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I was actually half appalled, half in stitches when Ame revealed that the concept for Lin was "someone who wasn't very into or good at roleplay but could beat everyone in a pokemon battle, and then they pulled the curtains back on my magic show and ran". Like, you didn't even do anything with it. You played it pretty fucking straight, I would argue even more so with Hobo Lin other than making up a traumatic backstory to "explain" why they were like this that doesn't quite serve to help the reader sympathize with their motive but rather just paints them in a worse light considering everyone they dragged down along with them. Honestly... the dev room reveal actually endeared me more to Lin than everything actually in the game. As a character she's irredeemable, but you know that's not an uncommon trait in this game. But that someone broke the very foundation of the roleplay to the point they completely usurped the backstory of the region in-game (Team Meteor stuff not really getting the focus it should have versus Lin tripping her way into puppet-mastering everything and forcing God to do her bidding) is just crazy. Game was really over 10 years in the making, we were or are all dumb teenagers so it's not that shocking, but man.
And yet, maybe even that is simply more kool-aid she's trying to trick you into drinking to get you invested in this game. Can you really trust anything she and those close to her say at this point? A facade over a decade old is hard to drop. Either way, I'm glad it's over and I never have to interact with this game again. Shame about the imitators it inspired, but hopefully at least some of them won't follow half of the mistakes this game made.
