Well, just finished my second run, got to the current stop point in episode 2 this time rather than getting another early end. Think my favourite characters so far are Ashley, Rebecca and Vicky. When I saw there was a girl in the MC's past, I was dubious. In my (albeit limited) experience of these games, they seem to usually be the bitch type who shreds the MC's heart pre game start to give him an excuse to sleep around. But she surprised me by actually being quite nice. Rebecca is just adorable, though has an inferiority streak a mile wide. I sense her path will likely be quite difficult. Vicky I wasn't sure about at first, but she grew on me. Seems a very laid-back, chill individual once you get past the constant volatility with her brother.
Jade and Valery are kind of meh right now. MC didn't get to know Val much and Jade is a bit too in-your-face (though given her background I get why she'd be like that). Aurora could be okay, hard to judge at the moment. Her actress background being known seems to be a stumbing block, but I don't see any way to avoid that conversation coming up. Sung-Ji is just kind of there, MC doesn't have much interaction with her either. Jenny... I don't trust her. I know she's all nicey-nice now, but she's still a Richards. She may be adopted, but growing up in that family must have warped her in some way. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop with her while keeping her at arm's length. If you can rely on anything in this world, it's the rich being manipulative and uncaring. Might be completely wrong about her, but that's just the impression I got. Her and Adam seem to already know the MC from somewhere too. Fishy, very fishy. Does Jenny remind anyone else of Maya from BaD?
All in all, a decent start to the game. It has an interesting enough story for me to come back to it when the dev(s) update it. I don't know if it's my playstyle, but like with my first run of BaD, this also ended with no sex scenes. I'm assuming they're in the game somewhere, my MC is probably just too nice to activate them
One question: Does anyone know why Vicky isn't in the relationships section as a possible LI? The MC is getting the relevent points with her when they interact, so they must be getting recorded somewhere, but I don't see where. I didn't think side characters were tracked in that way.