felicemastronzo
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- May 17, 2020
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I want it to be clear that I still really like the game in its main storyline.I just finished my second playthru on a Neutral/Chick Just friends M/J, and I'm still thoroughly under whelmed. The plot points have become so contrived that I just can't take them seriously anymore, I agree with you about Tybalt being no threat at all, add to that DPC's dreary one step forward two steps back with the relationship development and it's getting hard to even do a playthru of this game. If you look at it objectively, all the elements for resolving these silly crises are already on the table, and he could wrap this whole thing up in another episode or two. Yet I fear we're in for at least four more episode's if not six or eight, and I have zero confidence at this point that he's going to be able to do anything even remotely interesting with all of those hours of gameplay.
right now I have an immediate concern and it seems to me there is an increasingly obvious problem going forward.
I have already exposed the concern: in the first season Hell's Week was around everything, even if you were excluded, or you had to exclude an LI you still had a goal. in this second season there is no horizon, we go forward and hopefully for tomorrow. this also takes away the rhythm of the narration.
but this could be my obsession.
instead the problem is that there will also be different endings, but the story is unique. and here the main problem is that there is no real route of Maya and Josy as a friendship (then the future will tell us if the individual routes exist), but even if it doesn't exist you are forced to it, and you have a secondary route made with the leftovers of the main one. and this non-optional path in case one has in the heart to be faithful to another of the 3 LIs (or wants to play in any other way) represents the main part of your gameplay.