saving samarie seems far too difficult and doesn't make sense

[UndyingRevenant]

not counting the fact in dialogue she stays in the train and doesn't leave til marina does, which if you don't play as marina, means she should stay there at minimum the morning, to actually save her, first you have to make it to the church day 1 morning, which unless you're speedrunning and even then isn't particularly reasonable. then you encounter an event in the church, (which is currently broken and not there), where she kills a priest and runs off. instead of being in the hall in a corner, or in the stairways or rafters or the confession box, she is instead in a far corner inside a ritual circle behind a sealed gate that can't be opened from the church entrance itself. what this means is, to actually save her, you have to either

a., drop the chandelier, which removes access to the heartless superboss and top tier equipment drop, and force you to have a party or hope crimson fathers with sprint capabilities don't catch you, speedrun to the rher circle, find her, say the right things, then again go past the fathers to get to the gate itself.

or b., day 1 morning beat moonless, go through the opposite side of the church, and do the above. even levi's withdrawal lasts until day 1 afternoon.

it just doesn't make sense imo, even if story wise she was supposed to have locked the gate behind her instead of teleporting through all that, it feels like the timeframe should be until day 1 night, like levi. if you loot and grind all the weaker enemies in the morning, but could save her by the afternoon post hexen upgrades, then it's a difficult but reasonable challenge. it doesn't even seem like she should be leaving the train itself til at least the afternoon. alternatively, keep her in the church entrance hidden after the event at a early time, with her still having a breakdown etc, but then after a set time she's in the circle past all that. it just seems like balance wise that the outskirts and surrounding areas are what you should be doing day 1 morning, then with better gear, items, maybe party members, then day 1 afternoon you can deal with the bobbies arms being a party check, or the neighbors, or some of the bosses. you can do all that day 1 morning but it's a self inflicted challenge and requires cheese instead of being what a average player would do or enjoy doing.

[Garrow]

It'll probably be changed once samaries a recruitable/playable character, i expect all npcs to be expanded

[Prinny𖤐Wesker]

It really feels like it'd make more sense in-universe and from a gameplay perspective to move her to day 2

Otherwise, yeah. You're expecting the player to blow through a lot of content on the first day