extremely short chapter length and FSN has right and wrong choices (so that has some meaning).
Well, the chapters are short because it is the introduction, I think, plus it gives more interaction with the players that way. I don't see the problem with it, honestly.
Besides, those have a set course from the beginning, so they can't truly create a story with hundreds of different paths, so you can hardly criticize them for that.
Perhaps, but my point is that not every choice has to be life-or-death. Lantz has the possibility here to make choices have a more subtle effect. And, yes, sometimes a choice will turn out not to happen, FSN has that too (there are a few choices where you say you don't want to do something and then end up doing it anyway because of circumstances), and plenty of other games do as well.
Lantz is writing a fanfiction with choices, giving them to people, and not doing anything with them right away. At the moment, people are pissed since it seems like the choice people had didn't mean anything. However, I'm guessing he'll let "Shirou" get a day in the spotlight later in the story, and the decision for Archer to be sub leader will happen later.
Well, there are certainly right and wrong choices, although I don't think the effects of them are quite so brutal as they are in FSN. And, if nothing else you get character points for voting for the correct choice.
I think that playing it like FSN where every bad choice led to a bad end wouldn't fit with the intention. Bad choices here have longer-term consequences. However, as a short-term thing, if you make the right choice you get points for your supported characters (none of us did this time, the right choice was actually option 2).
Also, Gil being taken out by some external force with ease what? Even Sakura got temporarily butchered by Gil, and only took him out because he UNDERESTIMATED IT. Here, Gil gets knocked unconscious from some unknown force, and people are expected to go "well that could just as easily happen to anyone in the room"? It should never be this easy to take out the guy that could take being bathed in all the world's evil and think that that was Tuesday.
Well, that part I don't know anything about, but I think that it is ludicrous to judge the story on that basis without giving him any chance to explain it. Not everything in the story has to make perfect sense from the very beginning, and the impression I get is that the whole thing is meant to be somewhat of a mystery.
Well, if it was any type of mental assault it would fail terribly against Gil for reasons stated above. Unless this is a Type level being I have no idea how it could even try to go for a mental attack. Even then it shouldn't be an instant KO. He is the King after all.
I think it is unfair to assume that Lantz has no way to explain it two chapters into the story. Gil might be strong, but he's not invincible.
There is also the problem that any entity that did that should be able to take out the entire cast with minimal effort. If it simply wants entertainment then the story could never end because with a thought it could annihilate the whole cast so they would need to do what he says.
Well, the fact that they just kidnapped the entire cast and intend to force them into some sort of survival game does kind-of imply that they are doing it for some reason aside from "to kill everyone". But, I think that is unavoidable given the basic premise of the game (which is everyone being kidnapped and forced to fight for their survival).
