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Then again, it makes sense that she would be b*tchy at first. You injured her enough to put her in a full body cast! (Sorta.)
On the other hand, when she does start opening up to you, she becomes way more likeable as she starts to be all flirty and whatnot. So the more you can get her to like you, the more tolerable she becomes to non-tsundere fans. However, this is because she's now less tsun and more dere. Anyone that plays a dating sim likes dere. Probably only the tsundere fans are going to find it rewarding though that they managed to work their way into her heart.
Basically, if you want her to suit a more general audience, then option 2. If you want her to stay a particular type that certain people will very enjoyable/rewarding, then option 1. I don't think either one is a bad idea. Considering she'll be the first person people finish, she's going to be slightly overshadowed by later characters regardless, which means that people will only have to deal with her again during resets. Something to keep in mind.
To be honest, good tsunderes aren't always recognized as tsunderes. In fact, most people don't recognize that there are more male tsundere characters than female ones. (Tsundereness is generally just an immaturity about love that makes them react angrily at the notion that they even are in love...)
The problem is more that tsunderes are too often written to the same tired formula and played as a meme rather than a character.
I don't think that's right. In fact, it's when she starts getting flirty that I think most people start to really dislike her.
Again, when Cassie opens up, and isn't just griping at you for putting her in a cast (which isn't "tsun", it's just a normal reaction to someone whose only interaction thus far has been negligently hurting you,) is that she starts saying she'll only hang out with you if you work out enough to become a handsome lifeguard and give her lots of material possessions. She judges your character entirely by external appearances and wealth, and that's not a "tsundere" trait, that's a "shallow material girl" trait. She's more like the mean girls who bully the poor girl with magic powers before getting horribly slaughtered that the audience roots for than the main heroine tsundere.
Can we just replace cassie with you? Your extreme cynicism is charming in a strange way I can't quite describe *hands you a pair of glass slippers and takes you to the movies*
If she were all "No I hate you go die in a fire" before and then suddenly "omg ur super hot!!" I could understand. I think a lot of this is just that labelling Cassie as a tsundere is kinda... Wrong. Like objectively wrong.
Making a character based upon the character I use as avatar and my personal all-time favorite character[en.touhouwiki.net], however, might be a good idea, and she typically musters a similarly wryly acerbic personality. (She also is the ultimate min/maxed wizard, a hikkikomori that hadn't left her room/library filled with books she wrote herself for over a hundred years, and is a master of magic with a CON score so low she's too asthmatic to actually cast most of the spells she knows. She made ribbons that boost her magic power, so like a true min/maxer, put twelve of them in her hair and had them decorate every available facet of her clothes. She's also known for using levitation spells to move because she's too tired/lazy to walk, warding her books against water so she can spend all day in the bath reading, and having clothing that notably looks like, and likely doubles as pajamas and slippers. Her specialty is making rocket ships to go to the moon at the behest of her landlord/best friend out of plywood, a freak ton of magic wards for structural integrity and thermal regulation, and using a miko with access to travel deities as "fuel". Basically, she fits right in with these other misfits, as would half of Touhou's cast.)
Everyone knows best magical Touhou is Mima.
*Waits with line and hook in hand*
<< I kind of wouldn't mind a Touhou-like game with the Crush Crush girls now, thinking about it. Although make it easy.
Q-Piddy would of course be the Extra/Phantasm level boss.
I feel like this topic is degrading fast, that said; MARISAxALICE YOU HEATHEN. How can you not even mention it?
that is all.
She starts off rightfully disliking you, since you manage to send her to the hospital simply by wrecking into her, but she quickly mellows out, probably due to her realizing how eager you are to prove you're sorry by constantly buying things for her. She wants a guy that can dance, has a hot bod, and has loads of money, and you're all of those things. She's kinda like Iro when you think about it. The difference is that Cassie is somewhat self-centered about herself and shallow when it comes to what she likes about you, while Iro never diverges too far away from being the resident tomboy to come across this way.
So again, I don't think it's a bad thing at all, but maybe it is something of a shift in focus from the intended direction.
My favorite writing thus far is for Elle. Everything she says is just adorable. She's so precious, I wouldn't change a thing about her~
I think though that she needs more text and maybe a bigger role.
She only used the word baka (dummy/idiot/etc) once, but it didn't sound shy enough since it was already near the end of "the conquest", it fact it made it sound a bit weirded instead of showing her struggle with her feelings.
She sounded a bit more like like a light hearted tsundere.
Maybe you can exploit it a bit and turn it heavier.
I suggest taking a look at some very major examples: this girl for instance[oreshura.wikia.com]
Visual novels work well as resource. Konohana Lucia from Rewrite (which is also an upcoming anime) is a typical tsundere but also a class representative putting her in a weird position. (though getting that game may be difficult and costy, but you can watch youtube walkthroughs or something I assume.)
What the game needs I guess is the player to be able to make a choice, so that her response will be different. (more lines, explaining her feelings more, etc. and yes giving it some novel aspects could work well) Right now she is making up the lines and thoughts she assumes the main character has, but tsunderes are oversensitive with their feelings and emotions. You can't make her do this.
If the player remains quiet she'll drown in her feelings till it becomes hostile. Except that the player has to remain quiet at the moment, since well, all you can do is let time pass, give hearts and gifts. (if you want to make it clear that she is tsundere, she should probably 'over react' a bit when receiving a gift too.)
I suggest adding events to dates. (text and such... letting her explain stuff, etc. with maybe a few choices between, but if you need to date 10 times, than 10 events would be too much. Having such event once would be enough though, so it could work the first time or perhaps the third time. Just a suggestion.)
For the short amount of time spend with her in the current game... and her lines so far, she is done well.
.... but I think it's a bit sad too, because once you clear her conquest you basically stop looking at her at all. e.e;
And tsunderes in love are a bit attention addicts (usually), so that may need something.
Events for "love status"? (a suggestion here)
That she quickly recovers after being over bandaged is very anime-ish. (humor) I like that.
I was thinking something like this as well. Give us some different options in how we'll respond to certain lines and have that affect how the story is told. Maybe no current lines would actually need to be lost in a rewrite, then. Just shift them around to an appropriate place in whichever little dialogue tree they end up in.
Of course, this approach would be something to consider as a change in the approach for the game as a whole, not just one girl. They'd all need to have choices that can lead to different lines / different variations of their lines. (But then maybe they could hide secrets to discover at the end of different branches of dialogue. Like bonus artwork or something.)