Yeah, I remember playing it for the first time, and I actually really did like how it went, even though it was, let's call it "the first draft". As for her other stuff, I haven't played it since the themes didn't interest me, but I stayed following her for a solid year or more now, because I wanted to see how the Superstition series would wrap up.I have such a love hate relationship with the Superstition author and her games in general lol. I usually avoid authors that have multiple projects like her, even if I enjoy their games, because I know that's a recipe for disaster and that nothing will ever get finished.But I've been following Superstition since S1, it was one of the fist IFs I read that I really loved, and I have an odd attachment/investment into her games in general lol. I do like most of the stuff she creates (except Throne of Ashes, that's very romance heavy and none of the ROs there appeal to me). Superstition is my favourite of hers, but I also really like Sea of Stars and Insight. For the Crown and Dragon Racer were also pretty fun. You know, other than the fact that she cancels half her projects...
I would have stopped supporting her or caring about her games a long time ago if I wasn't so invested and if it wasn't for a certain sense of nostalgia for Superstition lol. But sadly atp it's getting to the point where I'm losing my patience and not really caring about Superstition anymore which is sad but it is what it is
That game has gone through an... ordeal lol. IIRC, it was first supposed to have 5 seasons.... then the author silently changed the itchio pages to say it would have 4 seasons and didn't really announce it until someone asked her about it on tumblr and she confirmed. Her explanation was that as she was writing S3, she realised the series is better off having 4 seasons because if it had 5, one of the seasons would have ended up as mostly filler. Which is like okay, understandable. Then she put S3 on hiatus and I don't even remember how long it's been anymore lol. Then she decided to rewrite S1 and S2.... and we all know what a rewrite announcement usually spells for an IF's future.
But yeah at this point I've just kinda been getting a certain kind of vibe and impression for a while by the way she talks about Superstition that she's just totally checked out and not invested in this series anymore. I honestly think she would cancel it if she could, but she probably knows she can't afford to cancel another series considering how many cancelled ones she already has and she already has a certain reputation for that lmao. Not to mention the fact that Superstition is probably her most popular series, at least from what I've seen. So she's just trying to finish it and get it over with as quickly as possible lol. But again pls no one take this as fact, this is just my impression from what I've seen over all these years I've been following her.
Also, I didn't know about that having 5 seasons originally, though, if it's as you said, it's better off having four seasons imo. But cutting it down to 3? I mean, I also think that that's literally her most famous series, and majority of her fans are only there because of that, but doing that would be a disaster if you ask me. Cutting it like that, she might as well abandon it. But yeah, she can't really do that, because people would be pissed, and rightfully so.
And I get the rewrites and all, but couldn't she first finish the thing, and then do the rewriting of it all, if she's not satisfied with it? Give us something first, and then do a rewrite if you want to. And not cut the game like that, so you can do a rewrite because you don't like it. It's one thing when you do a rewrite of a chapter in an if or something, and a whole other thing doing a complete rewrite of not one, but two entire projects, and what's left of the third. That **** alone will take years to be completed, especially because she's working on multiple things at once.
I recall how disappointed I was when I saw some newer monthly update post, about how she didn't have the inspiration for it, and haven't done much of anything in terms of rewriting Superstitions. She focused on some other story or whatever, but like, wtf? It was her idea for a rewrite, not mine! How can she say that she didn't have inspiration???
Blue balling people, the way that she is doing, is not cool. I get everything, and I still follow her progress, but it's as you said, I am also losing patience, because if I need to wait 5 years for that thing to not even be completed, but only for season 1 to be rewritten, yeah, **** that.
It's sad how it came to be, but it is what it is sadly