It feels like once she re-awakens they just didn't know what to do with her so they made her into vanilla girlfriend character.Cendrillon: (true awakening) "Such tenacity. Once Sumire is introduced it feels like all her confidant ranks are "make her as waifu-bait as possible to thirst trap the player" instead of "try to get the player to like her as a person". Maybe it's because of the aforementioned lack of content with her, but she feels very "plain" to me. This one is very subjective but I just don't like her personality. The girl gets maybe 30 minutes of dedicated screen time.ģ. I now have 10 hours and 5 confidant ranks to get to know this entirely new person, and as I said before she quickly drops to the background in Maruki's palace.
As a result I ended up kinda liking Kasumi, but then they tell me she never existed. It's not like Madarame's palace where Yusuke is deeply tied to it.Ģ. As soon as she gets her re-awakening she drops to the background. Hell, the game actively goes out of its way to keep her out of the plot when she tries to get herself in.Īnd honestly, she even stops being relevant in "her" palace really fast. She's kind of around for a lot of the game, but she's basically not involved in the plot at all until the final Palace. I just find her kind of underwhelming for a few reasons. Trying to make the audience feel bad for her and understand what she was willing to do for her motivations ended up turning people off from the character, at least it did from what I see. While I don't disagree that it is a decent tie-in to the third semester the problem is that it doesn't really do much good for her. I won't act like I know, this is just me assuming. Although, in the end it's just people vocalizing how much they dislike her which more than likely comes off as considering her unlikeable. Your third point is the only one I don't like seeing, I believe that it is easy not to like her but she shouldn't be unlikeable based on the context of the story. Things that are more recent in memory are easier to criticize as well, anyone that played through the third semester probably remembers that for the sake of self-loathing she jumped ship and a week later fought Joker and Akechi and still wasn't fully over it until later.
Nobody says it didn't happen to anyone else, but aside from Haru every team member kept that whole thing confined to the start of a palace and the start of a confidant. People classify her as a pity party because the first HALF of her story is one big Pity Party. I get that it should be a surprise but come on, the only other character that could pull of shit like that was Black Mask Akechi. Think about it like this, she turns down joining the team only to show up at the end of Sae's palace and have been proficient enough to not be detected by anyone at all, including Futaba until after Joker sees her in the palace. She's pretty, but literally all the main girls are stated to be pretty or cute.ĭefinitely not hate for me but just pretty disappointing.Īt least as far as I know when people say Mary Sue they are generalizing. I don't recall her being especially good at academics, just average/a little above average, which does track, as I doubt her parents are the type to sacrifice education. She's not just a good gymnast as a hobby, it's her lifelong ambition, so it makes sense for her to be good at it, y'know? It's okay to have characters that are really good at stuff, as long as it actually makes sense for them to be. Her gymnastics isn't something she's effortlessly good at either - she has to put a lot of work into it, and it actually has an effect on her mental state. Yeah, she's a gymnast prodigy, but all these kids are brilliant at something or the other - Makoto's the quintessential honour student, Futaba's a genius, Yusuke's an amazing artist, and so forth. She's not perfect at all - her self-hatred isn't something cute and quirky, but is something that ended up contributing to the death of her sister, and it ends up manifesting as something unwittingly selfish and also morbid, in that her deepest desire is not to have her sister back, but to be Kasumi and to have Sumire be the one who died. Mary Sues can absolutely lack confidence (a common theme w them is self-deprecation), but I still don't believe Sumi's a Mary Sue. Yeah ngl I never really got why people label her as a Mary Sue.