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True words!!!I'm planning on enjoying Summers Gone for as long as Ocean is willing to tell these stories.
If I get 5 chapters of SG, I'm good.
If I get 10 chapters of SG, I'm good.
If I get 20 chapters of SG, I'm good.
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While I enjoy these stories, I also get adds to my SG music playlists that are, IMO, top tier.
I'm here to enjoy this story for the duration and every chapter and song adds to my enjoyment of the journey.
Heck - I am still waiting for a certain someone to complete the next book in the A Song of Fire and Ice series.
Patience has its rewards.
Sometimes it pans out and sometimes not - that is RL.
Even if that certain author never delivers on the next book, my enjoyment for everything he Did write is not diminished.
It is the same for Summers Gone.
The Steam rev will land when it lands.
We'll get S2 chapters when they are ready.
While I wait, I will continue to enjoy what I Do have of Summers Gone.
I can live with that!
Cheers!!
I would like to add my thoughts to your post.
What do we have here: a game of unprecedented quality. Start with the pictures. The debate as to whether the images are in 4k quality or Full HD is a mystery to me. To me they are just: WOW! It is a pleasure to look at them.
Now about the animated images: For me they have a cinematic quality that I have never seen in any VN I have played. The fact that I haven't swallowed a fly so far is nothing short of a miracle. Just crazy!!!
Finally, I come to the dialogues: They are so perfectly knitted that it seems to me that they are written in the best Alfred Hitchcock style. The developer and therefore Ocean only reveal as much information about the story as is absolutely necessary. This information is hidden so cleverly that at times I feel like Sherlock Holmes. It's impossible to capture everything in one sitting. One is forced to go through a particular path several times in order to understand even the smallest nuances.
Conclusion: It is too obvious what the developer and Ocean want with this: With this redesign they are setting the bar so high that all current and subsequent VNs with SG and/or WiaB have to be measured. No comparison to their predecessors (at least from what I saw here and in the sister thread). For me, these are not just worlds apart, but entire galaxies.
I'm still amazed at what I see here and am really looking forward to future updates.