WOW, Just WOW, Dude, Holy Shit. Well said Man. This is literally the Smartest comment about this subject! . The examples that you used, everything is very well thoughtful. This is how i see it also , but you were able to express you opinion way more and smarter than I was able to do
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If I recall correctly, Rena could still be the end of game LI even if you don't have sex with her. The MC just has to have a few moments with her and either choose her in ep 6, or have Megan or Melissa leave him after the Leah incident. So, even with minimal interactions, there's still a chance with Rena.
The scene near end of ep5 where Melanie and Sarah watch mc and Sage kissing.
No, apparently I was super baked and didn't realize that if you click anywhere in the room, the scene pops. It just so happened, that I was looking around her room for special renders and clicked the wrinkle in the carpet when she attacked me LOL. My bad. I blame the marijuana.
If I recall correctly, the walkthrough for AL said that we need to stalk Rena with every opportunity
There was a playthrough where I interacted with her for a few times, did not go to her house and did not dance with her at the camp fire, and she rejected me at the concert.
Well, what I meant by minimal interactions was that you could dance with her, go to her house, etc, but that even without having sex with her, you can still end up with her.If I recall correctly, the walkthrough for AL said that we need to stalk Rena with every opportunity
Rena is considered a main LI I guess? So that's why I made the distinction of LI and non-LI. So far Jade totally gave me the cold shoulder and I haven't tried a playthrough where I totally reject a main LI (Sage and Bella are too hard to pass up on). I can try a playthrough when I am up for it where I totally focus on one girl and reject all the others and see how the story plays out.
I was playing CHICK affinity in one playthrough and I totally rejected her advances. For that playthrough she totally ignored me at the party (as shown in the screenshot in my previous post).
Interesting interpretation, man. Affinity - something that reveals only under pressure, thus shows true nature of the main character. However, if we look at list of major dik choices, I'd say it's not the case:
Roughly only half of the choices are imply pressure and/or a super-tight time frame.
where status range slapped on top of affinity axis I assumed at first that when we're making a major choice, we're also reducing the maximum possible amount of DIK/CHICK points, which actually is not correct. However, official walkthrough's description confusing about this as well:
You've already been introduced to Troy.oh right i totally forgot. We might get to find out who Chad's sidechick is haha
I have to agree with you there. Because for the love of god, based on Darkmetal's interpretation, I cannot figure out why being a DIK or normal person that I am (DIK / Neutral affinity), who has been gentlemanly in every way possible (CHICK Status) to Jill and her associates (Bella, Tybalt) is not allowed to shower together with her.
I just grabbed one of my ep.5 ending screens for neutral affinity. As you can see, doing 4 DIK and 4 CHICK choices cut away both the Massive DIK and Massive CHICK area permanently. This blocks events which require Massive DIK or Massive CHICK status for the rest of the game. Even if you only do DIK actions, your DIK score is capped at 15 instead of 20 before. And with the next episodes we likely will loose more parts of our DIK-meter.Interesting interpretation, man. Affinity - something that reveals only under pressure, thus shows true nature of the main character. However, if we look at list of major dik choices, I'd say it's not the case:
Roughly only half of the choices are imply pressure and/or a super-tight time frame.
As for status, DPC introduces it like this:
Merely a current mood of MC, which sorta make sense given fast and crazy pacing of our storytelling although polar minor choices within the same playthrough might seem too inconsistent just for one person. Given this and confusing presentation at the end of each episode as you've provided
where status range slapped on top of affinity axis I assumed at first that when we're making a major choice, we're also reducing the maximum possible amount of DIK/CHICK points, which actually is not correct. However, official walkthrough's description confusing about this as well:
Penalty to the status. I wonder if that was original DPC's intention but during the implementation he abandoned the idea or it was the other way around.
Returning to the M/J issue, I disagree that they're capable to see through MC given your interpretation, it's simply too soon storywise. As for what affinity as I see it - simply what defines MC: his reputation, his attitude outside of player's minor choices and I wish even his appearance ajustments (shame that it's next to impossible given technical aspect of the game). To put it bluntly - it's written on his face. It just an example of a bad implementation with M/J, unfortunately. Basically something like this is inevitable within such a relatively complicated game.
Yeah, I hate it when there are times we are required to make decisions like that. The part at the party where I have to choose go back to Maya or stay and party with Sage I can accept, but not the one at the ending of Ep 4. What if I want to be in something more with M/J and bed Jade?
Unfortuneatly : It's not a harem game ... by design.
Except this isn't about it being a harem game, it's simply about how choosing one thing doesn't necessarily have to stop another. In this case, yes, the MC missed out on an opportunity with Jade by deciding to be with M&J and stay at the party with them, but this doesn't necessarily have to end the Jade content on this path when the MC still has ample opportunity to explain to her why he didn't make, even if it would be a lie. Hell, he could have even said to M&J after that, "I gotta be somewhere just now, but I'll see you guys later", and then gone to meet with Jade.
Still completely confused by this scene.
It's ok if the game cockblock me with the LIs (like going to Bella or Jill or Sage instead of M/J), but with a fling / conquest and have consequences?
