3/15/2021 Patch Notes
Hoo boy! Big one today folks! As you might have all seen on my twitter, I've decided to move these patch notes to Monday. The two reasons I listed were very similar, as one was that I wanted time to reflect on a chapter part after I posted it, with a quicker chance to edit the chapter part in case something was wrong, while the other reason was that I wanted a bit of time to reflect on a finished chapter before I made the blog post talking about it.
Honestly, I'm so happy I did this. Surprisingly, It wasn't because of the reasons I listed. Out of seemingly pure luck, I spent Saturday doing something that inspired the main set of changes in this week of patch notes! Speaking of the patch notes...
-Changed the site’s default font to more clearly show the difference between Narrator text and Isaac’s text.
-Uploaded 1-9 Thoughts
-Added an extra paragraph in 1-4-1 elaborating on the state of the makeshift bar, while also talking a little bit more about the treatment of black people under the hotel's new management.
-Added Maribelle, a new character*
-Chapter parts in which she's included is: 1-1-1, 1-1-2, and 1-7-1
Given the relative intensity of the changes found in those chapter parts, I’d recommend anyone who’s caught up to re-read those chapters, since I think those added scenes really add a lot.
*Technically she's not a real character, she's just a figment of Isaac's imagination. Hopefully her existence gives Isaac's character more... character. The idea for her came when I was watching Jujutsu Kaisen after getting caught up on the manga. After being reintroduced to Aoi Todo, the way that he uses his Idol Takada-chan as a representation of a certain part of his mind, with him imagining scenarios in which she helps him out. I remember getting to that part of the game again, and remembering how when I was a young teenager, I'd do something similar with a fictional chara-
Fuck it, I'm dropping the formalities. I used to imagine my waifu cheering me up late at night when I'd realize how lonely I felt. (Honestly, as a self quarantined 19 year old who literally hasn't felt the touch of a woman in over a year, I admit that I do it occasionally even now.) Since Isaac is, in many ways, a character that's based off of younger me, I figured adding this character trait adds quite a bit more identity to Isaac, since that was something that I felt was really lacking from him. The point of the addition of Maribelle enhances the idea of Isaac being an nerdy loser of a teenager despite the situation he’s been put in. Hopefully this doesn’t make Isaac feel unlikeable at all. I want his cringiness (cringyness? It’s technically not a real word yet so I just kinda have to guess) to not be so intense that it makes people’s opinion of him drop. I want it to feel like “Aww, poor guy” and less “Wow, what a loser! Our Protagonist, ladies and gentlemen!”
I actually have plans for what I'm going to do with Maribelle in the far future, and I hope you all will be as excited for it as I am!
Now that I’ve updated some chapter parts pretty heavily, I’m going to see if I can find some type of system for people to potentially read the old versions, in case they’re curious on how the story was before. Hopefully, I’ll get this system in place by next week. If you’re reading this, that means I haven’t done it yet.
