New Hosted Game! "The Courting of Miss Bennet" by Michael Gray

Minority view here: I haven’t finished the book but the first few chapters actually kinda bored me. Sorry!
I shall explain my reasons -

Yeah. It felt like I was reading the Pride and Prejudice novel instead of playing it as a game, especially in the earlier chapters.
Many choices seem not to matter as it’s mostly whether you choose to agree or disagree with what was written.
Also it would have been nice if there were more than 2 choices (or at most 3 choices), which was the case most of the time.
Or perhaps some stats would have also made the choices more meaningful… stats like snarky vs. genuine, which then affects the characters responses in the story.

More character customisation would have been good. I understand the need to keep Lizzy’s character canonical, but it would have been much more interesting if you could customise the MC’s personality, looks, etc.

The book seem very linear (until the choices to choose your RO). Again, I understand the need to keep the story true to the book, but more branching in the storyline would make it way more interesting… branching like staying for the dance where you continue mingling with say Mr Bingley vs. going for a walk in the gardens where you bump into say Mr Darcy.

Again, I apologise for my unpopular view and negative review. (If it’s too offensive, I will delete my post.)

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