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I agree completely. You basically stopped giving her positive character development after the River Cruise arc, but she did continue getting negative development in the form of causing problems and getting away with it. She needed more moments of being a good person, and she also needed moments where she apologized and tried to do better (even if she would comedically fail for the sake of humor and the fetish). It's the thought that counts, she needed to at least be seen trying. But Emmy didn't do any thinking about others past a certain point.

>I'll take the insufferable comment in stride.
It's not the arcs themselves that were the problem, it's the pile-up of character issues over time that just killed my interest. Like, objectively speaking, the Abduction Village arc is probably the best arc in the game, if we look at it solely from a fetish standpoint, and that's post Borken. If the game had just been fifteen arcs in a row exactly like that, no one could have complained about much, could they?

I say it's "insufferable" because a lot of things that happened before, during, and after Borken just made me completely indifferent to the characters. And that's probably the worst possible thing, from a writing standpoint. Love and hate are both involvement, they're participation, they're caring. To not care is worse.

Most of this tracks back to Borken, I won't pretend it doesn't. The Emmy morality issue had been building for about 80 hours worth of gameplay, and Borken didn't resolve it.

>I'm surprised you don't like Bad Borken, I thought that area came out well. I enjoyed Esse's/ ETV character a lot. What would have been better for you?
For the record, I'm the guy from the forum who was going to (is still going to) do a full review of the game. I've been delayed because real life is a bitch. I could talk about some of it now, but I don't want to annoy you by repeating myself. I'll leave it up to you if you actually want me to answer that question.