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rtrooney - 16 September 2017 07:25 PM

I’ve been trying to rank the games characters. Here’s my list, ranked from most likable to least likable. Only my opinion.

1. Jack Norm - He’s the protagonist with no skin in the game. So he’s most likable.
2. Sonia - Stood up to WJ. Seemed to be the least interested in inheritance.
3. Lorenzo - Seems to be a guy in over his head.
4. Clara - Married into the dysfunctional family. Her family paid a price. Sympathetic
  character, if not necessarily likable.
5. Kulio) - These two have to be taken as a pair. They are either to be pitied or
6. Baina)  reviled. I lean to the latter, but have to put them in the middle.
7. Martin - Not a great businessman. Married to highly-likable character. Cheats.
8. Christina - A gold digger. If she could have dumped Marco for Walter, she would
      have.
9. Billy - An addict that put’s his wife’s family in bankruptcy because his father
      wouldn’t pay his debts. 
10. Lawyer - Corrupt from the get go. Tried to play all sides and lost on all sides.
11. Marco - Killed his father.
12. Walter Jones - Deserved to di

Not mentioned above, but somebody questioned Jack Norm’s wife’s role in this. I don’t think there is one. Other than a distraction that takes Jack back to his room so that all the other players can re-assemble in other locations. But she is an annoying presence similar to the fiance and mother telephone characters in Syberia.

At least in Syberia the phone calls served a purpose in the characterization of Kate, in here it’s just really a plot device to shuffle the characters since Jack doesn’t have much of a personality.

I agree mostly with your ranking but I think I would put Kulio much lower, lots of shady stuff involving his daughter.

I would separate Kolio and Baina and put them pretty far apart.  Maybe I’m being sexist but she seems to be the victim of two unsavoury characters in Walter and Kolio.

I also think Walter deserving to die somewhat mitigates Marco being a killer, though I’m not sure he’d move up much anyway given his general demeanour and him being a politician.