Chef RPG

Chef RPG

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Alex/Yellow Sep 29, 2024 @ 3:51am
Bianca´s date dialogue is surprisingly bad (spoilers)
I really like Bianca, really like how she´s normally written. She never quite stops being an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to the player and I really like that! She´s not an affectionate person and she knows it.

I would have expected her to be surprised that I´d want to date her. I would have expected her to be kind of awkward at first, given that she doesn´t have fantastic social skills. I would have expected her to kind of open with talking about fixes she´s done on Hasel or problems she´s had in the shop, I expected some sincere anger about her life so far, the town or the people around her and then after all of that, she could have done some self reflection or talked about her passive suicidality.

Instead, her dialogue kind of reads like a journal entry she might have written while in a very calm and self reflective mood. It´s extremely surreal. She praises how I´m not draining and acts as though she really wants to make this relationship work- on the first date?? I expected any resistance, any amount of difficulty in trying to date someone who has alcoholic tendencies. Instead, she´s so weirdly open to change and its like?? where did this come from???

The line "i wanted to keep myself from getting hurt." really makes my point. Who says that on a first date? Nobody!
She follows it up with "I am hoping to fix this bit of myself now.... because I want to give us a serious try." and it´s like, so out of nowhere.

I´m honestly tempted to write some example dialogue to demonstrate how to handle her character, even with the limit of no facial expressions, but I feel like that might be rude because I´ve liked the writing so far, these people know what they are doing, idk what happened here.
So, yeah, like I said, I really like the writing in this game. It´s short and to the point without losing character. I like this game. But this really took me out of the moment lol, christ almighty.

If I may make another critique: choosing the date location is silly. this particular date should have happened in Bianca´s apartment with a bottle of vodka because that´s simply what her character would have preferred. I mean, imagine someone who you´ve been mean to asking you out on a date! She´s totally the type of person who would have gone "sure but i need a drink"
Maybe on the second date she could have gone "okay, i chose the first date location so I guess now its your turn" and then she could have had the dialogue about enjoying solitute and being happy to be outside and feeling like you aren´t draining because at that point, she´s a little more secure in the fact that you actually want to date her.

Sorry for the long post!!
Date Posted: Sep 29, 2024 @ 3:51am
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