@Kali_Huguenot They really run under the exact same rules. All those guys who grind have some special bloodline, artifact, technique, random reincarnation, etc, that lets them win. It isn't any different at its core.
@Octavius_DP The air bender is the only distinct one. The rest are palette swaps. And honestly the firebender and airbender are really close even there.
@kingslayer253 Elaine easily. Agnes is quite simply just too young. Their relationship is too much boss/mentor and employee and she does the job of being a second protagonist well. The scenes of him and Elaine also actually show real feelings and chemistry over one sided first teenage crush.
@nyykyn Actually oddly enough things like stocks and the like have been referred to as fake estate before. The difference between physical property and conceptual valued things.
@SeliphGoat I would go one step further than that. Not only was he forced into the role the game made it pretty clear he wasn't going to follow through with it from a narrative/storytelling perspective.
@ScourgeHH As someone who wasn't a huge fan of CS3 I can certainly understand it from a writing standpoint. It being such a replay of CS1 certainly won't help it and a lot of the series issues just seemed like they had gone past limits at that point.