Talk:Rance X: Part 2/@comment-5792395-20200808211523

I'm quite disappointed at how they made Rance 10 into this lighthearted quasi true love story. This is not what The Continent is about. Only pretty CGs (yeah the sheer amount of high-quality portraits is respectable, for sure) and passable battles without many soul-touching or thought-provoking moments to speak of. It is an OK game but not a good novel. Thought they'd make a modern version of Kichikuou Rance with all the deep writing, and it was quite a let down. One major point of Kichikuou Rance was exactly how it's impossible for everybody to be happy in the end. Somebody's happiness would be based on the unhappiness of another. Here I understand the wish by them to address some long-living regrets in the series with an alternative interpretation, and draw a conclusion to everything, but it still feels so empty and nonsensical to see every thread tied up in a big happy ending and everybody saved and ending up friends with each other. I thought I'm reading a mature-rated story, not a children's fairy tale? I get that Crook tried to more or less explain the intention behind this genre shift in the end but it really didn't strike the right note with me.

Well I guess they just wanted to try something different since it's quite impossible to one-up Kichikuou Rance following the same style of story. Some people might like this reinterpretation better. Just not me.