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ACT I
Ah, Abel. So handsome and such a douche. Why are all the good-looking ones douches? Lol @ when he said 'did I stutter?'
I wanted to slap Sofia when she said she didn't love Shiye.
ACT II
The owl thing totally threw me.
And yay Shiye is being protected! So he should.
ACT III
Oooh, it switches to Shiye's POV. (I got the Heart ending).

Okay... now I'm going back to do more endings. And I filled out the survey.
... Maybe I'll do the other endings when I'm not so super tired.

And when she turned into an owl, that totally threw me XD.

Abel was more intended to be a villain than a love interest initially but he ended up being both. If he's unlikable I'd call that a success. I don't like him, either. Although yes, I intentionally gave him more idealized features and Shiye more naturalistic ones.

Different choices in the beginning will decide how you feel about Shiye.

Oh, good! I wanted to keep it secret.

Do everything to reveal that you are a person and save Shiye at the end of Act II.

In the beginning I got the impression that she is still attached to Abel but lets Shiye love her, it's confirmed (with the choices I made) by that "no, I don't love him", still in the end if I choose to save Shiye I get "I woke up with the man I love", no I didn't choose to save him because she loves him, it's just because killing anyone is generally wrong, if I choose not to save Shiye the ending plays like Sofia pretends to love Abel out of fear... hmm.
Another thing I'm not so sure about is that democracy idea, there's just not enough of Abel in game to know his ways are wrong for the kingdom, but there's sure enough of Shiye to see that he's an idealistic fool (and the one who thinks nothing of the woman he's supposed to love at that, as he doesn't care enough to share his dreams with her)
Was James only there to show that Abel has a nice side to him? Why if there're no good endings for him?

She does fear him as he's a pretty malicious person in that ending who would kill his own brother. As Abel's "love" ending was added after the fact, it was more to show that you don't have to just end up with Shiye if you choose not too. I agree, however there's dissonace with Sunrise as an ending, if you chose "you don't love him", and I can alleviate that with a extra scene if I do put in that extra dialogue between The Witch and Abel as well Maybe something along the lines of "I couldn't see him die that way, yet I regret letting Abel go down this dark path...". That's a big maybe though keep in mind, but a very valid concern.

The game forces you to choose between them but, I understand that it's very tilted in Shiye's favor as he was suppose to be the sole romantic option, and Abel the (not-so) classic villain. I disagree strongly, however, that he doesn't care for Sofia in not sharing his ideas as, like Abel pointed out, he has no idea if she'd support him or not and could work against him or even get him hung/shot for treason. I agree Shiye is very idealistic but, as we tried to hint at in game, his ideas aren't without reason. The backstory and climate in game is that of multiple, violent uprisings, including plans to assassinate nobles because of their mistreatment of the lower classes. There is a movement towards democracy and equality, and while Abel is right in saying Shiye is apart of the problem, he is wrong in thinking that the people would suffer another tyrant in their minds.

Yes, James is just an henchman and shows Abel's not a complete monster. Also, because he served an outside function (the letter scene). I don't think there's really any "good" endings in Sunrise, only lesser shades of bad. Heart= Sofia dies and everything goes to hell. Sunrise: Shiye x Sofia but, Shiye has murdered his own flesh and blood. Witch-Brother= Things remain stable and Abel x Sofia, but what kind of relationship would be normal with knowledge of what transpired? I do understand, however, that the tone of Sunrise is much more positive, especially in regards to the epilogue, though that doesn't mean it stays that way. We just didn't explore the aftermath.

do everything to reveal that you are a person and save Shiye at the end of Act II. This includes picking "you're so good to me", and ""no use thinking about it" in the beginning