It looks similar because I believe that they made your character another "Chosen One". After all what do you call someone who has a unique ability that can help solve the current issue which coincidentally matches your ability. Regardless I hope that its actually decent. I would be very happy if they made it that the four houses has unique friends that are locked if you are not part of them and that they appear as antagonists if you weren't during the school days. I doubt that though.
Witchbrook by Chucklefish has their game design document open for public view. https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/f5szzj/witchbrook_chucklefish_design_document_public/
So I have played the game and to my surprise, I enjoyed it quite well. Well enough that I have already gone through multiple playthroughs. Have you played it? If you did, what was your favorite route to do?
Hmmm, I may take a look at it. Though Choice of Games tend to disappoint me, however the word count is encouraging as I find that 300,000+ word stories tend to better.
Last questions of the day. How competitive is Caspar when it comes to art? Lets say if the opposing artist has a tremendous problem with his enchantments of people in portraits. Or does Caspar follow the warts and all mentality?
I am gathering that the game will be using the new ruleset and setting changes set up by Whitewolf for the new edition of the tabletop. So it won't be similar to the original game especially since it seems that it would be first person for the most part. But like you, I will follow closely.
Edit: Yes it seems the idea of resonance is tied to thinblood mechanics in the 5th edition of the tabletop. I have no idea how joining a clan would work in this title.