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>all branching path choices removed
>all of ruza's lines removed and replaced with growls for some ungodly reason, didn't even try to salvage her character (if that was what he wanted to do), instead just nuked her from orbit so she has nothing to do with anything anymore
>all plot threads dumped, no resolution (moxy's life being linked with ruza's and how she thus possibly has to die if you kill ruza, ada seeking power to try and fix her situation back home, ada and jeremy ending up quote-unquote married and them trying to get disentangled from each other, what ruza might be trying to do to the world since the bloodrose she's born from was spreading everywhere and causing a bunch of the game's problems, anything about the family situation that tonika was running away from and gin was chasing her for, etc)
>a bunch of sidequests made more boring (you can't save the pixie in the forest anymore among others)
And the ending is just crap
>you kill ruza and the forest is instantly saved
>jeremy kills all his friends with an axe
>scripted loss boss fight against ichor
>jeremy you play as is revealed to be a facsimile all along
>the pretend jeremy kills himself
>and the real jeremy acks himself in the attic because it was all a metaphor for something

I sympathize with the dev, but what happened to the game is a fucking travesty. There was so much promise of a nice story there and he nuked it because he thought it was pandering to gooners. Romance doesn't have to be shitty smut scenes. There's still something beautiful in people just helping each other, and yes that shit CAN and DOES have a place in horror games as it offers contrast.
Shit, rushed, un-foreshadowed endings just feel like shit whether it's a horror game or not. And no, mentioning that 'everyone's dead' offhand in a nursery rhyme tier poem once DOESN'T count as foreshadowing for an ending twist like this. Even fucking Cry of Fear handled this with more subtlety