Akano's Third Chapter has been uploaded!!! (Feat. Spoilery rant about this chapter)

117 days ago by Person of Few Talents (@overlordofships)

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As said last time, I'm really excited for this release because of how I was able to flesh out certain characters who end up at the forefront of this chapter! I'm also looking forward to dealing with the aftermath of it, too...

(Spoilers for the ending of this chapter below, please only read if you're okay with that or after finishing the chapter - it's a discussion about my thoughts/reasoning on how this chapter ended up)

SPOILER

I already knew long ago that I wanted to do something with V3's unique rule of 'first-come first-serve' that was brought up in its third chapter but never had anything done in the end when Korekiyo ended up having killed both of the victims. It seemed like a waste - how would the characters react, now having to live with someone who'd murdered and gotten out alive? While the situation here isn't quite the same - Koriko isn't nearly as vile a person as Korekiyo was - he was always going to end up in that situation simply because he could not abide letting his sister's presumed killer be killed by anyone other than himself, even if it meant he had to be executed afterward. So in the end, although their intents were somewhat different and their plans had different reasons (Korekiyo killed to send friends to his sister and was going to try and escape, Koriko killed Masao as 'revenge' for Ayame and fully planned on letting himself be executed), they both still killed for the sakes of their dead sisters. (That said, I can't say his name being phonetically similar to Korekiyo was intentional, as I named him long before I started, or even thought about, making this game, but it was something I thought made him an even clearer foil to Korekiyo when I realized it.)