, but I still don't think this was a good cutoff point. There are natural cliffhanger points and there are forced cliffhanger points - this was obviously a forced one, IMO. I've read that the next part of the game is longer, and I wonder if a better, later cutoff point could've been found. I guess I'll find out when the next chapter comes out

This was almost a mandatory place to divide the chapters. The first part was somewhat linear, but once you get a ship, it definitely isn't. It would have been difficult to either block off most of the world, or to know exactly what to 'allow' players to do after getting the ship. Some would have gotten to 'x' point, some to 'z'. There needed to be a definite dividing place so everyone could start at the same place, and before purchasing the ship makes total sense to us who beta tested through the entire game before it was split. Although I agree it did end very abruptly, and could have been handled a little differently, it was still by far the best place to divide the game.