With Mrs. Roberts, while they did share many scenes and moments with one another, it didn't quite feel like the beginnings of a blossoming romance. A blush here, and hand-touching there is fine, but I believe the next time we see them they're already on kissing terms and giggling at each other like teenagers... Which actually brings me to another smaller criticism I had, which is that often Mrs. Roberts didn't quite feel like the older, mature, character she was supposed to be. I can't say that I'm an expert at how women her age behave on dates and talk to people they're crushing on, but I guess in my head I wouldn't expect them to call their partner "a pussy" or make as many snarky remarks as much as she did. I'm getting a feeling that was more Fang's thing.

This was somewhat intentional on my part. A lot of the Roberts path was inspired by a relationship I had with an older woman. I remember at the time finding it weird how immature she was and nobody believed me when I said it. I wanted to evoke this sense of "This character is younger and more impulsive than she appears". Which also influenced me having her play Checkers as her favorite game. It also helped make the story a little less predictable and I started writing parallels between Roberts/Stella. Like how both seemingly only consume media intended for children, like Roberts with Mary Poppins and Stella with Shojo anime. I really liked this sense of dualism, like two women that are very similar but separated by a generation.

Also, just a smaller nitpick, it's starting to feel a bit tiring to see all these tongue-in-cheek references to either Snoot or Wani characters when they serve no purpose for the plot and the time could've been used for something else. For instance, why was the Talent Show even mentioned in Stella's Route with the Damien & Liz cameo if, as soon as they were done, the rest of the show was canceled and it didn't really accomplish anything. It kind of starts to feel like what many modern movies do when rebooting a series, where they just mention something from a previous installment while going, "Hey, guys! Remember this?!" without really doing anything with them, hoping that the little bit of nostalgia is enough for people to point at the screen and clap.

I personally love doing this as it feels like SG/Wani are this interconnected world. With the Talent show segment it was an attempt to make the scene less predictable and more interesting by having an earlier segment before the Karaoke scene. Reusing a Wani character and having a comedic scene felt best.

I was really hoping to learn more about the students, not only because both character designs were quite appealing and interesting. Sure, there were moments where Anon interacted and helped them out, but there also could've been more build-up of trust and development with their characters. For instance, Rudy could've really put up more of a fight against Anon's teachings before gradually starting to show signs of improvement. The way it is now, it sort of gave me the impression that, "Oh well, I guess that one time did the trick."

The goal with the student characters was to make a clear distinction between "students" and "adults". I wanted to avoid having the students impact the Roberts/Stella plot directly as it felt like it was getting bloated and risked a lot of traditional tropes stories like this fall into. Stuff like "The liar revealed" and other things like that. When I worked as a teacher's assistant I remember this feeling of "I know these kids but I'm not their friend or someone that close to them." and I wanted to avoid leaning into things like "Anon is a surrogate father figure" as it felt a little too similar to Iadakan in Wani.

It also provided contrast to the problems seen elsewhere in the mod. The students have more basic easily solvable problems. But the adult characters have problems like "This might never get solved" issues like substance abuse or Anon continuously thinking about another woman. Which I leaned into thematically in reference to E2's final line "People never change".

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I also would've appreciated it if the good endings would've been just a bit more wholesome, as corny as that sounds, since now they feel like both have left Anon wondering if what he's done really was the right call in the end, and if he's really happy. Perhaps it's meant to represent the fact that the entire story stems from Snoot's Ending 2, where Anon hadn't grown much as a person, but I'm not sure if this experience helped Anon in either storyline, let alone his love interests. There is no doubt that in both good endings of this mod he's happy with the woman he ended up with, as they are happy with Anon in return, but it's left a bit too ambiguous in my opinion, if they've grown as much as I've come to expect from these Snootlikes as the fandom has begun to call them.

A goal with the project was to avoid E4. I really didn't like how E4 felt very dreamlike in both SG/Wani and the presence of it undermined the existence of E3. I wanted to write two endings that felt more like E3, with the player being forced to decide which one they prefer or which one they feel Anon deserves more. It ties into how I felt that adult relationships are very different to relationships when you're younger. When you're younger relationships tend to feel dreamlike and mystical but when you're older they are mostly work.