- Aug 23, 2020
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The Dylan Twist was highly controversial. Basically, if you chose to send Dylan to boarding school Dylan revealed a twist to the whole Aiden storyline. I never played it, but from what I understand Dylan revealed to Sophia that Aiden had never beaten him or Zack up, and that the whole thing had been made up. Instead, Dylan had approached Aiden and proposed to him that they concoct a story in an attempt to get Sophia to dress sexier. There was some sort of justification that Dylan figured Sophia needed to feel more confident, and that Aiden could put pressure on her to dress sexier. Sophia was, rightfully, pissed and mentioned how Aiden had proposed tasks for her; but Dylan was clueless about any tasks; I think he had assumed it would be a one time thing.Sorry but what's the "Dylan Twist"?
I'm not explaining it well, but suffice to say it was VERY dumb and it really changed Dylan's character into something much worse. Some would argue that it at least gave Dylan something to do other than being boring, but most people didn't like it. After a few months of emails and complaints L&P removed the dialog entirely from the game and dropped the storyline. He clearly thought the pushback was unwarranted, but it must have been pretty intense to make him change the story. He said it was easy to make the change because this revelation didn't play any role going forward, so what was the big deal? Basically, any way you look at the Dylan Twist, it was poorly conceived. Either L&P was right and it didn't mean anything, in which case why include it in the game? Or the fans were right, and it completely changed Dylan's character while also being monumentally dumb and incomprehensible. If that's the case, how could L&P not see that problem when he was writing it?